Build Connector

Turn an unsupported tool into a connected one.

Owners in this segment run software nobody will build a first-party connector for — field service platforms, vertical ERPs, practice management systems, regional accounting packages. Each one is a small market and a hard blocker. This skill is how that stops being a dead end.

Step 1 — Gather requirements

Before anything else: what are we connecting to, what do we need from it, and how does it need to work. Gather these four things:

1. The exact system. Get the precise product, not the category — "my ERP" could be any of forty things, and the answer differs for each. Ask for the login URL if the name is ambiguous; it usually identifies the product and version immediately.
2. Search for it immediately. The moment you have the exact name — don't wait for Step 2 — follow reference/discovery.md, section 1, right now, and keep the result. Step 2 interprets it rather than searching again.
3. What the owner actually needs. What data comes out, or what action goes in — and how often.
4. Which skill or workflow this unblocks.

Scope is what keeps this an afternoon rather than a project. "Connect my ERP" is unbounded. "Pull open work orders daily so they show up in the morning brief" is buildable today. Leave this step with that kind of narrow, single, testable scope — not a category of need.

Step 2 — Discovery