Booking 2 new partners for Q3 — strategy calls open this week.

Ongoing partnership

A studio on retainer beats a queue every time.

Most agencies treat retainers like leftovers — junior devs filling time between bigger projects. Ours work the other direction. The same senior team that delivers your launch also runs your retainer. Reserved hours, weekly cadence, a Notion roadmap your team can read, and on-call for retainer partners during launches and Q4 sale events.

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Outcomes

What you actually get.

  • A reliable monthly cadence of meaningful shipped work
  • A roadmap you and your team are aligned on
  • Performance, CRO, and integration work compounding over time
  • On-call coverage during launches and peak season

Deliverables

Everything that ships to your team.

Reserved senior dev hours each month
Weekly sync + Notion roadmap maintained jointly
Sprint planning every two weeks
Monthly performance + uptime report
On-call window during launches and Q4 (retainer partners)
Quarterly business review

Methodology

How we approach the work.

Not principles for principles' sake — these are the practices that decide whether we ship something good or something we'd be embarrassed by.

01

Dedicated team, not a pool

Every retainer partner gets the same senior team across every engagement. We don't farm hours to whichever junior is free; you get continuity.

02

Roadmap lives in Notion

Backlog, in-progress, shipped — visible to your team and ours. Decisions and rationale are written down. The roadmap doesn't live in someone's head.

03

Hours are reserved, not used-or-lost

Unused hours roll up to 50% into the next month. We won't push busywork to burn the budget.

04

Quarterly review, honestly

Every quarter we report what we shipped, what didn't ship and why, what we'd recommend next. If the partnership isn't earning its keep, we say so.

Tools we use

The stack behind this service.

NotionLinearSlackLoomGitHubLighthouse CIPagerDuty (on-call)Sentry

For the full studio stack — every tool we work with across all engagements — see the tech stack page.

FAQ

About this service.

The questions partners actually ask before kicking off this kind of work.

$4k/month, which gets you a reserved block of senior hours and a weekly cadence. Below that we'd be context-switching every conversation; not worth your money or ours.

Also from the studio

We also do these.

Custom themes

Hand-built Liquid + Hydrogen storefronts engineered for conversion and the long haul.

Custom apps

Private and public Shopify apps for ops, merchandising, and customer logic that no off-the-shelf app handles.

Integrations

ERP, 3PL, OMS, ESP, CRM, accounting — wired in clean and built to not break at 3am on a Friday.

Take the call

Stop renting Shopify help.
Hire a partner.

30-minute strategy call. Founder on the line. We'll dig into your stack, your goals, and whether we're the right team — no high-pressure sales pitch.