Close-up of a product zoom hover interaction on an e-commerce storefront showing watch detail
product zoom hover
Cart drawer sliding open on a DTC storefront showing product line items and checkout button
cart drawer open

We build stores

Mobile checkout screen with Apple Pay button rendered on a clean DTC storefront
apple pay checkout

that outsell

Collection page with active filter chips visible and a grid of product cards below
filters active

their design.

Shipping confirmation email rendered cleanly with order summary and tracking link
shipping confirm

For DTC founders on a Shopify theme that's bleeding conversions. For brand directors who've outgrown their platform. For wholesale ops leads selling direct for the first time.

Shopify Custom ThemesHeadless CommerceCheckout ExtensionsProduct Page OptimizationReplatformingPerformance AuditsCart UXMobile-First BuildsShopify Custom ThemesHeadless CommerceCheckout ExtensionsProduct Page OptimizationReplatformingPerformance AuditsCart UXMobile-First Builds

Your theme is the bottleneck.
Not your product.

Broken mobile cart UI showing misaligned buttons and truncated product names on a smartphone screen

37% of mobile sessions end here

mobile cart — broken

broken
Checkout flow with too many form fields visible and an unclear shipping cost causing abandonment

avg. 68% abandonment rate

checkout abandoned

Collection page showing slow-loading product images with placeholder boxes still visible

every +1s costs −7% CVR

collection 8.2s load

Dashboard showing a Shopify theme editor with too many workaround apps installed slowing the store

14 apps installed.

0 of them yours.

"The theme isn't the product. The store is the product. We build it from the checkout drawer up."

One project.
Three spreads.

Hand-drawn wireframe sketches of an e-commerce product page and checkout flow on white paper
01

Every pixel argued before it's placed

We map every user flow on paper first — product discovery, cart state, checkout branching. No Figma file opens until the logic is settled.

Component library UI showing button variants, card states, and form elements organized in a design system grid
02

A system, not a stack of pages

Reusable components with variant states documented. Your team can extend the store without calling us first.

Live e-commerce storefront on a laptop screen showing a clean product page with high-quality imagery
03

Shipped clean. Documented completely.

Sub-2s load times. Lighthouse 95+. Every component annotated. A store that performs the day it launches and the day your team takes it over.

6–12 wk
< 2s
95+
100%

Stores we've built.
Numbers that followed.

Ardent Supply Co storefront showing a clean apparel collection page with editorial photography and minimal UI
Shopify → Headless
↓ expand

Ardent Supply Co.

+$340K
4.1s → 1.3s
+2.8pp CVR

"We stopped losing customers at the cart. That's it. That's the whole story."

Grove Provisions food e-commerce storefront showing subscription product page with bundle builder UI
WooCommerce → Shopify
↓ expand

Grove Provisions

+$180K
6.8s → 1.7s
+1.9pp CVR

"The subscription builder alone paid for the build in the first quarter."

Calloway Home furniture storefront showing a living room scene with AR try-in feature and room builder tool
Magento → Shopify Plus
↓ expand

Calloway Home

+$1.2M
9.4s → 2.1s
+3.4pp CVR

"Migrating off Magento felt impossible. Scaffold made it feel inevitable."

Pallet Wholesale direct-to-consumer storefront showing a trade buyer portal and retail customer split navigation
Custom → Shopify Plus
↓ expand

Pallet Wholesale

DTC channel launched
N/A (greenfield)
3.2% from day one

"We'd been selling wholesale for 12 years. Scaffold helped us sell direct without cannibalizing a single account."

The Replatforming Playbook.
What we know. Written down.

+34%

Average revenue lift

3.8×

Median speed improvement

71%

Checkout completion benchmark

Free Download

Download the Replatforming Playbook

47 pages. Migration checklists, platform comparisons, checkout UX standards, and post-launch performance benchmarks. What we hand clients before we start.

No sequences. No drip campaigns. One email with the PDF attached. Unsubscribe is one click.

Free Tool

Audit My Store Free

Drop your storefront URL. We'll return a lightweight speed + UX score with the three highest-impact fixes — no email required.

  • Core Web Vitals (LCP, CLS, FID)
  • Mobile checkout flow friction score
  • Above-fold render blocking assets
  • Cart abandonment risk indicators
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