The Deliberate CRO Audit

Find your highest-value conversion opportunities before you start building.

A research-led CRO audit for Shopify and DTC brands that want to know what to fix, why it matters, and what to test first. Not a free website review, a fixed-scope, fixed-price teardown built to hold up under real budget decisions.

FIXED SCOPE  ·  FIXED PRICE  ·  NO GUARANTEED-ROI CLAIMS
01 — What goes in

Eight disciplines, synthesised into one roadmap.

We analyse every source that reveals where your highest-value opportunities actually are, not just where traffic drops off.

01

Analytics

GA4, Shopify Analytics and funnel analysis, reviewed for what's actually trustworthy before we build a single recommendation on top of it.

GA4 · Shopify Analytics · Funnel analysis

02

Behavioral Research

Heatmaps, session recordings and surveys, to see how shoppers actually move, not how we assume they do.

Heatmaps · Session recordings · Surveys · User behavior

03

UX / Heuristic Review

A structured review of homepage, PLP, PDP, cart and checkout against proven heuristics, not personal taste.

Homepage · PLP · PDP · Cart · Checkout

04

Customer Research

Voice of customer, reviews, surveys and support insights, to find out why shoppers hesitate, in their own words.

Voice of customer · Reviews · Surveys · Support insights

05

Competitive / Category Review

How comparable Shopify and DTC brands handle the same friction, so recommendations are grounded in the category, not a vacuum.

06

Opportunity Mapping

Every finding mapped to where it sits in your funnel, so the scale of the opportunity is visible before we prioritise anything.

07

PROOF Prioritization

Every opportunity scored on the PROOF Score, so the roadmap reflects what actually moves revenue, not what's easiest to ship.

08

Experiment Roadmap

A prioritized, ready-to-build backlog: each entry with a hypothesis, a treatment and a primary metric attached.

02 — How an opportunity gets built

From a raw observation to a testable idea.

Every line on the roadmap goes through the same six steps before it earns a place on it.

Observation Evidence Hypothesis Change Test Learning

Worked example — illustrative, not a real client finding

Observation
Mobile PDP sessions have a high scroll depth but a low add-to-cart rate.
Evidence
Session recordings show shoppers repeatedly scrolling back to the size chart before leaving the page.
Hypothesis
Shoppers can't find sizing confidence fast enough, and give up before adding to cart.
Change
Move a condensed size guide inline, above the fold, next to the add-to-cart button.
Test
A/B test the inline size guide against the current PDP layout, read on add-to-cart rate.
Learning
Whatever the result, win, loss or flat, it tells us whether sizing confidence was really the blocker, sharpening the next hypothesis either way.

What comes out: the deliverables

From the findings, we build:

Dossier contents07 deliverables
01

Research findings

What we learned across analytics, behavioral and customer research, tied to the evidence behind it.

02

CRO opportunity map

Every finding placed against where it sits in your funnel.

03

Prioritized recommendations

Scored on the PROOF Score, as many as the evidence actually supports, not a padded list.

04

Experiment backlog

Ready-to-build tests, each with a hypothesis and a primary metric.

05

Wireframes / mockups

For the highest-impact changes, where a visual makes the recommendation concrete.

06

Measurement plan

How each experiment will actually be read, agreed before a single test goes live.

07

Executive readout

The full deck and prioritisation sheet, walked through live, yours to keep either way.

04 — How it works

How it works

01

30-min goal call

We align on your goals, your funnel, and what research already exists.

02

Research sprint

We run the research across all eight disciplines, analyse it, and translate the findings into prioritised recommendations.

03

Read-out

You get the opportunity map, the prioritised recommendations, the experiment backlog, the measurement plan and the deck, walked through live.

05 — Questions

Audit FAQ

The Audit's value is direction: a research-backed, prioritised roadmap means you stop guessing and spend your build time only on what's likely to move revenue. We won't quote you a guaranteed return before we've seen your funnel; we will tell you honestly, on the call, whether the Audit is worth it for where you are.

As many as the evidence actually supports, scored on the PROOF Score, not padded out to look impressive. Most audits surface a focused set of high-value opportunities rather than a long tail of minor tweaks.

A free review is usually a template checklist run in an afternoon. This is original research across analytics, behavioral data, UX and customer voice, synthesised into a roadmap scored specifically for your funnel, not a generic list that could apply to any store.

No. The roadmap is yours to run with your own team. If you'd like us to execute it, Ongoing Experimentation is there, no obligation.
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A fixed-scope, fixed-price teardown that turns research into a prioritised roadmap you own, whether or not we ever work together again.

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