Proof · Verify everything

Don’t take our word for anything on this site.

We back up our claims. This is where the data and links live.

$4.5B+/yr payment volumethrough our modules 465k+ installs Composer est. 2002 · Lancaster, PA Mage-OS founder + board member 100% in-house · zero outsourcing + more, see below

Case studies

Documented work.

01 · Hyvä retheme · 2023

Half Time Beverage: Luma to Hyvä

6.5s → 1.9s full page load

Frontend rebuild on the platform they already owned. Good-LCP share jumped 52% → 88% the month it shipped (CrUX, Jul–Aug 2023); traffic jumped even more.

Read the study →

Verification panel

Check the claims.

Composer installs

LIVE Pulled from Packagist: paradoxlabs/authnetcim 156K+, paradoxlabs/tokenbase 179K+, portfolio 465k+ (as of 2026). Public API, third-party numbers, not ours.

packagist.org/packages/paradoxlabs →

Release cadence

Dated changelogs on every maintained module. A decade of entries is hard to fake and easy to read.

Changelog feed →

Mage-OS contributions

Founder and ongoing maintainer role (Ryan Hoerr), board membership (Melinda Humphrey), org membership and commit history: all public on GitHub.

github.com/mage-os →

Transaction volume

$4.5B+/yr through our payment modules: We can't share the private reports, but we get transaction numbers for what our code processes through most gateways. The real number is higher.

The framework

How to verify any Magento agency, including us.

A short checklist you can run on any firm you’re evaluating. It takes an hour and filters out most of the field.

  • Public code you can read: GitHub organizations and Packagist packages, not screenshots of them
  • Release cadence on maintained modules: dated changelog entries across years, not a launch burst
  • Named engineers with ecosystem history: talks, commits, maintainer roles under real names
  • A patch-response track record: how fast did they ship after the last critical Magento security release?
  • References that mention year three, not month three

Run it on us. Then run it on everyone else you’re evaluating.

Dogfood · verify it yourself

This page is served by the stack we recommend.

Every vendor we put a client on, we run ourselves first. View source, check the headers: the products below aren’t paid endorsements — they’re what this site is built on.

Mage-OS

The independent Magento distribution. We didn’t just adopt it — Ryan Hoerr co-founded it and still maintains it. This site runs on it.

mage-os.org →

Hyvä

The frontend framework this storefront is built on: sub-second pages on standard Magento infrastructure, no headless tax.

hyva.io →

Nexcess

Where most of our client stores have lived for over a decade: speed, security, and a support desk that actually knows Magento.

nexcess.net →

Authorize.net

The gateway behind our most-installed modules. We’re the primary Authorize.net integrator for Magento — our code moves the transactions.

authorize.net →

dotdigital

Email and campaign automation. We run our own marketing on it before we wire it into a client’s store.

dotdigital.com →

Sansec

Malware and skimmer detection built specifically for Magento. It watches this site and the stores we manage.

sansec.io →

From real work · Engineering Notes

Raw evidence

Short technical writeups off real closed tickets: symptom, cause, fix, measurement.

2026-09-28 Free gifts, quantity squared: when three correct modules disagree promotions checkout hyva mage-os 2026-09-22 Upgrading to 2.4.9: the breakage is in the dependencies mage-os upgrades maintenance 2026-09-09 Composer's -a flag can't see Magento's generated code on old versions composer deployment performance

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