Cauldron Studio — Operational Engineering for E-Commerce
Your store works.
Your operations are held together with duct tape.
Cauldron Studio designs the backend systems, automations, and data infrastructure that serious e-commerce businesses run on — the part most agencies won't touch and most in-house teams can't build.
If any of this sounds familiar
"Our inventory numbers in Shopify are a polite fiction."
"Margin on SKU X requires a half-day in Excel and someone to argue with."
"Orders fall through the cracks between Shopify, our 3PL, and the spreadsheet nobody wants to own."
"Every Black Friday, we hold our breath."
"Customer service became a research department."
You don't have a growth problem. You have an operations problem wearing a growth problem's clothes.
What we do
01
Systems design
We audit the mess, map it honestly, and design what should replace it. You get documentation you can actually use, whether you hire us for the build or not.
Start with an audit →02
Implementation
We build it. Shopify, integrations, custom middleware, automations, reporting layers. Real code, real tests, real handoff.
Scope a build →03
Systems on call
For businesses that want us around when things change. Retained, predictable, monthly.
Learn about the retainer →Field studies
Patterns we've seen repeatedly. Composite accounts of the operational problems most agencies don't think about and most stores can't articulate.
More studies in development. New patterns published roughly monthly.
All studies →How we're different
We don't do design, copy, paid media, or your team's LinkedIn.
We do what happens after all of that — the systems the business actually runs on. We refer the rest to people who do it well.
We quote before we start.
No discovery-phase roulette. No "it depends" without a number attached. If we don't know enough to quote, we say so and propose a paid audit to find out.
We write documentation you own.
When the engagement ends, you don't need us to come back. The system works without us, the docs explain how, and your team can extend it. That's the deliverable.
Got a system that's creaking?
A 30-minute call. A real diagnosis. No pitch deck.
Book a call →Or email us at hello@cauldronstudio.com.