Project Echo � B2B WhatsApp Voice Order Automation for Sanitary Ware
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Enterprise Automation & Conversational AIVerified Commercial Engagement — Utkarsh Viswakarma, India
Project Echo

B2B WhatsApp Voice Order Automation for Sanitary Ware

Modernized B2B ordering for a major West Bengal sanitary ware distributor by wrapping a 10+ year legacy CRM with an AI-driven WhatsApp voice note processing and two-way verification pipeline across ~12,500 product variants.

Engagement Scope: Conversational Voice Ordering & Legacy CRM Integration

Modernized the daily ordering workflow around an existing 10+ year Panther Tech CRM without risking a full system migration.

System ArchitectureProduction EngineeringPerformance Optimization
01The Problem & Business Challenge

Retail stockists and dealers placed complex restocking orders between 9:00 PM and 11:30 PM by writing notes on paper, taking photos, and sending them over WhatsApp. An internal team had to transcribe messy handwritten slips, search a 10-year-old Panther Tech CRM containing ~12,500 variants, and manually generate purchase orders. Misread handwriting caused incorrect dimension dispatches, return logistics, and daily night-shift operational bottlenecks.

02The Architectural Solution

Rather than attempting a risky, multi-year CRM replacement, we built a modern conversational automation layer around the existing CRM. Stockists send natural voice notes in Bengali/Hindi/English; an AI pipeline normalizes the audio, extracts product attributes, fuzzy-matches against 12,500 SKUs, and sends a structured WhatsApp confirmation back to the stockist. Upon confirmation, the order is automatically pushed into Panther Tech via secure API.

03What We Built & Execution Details

Architected an event-driven webhook pipeline consuming WhatsApp Cloud audio payloads; integrated speech-to-text with domain-specific sanitary ware phonetic mapping; built a two-way confirmation safeguard so AI never submits an unverified order; and deployed secure authenticated API connectors into Panther Tech CRM.

04Engineering Challenges & Trade-Offs

Resolving colloquial Bengali and Hindi phonetics and regional trade slang against 12,500 ceramic SKUs without direct database access; eliminating hallucination risk via mandatory interactive WhatsApp confirmation state machines.

Measured Commercial Outcome

100% elimination of manual handwritten paper orders during peak hours; zero wrong-SKU dispatches; order processing time cut from hours to sub-90 seconds per dealer; preserved 10+ years of CRM history with zero downtime.

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My Contribution & Role
Lead Systems Architect & Full-Stack Automation Engineer

End-to-end technical leadership: domain modeling, system architecture, database design, hands-on production code, and zero-defect deployment.

Technologies Deployed
WhatsApp Cloud APIWhisper STTLLM Entity ExtractionNode.jsFastAPIPanther Tech APIPostgreSQLRedis
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Confidential Engagement

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“We had over 12,000 product variants and a 10-year-old CRM system that we could not replace without stopping our entire business. Shubham understood the reality immediately. Instead of selling us a massive software overhaul, he built an intelligent voice system right into WhatsApp. Today our stockists simply speak what they need, confirm the list, and the order appears in our CRM. It solved our worst evening headache without any downtime.”
Utkarsh Viswakarma
Managing Director • Utkarsh Viswakarma
Verified Engagement
Absolute IP Ownership

You own the system.
The code. The infra. The data.

Software should not become valuable enough to matter and then be impossible for the client to own or operate.

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What belongs to you in full:

  • 01Source code & Complete Git Repositories
  • 02Apple, Google & Enterprise Developer Accounts
  • 03Cloud Infrastructure, VPCs & Production Databases
  • 04Figma Design Files, Assets & Documentation
  • 05CI/CD Deployment Pipelines & Signing Keys