DEPOT engaged Gradion to rebuild its mobile app, web shop, and backend integration. A 13-person dedicated team delivered a platform capable of leading home décor retail in DACH.

The Challenge

Being among SCAYLE’s earliest enterprise clients brought competitive advantage in terms of positioning, but it came with a real technical cost. The platform had early-stage limitations that created friction in DEPOT’s day-to-day operations - slower-than-expected data syncing, constraints in content and product workflows, and integration seams that had not yet been hardened for enterprise-scale use. At the same time, the customer-facing experience across web and mobile was not meeting the expectations DEPOT needed to set as a digital leader in its category. The mobile app and web shop had accumulated technical debt that constrained loading performance, reduced maintainability, and made it harder to ship new features without risk of regression elsewhere in the system. The third dimension of the challenge was scale. Home décor retail has pronounced demand peaks - Christmas, Easter, new season launches, promotional events. The platform needed to absorb these spikes without degradation. The legacy code that had accumulated across the stack made that kind of resilience difficult to guarantee.

The Approach

Gradion assembled a dedicated 13-member team covering the full breadth of DEPOT’s digital stack: mobile, frontend, and backend. The scale of the team reflected the scope of the work - this was not a focused fix but a systematic rebuild of three interconnected layers. Mobile: The DEPOT mobile app was rebuilt in React Native. The objective was not incremental improvement but a properly engineered application - one with clean architecture, strong performance characteristics, and a codebase maintainable by the broader team going forward. Web: The web shop was revamped using Angular and Symfony, addressing both the user-facing experience and the underlying architecture. Speed, UX clarity, and maintainability were the three design criteria, and the revamp addressed all three without introducing new dependencies or complexity. Backend: Gradion enhanced DEPOT’s SCAYLE platform integration at a level that went well beyond standard configuration. The team improved data extraction capabilities, accelerated sync speeds, and smoothed the product and content workflows that had been creating operational friction. This required working closely with the SCAYLE platform itself - understanding its internals and engineering solutions that worked with its evolution rather than around it. Throughout the engagement, legacy code was systematically refactored to improve loading performance, reduce technical debt, and make future feature development faster and less risky. The goal was not just a better platform today but a cleaner foundation that the DEPOT team could continue building on.