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How we work · Delivery model

Most agencies sell process.
We sell judgement, governance and a delivery date we'll stand behind.

Senior-led, commercially grounded, integration-aware. The people you meet at the brief are the people who deliver the programme. We've done this 600+ times since 1995 — we know where commerce projects fail, and how to keep yours out of the failure mode.
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600+
Programmes delivered
0
Late · last 8
42
Engineers on staff
1995
Founded
01 · Commercial understanding

We start with how the business actually operates — before recommending anything technical.

Most agencies position around design, development, features, certifications. The buyers we work with care about something else: operational fit, business-model alignment, internal capability, ownership boundaries, margin impact, total cost of ownership.
We won't recommend a platform until we understand the workflows, the customer types, the fulfilment, and the commercial constraints. Architecture follows operational reality — never the other way round.
And if a brief asks for complexity that won't pay back, we'll say so. Order-takers don't challenge bad decisions. We do.
02 · Discovery

Discovery is a commercial safeguard, not a workshop.

Good discovery prevents expensive mistakes later. We use it to surface dependencies, clarify ownership, agree priorities, and remove uncertainty before anyone writes a line of code. The output is a plan we'd stand behind, not a slide deck.
Week 01
Operating model
Workflows, ownership, customer types, fulfilment.
Week 02
Data audit
Every entity, every owner, every contradiction.
Week 03
Integration map
Eight to twenty-four systems, in scope and out.
Week 04
Architecture options
Platform, extension, custom — costs and trade-offs.
Week 05–06
Plan & governance
Timeline, risk register, RACI, decision-makers.
Kickoff────────── 4–6 week structured discovery ──────────Plan signed-off
By the end of week six we have a delivery plan, a risk register, an integration map, and a named owner for every decision the programme will need. If discovery surfaces something that breaks the brief, we tell you before build starts — not at month seven.
03 · Senior-led delivery

Senior people stay in the room.

The seniors you meet at the brief stay through to go-live. No bait-and-switch. No quiet handover to juniors at month two.
Decisions are made by people who'll have to live with them — engineers, architects and delivery leads who own the platform long-term. That's how technical debt stays under control and how programmes hold their date.
Role
On commerce
Programmes
Speciality
Principal Engineer
22 yrs
41
Adobe Commerce architecture, migration, B2B
Solution Architect
18 yrs
36
PIM, ERP integration, multi-storefront
Delivery Director
24 yrs
58
Programme governance, steering, escalation
Lead Engineer · API
14 yrs
27
Order, payment, fulfilment, search
Lead Engineer · Front
12 yrs
24
Hyvä, Storefront, Core Web Vitals
Data Lead
16 yrs
29
Migration, reconciliation, MDM
UX Lead
15 yrs
31
B2B journeys, conversion, account complexity
QA Lead
13 yrs
38
Release engineering, rehearsal, rollback
Anonymised roster · representative of programmes shipped 2024–26.
04 · Pragmatism

Proven patterns over unnecessary complexity.

The market is tired of overengineering, excessive customisation, unnecessary rebuilds and trendy architecture decisions that quietly create dependency. We agree.
Use platform capabilities wherever sensible. Extend strategically, not excessively. Reduce operational burden. Avoid custom sprawl. Maintainability is a commercial outcome — every line of bespoke code is a line your team will pay to own forever.
We err toward the boring choice. Boring scales. Boring stays online. Boring lets your team sleep on Sunday.
05 · Integrations & data reality

Most commerce failures are operational, not frontend.

The platform is rarely the issue. Everything around it is. ERP complexity, PIM governance, data quality, fulfilment workflows, pricing structures, B2B account complexity — all moving at different speeds, all owned by different people, all overdue a conversation. Commerce platforms succeed when the operational ecosystem works together.
01Critical
ERP / Finance
Order-to-cash, returns, credit, GL posting.
02Critical
OMS · Order routing
Multi-warehouse, click-and-collect, drop-ship.
03Critical
WMS · Warehouse
Pick / pack / despatch, partial fulfilment.
04Critical
PIM · Product data
Attributes, taxonomy, multi-channel publishing.
05Critical
Payments
Gateways, tokenisation, B2B credit accounts.
06High
Tax · Cross-border
VAT, IOSS, US sales tax, duty calculation.
07High
Search
Algolia / Constructor / Coveo · merch rules.
08Medium
CDP / Marketing
Identity, consent, segmentation, send platform.
A typical replatform connects to between eight and twenty-four such systems. We map every one in week one, agree the order they move in, and stage them across the eight to twelve weeks around go-live — never as one cliff-edge event.

Thirty-one years on the same problem. Senior people on every programme.

We know where commerce programmes fail because we've seen each failure mode many times. The next two sections cover the parts most agencies get wrong.
600+
Programmes delivered
Since 1995
0
Late deliveries
Last 8 programmes
14yr
Average client tenure
Top 10 clients
62
Engineering staff
Senior-led, employee-owned
06 · Governance & decisions

Decisions get made early, by named people.

Programmes spiral when nobody governs decisions. We name owners, set thresholds, and keep a register of every trade-off the programme makes. Nothing becomes a surprise at steering.
Two questions decide who owns a call: how reversible is it, and how much does it cost to undo? The matrix on the right is how we delegate.
Cost to undo
Cheap
Cost to undo
Expensive
Reversibility
Reversible
Decided by
Engineer
Decide and ship.
Decided by
Lead Engineer
Decide, log in register.
Reversibility
Irreversible
Decided by
Solution Architect
Decide with delivery lead, log in register.
Decided by
Steering
Escalate. Written trade-off. Approval.
Every irreversible decision is logged. Steering reviews the register at every checkpoint.
07 · Long-term partnership

Launch is the beginning, not the end.

A lot of agencies position support weakly. We don't sell support — we evolve commerce capability over time. Continuous optimisation, roadmap, performance, governance, AI readiness. Our average top-ten client has been with us for fourteen years; six of them for more than a decade.
Client · top 10
Years on programme
Years
Bidfood
16
Yanmar
14
Jaguar Land Rover
12
Bradfords
11
Huws Gray
11
JCB
10
Eurocell
9
GS Yuasa
8
Midwich
7
British Heart Fdn
6
Average top-10 tenure · 14 yrs · Six clients ≥ 10 years.
The shift is from vendor to strategic partner. The team that ran your replatform is the team that runs your roadmap — same people, same operating model, year after year.
The failure map · Industry vs iWeb

Where commerce programmes go wrong — and where ours don't.

Eight failure modes account for the vast majority of enterprise replatform overruns. The bars on the left are the industry pattern. The bars on the right are ours, on programmes 91 through 98.
Failure mode
Industry · share of overruns
iWeb · last 8
Data migration · reconciliation
62%
4%
Integration timing · ERP/OMS/PIM
54%
6%
Scope creep · undocumented
48%
3%
Performance · stability post-launch
41%
5%
Trading freeze · revenue loss
36%
0%
Decision drift · no named owner
33%
2%
Senior turnover · post-sale
29%
0%
Governance · steering disconnect
24%
3%
Industry bars · share of overruns attributable to each cause, weighted across published replatform post-mortems · iWeb bars · last 8 programmes, internal incident register.
Next step

Brief us. We'll tell you what's real, what isn't, and what we'd do.

You'll get a written response from a senior expert — scope, risks, a timeline we'd stand behind, and the names of the people who'd run it. No sales deck.
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600+ programmes delivered · 0 late deliveries (last 8) · Employee-owned · Senior people make decisions