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brainiac/studio

Digital Studio

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02 · web & app development / headless

An online store where design has no limits.

For brands whose ideas keep getting cut down to fit a template. We build the shop front from scratch and keep the reliable shop engine behind it — so you get total design freedom and pages that load before your customer can blink.

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our point of view

"Headless" just means the shop front and the shop engine are separate.

Every online store has two halves. The engine handles products, carts, payments, orders and stock — boring, critical, best left to a platform that has solved it. The shop front is everything your customer actually sees. Normally the two are welded together, which is why your designer's best idea comes back as "the theme can't do that." Splitting them apart is all "headless" means. Keep the engine. Build the front however you like.

It is not the right answer for everyone, and we'll say so. It costs more to build and more to run. But if your brand is the reason people buy from you, if you sell across several countries, or if a second of load time is measurably costing you sales, this is where the ceiling disappears. We build the front end, wire it to your platform, and make it fast enough that speed stops being a topic of conversation.

1.2sPage load we build every shop front to hit
+23%More visitors buying, on average, after a rebuild
14–22 wksTypical build time from kickoff to launch
what we build

What we build.

01

A shop front built from scratch

No template, no theme limits. Whatever your designers draw, we build — with product pages, filters, cart and checkout flows shaped around how your customers actually shop.

02

Shopify with a custom front

Keep Shopify or Shopify Plus running your products, payments and orders. We replace only the visible part, so your team keeps the admin panel they already know.

03

Content and products in one story

Editorial, lookbooks, campaigns and product pages managed together, so your marketing team can publish a full campaign without opening a support ticket.

04

Search and browsing that actually finds things

Instant results, smart filters, and suggestions that understand typos and synonyms — because most of the money is lost by people who couldn't find the thing they came for.

05

Selling across countries

Right language, right currency, right prices, right shipping and right tax for every market — on one store you manage in one place.

06

One engine, many shop fronts

Your website, your mobile app, an in-store screen, a marketplace listing — all pulling from the same products, stock and pricing, so nothing goes out of step.

07

Moving your current store across

Products, customers, orders, reviews and page addresses moved in careful stages — never one risky weekend — with your Google rankings protected throughout.

08

A speed budget we actually enforce

We set a hard page-weight and load-time limit before we write a line of code, and the build fails if a new feature breaks it. That's how sites stay fast a year later.

use cases

Who this is for.

01

Brands the template keeps saying no to

When "the theme can't do that" has become the most common sentence in your design reviews, you've outgrown the theme.

02

Content-led brands

If your storytelling, editorial or campaign work is what sells the product, it deserves better than a blog module bolted onto a store.

03

Global sellers

Several countries, several currencies, several languages — and a page that loads as fast in Doha as it does in London.

04

High-traffic, large-catalogue stores

Thousands of products, big seasonal spikes, and a site that has to stay quick on the busiest hour of your busiest day.

approach

How we build it.

01

Decide honestly

A short paid assessment where we look at your numbers and tell you whether this is worth it. If a well-built custom theme would serve you better, we'll say that and save you the money.

02

Design system

Not a set of page mockups — a kit of reusable pieces, designed for every screen size, with speed and accessibility built into each one from the start.

03

Build the front

Two-week sprints, always working, always previewable. You see real pages on a real test store from week two, not a slideshow at the end.

04

Wire in the engine

Products, stock, cart, checkout, payments, tax and shipping connected to your platform — then tested against the awkward cases, not just the easy ones.

05

Migrate and launch

Data moved in batches with a way back at every step. Page addresses mapped and redirected. The switch happens in your quietest traffic window with monitoring already running.

06

Tune the numbers

90 days of post-launch work on speed and on turning more visitors into buyers, reported weekly against your old store's figures.

tech stack

Stack and integrations.

Next.js
React
Shopify / Shopify Plus
Hydrogen + Oxygen
Sanity / Contentful / Storyblok
Algolia / Searchspring
Stripe / Checkout.com
Cloudflare
AWS
pricing

Engagement models.

— 01

Storefront Rebuild

from $60k

A custom-built shop front on top of the platform you already run — same admin, same products, a completely new face.

  • Fully custom shop front
  • Up to 10 page templates
  • Speed budget enforced in the build
  • 60 days post-launch support
Most popular— 02

Full Headless Build

from $95k

The complete separation — custom front, dedicated content system, proper search, and a careful move from your current store.

  • Custom front and content system
  • Best-in-class search and filtering
  • Full migration with rankings protected
  • 90 days post-launch support
— 03

Global Commerce Platform

from $140k

Several countries, several languages, several shop fronts — all running off one engine, built to hold up under real traffic.

  • Multi-country, multi-currency, multi-language
  • One engine behind web, app and in-store
  • Load-tested for your peak season
  • 120 days post-launch support
faq

Frequently asked.

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A completely custom-designed shop front, with the reliable engine you already trust still running underneath it. Your team keeps the same admin panel for products and orders. Your customers get a store that looks like nothing else and loads much faster.

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