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Commerce infrastructure is the difference between a business that grows and a business that accumulates operational debt. The Commerce practice builds the infrastructure before the debt arrives.

Most D2C businesses reach meaningful revenue before their commerce infrastructure can support it. The checkout works. The post-purchase experience does not. The subscription architecture was not designed for the volume it is handling. The customer data sits in six places and does not connect into a single picture.

The Commerce practice builds the underlying infrastructure — the systems, automations, and data architectures that allow a commerce business to scale without reinvention.

What the Commerce practice does

D2C infrastructure design and build. Shopify architecture, payment stack, fulfilment integration, inventory systems — designed for the scale the business is building toward, not the scale it is at today.

AI-native lifecycle automation. Post-purchase flows, lifecycle triggers, churn prediction, upsell and cross-sell automation — driven by operational data rather than generic templates.

Subscription and membership architecture. Systems designed for recurring revenue: acquisition, billing, retention, and recovery. Built to the operational standard that institutional investors expect to find.

LTV optimisation. Customer data architecture that connects acquisition cost, lifetime value, and retention rate into a single operating picture.

Who it is for

D2C brands at meaningful scale — past initial product-market fit, with revenue between £1M and £50M, whose commerce infrastructure has not kept pace with growth. Enterprise retailers building out a direct-to-consumer channel alongside existing wholesale operations.