Confluent

Confluent specializes in complex business process automation and workforce mobilization. The job it does: building software for you when nothing off the shelf fits.

The natural audience is companies with a specific process to automate. Alongside the main category they mention Business Process Automation (BPA). As a very small company team themselves (1 to 10 people), they tend to serve customers of a similar scale best. Small vendors mean quick answers and real influence on the roadmap, but check who covers support when someone is out.

Confluent is based in Palo Alto, California and founded in 2014. More on beconfluent.com.

Our checklist for this category: portfolio relevance, who owns the code, and how they handle changes. A short pilot with your real data tells you more than any demo.

If you have worked with Confluent, tell the next buyer what you paid and what surprised you. That is the part of this page we cannot write.