Ecommerce Replatforming Consultant, Platform-Independent Migration Strategy

Senior ecommerce replatforming consultants and consultancy services for brands evaluating or executing platform migrations. Shopify Plus, Adobe Commerce, BigCommerce, commercetools, and headless decisions made on the math, not on SI commissions.

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Senior ecommerce replatforming consultants and consultancy services for brands evaluating or executing platform migrations

Why teams hire a replatforming consultant from Chameleon Collective

Platform-independent, SI-independent

Most replatforming consultancies are tied to a single platform or a single SI partner. Our replatforming consultants are independent across the major platforms (Shopify Plus, Adobe Commerce, BigCommerce, commercetools, headless), the recommendation matches your business, not a partnership economic.

TCO math, not pitch decks

A real replatforming decision turns on TCO math: license + hosting + dev hours + ongoing maintenance + team capability + opportunity cost across 3-5 years. We build that model and surface the actual numbers, including the boring parts that platform sales decks skip.

Migration execution oversight

The replatforming decision is half the work. The execution is the other half: SI selection, project oversight, content migration, SEO preservation, launch sequence. Our ecommerce replatforming consultant stays through execution, not just diagnosis.

Why hire an ecommerce replatforming consultant from Chameleon Collective

Replatforming is one of the highest-stakes ecommerce decisions a brand makes, a successful migration unlocks 5+ years of cleaner operating economics, a failed migration costs 12-24 months and millions in opportunity cost and reverted engineering. Most replatforming consultants and replatforming consultancies are platform-aligned: tied to a specific platform partnership, an SI relationship, or a referral economy that shapes their recommendations. The ecommerce replatforming consultant engagement that actually serves the brand is independent of all of that, and grounded in TCO math, team-capability honesty, and execution-readiness rather than platform-pitch persuasion.

Most replatforming decisions are about more than the platform

The headline question, 'should we move from Magento to Shopify Plus', is usually downstream of operational questions the company hasn't surfaced yet: do we have the team to run a headless architecture, is our customization actually load-bearing or just legacy, what's the real cost of our SI dependency, would consolidating from 3 platforms to 1 actually simplify operations or just create new constraints. Our diagnostic surfaces those upstream questions before recommending a platform direction.

The migration math is rarely run honestly

SIs and platforms produce TCO models that flatter their pitch. The honest model accounts for: license + hosting + maintenance dev hours + customization rebuild + integration rebuilds (ERP, OMS, WMS) + content migration + SEO transition risk + team retraining + opportunity cost during transition. The full 3-5 year picture often looks very different from the platform-pitch version. We build that model.

Execution oversight is the differentiator

Replatforming consultancies that hand off after the decision are missing where the value actually compounds. The execution phase, SI selection, project oversight, content and SEO transition, launch sequence, is where most replatform projects succeed or fail. Our ecommerce replatforming consultant stays engaged through execution: writing the SI brief, evaluating proposals, sitting in milestone reviews, holding the SI accountable to the design.

What our ecommerce replatforming engagements cover

Current-platform audit, operating pain analysis, customization debt assessment, SI dependency review.
Candidate-platform evaluation, Shopify Plus, Adobe Commerce, BigCommerce, commercetools, headless options.
TCO modeling, 3-5 year cost comparison including license, hosting, dev hours, maintenance, integrations.
Team-capability honesty, what your team can actually run vs what the platform requires.
Migration-plan design, phased rollout, content + SEO preservation, integration rebuilds, launch sequence.
SI selection + oversight, RFP, agency evaluation, performance reviews, hold-vendor-honest reviews.
SEO preservation, URL strategy, redirect map, content-migration QA, post-launch monitoring.
Post-launch operating model, team structure, vendor management, ongoing optimization rhythm.

How We Compare

Feature	Chameleon Collective	Platform-aligned replatforming consultancy	SI proposing the migration
Platform-independent recommendation.	Yes, multi-platform fluency	Often tied to one or two platforms	No, proposing a build they'll execute
TCO math honestly built.	Default, includes uncomfortable variables	Often optimistic	Highly optimistic (their proposal)
SI-independent.	Yes, no SI partnerships	Sometimes	No, they are the SI
Execution oversight included.	Default, through launch	Often hand-off post-decision

Frequently asked questions

Common questions from teams evaluating ecommerce replatforming consultancy.

Honest answer: depends. Brands under $30M GMV with mostly B2C catalogs and straightforward pricing are usually overpaying on Magento and would do better on Shopify Plus. Brands with complex B2B pricing, multi-store enterprise complexity, or deep ERP integration are usually right where they are. Mid-market DTC brands are genuinely on the fence, TCO math and team capability decide. Our diagnostic produces a recommendation against your specific business, not against the platform's marketing claims.

Headless wins when the FE team can maintain a separate codebase, when content + commerce composition matters, and when Core Web Vitals are commercially load-bearing. Headless loses when the team is small and would split focus, when the existing front end works fine, or when integration complexity outweighs the gains. Most growth-stage merchants land on headless; most mid-market merchants don't.

Shopify Plus migrations: 6-12 months for typical mid-market complexity. Adobe Commerce Cloud migrations: 9-18 months. commercetools or custom headless: 12-24 months. Variance is enormous; the diagnostic includes a realistic timeline estimate for your situation.

Most engagements run $25K-$50K per month, scoped to outcome. A focused architecture audit + platform recommendation + 90-day roadmap starts around $30K. Full strategy + SI selection + migration oversight engagements run 6-12 months at the upper end.

Yes, we have relationships across the SI landscape and can run an RFP on your behalf. We don't take referral fees, so the recommendation matches your project, not our economics.

URL strategy upfront, comprehensive redirect map, content-migration QA, on-site SEO migration (titles, meta, structured data), redirect monitoring post-launch. SEO transition is one of the highest-risk parts of a replatform, we handle it directly.

Directly. Chameleon Collective is a senior-only collective.