An independent read of a headless or composable commerce decision before you commit — this is a materially harder architecture to reverse than a traditional monolithic platform, and the decision deserves scrutiny proportionate to that.
Headless and composable commerce — commercetools, Shopify Hydrogen, Contentful as a content layer, Vue Storefront on the frontend — genuinely offers flexibility a monolithic platform can’t match. It also demands considerably more engineering capability to assemble and maintain than a traditional platform, and the decision to go headless is a much bigger commitment than most teams evaluating it initially appreciate. What you don’t have is an independent, unglamorous read of whether your team and your actual requirements justify that commitment.
That is what this engagement is.
€15,000. Three to four weeks. Delivered in writing, with a presentation to whoever needs to hear it.
Fixed fee. No implementation work. No commissions. No product recommendations influenced by suppliers.
Why clients commission this review
- A development team or agency has recommended a headless approach, and the board wants an independent read on whether that’s genuinely the right call for this business, not just the more technically interesting one.
- Multiple front-end experiences — web, app, in-store kiosk — need to share commerce logic, a genuine headless use case worth validating properly.
- The team has attempted a headless build before and it stalled or came in significantly over budget, and the board wants an honest post-mortem before trying again.
Who this is for
Boards and technology leaders considering a headless or composable commerce architecture who want an independent, unglamorous read before committing.
Organisations that have already attempted a headless build and want an honest assessment of what went wrong.
Who this is not for
Organisations wanting a simpler platform migration without a genuine headless requirement — see E-Commerce Replatforming Strategy instead.
Organisations wanting the architecture built. We identify and recommend; we do not implement.
What you receive
The Review tells you three things in writing: whether headless genuinely fits your requirements and team capability, what the real commitment looks like, and what to do next. Five artefacts, delivered together, in plain language.
An honest fit assessment. Whether your actual multi-channel and flexibility requirements genuinely justify headless complexity, weighed against a monolithic alternative.
A team capability assessment. Whether the current or planned engineering team can genuinely sustain a headless architecture long-term, not just build the initial version.
A total cost of ownership projection. The realistic multi-year cost of assembling and maintaining a composable stack, not just the initial build estimate.
A prioritised roadmap. If proceeding, what to sequence first; if not, what a more proportionate alternative looks like.
A board presentation. A one-hour session with your board or technology leadership, findings presented, challenged, and discussed in the room.
How the Review runs
Three to four weeks, in four phases: scoping and inventory, interviews and evidence gathering across commerce, engineering, and marketing stakeholders, synthesis and writing, then presentation and revisions around your board cycle.
Everything is written before it is said. Nothing is presented to your board that you have not read first.
What this is not
An implementation engagement. We identify and recommend; we do not build the architecture.
Proof
References available on request.
What happens next
Start a ConversationThirty minutes. We confirm fit, scope, and timing. No proposal is sent unless you ask for one.