# A second opinion before you sign the replatform contract.

*The eCommerce Concierge. Arcadia Consultancy, Curtis Schrum.*

Independent, neutral counsel on the platform and architecture decisions that carry real financial risk. I sell no platform and run no build shop, so the only thing I am paid to be is right.

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> Every agency bidding your project is paid to say yes to it. Every platform rep is paid to recommend their platform. I am the only voice in the room paid the same no matter which way you decide.
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> Curtis Schrum, Arcadia Consultancy

- **15**: Years architecting and leading complex commerce
- **0**: Platforms I am paid to sell.
- **4**: Core platforms: Magento, Shopify, BigCommerce, Headless
- **1**: Neutral voice in the room with no agenda

## The menu

### The Platform Decision

*From $5,000.* Your replatform plan and RFP, pressure-tested before the contract. The right platform for your business, named, with the reasons, and the landmines marked: data limits, integrations, B2B complexity, the true cost.

### Architecture and Teardown

*By arrangement.* The full build-ready architecture and integration map, so whoever builds it works from a plan that holds rather than discovering the limits in month six.

### Introductions

*By introduction.* When you are ready to build, I point you to shops worth trusting, matched to the work. Any referral economics are disclosed to you in full, every time.

### Counsel Through the Build

*By arrangement.* Kept on as the neutral voice through selection and delivery, so the plan you paid for is the plan that ships.

## Four principles

### Independence Over Incentive

Fed by no platform and no agency. The recommendation is only ever the right one, because nothing else is paying me.

### Truth Over Theater

I will tell you the unprofitable thing. I have killed a doomed replatform because it was the right call, not the billable one.

### Restraint Over Excess

Most commerce problems need less, not more. Fewer systems, a clearer structure, a decision made with a steady head.

### Senior, Close to the Work

You get the person who has sat in the hard rooms, not a layer of account management between you and the answer.

## About Curtis Schrum

Fifteen years in commerce, at every level of the stack, from engineer to tech lead to Director of Engineering to fractional CTO. I have architected the migrations, led the teams that shipped them, and sat in the room when a six-figure platform decision could go either way.

What I sell now is the one thing a captured agency or a platform rep cannot: a neutral read on the decision, and the willingness to tell you the truth even when the truth is not what anyone is selling.

- Director of Engineering at Trellis, headless-first, took the firm to Elite BigCommerce Partner.
- Fractional CTO at Formula Chemicals; re-architected operations and international shipping.
- Killed a doomed replatform at a client because it was the right call, not the profitable one.
- Certified BigCommerce and Shopify developer. Magento, Shopify, BigCommerce, headless.

## Writing

### [Everyone Telling You to Replatform Is Paid to Say Yes](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/everyone-telling-you-replatform-paid-say-yes-arcadia-consultancy-wyn6c/)

*Agentic commerce.* Before you sign a replatforming contract, ask one question about every number in the pitch deck: who gets paid if I believe this?

More in the [blog](https://www.arcadia-consultancy.com/blog).

## Contact

When a decision is too expensive to get wrong. That is the call.

- Email: [sales@arcadia-consultancy.com](mailto:sales@arcadia-consultancy.com)
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- Contact form: https://www.arcadia-consultancy.com/contact