Aaron Hutten standing with colleagues after a working session

Work & approach

The diagram
is the easy part.

I care about what happens after the boxes and arrows: who owns it, what it costs to change, where it breaks, and whether the team can actually run it.

01 /Selected public work

Things I can point to.

Conversations and projects with sources you can follow.

Delivery / 2025

Yoga Democracy

I joined Yoga Democracy CEO Jeff Cannon to discuss the company’s move from Shopify to Salesforce Commerce in six weeks: what the constraint changed, how we thought about time to value, and why the technology decision had to remain adaptable.

Listen to the conversation ↗

Industry / 2026

Storefront Next

Salesforce included my perspective in the public Storefront Next launch. My point was simple: better tooling can remove drag, but it cannot compensate for a team that does not understand the work.

Read the launch article ↗

Architecture / recorded session

Modernizing the frontend

I moderated a practical discussion with people from Algolia, Netlify, and Stripe about search, content, payments, performance, and the operating consequences of a composable storefront.

Watch the masterclass ↗
02 /Applied research
Après Studio
Après Studio.

Working experiment

Après Studio

I wanted to see how far AI could take a real commerce implementation, and where I would still need to step in.

Question /
What can AI actually build?
Scope /
Storefront, catalog, integrations, content, deployment, and testing.
Tracking /
Speed, interventions, rework, failures, and repeatability.

The scope includes the storefront, content, catalog tooling, integrations, deployment, and tests. I keep the mistakes and interventions visible because “AI built it” leaves most of the useful questions unanswered. What got faster? What needed rework? Could another team own the result?

03 /Approach

How I work through it

  1. 01

    Find the constraint

    What is the business trying to do? What prevents it today? Establish that before deciding what to build or replace.

  2. 02

    Make the trade

    Keep, change, buy, build, wait. Compare the cost, dependencies, risk, and the team needed to operate each option.

  3. 03

    Make it real

    Turn the decision into a sequence a team can own. Then let implementation tell us which assumptions were wrong.

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