Shopify CRO + Experimentation

Turn more of your existing traffic into revenue.

We help ambitious DTC brands find conversion leaks, build evidence-backed hypotheses, and continuously experiment across the Shopify customer journey.

RESEARCH  ·  UX  ·  ANALYTICS  ·  A/B TESTING  ·  SHOPIFY
SIGNAL — RESEARCH LOOP LIVE 01 Visitor 02 Behavior 03 Research 04 Hypothesis 05 Experiment 06 Result 07 Learning Learning loops back into Research — the cycle never stops
01 — The problem

Your traffic isn't the problem.
Your store has leaks.

Paid acquisition keeps getting more expensive. The fastest way to grow revenue isn't more traffic, it's converting more of the traffic you already pay for. Most Shopify stores lose that revenue in the same predictable places along the journey.

Traffic
Landing Page
Product Discovery
PDP
Cart
Checkout
Purchase

Illustrative shape, not your data — every store leaks in different places. The Audit finds where yours does.

02 — The system

Don't guess what to change. Build evidence for what to change.

The same six-step loop runs through every engagement, from the first Audit to the tenth month of a Program.

01

Research

Qual and behavioural analysis to find where shoppers hesitate or drop off.

02

Hypothesis

Every insight becomes a specific, falsifiable hypothesis, never a guess.

03

Prioritize

Scored on the Deliberate PROOF Score, so we build what moves revenue.

04

Experiment

Controlled A/B tests where traffic allows, disciplined rollouts where it doesn't.

05

Analyze

Statistically sound reads, reported honestly, including the losses.

06

Learn

Every result, win or loss, feeds the next round of research.

03 — The framework

The Deliberate PROOF Score.

A prioritization system for deciding which experiments deserve to be built. Not every idea earns a test, so we weight each one by what actually moves revenue.

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CriterionWeight
PPotential impact×3
RReach×1
OOdds of success (evidence)×2
OOutcome (expected upside)×3
FFeasibility×1
Weighted so the biggest, most evidence-backed bets rise to the top of the roadmap, not whatever's easiest to ship.
04 — What we optimize

Every stage of the Shopify customer journey.

Homepage Landing Pages Navigation Collection / PLP Product Page / PDP Cart Checkout Post-purchase
Supporting optimization areas
AOV Merchandising Offers Search Mobile UX Personalization Messaging Trust
05 — Experiments

What an experiment brief actually looks like.

Four illustrative examples of how we frame a test before it's built, not real client results.

Experiment 001 Illustrative example
Problem
High PDP exit rate on mobile before add-to-cart.
Hypothesis
A sticky add-to-cart bar reduces friction for mobile shoppers.
Treatment
Sticky mobile ATC bar with price and size selector.
Primary metric: Add-to-cart rateATC Demo data
Experiment 002 Illustrative example
Problem
Cart abandonment spikes when shipping cost is revealed.
Hypothesis
Surfacing the free-shipping threshold earlier reduces surprise-cost abandonment.
Treatment
A free-shipping progress bar on the cart page.
Primary metric: Cart-to-checkout rateCTC Demo data
Experiment 003 Illustrative example
Problem
Collection-page shoppers bounce without ever filtering.
Hypothesis
Visible filter and sort controls above the fold increase engagement.
Treatment
A sticky filter bar on the collection / PLP.
Primary metric: PLP-to-PDP click-throughCTR Demo data
Experiment 004 Illustrative example
Problem
First-time visitors hesitate to trust an unfamiliar DTC brand at checkout.
Hypothesis
Trust badges and a review count near the buy box increase checkout starts.
Treatment
A trust strip added to the PDP buy box.
Primary metric: PDP-to-checkout rateCVR Demo data
06 — Services

Six disciplines, one experimentation system.

Service

CRO Audit

A fixed-scope teardown of your Shopify funnel, ending in a prioritized, evidence-backed roadmap.

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Service

CRO Strategy

A structured experimentation roadmap built around your traffic, margins and growth goals.

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Service

Experimentation

Controlled A/B tests and evidence-based rollouts, run and analyzed properly.

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Service

Shopify Optimization

Theme, app-stack and page-speed fixes that remove friction before you even test.

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Service

Conversion Design

UX and design recommendations grounded in research, not personal taste.

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Service

Personalization

Segment- and behaviour-based experiences that convert more of the traffic you already have.

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07 — Selected work

Real experiments, reported honestly as they land.

Deliberate Lab is a new, founder-led practice. Rather than borrow someone else's results, here's what's actually running right now, published here in full, wins and losses alike, once measurement completes.

Shopify Plus In progress · founding client

PDP experience journey

Running structured experiments on product-page conversion for an early Shopify Plus partner. Results published here once measurement is complete.

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DTC / Shopify In progress · founding client

Cart & checkout flow journey

Testing trust and friction changes across cart and checkout for a founding DTC client, tracked through to completed purchase.

Measurement live Ask about this one
Open slot Founding cohort · limited

Your store's journey, next

We're onboarding a small founding cohort now, at founding-client terms. Your experiments, reported here with the same honesty.

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08 — Why us

Five beliefs that shape every engagement.

01

Evidence over opinion

If we can't show you the data, it isn't a recommendation. It's a hunch.

02

Research before design

Every design decision traces back to where real shoppers actually hesitate.

03

Experiments over assumptions

We test what should work. We don't just assume it.

04

Learning over vanity wins

A win that teaches you nothing is worth less than a loss that does. Every result gets reported.

05

Continuous optimization over one-time redesigns

Conversion isn't a project you finish. It's a system you run.

Start the conversation

Your store already has traffic.
Let's find where it's leaking.

Start with a discovery call. If there's a fit, the CRO Audit is your first step, and your roadmap is yours to keep either way.

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