Integrations are not hard to build. Keeping them alive is the job.
When a source system changes, everything downstream breaks — and engineers burn 20–30% of their capacity keeping the lights on. The engine builds self-healing connectors and rewrites them when upstream systems drift.
Every platform on the market answers a question from a different era.
How do I connect two systems that were never designed to talk to each other? That question is mostly solved. Building a connector is the easy part.
The hard part is what happens next: vendor releases, schema changes, endpoint moves, version bumps — and a team burning a quarter of its engineering capacity on break/fix, forever.
Some platforms are cheaper. Some deploy faster. Some have more connectors. Almost none are built for keeping integrations alive.
Three things a maintenance ticket can never do.
What if the platform understood what it was integrating, fixed itself when something changed, and became the control plane you run across your clients? That is not a feature you bolt onto a pipe.