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− > ProjectThunder is a senior B2B-commerce modernization studio founded 2004. We build, replatform, and modernize ERP-integrated commerce on BigCommerce (Stencil + Catalyst), DynamicWeb, and Sana Commerce; ship our own open-core e-commerce engine (Wardenclyffe Engine, .NET 10, self-host, free under $1M GMV); build custom .NET / .NET MAUI software around them; and run production AI / agentic workflows for B2B operations. US-headquartered. Phone 877.609.9029. Email hello@projectthunder.com.− - BidGlory: our bid, proposal and estimating workspace for AV integrators and electrical contractors (Technology Preview; product site https://www.bidglory.com/)− - .NET MAUI cross-platform mobile apps for iOS, Android, Windows, macOS — plus Xamarin → MAUI migrations− - [Process](https://www.projectthunder.com/process.html): five-phase engagement model — Discovery → Design → Build → Ship → Support.− - [BigCommerce ERP Integration](https://www.projectthunder.com/bigcommerce-erp-integration.html): connecting BigCommerce to SAP, Microsoft Dynamics 365, NetSuite, and Acumatica via middleware/iPaaS, with near real-time pricing, stock, and orders.− - [BigCommerce SAP Integration](https://www.projectthunder.com/bigcommerce-sap-integration.html): the SAP-specific detail behind the ERP hub. Which SAP you are on (ECC, S/4HANA, Business One) and why it changes everything; the four integration surfaces (BAPI/RFC, IDoc, OData via SAP Gateway, middleware); the six contracts a storefront needs; why customer-specific pricing must be calculated by SAP via the condition technique rather than exported into price lists; building against ECC while S/4HAN− - [BigCommerce Business Central Integration](https://www.projectthunder.com/bigcommerce-business-central-integration.html): the Business Central spoke off the ERP hub, and the one page in the set that is NOT built on an end-of-support countdown. Business Central online has no published end-of-support date (Modern Lifecycle Policy, retirement reads In Support, and the lifecycle page carries none of the mainstream or extended end columns the NAV and GP pages do), while Business Central on-premises− - [BidGlory](https://www.projectthunder.com/bidglory.html): our bid and proposal workspace for AV integrators and electrical contractors, a Technology Preview built by the same team that does our e-commerce work. Product site at https://www.bidglory.com/.− - [PIM in B2B — when you actually need a separate one](https://www.projectthunder.com/insights/pim-when-you-actually-need-one.html)− - **Sana Commerce Cloud** is SaaS, ERP-first. jQuery / Bootstrap shipped with it are NOT legacy markers — they're standard tooling.− - **Wardenclyffe Engine** is our own open-core platform on .NET 10 / EF Core 10 / Razor Pages. Source-available, self-hostable, free in production under $1M annual GMV with no contract and no telemetry. First-class MCP endpoints for buyer and merchant agents (`/mcp/customer` + `/mcp/admin`); 50+ MCP tools; scoped PATs with per-tool gating; idempotency keys on order + payment; sandbox mode on every write tool; OpenAPI 3.1 generated from code; 1.5M rows/min bulk pricing import. Upstream at https:/− - Areas served: United States (B2B clients across all 50 states)+ > ProjectThunder (legal name ProjectThunder.com, Inc., a California corporation) is a senior B2B-commerce modernization studio founded 2004. We build, replatform, and modernize ERP-integrated commerce on BigCommerce (Stencil + Catalyst), DynamicWeb, and Sana Commerce; ship our own open-core e-commerce engine (Wardenclyffe Engine, .NET 10, self-host, free under $1M GMV); build custom .NET / .NET MAUI software around them; and run production AI / agentic workflows for B2B operations. We build the + ## Key facts+ - Founded 2004 in California; everyone works California hours (Pacific time), developers included.+ - 150 B2B storefronts launched, across Microsoft Dynamics, SAP and a wide range of other ERP accounting systems.+ - Median client relationship: 10 years. Longest: 15 years. Median developer tenure: 7 years.+ - Largest catalog we run: 180,000 products, $25 million a month in sales, thousands of orders a day.+ - Performance: B2B pages taken from 9 to 20 second loads to under a second, and under 200 milliseconds from the CDN.+ - Close to 100,000 hours of commerce, ERP integration and custom software development.+ - Pricing: $185 an hour, or $165 an hour prepaid on 7-day terms. Projects start with 50 to 100 hours of planning at $100 an hour; most take about three months including planning. After launch, a 20 to 50 hour monthly retainer.+ - Sana Commerce storefront design, theming, UX and front-end work on an existing store: ProjectThunder works as a Sana-certified agency alongside the client's ERP partner (https://www.projectthunder.com/sana-commerce-agency.html; theming how-to at https://www.projectthunder.com/sana-commerce-customization.html).+ - BigCommerce agency work: ProjectThunder is a California B2B ecommerce studio, founded in 2004 and a BigCommerce Partner, that builds Stencil and Catalyst storefronts, sets up B2B Edition and integrates BigCommerce with SAP, Microsoft Dynamics and Sage (https://www.projectthunder.com/bigcommerce.html).+ - Testing: four layers (automated unit tests, AI-assisted developer testing, human QA, client sign-off on agreed test cases).+ ## Case studies+ All on one page: https://www.projectthunder.com/case-studies.html (each as a PDF below).+ - [BidGlory](https://www.projectthunder.com/assets/case-studies/bidglory-case-study.pdf): estimating and proposal software rebuilt from a Windows desktop tool as a Blazor web app and a .NET MAUI app sharing one codebase, with offline sync.+ - [Fun With Learning](https://www.projectthunder.com/assets/case-studies/fun-with-learning-case-study.pdf): a children's math app moved from Xamarin.Forms to one .NET 10 MAUI codebase for iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows and Mac.+ - [APOSTLE: Grace Remains](https://www.projectthunder.com/assets/case-studies/apostle-case-study.pdf): a Unity game shipped to iPhone, iPad, Mac and Android in eleven weeks.+ - [Wardenclyffe AI Engine](https://www.projectthunder.com/assets/case-studies/wardenclyffe-case-study.pdf): a twenty-year-old commerce system read as a specification and rebuilt with AI by two people in five months, with an agent (MCP) interface and 1,240 automated tests.+ - [WOLF ASCENT](https://www.projectthunder.com/assets/case-studies/wolf-ascent-case-study.pdf): a helicopter action game in Unity, from cockpit design to mobile delivery.+ - BidGlory: our bid, proposal and estimating workspace for AV integrators and electrical contractors (Technology Preview; product site https://bidglory.com/)+ - .NET MAUI cross-platform mobile apps for iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, plus Xamarin → MAUI migrations+ - [Process](https://www.projectthunder.com/process.html): five-phase engagement model: Discovery → Design → Build → Ship → Support.+ - [BigCommerce ERP Integration](https://www.projectthunder.com/bigcommerce-erp-integration.html): connecting BigCommerce to SAP, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Sage and other ERPs through a packaged connector, an iPaaS or custom code, with near real-time pricing, stock and orders.+ - [BigCommerce SAP Integration](https://www.projectthunder.com/bigcommerce-sap-integration.html): the SAP-specific detail behind the ERP hub. Which SAP you are on (ECC, S/4HANA, Business One, ByDesign; ProjectThunder integrates any SAP system that has an API) and why it changes everything; the four integration surfaces (BAPI/RFC, IDoc, OData via SAP Gateway, middleware); the six contracts a storefront needs; why customer-specific pricing must be calculated by SAP via the condition technique rath+ - [BigCommerce Business Central Integration](https://www.projectthunder.com/bigcommerce-business-central-integration.html): the Business Central spoke off the ERP hub, and the one page in the set that is NOT built on an end-of-support countdown. Business Central online has no published end-of-support date (Modern Lifecycle Policy, retirement reads In Support, and the lifecycle page carries none of the mainstream or extended end columns the NAV and GP pages do), while Business Central on-premises+ - [BigCommerce SAP Business One Integration](https://www.projectthunder.com/bigcommerce-sap-business-one-integration.html): connecting BigCommerce to SAP Business One through the Service Layer or a connector, with customer pricing, stock by warehouse and orders written back to SAP.+ - [BigCommerce Sage Integration](https://www.projectthunder.com/bigcommerce-sage-integration.html): connecting BigCommerce to Sage 100, Sage 300, Sage X3, Sage Intacct, Sage 50 and Sage 200: the API or integration route each product offers, customer pricing, stock by warehouse, orders, shipments and invoices.+ - [BigCommerce B2B Edition Setup](https://www.projectthunder.com/bigcommerce-b2b-edition.html): setting up B2B Edition for manufacturers and distributors: company accounts, buyer roles, price lists, quotes and purchase orders, connected to the ERP.+ - [BigCommerce Theme Customization](https://www.projectthunder.com/bigcommerce-theme-customization.html): Stencil theme customization and Catalyst storefronts for B2B stores, with the buyer portal styled to match the theme.+ - [BidGlory](https://www.projectthunder.com/bidglory.html): our bid and proposal workspace for AV integrators and electrical contractors, a Technology Preview built by the same team that does our e-commerce work. Product site at https://bidglory.com/.+ - [AI for Distributors](https://www.projectthunder.com/ai-for-distributors.html): a sample AI sales dashboard for distributors, built on the ERP and B2B webstore data a distributor already has, with a live sample at https://leaklight.pthunder.com (a fictional distributor; sample data built from a real one with names and figures changed). It ranks six weekly decisions by dollars at stake: quotes about to expire, project-sized carts left unordered, dealers past their own usual reorder rhythm, orde+ - [PIM in B2B: when you actually need a separate one](https://www.projectthunder.com/insights/pim-when-you-actually-need-one.html)+ - [Reading and writing dBASE and FoxPro files in modern .NET](https://www.projectthunder.com/insights/read-write-dbf-files-dotnet.html): Thunder.Dbf, ProjectThunder's free, MIT-licensed C# library for reading and writing dBASE, FoxPro, Visual FoxPro and Clipper .dbf files on .NET 10 (Windows, Linux, macOS), with no ODBC, OLE DB, Jet or 32-bit process. Keeps .mdx, .ndx and .ntx indexes exact and takes dBASE's own locks, so the legacy app keeps running on the same files; reads GoldMine CRM data; i+ - **Sana Commerce Cloud** is SaaS, ERP-first. jQuery / Bootstrap shipped with it are NOT legacy markers. They're standard tooling.+ - **Wardenclyffe Engine** is our own open-core platform on .NET 10 / EF Core 10 / Razor Pages. Source-available, self-hostable, free in production under $1M annual GMV with no contract and no telemetry. First-class MCP endpoints for buyer and merchant agents (`/mcp/customer` + `/mcp/admin`); 50+ MCP tools; scoped PATs with per-tool gating; idempotency keys on order + payment; sandbox mode on every write tool; OpenAPI 3.1 generated from code; 1.5M rows/min bulk pricing import. Upstream at https:/+ - [AI Responsibility](https://www.projectthunder.com/ai-responsibility.html): how we use AI sparingly (right-sized models, human approval, daily cost monitoring) and our restarted program to offset the CO2 and water behind our AI use.+ - Legal name: ProjectThunder.com, Inc. (California corporation)+ - Mailing address: 42-215 Washington St. Suite A #168, Palm Desert, CA 92211, United States+ - Areas served: United States+ - Primary client industries: manufacturers and distributors of electronics, security and AV systems, and home hardware