Retail & e-commerce


Stores built for the
second visit.

Getting someone to the product page is the cheap part. We work on the rest of it — the decisions that make a basket bigger, a checkout finish, and a first-time buyer come back without another ad.

A shopper with a phone beside a product page, a basket, a checkout step and a repeat-order card connected in a returning loop

What gets in the way in retail & e-commerce


The constraints
we plan around.

  1. 01

    Traffic is bought, not earned

    Paid acquisition covers a weak funnel until the cost per order climbs. Then the underlying conversion problem arrives all at once.

  2. 02

    The product page carries the sale

    Imagery, specification, delivery truth and returns policy decide it. Most stores under-invest in the one page doing the actual selling.

  3. 03

    Checkout leaks quietly

    Payment options, address handling and guest checkout are where UAE-specific friction lives, and standard analytics rarely name it clearly.

  4. 04

    Retention is left to discounting

    Lifecycle email, re-order flows and post-purchase content do the work a discount code usually gets asked to do.

What we build here


The work,
in your terms.

Storefronts, checkout, and the lifecycle work that makes a second purchase likely.

  • 01

    Storefront and product experience

    Category structure, product pages and merchandising designed around how people compare, not around how the catalogue is organised.

  • 02

    Checkout and conversion

    Basket, payment and delivery flows examined step by step, with the drop-offs measured rather than guessed at.

  • 03

    Performance marketing

    Search, paid social and shopping campaigns run against contribution margin rather than impressions.

  • 04

    Lifecycle and retention

    Post-purchase, re-order and win-back journeys that raise repeat value without training customers to wait for a sale.

Selected work


Proof, not promises.

Published projects in retail & e-commerce. Every one links to the disciplines that built it.

Questions we get asked


The things you’d ask
on the first call.

Do you build on Shopify or custom?

Shopify or a comparable platform for most retail, and custom when the catalogue, pricing logic or integrations genuinely break it. Recommending a custom build where a platform would have done is an expensive habit, and we avoid it.

Can you run the marketing as well as build the store?

Yes, and it tends to work better that way: the team that knows why a page is built the way it is makes better decisions about what to send traffic to. They can also be separate engagements if you already have an agency you trust.

How do you measure whether the work paid for itself?

We agree the numbers before starting — conversion rate, average order value, revenue per session and cost per order. Traffic on its own is not one of them.

Do you handle Arabic storefronts?

The right-to-left layout and the content model both have to be planned before the build rather than retrofitted. We will scope it properly if it is in the plan; we will not pretend it is a switch to flip.

Retail & e-commerce — let's talk


Bring us the work that has to land.

Tell us what you're building, changing, or trying to solve. We'll bring a clear next step.