The offer, plainly: we'll assess your migration off legacy commerce — for free — and show you the numbers before you commit to anything. No sales theatre, no obligation. You bring your current stack and its costs; we show you the same workload on modern, self-hosted infrastructure, and we tell you honestly whether moving is worth it for you.
Who this is for
Operators running enterprise commerce or booking on aging platforms who suspect the renewal they keep signing is buying diminishing returns — the integration that never finishes, the overnight catalogue sync, the specialist contractors who exist only to keep something fragile standing. If that's a conversation happening inside your organisation, this is for you. If your current platform genuinely fits and the costs are under control, we'll tell you that too.
What the assessment actually looks at
- Your real total cost of ownership. Not the licence line — the 60–80% underneath it (integration, migration, QA) plus the 40–60% of every engineering sprint legacy platforms quietly consume in maintenance.
- Your catalogue and data. How your specific catalogue would import and sync. On our benchmark, a million complex products land in about 40 minutes rather than an overnight batch — but we measure against your data, not a brochure.
- Your compliance and sovereignty exposure. Where your data actually sits, who can reach it under the CLOUD Act, and what NIS2's personal-liability regime means for your board.
- A straight migration path. What moving would take, what it would cost, and — honestly — whether the maturity trade-off favours you or not.
What you walk away with
A short, specific written read: your current TCO, your projected TCO on VBWD, your compliance exposure, and a go / no-go recommendation with the reasoning shown. It's yours to keep and use however you like — including as leverage in your existing vendor renewal. We'd rather give you an honest assessment you trust than a demo you forget.
Why we can offer it for free
VBWD is source-available under BSL 1.1 — free for commercial use while annual VBWD-attributable sales stay below the value of 6.7 BTC per year. The software isn't the thing we're selling you; a working relationship is. The assessment is where you find out, at no cost and no risk, whether that relationship is worth having.
The honest caveat
VBWD is younger than the twenty-year-old incumbents. It trades accumulated edge-case maturity for speed, a codebase you can read, and an architecture built for this decade's sovereignty and compliance reality. For many businesses that's the better trade. For some — those depending on a specific, battle-tested edge case only two decades of patches provide — it isn't. The assessment exists precisely to tell you which you are, without spin.
How to start
Tell us what you're running today and what it's costing you to keep running it. That's the whole ask.
Request your free migration assessment → Put "Migration assessment" in the message, add a line on your current platform and rough catalogue size, and we'll come back with the specifics. Slots for a hands-on assessment before mid-August are limited by how many we can genuinely do well — so if the timing matters to you, say so.