Darpan Munjal

Asking the community about agentic concrete best practices for eCommerce At Essor, we’ve successfully integrated n8n to manage our well-defined processes (CS, finance documentation, etc.), essentially treating each flow as a specialized agent. However, we’re now hitting a wall as we move toward less structured tasks that require Complex Logic: Handling evolving flows that don't follow a linear path or require Frequent Iteration: Rapid updates to prompts, knowledge bases, and data schemas. n8n struggles with this level of fluidity, and we want to avoid starting from a blank page. We are experimenting with OpenClaw as a potential step up. Great out-of-the-box integrations and ease of setup. While it functions well as a high-level overlay for Claude Code, it feels too much like a 'black box.' As our agent complexity increases, the lack of transparency will likely make debugging difficult and long-term maintenance unsustainable. Other Tech we are looking at include Claude cowork (not great for a team), Moltis (very new and raw) and we are looking to get access to Gemeni agents and Perplexity computer Are there specific libraries or best practices you recommend for building sophisticated agents that remain maintainable as complexity scales?

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🛑 STOP Calling Your B2B Commerce Project "Web Design." (A Founder’s Hard Truth.) As the CEO of Metrotechs, I need to share the most damaging misconception I’ve ever encountered in manufacturing: The belief that building a multi-million dollar B2B commerce ecosystem can be handled by one person and is no harder than setting up a basic website. Years ago, I worked with a manufacturer whose CEO had this mindset. He thought integrating their ERP, CRM, CPQ, datalake, payment processors, and building a secure dealer portal was just "putting pictures and text on a web page." The consequence? Two years lost, millions wasted. 🤯 The Impossible Job Description: When a leader says one person can handle B2B commerce transformation, they're asking for a single individual to simultaneously fill five expert roles: The Fractional CTO: Set the 3-year strategic roadmap and manage multi-million dollar budgets. The Commerce Architect: Design the complex data flows between the ERP, CRM, and the front-end. The Program Manager (PMO): Manage multiple external vendors, track scope, and hold everyone accountable. The Cybersecurity Officer: Ensure data compliance and protect sensitive company assets. The Integrator/Developer: Write custom code to make all the systems actually talk to each other. That is not a person. It is a specialized, multi-disciplinary team. The Metrotechs Mandate: The failure of that project led me to found Metrotechs.io. Our job is to fill that missing executive governance layer. We don't build the website; we build the blueprint and enforce the accountability to ensure the website (and everything behind it) works as a profit-driving engine. We stop the vendor finger-pointing, eliminate the scope creep, and provide the vendor-neutral governance that guarantees your investment delivers on its promise. If your B2B commerce project is feeling chaotic, late, or over-budget, the problem isn't your code—it's your governance. Don't lose years chasing a "web design" delusion. ➡️ If your executive team is struggling to align strategy with execution, schedule our Commerce Health Check today. #B2BCommerce #Manufacturing #DigitalTransformation #ECommerce #Governance #CTO

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Benchmarks are averages of businesses that don't resemble each other. Your funnel has its own prices. Price it. Full white paper from @Edgemesh: https://lnkd.in/g2R992zG #ecommerce #mediabuying #DTC

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Product managers don't get enough ❤️ in the affiliate marketing world. Affiliate marketing programs fail and buildings crumble without them. Don't get me wrong. Finding new partners, negotiating deal terms, tuning APRs and credit boxes -- all of that is hard work. But the last mile always lands in product / integrations. That's why a Partner Product Manager is such a clutch hire. When someone steps up to own partner/affiliate integrations, everything changes. 👉 Reporting, analytics, and invoicing aren't an afterthought - they're designed correctly from Day 1 👉 Dashboards, alerts, and a feedback loop to the partner (when something breaks) are built-in 👉 Someone in the org is responsible for questions partners have about the API (no more chasing around a busy engineer who doesn't feel like their job is getting on the phone with partners) 👉 Application funnels are designed & customized and for each partner (especially the largest ones) 👉 Most importantly, someone in the product org is constantly championing the engineering work required to make partnerships successful Orgs that don't have a Partnership Product Manager do their partnerships team a huge disservice without realizing it. Why? They expect their Affiliate and Partnerships teams to be A-grade Product Managers without training, organizational authority, or the hours in the day required to do the job! ****** Stripe and Shopify are famous for building Partner Product Orgs. They treat their partner experience like a product—with dedicated teams, clear roadmaps, and real support. That’s why partners line up to build with them. ***** Most lenders consider their borrowers as their end-customer. But lenders who source new accounts from affiliates can't forgot their distribution partners are customers, too.

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Google doesn’t want to automate bookings. It wants to dominate the comparison layer. Everyone’s watching who automates the transaction. Wrong place. Distribution is changing before our eyes. Google does not want to be an OTA. Google's war is over who dominates the choices. The comparison layer that decides what gets seen first. Because first wins more often than best. That's the Google playbook. The new AI Mode now stacks flights, hotels, reviews, photos and options in one scroll. Canvas. Flight Deals. All designed to shape the decision before anyone else shows up. It's Meta-search on steroids. And everyone is lining up to feed it: Booking.com, Expedia Group Marriott International, IHG Hotels & Resorts, Choice Hotels International, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts. The billboard effect is changing fast. Visibility isn’t your website anymore. It’s the place that decides what gets seen first. The smartest independents are already testing how their story lands inside AI discovery. If Google decides the booking… what layer are you actually building next? ------ If you like my posts follow me and follow Guestcentric so your boutique hotel doesn’t get buried in the comparison layer.

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Your next 90 days as a 7-8 figure DTC brand: (to maximize revenue & profitability in Q1) 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝟭-𝟮: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝘂𝗱𝗶𝘁 Pull every ad that scaled during Q4 and dissect why it worked. Not just the surface-level metrics. The actual angle, hook, messaging, and emotional trigger that drove conversions. This becomes the foundation for everything else. 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝟯-𝟰: 𝗜𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁 Take each winning concept and create multiple variations. → New hooks → Different creators → Fresh visual styles → Less aggressive offer →Same core angle. 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝟱-𝟴: 𝗔𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 Q4 messaging was urgency, gifting, and deals. Q1 messaging goes in-depth on solving real problems, and why your product is the answer. Develop entirely new concepts built around these triggers while our iterations keep the account stable. 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝟵-𝟭𝟮: 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗽 By March, you’ll have a full pipeline of tested concepts ready to scale into Q2. No scrambling. No starting from zero. Just compounding momentum. Most brands make the same mistake every January. They strip the offer from their Q4 winners and ride them until they burn out. Then they panic when February hits and nothing is working. By March, they're starting from scratch with zero momentum. This roadmap is how you prevent that.

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