How Astera Uses ARIA in EDI Connect

Astera Software

Nov 10, 2026

Onboarding a new EDI trading partner usually means a specialist working through a long implementation guide, one that Hasham has seen run past a hundred pages, and building every flow by hand. Sudais (Growth Strategist) sits down with Hasham Qazi (AI Product Specialist), to talk about how Astera uses ARIA in EDI Connect, and Hasham walks through a live demo.

In the demo, Hasham starts with an empty project, pastes in a prompt and an implementation guide, and ARIA builds out the project: the inbound and outbound flows, the workflows, and the folders. He then adds custom validation rules with a single prompt and checks them against what ARIA built.

New to the series? Episode 1, Introducing ARIA: https://youtu.be/bhtyElLuf2o
Want the engine details? Episode 2, Inside ARIA: https://youtu.be/FCVtVRsf8_Q
More from the series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist

CHAPTERS

00:00 Intro

00:33 What is EDI Connect?

01:04 How ARIA came to EDI Connect

02:32 Demo: building a project from an implementation guide

03:53 A completed project: the claim intake flow

04:30 The end-to-end workflow: 837, acknowledgments, AS2, and 835

05:03 Previewing a file and spotting segment errors

05:39 Adding custom validations with a prompt

07:09 Beyond this flow: 834, 835, and other EDI files

08:31 How the idea started: partner onboarding