Conner Heider · Iowa

Problems in →
Solutions out.

I'm Conner Heider. One person, many rooms: the shop floor, the server room, the sales floor, the product room, my garage. I've worked in all of them, and the best fixes come from knowing how the rooms connect.

Today I lead product for AI agents at Epicor. On my own time, I build AI apps.

  • Sales floor

    Sales engineer, then engineer-to-order sales

  • Shop floor

    Ran ERP and MES at a manufacturer

  • Server room

    IT director for 4,000+ users

  • Demo room

    Solution engineer at Epicor

  • Product room

    Product Manager, Prism Agent Foundry

  • Self-Driven

    AI apps, a cafe racer, 1,000+ pizzas

The product room · now

Product Manager, Prism Agent Foundry at Epicor

I run product for Prism Agent Foundry, Epicor's platform for building AI agents on top of ERP. In plain terms: it lets the people running a factory or a warehouse ask their business systems questions in plain English and get answers they can act on.

I own the roadmap and launches, run our early customer programs, and take it to market, starting with manufacturing and distribution.

The workshop · what I've built

Apps I build on my own time

Every one started with a real person and a real problem.

CivGo estimator command center showing the bid queue, pipeline totals, and risk radar

CivGo

Launch-ready

Helps heavy-construction companies price bids faster and see what competitors bid, using AI on years of bid history.

Checkii on the App Store: five-star rating, productivity category, and four app previews

Checkii

Live

A shared to-do app I built for my ADHD so my family and I get things done together. On web, iOS, and Android. checkii.app

Also in progress: Lugger (one AI chat across many business apps), Go Shop Floor (work orders for weld shops), and luctance.app (find mental healthcare, fast).

The field · problems I've solved

15 years of fixing things

Pick a room, then a problem. Sometimes the fix is software. Sometimes it's bigger labels.

Sales floor
Shop floor
Server room
Demo room
Self-Driven
PROBLEM“Orders are getting missed and mis-picked, and nobody can say why.”

1 / SAT WITH

The people actually picking, in a dimly lit warehouse.

2 / BROKE IT DOWN

Not a systems problem. A seeing problem. Nobody could read the labels.

3 / SHIPPED

Bigger labels. No software, no project plan. Problem gone.

SOLUTIONMake the labels BIGGERZero lines of code

Full work history on LinkedIn ↗

Conner and a friend at a mountain summit marker, camera in hand

The rest of the house · about me

I show up early

When I travel to visit customers and prospects, I get there the day before to walk around and get a feel for who they are and where folks are from. I like to sink into places and people.

Staying grounded in the work, and where it takes place, builds better relationships and better outcomes. My camera usually comes along.

Downtown Boston at night from high aboveBlack-and-white newsstand, shutter downBlack-and-white night shot of a lit brick wall and a stop signGolden Gate Bridge panorama
[Garage photo]

Most mornings

I'm up early in the garage, writing code and finding new music.

The garage, the kitchen, and the backyard

Mint-green Suzuki cafe racer in the garage
An old Suzuki, hand-rebuilt and reimagined as a cafe racer. No nut, bolt, bearing, or problem that wasn’t handled by me.
Finished backyard patio with seating and shade sail
Our backyard, from a gravel pad to outdoor living, storage, a screened-in deck, and a sun shade. Built by hand.
Large pepperoni pizza
1,000+ pizzas and counting. Taste, iterate, repeat. Kind of like the coding thing, huh?
Conner edited into a vintage photo wearing a dunce cap
Dropped out of college three times before finishing. Ruined my favorite joke: PHD = Public High School Diploma.