The portal is a layer, not another database
A portal that stores its own copy of your data creates a second source of truth, and the two drift apart. We build the portal as a layer over your systems of record. It reads from your ERP, CRM or databases through APIs and writes back through the same channels, so a customer sees the same balance your finance team sees.
Where the source system is slow or has no usable API, we add a small synchronization service with a cache, and we show the user when data was last refreshed. Honest freshness is better than a screen that looks live and is not.
A first release covers one user group and its three or four most common tasks, which usually takes eight to fourteen weeks. Further groups and features follow in the same framework, each faster than the last, because identity, layout and permissions are already in place.
