scandiweb

I started coding from 14. I'm a deeply technical person and I love technology. But after 23 years in business, I’ve seen that psychology eats technology for breakfast. What I wish I'd focused on earlier is getting people to adopt what we build, not just making things. You can have a really practical AI application, a really great tool that really brings ROI for the business. But unless its so simple that the least capable person in your organisation can use it, you won’t see adoption. A tool is only as good as the people who use it. That's what we're aiming for with Ari, scandiweb's AI agent for Magento. Anyone, technical or not, can change their Magento store just by describing what they want. I think the next beautiful solution sits at the intersection of working with psychology and technology. I’m excited for what’s next.

We took the best from Shopify and put it inside Magento We call it Expedio. It is built on Liquid, the template language behind Shopify themes, and it makes Magento stores at least 2x faster. Usually the answer to a slow Magento store was to put more caching layers on top. This was just hiding the code that is not performing so well. Expedio makes the code itself faster. We tested it on several merchants stores. Same server, no page cache on either version. At peak traffic the median response time across eight page types was 6.4x faster. And we open sourced it, so anyone on Magento 2 can use it for free. Open source platforms are getting much more weight now, because AI can plug into them and change everything. With Shopify you cannot change the core logic. With Magento you can. That is where Ari comes in, our AI agent for Magento. If your store is connected to Ari, it can install Expedio for you. So Ari takes care of the complexity and Expedio of the speed. You get the best from both worlds. One less reason to migrate away from Magento. You can see the full benchmark and try the live demo, link in the first comment.

We launched the first AI agent that lets non-technical people vibe code their Magento store seven weeks ago. It's called Ari. I've been running the demos myself and one question keeps coming up: what happens if it breaks something live? This is what I tell them. 1. Every change runs on a sandbox copy first. Never directly on production. 2. Nothing goes live without your approval. 3. Every change comes back for your team to review, with a full record of exactly what changed. Nothing goes near your servers or your live database. 4. Every change can be reverted. One-click rollback, with a full audit log. 5. It reads your actual theme and your actual modules, not some generic training set. It was trained on 500,000 real Magento tasks, most of them on customised stores. You describe the change in a chat. Ari builds it. You check it. Your developer releases it. So a person is still responsible basically. I will link the interactive demo in the comments. If you want to see it on your own store send me a message :)

People see a similar brand on Shopify and think, that's working for them, it will work for us. But same industry doesn't mean same business. Different inventory, different sales process, different everything. What is actually comparable?

“Just replatform to a new ERP”. I hear this a lot. Someone's frustrated with their ERP, and the instinct is always the same - bin it, start clean, fresh beginning. I understand it. It feels like progress. But starting this huge project is usually the slowest and most expensive way to find out the ERP was never really the core issue.

Move your Magento store to Hyvä by asking in chat. Ari moves your theme and checkout to Hyvä, extensions included, on a copy of your store. A move that usually takes about 400 hours takes about 80 with Ari and a developer. On October 28, Alfreds Genkins, Creator of Ari, and Glebs Vrevsky, Co-founder of Ari, show how it works, live. Free webinar, 3 PM GMT.