Shopify & Shopify Plus agency
Shopify stores built for the agentic era.
Shopify builds on any plan, with agentic storefronts, Microsoft Brand Agents, Copilot Checkout and an AI-ready catalog baked in, not bolted on. Plus when you need it, never as a requirement. Fixed scope, fixed timelines, sub-2-second LCP on mobile.
Agentic Shopify
What is Shopify agentic commerce, and how do you get recommended everywhere AI shops?
Shopify agentic commerce is the layer where AI assistants — not just people browsing — discover, compare, and buy your products: Brand Agents on your store, checkout inside AI chats like Microsoft Copilot, and AI shopping surfaces like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and Amazon's Alexa for Shopping (formerly Rufus) outside it. Shopify commoditized the free setup; the work that moves revenue now is quality — an AI-ready catalog and store engineered to get your products recommended, then measured on revenue and AI citations, never impressions. One team builds the store, ships the agentic layer, and tunes for every surface AI shoppers use — Shopify, Amazon, and the assistants in between.
That agentic layer is a published, fixed-scope service: Readiness Audit $1,500–$2,500, Setup + Catalog Sprint from $4,000, and a Commerce GEO retainer from $3,000/mo. See full pricing.
Honest scoping
What you actually need.
A truth most agencies won't tell you: for brands under $50K/month, a $30K custom build is overkill. Start with a high-performance theme — Dawn, Prestige, or Impulse — and we'll spend the budget on what actually moves revenue: CRO, catalog work, ads. Above $50K/month, custom architecture starts paying back. Above $500K/month, you're a Plus brand whether you've moved or not.
Build tiers
Three ways to build.
Fixed scope, fixed timeline. We'll recommend the right tier on a scope call.
Starter — Theme + customisation
Under $50K/mo · 3–4 weeks
- High-performance theme (Dawn / Prestige / Impulse)
- Brand-level visual customisation
- 6–8 apps maximum, not 20+
- Sub-2s mobile LCP (Lighthouse 90+)
- Shopify Catalog and agentic storefront eligibility checked
Growth — Custom build
$50K–$500K/mo · 4–6 weeks
- Custom theme on a performance foundation
- AI-ready PDPs: Brand Agents and Copilot Checkout ready
- Klaviyo, Triple Whale, Loox integration
- Full speed budget enforced
- Migration mapping included
Shopify Plus
$500K+/mo, multi-store or B2B · 6–10 weeks
- Multi-store, multi-currency and multi-language setup
- Checkout customisation
- Optional B2B layer
- Headless option for upmarket brands
- Includes Agentic Commerce Setup (Growth)
Post-build
Retainers, when you want ongoing growth.
Essentials
Starter builds & self-managed Growth
- Monthly speed audit + 1 improvement
- Klaviyo flow check + 1 optimisation
- App + theme updates
- Slack support
Growth
Active Growth / Plus brands
- 2 A/B tests per month
- Monthly CRO audit
- Brand Agent tuning
- Quarterly UX review + weekly standup
Scale
$500K+/mo brands
- Dedicated pod (PM + dev + CRO lead)
- 4 A/B tests per month
- Full Brand Agent + Catalog operation
- AMC + GA4 + Triple Whale, weekly strategy call
Just need the store kept updated, monitored and fixed? Store Care plans start at $299/mo →
Speed Sprint
One-off Speed Sprint.
Lighthouse below 50? A 5–7 day fixed-scope engagement that drives mobile LCP under 2 seconds.
- Theme audit + image optimisation
- App-bloat removal + JS/CSS minification
- Lazy-load configuration
- Before/after Lighthouse scores + maintenance handoff doc
- Guarantee: Lighthouse mobile Performance 80+ or we keep working at no extra charge.
Named build
Mouthguard Shop: custom mouthguards, made orderable from home.
A founder-led Las Vegas brand selling made-to-order mouthguards: a 78-option configurator, home impression kits and a design-forward catalog.
What we won't do
What we don't sell you.
- A 12-month "retainer" with vague deliverables. Fixed monthly cadences only.
- A 20-app bloated theme stack. We use 6–8 carefully chosen apps and explain why.
- A "discovery phase" that bills you for thinking. Scope calls are free; kickoff means we build.
- A subjective brand-book pivot. We rebuild your store, not your visual identity.
Shopify
From the playbook.
The guides we work from. Free to read, written for operators.
Running Shopify in 2026: The Operator's Guide
The twelve decisions that decide how a Shopify store runs in 2026, from which plan to pay for to how products reach ChatGPT, Copilot and AI Mode, each with the page that goes deeper.
Sujan Bhuiyan · · 20 minMigration to Shopify Without Losing Rankings or Data
Every migration checklist worries about rankings. Almost none checks whether the AI-readability work survives the move — this one covers both.
GigaCommerce Team · · 14 minShopify Theme Choice for the Agentic Era
The theme decision that actually matters isn't which one looks best in the demo store — it's which one hands agents a page they can read.
GigaCommerce Team · · 12 minThe 6-8 App Rule: A Shopify App Audit Method
Fifteen apps doing the job of seven, each one adding a script tag and hiding facts from the crawlers reading your store.
GigaCommerce Team · · 11 minAlso useful
Related reading and next steps.
FAQ
Questions we get a lot.
Still unsure? Ask an operator, not an SDR.
Book a 20-minute callAre you a Shopify Plus agency?
Yes. Our Shopify Plus tier covers multi-store setups, B2B, checkout extensibility and migrations from Magento or WooCommerce, with the same agentic stack as every build: agentic storefronts, Brand Agents and an AI-ready catalog. We also build on Basic, Grow and Advanced when Plus isn't worth it yet.
Do I need Shopify Plus?
Not for the agentic features. Shopify Catalog and agentic storefronts run on standard plans, and Microsoft's docs list no Shopify plan requirement for Brand Agents. Plus is worth it if you do $500K+/month, run multiple stores, or need B2B beyond the basics: since April 2026 Basic, Grow and Advanced include B2B with up to 3 catalogs, and Plus adds unlimited catalogs, deposits and partial payments. We'll tell you honestly if you don't need it yet.
Can you migrate me from Magento / WooCommerce?
Yes. Migration is included in the Growth and Shopify Plus tiers, with full 301 redirect mapping, SKU reconciliation, and customer/order history import. Adds about 1–2 weeks.
What about headless?
Available as a Plus add-on. Honest answer: most brands don't need headless — we'll quote it when you do. Sanity, Contentful, Builder.io supported.
Do you do design?
Yes — included in Growth and Plus. We don't do brand identity (logo, type, color systems); we design components, layouts, PDPs, and the customer flow.
How fast can you ship a Starter build?
3 weeks from kickoff to launch, including content migration on catalogs under 200 SKUs. Above 200 SKUs, add a week per 500 additional SKUs.
What happens after launch?
Three paths: hand off to your team with documentation; a light Essentials retainer; or a full Growth/Scale retainer integrated with Agentic Commerce Setup and Catalog Enrichment.
Will this get my store recommended by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and other AI shopping assistants?
That's the goal — and it's what the AI-ready catalog, schema, and structured-data work are for: clean, extractable product data is what AI shopping surfaces read before they recommend a brand. We can't guarantee any assistant will cite you (no honest team can), but we build to the signals these systems reward across Shopify, Amazon's Alexa for Shopping, and the assistants in between, and we measure the AI citations and revenue you actually get — never impressions.