Engineering studio · est. California Booking Q4 2026 |
audit. logic. launch.
Studio status2026
Build slots
Two open
Audit lead time
2 weeks
Technical audit
From $280
Shopify WordPress Craft CMS Drupal
Step 01 Diagnostic

Does this sound familiar?

Most sites do not fail because they look wrong. They fail because nobody can prove what they do. Here are the symptoms we meet most often.

Tick the ones that are true
0of 5 ticked

Then you are ahead of most. Still worth a second opinion.

Book the audit
02 / Services: what we do about it ↓
02 / Services

What we move

The two we are asked for most. Every figure below came off a real build, not a benchmark.

Turning clicks into customers01

Drive sales with e‑commerce

Stores on Shopify and WordPress built around the purchase path: fewer steps to checkout, a mobile flow that actually works, and the plumbing behind it that holds when volume arrives.

Product & collection templates Cart & checkout Subscriptions Shipping & payment logic
Proof point Full index in 03
+18% Retention Diggs Publishing
Results-driven design02

Elevate your digital presence

Sites for brands that need to be found and believed: structure a search engine can read, pages that load on a phone, and a front end your team can update without booking a developer.

Design systems Page templates Technical SEO Analytics & tracking
Proof point Full index in 03
+30% Load speed KidsAgain
Also: plugin and app development, integrations, support retainer See all services →
03 / Capability

Four disciplines, in order

01

Technical discovery

A prioritised roadmap

We open the hood before quoting anything. You get the findings whether or not you hire us.

Technical debt auditPerformance mappingAccessibility audit
02

Platform architecture

A system that holds

Deciding how the pieces connect, before anyone writes code that assumes the wrong thing.

API & middlewareSchema & data flowSalesforce & CRM integration
03

Precision engineering

Code, documented

Where an off-the-shelf app almost fits, we build the part that does. Custom, but maintainable.

WordPress pluginsShopify private appsCheckout extensions
04

Launch & governance

Numbers you can trust

The unglamorous half. Done properly, it is why every number on this page is measurable at all.

Cross-device QACore Web VitalsADA Level AA & WCAG 2.2Tracking & attribution
04 / Proof of work

Receipts, not claims.

Five engagements · signed off
01 Publishing

Diggs Publishing

A publishing hub built to hold a growing catalog: book pages, bulk orders, an ambassador program, and a team that can run all of it without calling us.

+18%Retention +24%Mobile engagement 7Book titles live
Figma → Shopify Full case study →
What we own GTM and GA4 implementation, owned end to end Google Ads conversion tracking and audience feeds Every Google Ads lead landing in Salesforce, attributed Gravity Forms leads pushed into Salesforce A continuous A/B testing programme on live traffic
02 Automotive services

Cartelligent

A multi-year retainer built around measurement rather than a rebuild. We own their GTM and GA4 implementation, the Google Ads tracking behind it, and a continuous A/B testing programme.

Multi-yearRetainer GTM + GA4Measurement Google AdsPaid tracking
GA4 · GTM · Google Ads · Salesforce Full case study →
03 Food & beverage

Plantiful Kitchen

A store that looked right but converted badly. We rebuilt the backend, fixed the mobile purchase path, and made local pickup a first-class option rather than a checkout afterthought.

+22%Revenue +31%Local pickup +14%Conversion
Figma → Shopify Full case study →
04 Sports technology

LFGconnect

A UK app entering the US market needed an acquisition hub that loads fast and drives installs, not a brochure. Built from their Figma files, shipped to a deadline.

+18%Engagement +12%New users +11%App installs
Figma → WordPress Full case study →
05 Community non-profit

KidsAgain

Built for families on phones, and for a small team who need to publish without fear of breaking anything. Clean code, no plugin sprawl.

+30%Load speed +22%Mobile traffic +15%Engagement
Figma → WordPress Full case study →
Three founders on record View all work →
05 / Method

How we work, and what it costs

Fixed fee, written scope

The people who scope your project are the people who build it.

No account managers relaying messages. One channel, and the developer who wrote the code answering in it: seven people, no subcontractors. Meet the studio →

01 Start here1–2 wks

Technical audit

A fixed-fee review of what you have: what is slow, what is at risk, what to fix first. Yours to keep either way.

From $280Quoted before we start
02 Most clients6–8 wks

Design & build

Scoped page by page, designed, built, tested across devices, tracked properly, handed over with training.

03 AfterwardsMonthly

On call

Thirty days of bug fixes on every build. After that, a monthly retainer covering fixes, updates and small feature work, on sites we built and sites we did not.

Week 1
Week 3
Launch → ongoing

Every engagement is one fixed amount against a written scope, approved before design begins. Never an hourly rate.

Audit first, always

Tell us what is broken.

We will tell you honestly whether it needs a rebuild or just a fix. Sometimes the answer is a fix, and we say so.

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06 / Contact

Start the conversation

Two minutes to fill in

Bring the messy version. Half-formed ideas, an inherited site nobody understands, a spreadsheet that should be software.

What happens next
01

We reply within one business day

A person, not an autoresponder, and usually with a question or two.

02

Thirty minutes, no deck

We look at what you have and tell you what we would do about it.

03

A written scope and a fixed number

Yours to approve, negotiate, or take to somebody else.

    What do you need




    Rough budget · optional

    No newsletter, no CRM sequence. One reply from one person.