Built for the stores Adobe priced out.
Nautvia exists because mid-market Magento merchants got left in an odd place: the platform is open source, but running it well became an enterprise product.
Where this comes from
I have spent the better part of a decade building and running Magento stores for clients — the real kind of running, where a deploy on a Friday means you are the one watching the maintenance page count down.
Those years left a consistent picture. The stores were healthy businesses. The platform was capable. What was broken was everything around it: hosting sold by the annual contract, deploys that took the shop down, and a paid edition priced for companies ten times their size. When Adobe moved Commerce upmarket and the community answered with Mage-OS, the gap became a product waiting to be built.
Nautvia is that product: the deploy pipeline and hosting I kept rebuilding for clients by hand, turned into a platform — releases built away from production and swapped in atomically, dedicated machines per role, and a bill assembled from an hourly rate table you can read.
One engineer, on purpose
Nautvia is built and operated by one person. That is not a limitation being spun as a feature — it is why a support message gets an answer from someone who can actually fix the thing, and why the platform stays opinionated instead of growing a settings page for every request.
Migrations are done by hand
Every store moves in the same way the first client stores did: together, over a call if needed, with the DNS cutover last and a rollback plan agreed before anything is touched. The deploy pipeline was productized from those migrations, not invented before them.
Pricing you can reconstruct
The public price list, the calculator and the invoice are all built from one table. There is no "contact sales", no revenue share, and stopped machines cost nothing.
Questions land with the person who can answer them.
Thinking about moving a store across, or unsure whether your setup fits? Write directly — the first reply usually already says what the migration would look like.