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Digital Transformation · 2023

Forge Commerce for Forge Supply Co.

A headless replatform that took an industrial catalogue of 210,000 SKUs to the edge.

0.9s
Category render
+78%
Organic traffic
210k
SKUs

The challenge

A monolithic storefront took 6.8 seconds to render a category page, and every merchandising change required a developer.

What we did

  1. Migrated to a headless architecture with incremental static regeneration per category.

  2. Moved search to a dedicated index with faceting over 210k SKUs.

  3. Handed merchandising to the commercial team through a structured content model.

  4. Established a performance budget enforced in CI on every pull request.

The outcome

Category pages now render in 0.9 seconds, organic traffic grew 78%, and merchandising ships without engineering involvement.