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Industry 05 / 15Storefronts & marketplaces

Storefronts built to convert and scale.

Headless storefronts and multi-vendor marketplaces engineered for speed, search and checkout — so more visitors become buyers, and sale day doesn’t take you down.

+15–40%Conversion lift
<1sStorefront load target
PeakSale-day ready

A replatform should pay for itself in conversion.

We have moved storefronts off slow, rigid platforms and onto fast headless stacks and seen completion rates climb by double digits. The playbook is unglamorous: shave load time, strip checkout friction, fix search relevance, and harden for the traffic spike. Done right, the conversion lift funds the rebuild — and you own every line of it afterward, stack, data and roadmap included.

The sector, honestly.

In this sector, we build
Headless storefrontsCheckout & paymentsMarketplaces & multi-vendorSearch & merchandising

In e-commerce, milliseconds are money. A slow storefront, a clumsy checkout, a search that can’t find the product — each one quietly bleeds conversion, and the leak only widens as traffic grows.

We replatform and build commerce that moves the conversion number: fast headless storefronts, frictionless checkout, search that actually finds things, and infrastructure that holds through a flash sale instead of folding under it.

Because the storefront is decoupled from the backend, your merchandising team ships changes without waiting on a deploy — and you own the stack, the data and the roadmap rather than renting them from a closed platform.

What we build

Systems for e-commerce.

The platforms we ship most often for this sector — each scoped to a number the business actually cares about.

01

Headless storefronts

Blazing-fast, SEO-strong storefronts decoupled from the backend so you ship merchandising changes without a redeploy.

02

Checkout & payments

Low-friction, multi-method checkout with wallets, BNPL and fraud controls tuned to lift completion.

03

Marketplaces & multi-vendor

Seller onboarding, catalogues, payouts and commissions for platforms with many merchants.

04

Search & merchandising

Relevance, filters and AI recommendations that surface the right product before the visitor gives up.

05

Subscriptions & loyalty

Recurring billing, memberships and loyalty mechanics that lift repeat revenue.

06

Scale & performance

Caching, CDN and infrastructure engineered to stay sub-second through your biggest sale day.

Outcomes we target

Numbers, not slideware.

Every engagement is scoped to a measurable result. The kinds of outcomes we build e-commerce systems to move — and hold ourselves to.

+15–40%Conversion lift after replatform
<1sStorefront load time
PeakSale-day load-tested
100%Stack & data ownership
How we approach it

The hard parts, handled.

The principles we build by in this sector — and what each one means once the system is live.

01
Principle

Conversion is the metric

In practice

We instrument the funnel and optimise against completed orders — not page views or vanity speed scores.

02
Principle

Speed as strategy

In practice

Headless architecture and aggressive caching keep storefronts sub-second, because slow pages are abandoned carts.

03
Principle

Sale-day proof

In practice

We load-test to your peak event so flash sales and launches are a spec we hit, not a risk we hope through.

04
Principle

Own your stack

In practice

No lock-in to a closed platform — you own the storefront, the data and the roadmap.

Who we build for

From startups to scale.

The kinds of teams across e-commerce we partner with — each with different stakes, the same standard of craft.

DTC & retail brandsMulti-vendor marketplacesSubscription commerceB2B & wholesaleHigh-traffic / flash-sale retailOmnichannel retailers
Tools we reach for

Chosen for the problem.

Framework-agnostic, outcome-opinionated. A representative stack for e-commerce — the mix bends to your problem, never the reverse.

Next.jsHeadless commerceStripe / AdyenAlgolia / searchPostgresRedisCDN / edgeAWS
The services behind it

One team. Zero hand-offs.

The CODT disciplines we most often combine to build for e-commerce — same architecture, same engineers, no integration tax.

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Before you ask

Questions, answered.

The things buyers in e-commerce ask us most. Anything else — put it in a brief, a senior engineer replies within a business day.

Will a replatform actually lift conversion?

It is the point of the exercise. By cutting load time, checkout friction and search misses, replatforms we have shipped have lifted conversion by double-digit percentages — we instrument the funnel so the gain is measured, not assumed.

Do you build on Shopify, or fully custom?

Both, depending on fit. We build headless on commerce platforms when that wins, and fully custom when your model needs it — we show you the trade-off before you commit.

Can you handle a multi-vendor marketplace?

Yes — seller onboarding, catalogues, commissions and payouts are part of the marketplace builds we deliver.

Will it survive a flash sale?

We load-test to your peak event and engineer caching and infrastructure to hold sub-second through it, so launch day is planned for, not feared.

Can we manage merchandising without engineering?

A headless architecture decouples the storefront, so your team ships content and merchandising changes without waiting on a deploy.

Let’s scope it

Leaving conversion
on the table?

Tell us about your storefront, your traffic and where the funnel leaks. A senior engineer replies within one business day with a read.