Evolve

Build a commerce storefront on shared, upgradable building blocks. One GraphQL API serves your storefront, your apps, and AI assistants, on whichever commerce engine you run.

What Evolve is

Evolve is a set of versioned packages for a commerce storefront and the API behind it. You start from a copy of a reference site, keep your own code in your project, and get updates as new package versions.

flowchart TB
  site[Storefront] --> gateway[GraphQL gateway]
  apps[Apps] --> gateway
  ai[AI assistants] --> mcp[MCP service] --> gateway
  gateway --> discover[discover<br/>catalog and content]
  gateway --> purchase[purchase<br/>cart, checkout, orders, accounts]
  discover --> vendors[Commerce engine · CMS · search]
  purchase --> vendors2[Commerce engine · payment providers · email]

Explore the docs

Get startedFrom a reference site copy to a storefront running on your machine.

GuidesOne change at a time: features, fields, vendors, deploying, and observability.

ArchitectureHow the storefront, the gateway, the services, and the packages fit together.

ReferenceEvery package, command, setting, and GraphQL operation.

ChangelogWhat changed each month, and what an upgrade asks of your project.

What Evolve gives you

Commerce and checkout

Catalog, cart, checkout, and orders on commercetools, Medusa, or SFCC, with payment providers ready to use.

B2B and B2C

Business units, associates, quotes, and order approvals as modules you add, on the same API.

Stores and markets

Several stores, countries, languages, and currencies on one backend.

Code you can take over

Take over any component or content block, and keep taking updates for the rest.

Content

Pages and content blocks from Contentful, Storyblok, or Payload, with preview.

Product listings, facets, and search from the engine, Algolia, or Meilisearch.

AI assistants

The same API for AI clients, through an MCP service.

Cloud and operations

Runs on Google Cloud, Azure, or AWS, with traces, logs, and errors built in.

Latest release

October 2026: release 2026.10.0Release 2026.10.0, October 28, 2026