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B2BE makes the paperwork move. The hard part is getting the rules right.
Orders arrive as PDFs. Suppliers want different formats. Finance wants to get paid. B2BE has built a business in the gaps between those demands - and its customer stories show why automation starts before the software.
SPS Commerce Fired 225 People, Bet on the Cloud, and Built Retail's $650 Billion Back Room
In 2001, a nearly insolvent software company chose a brutal third option: shrink to 75 people and build the cloud network nobody in retail wanted to maintain. Twenty-five years later, that network moves more than 750 million transactions a year - and its next test is whether all that memory can make AI useful.
Jitterbit Connected the SaaS Explosion. Now It Wants to Keep AI Agents From Breaking the Office.
The 23-year-old integration company grew by making incompatible software talk. Its next bet is that the same plumbing can keep enterprise AI useful, visible, and on a leash.
VertexOne
The company most people have never heard of is quietly running the app, the bill and the payment page behind millions of power and water accounts. VertexOne sells utilities the one thing they rarely build well themselves: a modern customer experience.
Stedi
Stedi is an API-first, cloud-native healthcare clearinghouse that sits between providers and payers to move essential transactions - eligibility checks, claims, claim status, and electronic remittances - as programmable API calls instead of legacy batch files. Founded in 2017 by Zack Kanter, who came to EDI through an auto-parts business, Stedi rebuilt clearinghouse plumbing from scratch for the API and AI-agent era. It connects to thousands of U.S. payers, processes more than a billion transactions annually, and has raised $142 million from investors including Stripe, Addition, USV, and First Round.
Orderful
Orderful is a modern, cloud-based EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) platform that connects supply chains. It replaces the slow, point-to-point EDI integrations that have governed B2B commerce for decades with a single API connection, web tooling, and an AI-native engine (Mosaic) that interprets and transforms trading-partner data automatically. More than 400 companies - including Liquid Death, Caraway, NFI, Hirschbach, Pabst, and Koch Industries - use Orderful to onboard partners in days instead of months and to process orders, invoices, and shipping documents in real time.
Crstl
Crstl is a San Francisco-based, AI-native EDI and agentic B2B commerce network that connects brands, retailers, and logistics providers from order to payment. Its platform replaces the legacy, error-prone world of electronic data interchange with no-code integrations and an always-on AI agent named Edison that processes purchase orders, generates ASNs and invoices, and keeps merchants compliant with big-box retailers like Walmart, Target, and Whole Foods - so direct-to-consumer brands can scale into wholesale, marketplaces, and omnichannel retail without an EDI team.