Shopify & Shopify Plus · For Funded DTC Founders

Ship a Shopify store your investors will
brag about — in 14 days.

Cookie-cutter Dawn themes and freelancers who ghost after launch are quietly killing your CAC payback. I build founder-grade Shopify stores — premium design, sub-2s mobile load, and PDPs engineered to convert acquisition traffic from day one.

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Senior ecommerce engineering · Shopify, WooCommerce, performance, and conversion systems

The Gap

Your store isn't broken.
It's just bleeding.

Every percentage point of conversion you leak compounds across every dollar of ad spend. Here's what changes when you stop renting a template and start owning a system.

Where most startups are

  • Free Dawn theme that looks identical to 40,000 other stores
  • 4.2s mobile load destroying your Meta ROAS
  • Checkout drop-off you can't diagnose, let alone fix
  • PDPs that read like a spec sheet instead of selling a story
  • A bargain-bin freelancer who disappears the day after launch

What I ship you

  • +Custom design that signals premium scoping and brand authority
  • +Sub-2s mobile load · 90+ Lighthouse · paid-traffic ready
  • +Frictionless checkout with funnel analytics wired from day one
  • +PDPs structured around the actual buying decision
  • +A senior partner who stays 30 days post-launch — minimum
The Build

Three pillars. One revenue-grade store.

No bolt-on apps that fight each other. No theme bloat. Just a Shopify build engineered the way an in-house team would do it — if you could afford one.

01

Custom Store Architecture

Figma-to-Liquid builds on a clean foundation. Headless-ready, version-controlled, engineered to scale past 7 figures without a rebuild.

Shopify · Shopify Plus · Hydrogen-ready

02

Conversion-Engineered UX

Every section earns its scroll. PDPs structured around objections, not specs. Cart and checkout tuned to recover the 68% of revenue most stores lose between "Add to Cart" and "Pay."

CRO · A/B-tested patterns · funnel analytics

03

Speed & Core Web Vitals

Fast Lighthouse targets, stronger mobile LCP, and cleaner first-screen loading. Lazy-loaded media, optimized Liquid, and a critical-path audit so acquisition traffic actually lands.

PageSpeed · LCP · CLS · INP

Custom Shopify Theme Development

A custom theme is not a prettier template. It is the store architecture your growth depends on.

The difference is control. A custom Shopify theme lets the brand, product pages, sections, merchandising rules, tracking, speed, and mobile buying path work together instead of fighting a generic theme and a pile of apps.

Audit my Shopify store Theme rebuild guide

Theme foundation

Liquid, JSON templates, sections, and blocks

Built around Shopify Online Store 2.0 so your team can edit key pages without breaking the layout.

Conversion path

PDPs, carts, and trust points built for decisions

Product pages should handle objections, variants, proof, bundles, shipping clarity, and mobile buying friction.

Performance

Less app bloat, cleaner scripts, faster first screen

A theme audit should find what is slowing LCP, blocking interaction, or loading on pages where it is not needed.

SEO and AEO

Structured pages that search engines can understand

Collections, products, FAQs, breadcrumbs, schema, and internal links need to reinforce the store architecture.

Speed

Shopify speed optimization

For stores where the theme is good enough but the first screen, scripts, and media need repair.

Search

Technical SEO audit

For stores with indexing, collection, product schema, redirect, internal-link, or crawl-path problems.

Start here

Free website audit report

Use the audit first if you need a plain-English before/after view before committing to a rebuild.

Flagship Build

From a stock theme to an acquisition engine — in two weeks.

A US-based DTC skincare brand, post-seed, was pushing hard on Meta against a 1.1% conversion rate. We replaced their Dawn theme with a custom-architected Shopify store, rebuilt the PDP around objections, and shipped to production in 14 days.

"Adnan is extremely prompt and professional. He always goes above and beyond. The new build paid for itself in the first month of acquisition traffic."

WM
Verified Client · Founder
DTC Skincare · ✓ Verified Upwork Review
+42%

Conversion lift · 60 days

14d

Kickoff to live store

96

Mobile Lighthouse (was 38)

1.9s

Mobile LCP (was 4.4s)

The Engagement

Three steps. Zero friction. Fully remote.

Built around the way US and UK founders actually work — async-first, scope-led, and shipped before your next board meeting.

01

15-min Strategy Call

A working call, not a pitch. We diagnose your conversion bottleneck, audit your store live, and you walk away with 3 actionable fixes — whether we work together or not.

02

Fixed-Scope Build Sprint

Clear scope, defined scope, 14-day timeline. Daily Loom updates, two revision rounds baked in, and a staging URL you can show your team or your investors.

03

Launch & 30-day Lift

Production launch, full analytics handoff, and 30 days of post-launch support included. I stay on call to tune what live traffic actually reveals.

Book a Strategy Call

15 minutes. 3 custom growth strategies. Zero pitch.

Submit the form and I'll personally audit your store before we talk. On the call, I'll walk you through three specific changes you can make to lift conversion — whether you hire me or not.

  • A live audit of your current Shopify store
  • 3 conversion fixes ranked by ROI impact
  • A written scope — only if it fits

No newsletters. No list-rental. Your details stay private.

Request received.

I'll audit your store and reply within 4 hours with a calendar link.

FAQs

The questions every smart founder asks first.

What is custom Shopify theme development? +
Custom Shopify theme development means building or heavily tailoring the storefront code, templates, sections, blocks, Liquid, CSS, JavaScript, metafields, product pages, and performance foundation around the brand and buying journey instead of relying on a generic prebuilt theme.
When should a Shopify store use a custom theme? +
A custom theme makes sense when the store needs stronger brand differentiation, faster mobile pages, custom product logic, better merchandising, cleaner sections, fewer app workarounds, or a checkout and PDP experience designed around paid traffic and repeatable conversion.
Can you rebuild a Shopify theme without changing the brand? +
Yes. A rebuild can preserve the visual identity while replacing fragile templates, slow scripts, duplicate sections, weak product page structure, and hard-to-edit Liquid with a cleaner Online Store 2.0 architecture.
Do you work with US and UK clients remotely? +
Yes. The process is async-first, documented, milestone-led, and built for remote founders who need clear scope, fast decisions, and clean handoff.
What if I'm not technical? +
Most of my best clients aren't. You bring the brand and the customer obsession. I translate that into a store your team can actually run — with a 1-hour handoff session and written Loom walkthroughs of every section.
What happens after launch? +
30 days of post-launch support is included on every project. After that, most clients move to a lightweight ongoing support plan so I stay on call for new sections, A/B tests, and seasonal launches.
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