Scandiweb launches Ari AI for Magento store upkeep
Fri, 2nd Oct 2026 (Today)
Scandiweb has launched Ari, an AI agent for Magento store maintenance designed for merchants and developers.
Ari can complete store updates that previously took days in less than five minutes, with task costs ranging from USD $2 to USD $10 in credits instead of the thousands of dollars often associated with manual work.
The launch addresses a long-running problem in the Magento market. The platform remains widely used by retailers that need deep customisation, but that flexibility can make stores expensive and difficult to maintain once custom code, third-party integrations and multi-market operations are added.
Ari lets merchants request changes in plain language or by voice, rather than through a developer-focused coding environment. It performs the work on a staging copy of the store, validates the result and prepares the change for review before deployment.
That places the product between non-technical store operators and the developers or agencies that usually handle Magento upkeep. For more complex work, Ari can pass tasks to a human reviewer for quality assurance sign-off and final implementation.
Scandiweb is entering a market where operational efficiency has become a prominent concern for online retailers. Research it cited from Adobe found that 47.3% of surveyed merchants identified operational efficiency and automation as a leading priority for developers.
Magento has also become more concentrated around larger and more complex eCommerce operations, according to Scandiweb's market framing. The company pointed to a 6.7% quarter-on-quarter decline in Magento store numbers in the second quarter of 2026, arguing that the platform is increasingly dominated by merchants with demanding technical requirements rather than smaller retailers.
How it works
Ari has been trained on more than 500,000 Magento tasks and is already in use on more than 300 live stores, according to Scandiweb. Each change made through the system can be reversed with one click, while an audit log records what changed and when.
Security is a central issue for any software operating inside a live commerce environment. Scandiweb said Ari includes controls intended to protect payment data and information stored in the cloud systems where tasks are processed.
Scandiweb also provides 24/7 human support, with a one-hour response time for enterprise live stores. That human back-up reflects the limits of full automation in eCommerce maintenance, where a failed update can affect checkout, pricing or inventory across several sales channels.
Adobe has already introduced Commerce development tools that connect AI assistance to integrated development environments used by engineers. Scandiweb is positioning Ari differently by focusing on direct access for merchants and project teams that do not work inside coding tools.
Antons Sapriko, Founder and Executive Chairman of Scandiweb, described the system as a way to remove friction from routine store work.
"We designed Ari to remove the bottleneck. A merchant describes what they want to build, change or fix in plain language or by voice. Ari analyzes the request, performs the work on a staging copy of the store and validates the result before preparing it for review. The change can then be approved and deployed, with developers, project managers or agencies able to review the work at any stage," said Antons Sapriko, Founder and Executive Chairman of Scandiweb.
Pricing model
Ari is available on a Team plan priced at USD $99 a month. Scandiweb also offers an Enterprise plan with custom pricing and credit volumes for merchants with heavier usage.
The pricing suggests Scandiweb is trying to make the tool accessible to a broad Magento user base while reserving bespoke commercial terms for larger retailers with more frequent change requests and stricter oversight needs.
Scandiweb has built its business around Magento and Adobe Commerce projects since 2009. It employs more than 500 in-house specialists and works on multi-brand and multi-country eCommerce systems.
The arrival of AI tools tailored to specific software ecosystems marks a shift from general-purpose assistants to systems trained on narrower operational tasks. In Magento's case, that focus may appeal to merchants that need to manage bespoke storefronts but cannot justify routing every update through a full development cycle.
Ari has been trained on more than 500,000 real-world Magento tasks and is already running on more than 300 live Magento stores.