is a technology-led consumer lending and investment company that helps borrowers bring their big ideas to life. Established in Australia in 2014, Plenti has funded over $900m of loans to over 55,000 borrowers and has attracted over 22,000 registered investors. Plenti Consumers hold financial services providers to high standards, so a Vercel and Next.js frontend was instrumental in transforming their brand and giving their users a trustworthy experience. Because of this, migrating from their WordPress-based monolithic stack and launching a composable Next.js frontend on Vercel was Plenti’s top tech priority as they approached their rebrand and IPO.

And they did this all with a one-developer team. Previously called RateSetter Australia, the Plenti team knew they needed to update their tech stack when they set off to IPO and rebrand in 2020. As part of the rebrand, everything on their website was redesigned, refactored, and rewritten. Plenti Software Engineer Matt Milburn managed the tech stack migration, saying “I tried to weigh every option possible, but Next.js ended up being the obvious choice. It just looks so nice, and gets you going so fast. You start building what you want…