The Purpose
Enactor was built from the ground up in exactly this way — and it was hard. But the bigger picture is that the industry is moving: rented systems, expensive services and customisation by someone else are coming to an end, and what comes next belongs to those who enable and empower new ways delivering faster.
“From the beginning, we wanted to completely change how enterprise systems were built in Retail. Where small teams, speed, independence and maintainability can all happen at the same time.
Agentic development doesn't change this, it massively enhances it. The world really is different now when it comes to delivering software for large businesses - it's exciting!”
End expensive
professional services
No standing army of consultants and change requests. Your team builds what your business needs, and the bill for change stops growing every year.
Reduce build time by 50xCustomisation
without the cost
Extend and tailor the platform on your own terms, instead of paying someone else handsomely to do it for you.
Zero custom versionsComplexity,
made easier to handle
Retail is genuinely complicated. The framework absorbs promotions, loyalty, tax, stock and payments, and shortens the development cycles that deliver them.
Code Reuse Level 900%+Transparent code,
easier tooling
Source, APIs and runtimes are there to be read and worked with — and with AI made applicable to enterprise systems, the tools only get easier to use.
Can deliver change 1 personThree things
we won't compromise on.
They're the reason the framework looks the way it does, and the reason we keep handing it to other people's teams.
Control is worth having for those who want it
Every retailer we meet understands the attraction of running their own systems. The reason they don't is rarely desire — it's the risk and the cost of getting there.
- The attraction is real. Faster change, better fit, no waiting on another company's priorities.
- The fear is legitimate. Platforms fail, teams move on, and a system nobody understands becomes a liability.
- So we remove the fear. Proven foundations, documented patterns and tooling that lets a small team carry what used to take a large one.
Independence shouldn't mean risk
Taking control of your commerce technology only makes sense if you can also look after it. That means the burden has to be realistic from day one.
- One framework, everywhere. The same foundations carry your POS, your commerce core and your microservices.
- Nothing bespoke or orphaned. What your team builds today is understood by the team that picks it up in five years.
- No expensive standing army. The platform does the heavy lifting that would otherwise need a large permanent team to maintain.
AI changes who can build
The gap between having an idea and shipping it is collapsing. That only helps if the thing being built on is sound, testable and open to change.
- Agents work best on a model. Our low-code tools and coding agents build inside the framework's own definitions, not freehand.
- Iteration is the plan. Short loops, reversible steps and reusable patterns so the next version starts from progress, not scratch.
- Humans stay accountable. Everything an agent drafts is reviewable, testable and owned by your team.
What that means
in practice.
The promises are only worth what the working relationship makes them. This is how we operate.
- Retailers build, we enableOur job is to make the difficult parts ordinary, so your team can spend its time on your business.ownership
- Platforms, not projectsFoundations are designed to be extended and upgraded for a decade, not delivered and left.longevity
- Partners grow with usIntegrators and ISVs build on the same framework and keep the work they create.partnership
- We ship on it ourselvesEvery Enactor product is built on the framework we hand over, so we feel every rough edge first.proof
- Open where it countsSource, models and documentation are there to be read. Nothing depends on trust alone.trust