Connecting software that doesn't talk: a field study

The context: An industrial SME was stuck on a planning issue: several tools, one or more line-of-business systems, Excel files, a planning process, that didn't talk to each other.
The lived pain: The issue had been identified for about six years without ever being unblocked. The data existed, but scattered: turning it into usable information meant handling it by hand. Double entry, reprocessing, dependence on files, and a planning that was hard to trust.
The approach: We didn't start with "which AI?", but with "which decision is stuck today for lack of connected data?". Angle Intelligence framed the right pain point and translated the business need into a data use case; with our sovereign data partner CLIDD, a prototype linked the previously separate sources and produced usable visualisation.
The resultfeasibility proven: No spectacular figure at this stage, but a shift: a problem deemed unsolvable for six years became actionable again. The prototype showed the difficulty wasn't a lack of data, but a lack of connection between the tools.
What it changes for the team: Less re-keying and manual reprocessing, more time to steer the business, and a first concrete proof that data isn't an abstract concept but an operational lever.
The limit, said plainly: A prototype isn't a robust product. Before daily use, you must secure hosting, access, cybersecurity, IT validation and connector maintenance. That's the next step, owned as such.