Good products deserve better stores.
I review how your current Shopify store presents products, guides shoppers and works on mobile, then build a private working preview around your real brand. You can inspect the direction before deciding whether to buy.
I rebuild before I ask you to decide.
You see a private working direction built around your store before choosing whether to continue.
Send me your store
Email your Shopify URL and tell me what feels off.
I rebuild a preview
If there is a clear, honest opportunity, I prepare a private working version using verified public brand and product material.
You decide
Click through the preview on your phone. Show your partner. Compare side by side.
Install or walk away
If you like it, choose handover or installation under a written scope. If not, say so and I close it; if I hear nothing, I may send one short follow-up only.
I start with what the current storefront can prove.
I review the public shopping journey, product information, navigation, mobile layout and current policies. Where analytics or customer research are unavailable, recommendations stay hypotheses—not invented facts or promised outcomes.
A working storefront direction, not a static mockup.
The preview demonstrates page hierarchy, product discovery, product-page content and cart presentation with real links and products. Any discount, shipping, returns, review, app or checkout claim must match the live business or be omitted.
We don't redesign your theme. We rebuild your revenue funnel.
Every Shopify store has the same three funnel numbers underneath it. A typical store loses revenue at every one. The redesign is the surface — these are the systems we build into it.
The average Shopify store converts 1.4–2.5% of visitors. The top 20% hit 3.3%+. The top 10% clear 4.7%. Same products, same traffic — what's different is what's wired in underneath.
Most stores leak at all three stages and never know it. AOV and LTV sit on top, multiplying every gain. Every Grounded Carts redesign is engineered against these five numbers — and aimed at the top decile, not the average.
The five seconds that decide whether a visitor stays.
Hero, headline, hierarchy, mobile rhythm. We diagnose which of the four buyer types your category attracts — competitive, methodical, spontaneous, humanistic — and build the page that converts the one you're underserving.
Built in: diagnostic hero, real trust signals placed where the decision happens, mobile-first product card layout, believable proof above the fold.
Increase basket size, not just prices.
Doubling traffic while AOV halves leaves you in the same place. We bake in the layers that quietly lift basket value without changing what you charge per unit — the same plays the biggest DTC brands use, sized for a founder-led store.
Built in: bundle ladder, quantity breaks, frequently-bought-together logic, free-shipping threshold tuned to your AOV, post-purchase one-click upsells, "get the look" sets, high-price anchoring.
The 30 days after a purchase is where LTV is won.
Most stores treat the order-confirmation page as the end. It's the start. We design the post-purchase experience, the email-capture moment and the second-visit page as if they were the first impression — because for revenue, they are.
Built in: returning-customer detection, smart email capture (not a generic 10% popup), reorder-friendly account area, clean event data into your existing email tool, gift-with-first-order primed.
The cart is where good stores quietly bleed sales.
Roughly half of people who add to basket never reach checkout. Coupon friction, surprise shipping costs, PayPal Express failing on returning customers, a slow mobile cart — small things, big damage. We close the leaks at the decision point.
Built in: cart drawer with all costs visible, working coupon UX, free-ship progress bar, gift notes, payment-method visibility, mobile-thumb-tested flow.
Your products are probably better than your website makes them feel.
For premium founder-led brands, perceived value is the whole game. The site has to demonstrate — not claim — that the craft is real, the founder is real, and the reviews are real. We rebuild the brand-story layer, the review placement, the press strip and the founder voice so the price you charge feels obvious, not aspirational.
Built in: founder presence on the page, reviews where the objection lives (not on a separate tab), batch notes / provenance, awards strip, real photography over stock, press logos where they earn trust.
This isn't a checklist we run through at the end. It's the brief on day one. The redesign is what you see — these systems are what makes it earn.
Built for founder-led Shopify brands with great products and weak sites.
Small catalogues. Premium feel. Real craft. The kind of brand where the product deserves more than a generic Shopify template.
Two ways forward.
Same engineered redesign either way — AOV and LTV systems built in. Pick how hands-on you want to be.
- Business read on your products, customers and category
- Fully editable Shopify theme — you own it outright. Rearrange sections, swap copy and images yourself in the customizer. Never pay anyone for "small change" requests again.
- AOV system: bundle ladder + free-ship threshold tuned to your numbers
- LTV system: returning-customer logic + post-purchase priming
- Mobile-first sections engineered against your buyer type
- Setup documentation
- One round of revisions
- Email support during handover week
- Everything in Theme Handover (including the fully editable, you-own-it theme)
- Full installation in your Shopify store
- Done-for-you product copy + tasting notes on your hero products — written for you, not template filler
- A ready-to-load email pack — welcome, abandoned-cart & post-purchase flows for your email tool
- Your gifting set up — a build-your-own gift box + gift note, ready for your next season
- Cart drawer + free-shipping bar + post-purchase upsell wired up
- Mobile QA on real devices
- Unlimited design tweaks — describe what you want, 48-hour turnaround
- Direct text access to me — my phone, not a support ticket
- Your personalised growth playbook — what to test, watch and ignore in your first 90 days
An agency rebuild is $15–30k. A template swap is $0 but moves no revenue.
There hasn't been a real middle option for founder-led brands doing $10–80k a month. That's the gap I built Grounded Carts to fill. The same calibre of revenue-engineering work, productised into a system I can deliver in days instead of months — because the strategy work is the same whether the brand is doing $20k or $2M, and most of the agency cost is meetings, layers of staff, and process I cut out.
You're not getting cheaper work. You're getting the same work without the agency overhead, and you only pay once the preview proves it.
Send us your store.
We'll review it. If we see a strong commercial opportunity, we'll build a private preview using your real brand. You only pay if you want it installed.
- Review usually within 48 hours
- Private preview built in 3–7 days
- No obligation, no sales calls
- Theme files only delivered after payment