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🔥 Thrilled to share with you all our recent customer story with Ply. We’re excited to be a part of Ply’s journey as they redefine how businesses manage materials. They’re the dream use case we envisioned when we started bem: cutting-edge UX for mission-critical workflows. Imagine a world where your users don't have to manually input anything in your application. Imagine supply chain software that finally speaks the language of its users. We're excited about Ply because they've seen from the beginning what we're seeing: there's a wave coming. That wave is a new generation of software that uses cutting edge technology to make it extremely easy to use. Highly complex software that's as easy to use as consumer applications. 🔥 🔥 More about our work with Ply here: https://lnkd.in/grhJ-xqx 🔥 🔥

🎙️ A magical experience, now with voice! 🗣️ We're thrilled to announce the release of voice inputs for our platform. Now you can build even more intuitive and engaging user experiences by enabling users to interact with your product using just their voice. Whether it's capturing complex information, navigating workflows, or providing hands-free convenience, voice inputs unlock a new layer of seamless interaction.

I’ve been building supply chain software for years, and one thing is clear: handling high-priority logistics requests is chaos when you’re buried in emails, PDFs, and Excel sheets. That’s why we built bem’s routing and transformation as building blocks, so you can integrate them directly into your customer-facing product. No more manual triage or scattered workflows—just clean, actionable steps right where you need them.

Did you know bem is HIPAA compliant? One of the biggest problems we've seen in healthcare is the broken communication between systems and companies. PDFs flying over between insurance, providers, and patients. If you're building in the healthcare space, you need a solid API layer that can safely transform all of that unstructured data, from doctor notes to statements of benefits, into your native application format. That's what we're here for.

Garbage in, beautiful data out. bem keeps getting better and faster, especially at messy data. You: supply chain software builder, getting bombarded with messy BOLs, manifests, invoices, and import permits. You need to ship fast and don't have the next 6 months and forever maintenance/bug-squashing hours to structure all of that data. Us: the best AI data transformer in the market, with incredible, resilient infrastructure handling millions of data points, and off-the-shelf easy fine tuning.

🔨🔨 Working with the Ply team has been a blast. We’re excited to be a part of their journey as they redefine how businesses manage materials. Ply uses bem's API to create cutting-edge UX and eliminate manual data entry for their users. Slam dunk. Check out our latest customer story with Ply here: https://lnkd.in/grhJ-xqx.

It's Friday and the mods are sleeping. Let me show you our new bem feature: Complex table processing. If customers are bringing data from other systems, or you're trying to integrate with other sources of truth, chances are the data will look just 🅣🅔🅡🅡🅘🅑🅛🅔. Our new complex table processing mode will automatically take in highly complex inputs, such as pivot data, multiple tables within one file 🥲, and "Excel-as-document", and transform it into your normalized output, so it's instantly available for your customers. Onboard customers in minutes, not days, and integrate with real-time complex external data points. No iPaaS, no brittle ingestion pipelines.

Back office automation is dead. User-facing self-serve is the future. We've kept our ear to the ground and there's a tsunami coming. Just not the one you expected. SaaS *has* to change or die. As the bem team talks to more and more people in the market, there’s a topic we inquire about with every executive and board member of public companies/enterprise that comes through our door: what their company will look like 5 years from now and what their board mandates are. The conclusion: the focus today is user-facing software and services. Period. The focus for years was to make internal operations more efficient, and that focus is fading away in favor of very good, consumer-level user-facing products that allow customers to self-serve, even in complex verticals and industries. This is something we’ve talked about with supply chain, logistics, healthcare, and even insurance companies. This doesn’t mean there won’t be high-value processes reserved to the back office. It just means the back office as we know it today will be much, much thinner 3 years from now than it is today. -- There’s bad news and good news. I’ll start with the bad. A huge chunk of the SaaS market today has been built to make back-office processes more efficient. This market is slowly disappearing before our eyes and replaced with user-facing self-serve products. This means a significant percentage of the SaaS market will have to re-architect their product to provide better abstractions for their customers’ customers. The good news: we didn’t have the technology to do this market conversion 3 years ago, but we do now. That’s what AI is for, plain and simple. AI has been for us, philosophically speaking, a new layer of abstraction for humans to interact with automated processes. Where before you had to convince your enterprise customer to use your shiny new React-based form website running on a subpar web experience (good luck, by the way), now you won’t have to: you can just tell them to text you their orders and requests. Where before you had to hire a team in the Philippines *and* build the software for to mechanically-turk the inner workings of your data flows, now you won’t have to do either. My whole shpiel here: https://lnkd.in/gKJuCpv3

90% of your users' data will never be in your platform. It lives in emails, PDFs, and faxes—leaving your users stuck in the grind of manual data entry. 💡 The hard truth? People don’t care about software—they care about outcomes. It’s not about your UI or how sleek your buttons are. It’s about how fast and easy it is for them to get business done, track costs, and generate revenue. If your software can’t meet them where they are, it’s not working. That’s why we built bem. We transform off-platform data into structured, actionable insights that flow directly into your system—no manual entry needed. Say goodbye to hours of data entry, and hello to seamless automation. 👉 https://lnkd.in/g7EAk43e

💿 Today we're releasing our first podcast episode! Honored to sit down with Pablo Palafox, cofounder of Happyrobot, to discuss how AI is transforming logistics, freight brokerage automation, and how to build mission-critical AI thoughtfully. You can catch the full episode on our substack: https://lnkd.in/gMyRQk9b and Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gGu4aVbX Below my favorite clip 👇 "Hard Software", by the bem team, dives into the world of software built to solve the toughest problems in real-life industries. From logistics to fintech, healthcare to insurance and supply chain, we uncover how engineering teams are transforming legacy systems, automating workflows, and building the next generation of software. Each episode features in-depth interviews with the innovators behind these solutions, exploring the challenges they face, the lessons they've learned, and the cutting-edge technologies that drive progress.