PROPOSAL / PHASE 1 / JULY 27, 2026
SCI RACING · ECOMMERCE PLATFORM
A premium Shopify Plus storefront and the catalog, fitment, inventory, and fulfillment systems required to make the AI-first vision real.
01 / CORE SYSTEMS
You will sell products from more than 20 brands. Each brand publishes its product information in a different format and at a different level of quality. Some provide clean data feeds. Others provide spreadsheets or PDFs. We will build one pipeline that collects this information, cleans it up, keeps it current, and tracks which parts fit which vehicles, so a Pro R owner only ever sees parts that fit a Pro R.
Every order placed on the site has to reach the right vendor, ship from their warehouse, and get tracking back to the customer. With 20+ vendors, each doing this differently, order routing has to be automatic. We will build the system that splits orders across vendors, sends each part of the order to the right place, and keeps the customer informed, including when something is backordered or ships in multiple boxes.
Your brief calls for AI-powered recommendations, a build assistant, and fitment intelligence that you own rather than rent. Phase 1 builds the clean, structured catalog and fulfillment source the future assistant will run on. The assistant itself sits on the post-launch roadmap.
ENGINEERED / NOT DECORATED
02 / PROJECT PLAN
We kick off August 1 and launch in January. Discovery and design start immediately. Once Discovery wraps, the data platform and the storefront are built in parallel through the fall. December is reserved for QA, with buffer built in around the holidays.
STEP
The complexity in this project lies in the vendor integrations, so the first step is a full investigation of what it will take to connect all 20+ vendors: what product data each one provides, how each one accepts and fulfills orders, and how many SKUs are involved.
STEP
Design starts on day one and runs alongside everything else, so the build never waits on it.
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One system that handles product data and order flow for every vendor, so the storefront stays simple and future features draw from the same source.
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The customer-facing store, built to the approved designs.
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Testing across devices and browsers, then live vendor order tests and performance work before staging sign-off.
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Go-live, final checks, domain cutover, launch training, and 30 days of support while the first real orders come in.
The final Discovery deliverable is a single firm price with locked scope and written acceptance criteria. If that price does not work for you, you keep all of the Discovery results and owe nothing further.
03 / INVESTMENT
QA, launch, and 30 days of post-launch support are included in the fees below. Steps 2 through 4 are ranges because the vendor integration requirements are unknown until Discovery is complete.
| Step 1: Discovery and Integration Mapping | $7,500 fixed |
|---|---|
| Step 2: Design | $12,000–$15,000 |
| Step 3: Data and Fulfillment Platform | $38,000–$48,000 |
| Step 4: Storefront Build | $15,000–$19,000 |
| Additional vendor connections beyond the four included | $2,500–$4,500 each |
| Total Phase 1 range | $72,500–$89,500 |
LOCKED SCOPE RULE
The final Discovery deliverable is a single firm price with locked scope and written acceptance criteria. If that price does not work for you, you keep all of the Discovery results and owe nothing further.
04 / ASSUMPTIONS
We keep the proposal honest by naming the dependencies and the line between BlendMode work and SCI Racing work.
Vendor and distributor dropship accounts are SCI Racing's commercial relationships to establish. BlendMode identifies the right ones, drives the process, and handles all technical setup.
SCI Racing provides brand assets and any owned photography. Product imagery otherwise comes from vendor and distributor data.
The Shopify Plus subscription, app fees, cloud hosting, and any distributor data fees are billed directly to SCI Racing. BlendMode sizes these during Discovery.
Legal copy (returns, warranty, terms) is supplied by SCI Racing.
Scope changes after the firm price is locked are handled by written change order.
05 / ROADMAP AFTER LAUNCH
The data platform from Step 3 is what makes the post-launch roadmap fast, because each future feature is just a new consumer of the same structured data.
A conversational assistant that helps customers plan complete builds, check compatibility, and buy full systems instead of individual parts, plus My Garage and saved builds. SCI Racing owns it outright: the code lives in its repositories, the data in its database, and the infrastructure in its cloud account, with the ability to switch AI models at any time.
Technical SEO, data-driven vehicle and category landing pages, buyer and build guides, and optimization for AI search tools. This is ongoing work rather than a one-time project and begins around launch.
A section where enthusiasts can list and browse used vehicles and parts.
Help customers find Polaris dealers and service locations near them.
Kelley Blue Book style pricing guidance for used Polaris vehicles.
Automatic recall alerts matched to the vehicles a customer has saved in their account.
06 / WHY BLENDMODE
The proposal is not only about the visible site. It is about the data, routing, and AI foundations that keep the customer experience honest at scale.
We build pipelines that run unattended and alert us when something breaks, which matters when 20+ vendor feeds are involved.
We keep clean boundaries between the data platform, the storefront, and vendor systems, so each one can change without breaking the others.
The storefront is designed to sell, while the architecture is built to scale with the underlying data systems.
We build assistants that are backed by verified data, so recommendations come from real compatibility records rather than guesses.
Everything runs in your accounts and lives in your repositories from day one, fully documented.
