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How Rox Is Rebuilding the CRM for the AI Era on MongoDB
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From DynamoDB to MongoDB: The Migration Story
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The decision to use DynamoDB at launch was almost reflexive: both Ishan and Sriram, ROX's CTO and co-founder, came from Amazon and had deep familiarity with AWS infrastructure. For the 0-to-1 phase, that bias was fine — DynamoDB worked. But as ROX hit genuine enterprise scale, the team reached a point where MongoDB's feature set, scalability, and enterprise-grade security characteristics were meaningfully superior for their specific workload. [1] — Ishan Mukherjee "ROX started on AWS DynamoDB — the founders came from Amazon, so the choice was instinctive. But as scale hit, MongoDB's feature set and sec…" 06:44 The migration happened in late 2024, and MongoDB now serves as ROX's core document store, ingesting and serving the full range of unstructured data sources that feed into the knowledge graph. Ishan is careful to note this is an evolving relationship — MongoDB is a fast-growing part of a larger data infrastructure, not the entire stack.
ROX uses MongoDB as its core document store for all unstructured data sources including emails, transcripts, call logs, and notes.
Ishan argues AI agents are only as good as the context they have access to, and most customer context lives in data warehouses — not in the CRM.
GPT, Claude, Gemini — they're available to everyone. The actual competitive moat is who can aggregate, activate, and make their data agent-ready. That's the insight driving ROX's entire architecture, and it's why systems like MongoDB matter more than model selection.
