Colin Boothe
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia You have outgrown QuickBooks when the number of people required to answer one business question keeps climbing. Not a revenue number. A headcount-per-answer number. The ledger stays accurate the whole time. It just stops being the place anybody looks first, and the spreadsheets quietly become the real system. A … Read more
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia Automating a process in NetSuite means picking the cheapest of four native tools that will do the job, a saved search alert, a SuiteFlow workflow, automation already built into a module you license, or SuiteScript. Then you put one person’s name on it. Most companies reach for the fourth … Read more
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia The NetSuite MCP connector, which Oracle actually calls the NetSuite AI Connector Service, is a server that lets outside AI clients like Claude and ChatGPT read and write your NetSuite data under your own role’s permissions. The pitch really is that simple. The interesting part is everything it refuses … Read more
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia Pick one system to be right about each thing, run every sync through one integration layer instead of point-to-point wiring, and put a human on the error queue. The rest is detail. Important detail, and I’ll get to it, but that sentence covers most of what goes wrong. A … Read more
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia Start with the work you would hand a smart intern on day one. High volume, clearly defined, easy to check, cheap to get wrong. Invoice coding. Meeting notes. Support ticket triage. Not strategy, not forecasting, and not anything where a confident wrong answer costs you a customer. AI is … Read more
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia NetSuite shows real-time inventory the moment you finish configuring item records with reorder points, lead times, and per-location stock levels. Most companies never finish that part, so they run a live system on last Tuesday’s numbers. The data is already in there. Nobody wired it to a decision. A … Read more
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia NetSuite optimization is the ongoing work of closing configuration gaps, retiring manual workarounds, and switching on modules and automation you already license but never deployed at go-live. It is not a second implementation. It is the cheaper half that nobody schedules. A CFO turned a laptop around to show … Read more
