Does a partner badge mean much on its own?

Less than the badges suggest. Tiers largely track company size and annual fees, so a bigger firm will always outrank a smaller one regardless of who is better at the work. What is worth asking any partner, us included, is how many certified engineers they have on your platform, and whether those are the people who will be on your account. We hold certifications on the platforms we partner on.

If the tier can be bought, what does the designation actually prove?

A designation is granted rather than written. It means the platform looked at how we build on it and was willing to attach its name, and that is the whole of it. It is also the only part of a badge that cannot be bought, which is why it is the part worth stating.

Does being a partner change how you build?

Partner access means current documentation, pre-release builds, and the patterns the platform’s own engineers use. In practice this shows up as fewer custom workarounds, which is what makes an upgrade two years later uneventful.

What happens when the problem is in the platform and not in our build?

At some point the failure is in the platform and not in the build. A partnership is an escalation path to the people who can fix that, instead of a support queue and a week of waiting while your store or your portal is degraded.

Do you only work on platforms you’re partnered with?

No. These are the six where a vendor has formally reviewed our work, and there is a lot of production experience outside them: AWS, and the application and mobile stacks most of our projects are built in. A partnership marks where the credential exists, not where the capability ends.

Can you help us choose between platforms?

We can tell you how each one behaves in the situations we’ve seen, which is useful and is not the same as impartial. We’re partnered with three commerce platforms, so treat what we say as informed rather than neutral, and weigh it against someone with nothing to gain.

Partners

Certified by the companies that make the platforms.

Microsoft, Adobe Commerce, VTEX, Directus, Learnosity and Tealium. Most of what we build ends up deployed on at least one of them.

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What each partnership covers

Azure, .NET, Power Platform and Dynamics 365. Most of our enterprise work is deployed on Azure: data platforms, internal tools, and the AI services behind document extraction and conversational interfaces.
Adobe Commerce and Magento, from migration to daily operation. Integrations with the ERP, the inventory and the pricing behind a store, componentised storefronts, and the performance work that follows a launch.
Composable, headless commerce for multi-brand and multi-market storefronts. Re-platforming, catalogue and checkout customisation, and opening a store in a new country without rebuilding it.
An open data platform for structured content and custom APIs. We reach for it when a team needs to own its own content model and connect it to dashboards and products, without a traditional CMS in the way.
Assessment APIs for education products: item banking, adaptive testing, and the analytics behind them, integrated into web and mobile without building an assessment engine first.
Customer data unified across systems. Tealium iQ, EventStream and AudienceStream, used to connect the platforms a business already runs and keep personalisation and consent consistent across markets.

Five projects where the partnership did the work

Examples, not the extent of it. Most of the work on these platforms hasn’t been written up as a case.

Questions we get before the first call

Does a partner badge mean much on its own?
Less than the badges suggest. Tiers largely track company size and annual fees, so a bigger firm will always outrank a smaller one regardless of who is better at the work. What is worth asking any partner, us included, is how many certified engineers they have on your platform, and whether those are the people who will be on your account. We hold certifications on the platforms we partner on.
If the tier can be bought, what does the designation actually prove?
A designation is granted rather than written. It means the platform looked at how we build on it and was willing to attach its name, and that is the whole of it. It is also the only part of a badge that cannot be bought, which is why it is the part worth stating.
Does being a partner change how you build?
Partner access means current documentation, pre-release builds, and the patterns the platform’s own engineers use. In practice this shows up as fewer custom workarounds, which is what makes an upgrade two years later uneventful.
What happens when the problem is in the platform and not in our build?
At some point the failure is in the platform and not in the build. A partnership is an escalation path to the people who can fix that, instead of a support queue and a week of waiting while your store or your portal is degraded.
Do you only work on platforms you’re partnered with?
No. These are the six where a vendor has formally reviewed our work, and there is a lot of production experience outside them: AWS, and the application and mobile stacks most of our projects are built in. A partnership marks where the credential exists, not where the capability ends.
Can you help us choose between platforms?
We can tell you how each one behaves in the situations we’ve seen, which is useful and is not the same as impartial. We’re partnered with three commerce platforms, so treat what we say as informed rather than neutral, and weigh it against someone with nothing to gain.

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already running on.

In a 45-minute working session we’ll go through what your platform is doing well, where it’s costing you, and whether the answer is on the platform or next to it. Bring the thing your current setup can’t do.

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