A delivery lead on your side, turning agency retainers and project budgets into a clear roadmap. Maintenance, bugs, upgrades and new features prioritised together, with costs, progress and decisions you can see.
Delivery leadership from £3,600 a month · version and support review from £750 · implementation scoped separately
Talk through your storeOwn priorities, agency conversations, budget visibility and acceptance. Plan maintenance and improvements together, with additional project spend mapped to agreed outcomes.
From £3,600 a month · agency fees separate
Read moreReview the version, patch history, extensions and hosting information with you and your developer. You get priorities and next steps; deeper technical testing is scoped separately.
From £750
Map releases, dependencies, staging, testing and delivery capacity with the people doing the work. Agree the implementation scope, cost and release schedule first.
Scoped first
Scoped updates to stores I’ve built and know. Inherited stores start with an assessment before direct implementation is offered; specialist work is agreed separately.
Assessed and scoped first
Scope Magento 2 upgrades and Hyvä front ends for specialist developers, with milestones, acceptance criteria and delivery oversight.
Scoped first
The cost of each option over three years, written up so you can decide with the numbers in front of you.
From £750
A client-side delivery lead from the brief and agency selection through to launch, with specialist developers implementing the work against agreed milestones.
From £3,600 a month · agency fees separate
Read moreIn my agency experience, larger Magento and Adobe Commerce programmes often start with builds of £80,000 or more, followed by retainers of 60–200 agency hours a month.
In the agency market I’ve worked in, many Magento and Adobe Commerce providers focus on businesses around £1m or more in annual sales. Your store’s complexity, margins and budget still decide what is a practical fit; a smaller business can start with a scoped review and an appropriate next step.
Around 20 hours a month may cover maintenance, security patches and smaller fixes on a clean, well-maintained build. Updates can sometimes fit by moving hours between months, where the agency agreement allows it.
Meaningful ongoing progress often needs 60 or more hours a month across features, bugs, patches and upgrades. These are examples from the programmes I’ve managed: the right allowance depends on the store, its condition and the work planned.
Your agency builds and supports the platform. I work with you and them to make the best use of that budget. My delivery-lead fee is separate from the agency’s retainer and project costs.
If your Magento store is out of date and an agency retainer is beyond the available budget, start with a review of the version, extensions, custom code and hosting. We can then compare a phased catch-up plan with the cost of moving platform.
I can take on scoped updates to smaller Magento or Adobe Commerce stores I’ve built and know. An inherited store needs an assessment first, so we can establish whether direct work is a practical fit or specialist help is needed.
AI-assisted development can be part of the approach where it helps. Changes still need review and testing on clean staging, with agreed acceptance checks and a rollback plan before release.
We agree the work, price and release arrangements after that first look. A tight budget deserves a realistic scope and a clear next step.
I built Magento 1 sites hands-on as a developer, then led Magento and Hyvä delivery inside agencies, including at a Hyvä Platinum agency. I know where these platforms get expensive, and which parts of a quote are protecting the agency rather than the store.
Look at the store, agency agreement, backlog, hours and budget available.
Agree maintenance needs, the next useful improvements and which projects need separate funding.
Map and schedule the work, with clear responsibilities, clean staging, agreed tests and a release plan.
Lead the agency delivery, or carry out selected scoped work, then review outcomes, hours and the next priorities.
Tell me about the store, your agency arrangements and what needs to move forward. We’ll start with the work and budget you actually have.
Talk through your projectTell me where things stand, what needs to change and any date you are working towards.
You might have a project to scope, systems that aren’t joining up, or a task that keeps taking too much time. You don’t need a finished brief to start a conversation.
A few lines about the situation, the people involved and what a useful result would look like are enough. I’ll come back to you personally with a practical next step.