Quick reads.
Product updates, release notes, industry perspective, and shorter-form notes from the ECGrid team. For long-form reads, see the Deep Dives.
The Case for Infrastructure You Never Have to Think About
Outages make headlines. Uptime does not. An hour of downtime generates a support ticket, a status page update, and sometimes a news cycle. A year of uninterrupted operation generates nothing. No announcement. No recognition. Just millions of transactions that happened exactly as expected. This is a strange way to measure success in B2B infrastructure. Reliability […]
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Here’s How Your AI Assistant Can Help with EDI Matching
In a recent post, we introduced the capability of asking questions about your trading partner activity directly in the AI assistant you already use. Getting details on orders, shipments, and invoices without a portal or additional login required. Quick Read here. Now we’re getting into what happens after you ask one of those questions. Because […]
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ECGrid Release Notes: Q2 2026
The following updates represent the latest advancements across the ECGrid infrastructure. This quarter’s headline release is the ECGrid MCP Server, which lets you access your ECGrid account through natural language, directly from AI agents and AI-powered applications. Alongside this, we’ve continued to invest in the tools and safeguards that keep your data moving securely and […]
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Straight from the Source: The ECGrid MCP Server, Q&A
The ECGrid MCP Server is live and the questions are already rolling in. We wanted to go beyond the announcement and hear directly from the people who built it. We sat down with the two people closest to the ECGrid MCP Server launch, our COO and CPO, Jon Gatrell, and our CSO, Tony D’Angelo, to […]
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Interact With Your B2B Communications Right in Your AI Chat
Starting today, ECGrid answers you in the AI assistant you already use. Ask “How many Purchase Orders did we get from Retailer X today?” in Claude or ChatGPT and get a real-time answer drawn from live network data. No portal lookup, no escalation, no support ticket. The Questions You Ask Every Day If you run […]
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20% of Your POs Are Costing You $131 Each in Additional Labor Costs. Here’s Why.
If you process purchase orders frequently, you already know the frustration: an order comes in, something doesn’t match, and suddenly your team is chasing down the issue instead of moving product. What you may not know is how much that frustration is actually costing you. According to research published by the Retail Value Chain Federation […]
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The Quiet Network That Is Becoming the World’s Invoicing Backbone
By Todd L Gould, CEO, Loren Data Corp. who was in attendance at the Peppol Conference Europe 2026 in Brussels. BRUSSELS. For more than a decade, Peppol was a piece of plumbing that almost nobody outside a small circle of tax officials and software engineers had heard of. It was a network for shuttling electronic […]
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The Times Have Changed. So Have We.
You know this world. Many of us grew up in it. Purchase orders, invoices, and shipping notices moving between companies. X12 and EDIFACT in production for decades. AS2 that refuses to die. The reliability burden someone always has to own. ECGrid has helped carry that work since 1999, and none of it has gone away. […]
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While the Post Office Slows Down, EDI Is Speeding Up
There is something genuinely admirable about the United States Postal Service. For generations, letter carriers have shown up in rain, heat, and snow to connect communities, deliver paychecks, and keep commerce moving. The postal network is woven into the fabric of American life in a way few institutions can claim. Which is why the current […]
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Tony D’Angelo at ShopTalk 2026: What the Rest of the Market Still Doesn’t Know
Loren Data CSO Tony D’Angelo sat down with Janet Kushabo on Rewind’s Back Up to Level Up podcast at ShopTalk 2026. The conversation covered ECGrid’s origins, the state of the industry, and where we’re going next. The 80-90% Moment The most interesting part of this conversation might be the host’s reaction when Tony mentions that […]
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ECGrid Release Notes – Q1 2026
The following updates represent the latest advancements across the ECGrid infrastructure. Our focus remains on enhancing the programmable control and operational visibility that allows platform providers to embed sophisticated B2B connectivity directly into their own products. Simultaneously, these enhancements continue to improve upon the reliability and toolsets used by direct customers—including retailers and suppliers—to maintain […]
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7 Proven Touchpoints That Actually Get Trading Partners to Go Live
Most companies treat trading partner onboarding like it’s a technical problem. It’s not. The sandbox works, the credentials are valid, the docs are written. What breaks it is the 10-day silence after you send the welcome email while your new partner tries to figure out what to do next without asking for help. The companies […]
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