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Looks promising, I've 2 questions.

1- How does Revert ensure the security and privacy of data while facilitating integrations through its unified API, especially when dealing with various third-party applications and services?

2- The platform mentions a 'Unified Data Model' and 'Standardised data formats and schemas.' Could you elaborate on how these aspects help in simplifying the integration process across different CRMs and what measures are in place to handle discrepancies or inconsistencies in data formats between various integrations?

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1 - Two ways we ensure we're secure & private.

* We take security seriously and understand that storing sensitive information is risky. Therefore we're undergoing SoC2 Type 2 for our hosted version to ensure that we follow the best security practices ourselves in how we store data.

* If you still don't trust a third party like us you could use the self-hosted version of Revert and use it in your own infra. (we can assist you in this)

2 - The way we simplify the schemas is such that you don't have to learn the nuances of each CRM for example. (what field X is called in CRM A vs CRM B)

We ensure that you need to learn only the API schema (for example Leads API endpoint) that we offer and in the background map this to the downstream CRM (Salesforce, Hubspot or anything else).

At the same time, we ensure that you can call the native CRM APIs if you need to, without managing the OAuth or refresh of these OAuth tokens.

Happy to answer any follow ups here!

Thanks, Just one last question from my side- For the self-hosted version of Revert, can you provide more insights into the level of technical expertise required to set it up within an organization's infrastructure?

And Additionally, what kind of support and assistance does the Revert team provide to facilitate this setup? If a client needs it.

You would need to know how to use docker/docker-compose to be able to set it up within AWS/any other cloud provider.

- We're coming up with other easier ways to self-host at the same time. Our friends at Scoutflo (https://deploy-home.scoutflo.com/) & https://nuon.co/ are building something cool for this.

- We can do this as a "done-for-you" setup or be completely hands-off and give you just the docker images to go ahead with. This mostly will depend on our customer's needs and bandwidth.

Appreciate the shout-out! Congratulations on the launch :)

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