Architecture audits, contract and scope review, delivery checkpoints and recovery of off-trackprograms, across PIM, DAM, ERP, OMS and headless commerce. Fixed-price audits from €15,000.
For teams whose PIM project is late, over budget or stuck on data design
If your PIM launch is delayed or your data model keeps changing, let’s find out why and agree onwhat to fix first.
The Program Sponsor
Scope keeps moving and costs keep rising, and you need a clear picture.
The CIO with a Late Launch
The go-live date has passed and the data is still not ready.
The Skeptical VP
You are not sure the proposed architecture will scale across markets.
The Legacy Enterprise
You are moving from an on-premise ERP or spreadsheets to a cloud PIM.
At a Glance
- Best for: Brands and retailers implementing or rebuilding a PIM such as Akeneo, Pimcore or Contentserv.
- Engagement: Fixed-scope independent audit, 2 to 4 weeks.
- Budget: Audits from €15,000. Program oversight scoped after a first call.
Decision-ready deliverables your team can act on.
Data Model Review
A clear reading of your families, attributes, variants and identifiers, and where they stop matching how customers shop.
Delivery Checkpoint Report
What was agreed, what is being built and the gaps between the two, written so business and IT read it the same way.
Prioritized Fix Roadmap
Fixes ordered by impact and effort, each with an owner.
Steering Summary
A short executive summary to realign stakeholders on scope, timeline and budget.
Step by step, led by Yassine, the person you talk to from day one.
- 01
Model and Environment Review
Reading your data model, staging environment and integration specifications before any interview.
02Stakeholder Interviews
Short alignment calls with your internal teams and your delivery partners.
03Gap Analysis
Pinpointing where data, scope or decisions drift, and why.
04Handover and Roadmap
A decision-ready report with clear fix actions and owners.
- An independent view from the client side, with no platform license to sell you.
- A hands-on review of your real data model, workflows and integration specifications.
- Findings written so business and IT read the same thing.
- Direct work with Yassine, who runs the audit.
- A slide deck without a plan you can execute.
- A pitch for a bigger team or a new platform.
- A one-hour chat with generic advice.
- Feedback softened to keep everyone comfortable.
Why PIM Programs Drift
Most PIM programs do not fail in one day. They drift: a vague requirement here, a postponed data decision there, a test load that keeps moving. Everyone works hard, but nobody holds the full picture of scope, data and delivery at the same time.
The reality is that the knowledge needed to challenge a delivery plan is often exactly the knowledge the client brought a partner in to provide. An independent, client-side review closes that gap, and it makes accountability clearer for everyone, partners included.
What the Audit and Oversight Cover
Contract and Scope Review
Before the project starts. We read the statement of work with you and flag vague deliverables, open-ended change control and acceptance criteria that push quality decisions to the end. Typical review: 3 to 5 days, with a written report and negotiation priorities.
Delivery Audit
During the project. An independent review of deliverables at key milestones (data model, integration specifications, test plans, UAT scripts) against the agreed scope and good practice.
Program Oversight
Ongoing. A regular senior review of status, risks and budget, and a seat at the steering committee as the independent technical voice. Not a project manager, not a delivery partner: the person who raises a flag early when something starts to drift.
Program Recovery
When the project is already off-track. A two-week diagnostic finds the root cause (scope ambiguity, delivery gap, client-side resourcing, data quality surprise) and produces a recovery plan with a new baseline. On one recovered project, cleaning 300+ tickets and changing the acceptance strategy was the first step back to a plan everyone could follow.
The case study on recovering an Akeneo project for a B2B equipment distributor describes that first step and what followed.
PIM Project Recovery: Getting an Off-Track Program Back on Plan
PIM project recovery starts with honest triage, not with more people. Before adding budget or resources, we need a true picture of project health: what was agreed, what was built, what really works with real product data, and what everyone still assumes but nobody has tested. The root causes are usually familiar, and why PIM projects fail covers the most common ones.
The role of PIM project recovery consultants is not to find someone to blame. It is to put the work back in the right order, whether you call it recovery or a PIM project rescue:
- Stop: pause new features and change requests until the backlog is understood. Work that keeps flowing into a broken plan only widens the gap.
- Fix first: the data model, identifiers and the main integration, because every screen and workflow depends on them.
- Clean the backlog: close duplicates, merge overlaps, and give each remaining ticket an owner and a priority.
- Reset acceptance and scope: acceptance criteria per phase, tested on real product data, instead of one big acceptance at the end. Scope that no longer fits moves to a later phase, written down and agreed by both sides.
On a B2B equipment distributor's project, worked from the agency side, the budget was already over-consumed. Recovery started by cleaning 300+ tickets and changing the acceptance strategy. The lesson was simple: recovery starts with honest triage.
Architecture Audit
Available as a standalone engagement: data model, families and attributes, identifiers, integrations and governance. On a European DIY retailer’s catalog, the audit showed 1,324 flat families copied from a supplier classification, each carrying between 196 and 385 attributes, so completeness meant nothing. The fix started with the model, not with the tool.
An audit can also come before growth, as it did for a global confectionery brand preparing to scale its product data to more markets: see the strategic PIM audit case study.
Tell us where the program is and what is being delivered. In one call, we will tell you whether there is a problem, and what it would take to fix it.
Practical answers before we talk.
Can you work alongside our existing SI without causing conflict?
What if the SI has already delivered a system that doesn’t work?
Do you work on fixed-price or time-and-materials?
Can you rescue a PIM project that is already over budget?
5,181 → 555Attributes reviewed and reduced to the ones the web really needs, on a European DIY retailer’s catalog.
1,324Flat families audited and restructured into a two-level model on the same catalog.
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