Stop selling hours. Start shipping products.
Clients want fast, working software they own. Open Mercato enables fixed-price projects on a reusable foundation with sensible margins.
Same client project. Completely different economics.
3× the margin.
Clone → Overlay →
→ Ship → Repeat.
Clone the base
Fork Open Mercato for the new client. Auth, CRM, design system — running in 5 minutes.
Overlay their workflow
Your team (or AI agents) drops files in src/apps/. Core never modified. Clean separation.
Ship & handoff
Client gets a fully-owned codebase on their infra. No vendor lock-in. No recurring platform fees.
Maintain & upsell
Sell ongoing feature development. Each overlay is scoped — easy to estimate, profitable to deliver.
Mid-level devs ship senior-quality output.
The architecture and AI guardrails do the heavy lifting. Your team learns real skills — not workarounds.
Architecture that enforces quality
OCP overlays mean your devs can't accidentally break core modules. The structure prevents the mistakes before code review catches them.
AI agents that follow the rules
AGENTS.md and .ai/specs/ ship with the repo. Claude, Cursor, Copilot — they all generate code that fits the architecture, not fights it.
Real AI engineering skills
Your team learns spec-driven development and context-first workflows. Skills compound across projects.
Enterprise security out of the box
Field-level encryption, RBAC, audit trails, GDPR. Stop spending 3 weeks on auth for every client. Pass security reviews on day one.
Reusable across clients
Build a logistics overlay once. Use it for 5 clients with minor customization. Your IP compounds. Your margins grow.
No vendor lock-in (for you or them)
MIT licensed. Client gets full source. You're not reselling someone else's SaaS — you're delivering owned software on open infrastructure.
What changes on your next project.
Case Studies
Air&Ocean Logistics ERP
A secure portal where DBAs can’t read PII. Per-tenant encryption, field-level AES-GCM, full audit trail - ready for regulated enFreightTech.org built a fully owned logistics ERP on Open Mercato in 6 weeks — covering CRM with automated quote handling, estimated vs. actual cost control, and live Track & Trace integration with major shipping lines and AIS vessel positioning data. One platform for the full operational cycle. No license fees, no lock-in.vironments.
