§ 02ECOMMERCE

Stores built to sell.

From catalog architecture through checkout. For operators who treat ecommerce as a real business, not a side project.

We've been building online stores since the category existed. In the early 2000s we shipped ecommerce sites with tens of thousands of SKUs, integrated payment processing before it was standardized, and optimized catalogs for search engines before Google was a verb. The technology has changed; the underlying work hasn't.

The most common ecommerce problems we see aren't technology problems. They're catalog problems, merchandising problems, or operational problems that got translated into technology decisions. A retailer who can't keep inventory accurate doesn't need a better checkout — they need to fix upstream. A brand whose conversion rate is 0.4% doesn't need a redesign — they need to understand why people aren't buying. We start with the actual problem.

Once the problem is clear, we build. We work on every major ecommerce platform and we're unromantic about the choice. Shopify is the right answer most of the time. WooCommerce is the right answer when WordPress is already central to the business. Custom builds are the right answer in narrow circumstances — high-catalog-count B2B, complex pricing logic, or operational workflows no platform supports cleanly.

For beverage-alcohol retailers specifically, we have a dedicated practice. See our beverage-alcohol retailers page for details.

What we typically deliver

Platform selection, site design, development or theme customization, catalog migration, checkout and payment setup, SEO, analytics, and post-launch merchandising support.

What we optimize for

Page speed, conversion rate, average order value, organic search performance, and operational fit with your team's actual workflow.

What we don't do

Dropshipping stores, print-on-demand sites, or any business model where the store itself is the product. We work with real operators moving real inventory.