Shopify Operations Audit
A 2-4 week audit of the store's operations stack — current app inventory and gap analysis, workflow-optimization opportunities, data-infrastructure assessment, prioritized recommendations with effort-and-impact scoring. Packaged as an action plan the operator's team executes (or that we execute via the other Shopify Suite products).
- Engagement
- 2–4 week sprint · packaged report and recommendations
- Built for
- DTC founders · Shopify store owners · COOs
Established Shopify stores accumulate operational debt — apps installed and partially deployed, workflows that should be optimized, data infrastructure that's outgrown its initial shape. The store owner senses the inefficiency but doesn't have time to assess and prioritize.
What this is
A productized consulting engagement — fixed-fee, fixed-scope, fixed-deliverable. The entry product for operators who want a clear assessment before committing to deeper work.
Three components:
- Discovery sprint. App-stack inventory, workflow audit, data-infrastructure review. Working with the operator's team.
- Analysis. Prioritized findings with effort-and-impact scoring per recommendation. Bottlenecks identified, redundancies surfaced, opportunities ranked.
- Recommendation document. Partner-readable summary, prioritized action plan, working session to walk through and Q&A.
How it's built
The audit checklist itself is the product. We maintain it across engagements — each new audit refines the checklist, every operator benefits from the previous operators' audit findings being incorporated into the methodology.
What you get
- The audit document.
- The prioritized recommendation list with scoring.
- The working session to walk through with your team.
- Optional: hand-off to one of the other Shopify Suite products if the operator wants us to execute downstream.
Engagement is shape, not list.
Length and price are functions of the data and the destination. The shape below is the typical engagement.
- Length
- 2–4 week sprint · packaged report and recommendations
- Lead
- Bogdan
- Cadence
- Async, weekly
- Bar
- Production
Scoped during the discovery call against the actual data and the operation it integrates with.
Principal engineer. Architecture and most code ships through one keyboard.
Written updates between, calls when the decision needs the room.
Async correctness, capacity under burst, observability at every boundary.
Products this composes with.
Same suite, or vertical-specialized versions in another.
- Same suite · Shopify Ops Intelligence Suite
Shopify Operations Workflow Automation
An integrated operations-workflow layer — Shopify Flow for the standard triggers, custom orchestration where Flow's limits run out, and the cross-workflow coordination that the point-app stack misses.
- Same suite · Shopify Ops Intelligence Suite
Multi-Store Portfolio Intelligence
A portfolio platform — ETL across multiple Shopify stores into a unified analytical layer, cross-store and cross-brand dashboards, shared signal extraction (which products cross-perform, which customer patterns repeat across brands), portfolio-level operating alerts.
What buyers ask about this one.
Is this just a sales pitch for the other products?
The audit is fixed-fee and standalone. The recommendation document is yours to execute however you want — internally, with another vendor, or with us. We're explicit on the engagement that the audit is the engagement; downstream work is optional.
What do you actually look at during the audit?
Current app stack (what's installed, what's actually used, what's redundant). Workflow inventory (manual processes, Flow workflows, custom integrations). Data infrastructure (what's tracked, what's analyzed, what's missing). Customer data quality. Inventory accuracy and forecasting maturity. Marketing-attribution infrastructure. Multi-store coordination if relevant.
What does the deliverable look like?
A document for the operator (5-10 pages, partner-readable) summarizing findings, plus a prioritized recommendation list (typically 10-20 items, each scored on effort and expected impact). Plus a working session with the operator to walk through the document.
How do you compare to general Shopify consultants doing the same audit?
Consultants do this work well; the productized engagement differs in shape. Fixed scope, fixed fee, the same audit checklist applied across deployments so we improve the audit faster than per-engagement learning would. Tradeoff: we don't customize the audit to your store's unique context the way a long-engagement consultant would.
Pricing?
Fixed-fee per audit, scoped to store size and complexity. Discovery call covers scope.
If the deliverable matches the gap, the next step is one call.
We'll scope length and price against your data and the operation it integrates with. No retainer, no fishing.
Bogdan and team · async-first · OP—2026