Build · conversion rate optimisation

Conversion rate optimisation agency for DTC brands

Traffic is expensive and wasting it is worse. We find where visitors give up, then prove what fixes it.

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The Zen Maitri storefront with a Klaviyo sign-up open over it
A shopper unpacking an order at home with a laptop and phone beside her
Teardown · product page · mobile Worked example 14,208 sessions · last 30 days
AttentionHeatmap
ColdHot

Attention dies at the fold, and the reviews sit under it.

Drop-offSessions kept at each step
Sessions14,208
Product viewed9,672
31.9% lost
Added to cart1,842
Biggest leak81.0% lost
Checkout started1,106
40.0% lost
Payment details742
32.9% lost
Purchased611
17.7% lost
The test the biggest leak produced Move the rating and three reviews above the gallery on mobile product pages. Change nothing else.
Shipped
Two full business cycles Decided at 97 percent95 percent floor
Biggest leak Product view to add to cart Decision rule 95 percent or it does not ship Losses Kept and written up
The whole argument

A ten percent lift is invisible on a dashboard. Multiply it by a year of traffic and it is a hire. Every ad click and every email send is worth more once the leaks are closed.

The programme

What a conversion programme actually contains

Real CRO is a research discipline, and every one of these six has to be somebody's actual job.

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Conversion research

Recordings, funnel analysis, heatmaps and customer interviews, running continuously. Every test traces back to something we watched a real visitor do.

A scored hypothesis backlog

Every observation becomes a written prediction, scored on impact against effort, then ranked. Nothing gets tested because the senior person in the room liked it.

Testing velocity you can plan around

Something in flight most weeks, run for full business cycles including the quiet days. No stopping the moment the graph looks flattering.

Variants designed and built in house

Design and development sit inside the programme, on your Shopify or WooCommerce theme. Tests ship without queueing behind somebody else's roadmap.

Reporting that includes the losses

Hypothesis, result, confidence and decision, written up the same way whether it won or lost. A programme that only reports wins is guessing.

Profit first, not percentages

Revenue per visitor and contribution sit beside conversion rate, because a discount lifts one and sinks the other. We answer for the number your finance team recognises.

Research, testing and the build sit with one team, so a hypothesis does not wait on somebody else's roadmap. See how a partnership runs.

Before you test

FAQs

General Questions
What actually is CRO?

Conversion Rate Optimisation is the process of increasing the percentage of visitors who take the action you want: adding to cart, checking out, subscribing. Done properly it's research, hypothesis, experiment and measurement, a compounding programme, not a one-off audit PDF.

How much traffic do we need for CRO to work?

For formal A/B testing you need enough conversions for statistical significance, typically a few hundred per month per test area. Below that, we lean on research-led fixes: the friction we find in recordings and interviews is usually obvious enough to act on directly, and we validate with before/after measurement.

Isn't CRO just changing button colours?

That's the caricature, and it's why so many brands think CRO doesn't work. The real gains come from message, offer framing, information order and friction removal, the things that change whether someone believes your product is worth it, found through research rather than guesswork.

What is your pricing structure?

A monthly programme sized to your traffic and ambition: research, testing velocity and build capacity. One-off conversion audits are available as a starting point, and most clients convert them into an ongoing programme once they see the backlog.

The Work
What does the first month look like?

Research sprint: analytics audit, session recording review, heatmaps, surveys and a customer interview round. You get a prioritised backlog of experiments and quick wins, scored by expected impact and effort, then testing starts.

Which tools do you use?

Your stack where possible: GA4, a testing platform suited to your traffic, plus recording and survey tools like Hotjar or similar. We're tool-agnostic; the method matters more than the logo.

Do you build the test variations too?

Yes. Design and development of variants is part of the programme, on Shopify, WooCommerce or whatever you run, so tests ship weekly instead of waiting in someone else's queue.

Performance and Results
What results can we expect?

We won't promise a percentage, anyone who does is guessing. What we commit to is a testing velocity, honest measurement, and a compounding win rate: each experiment either lifts revenue or buys knowledge that sharpens the next one.

How do you report?

Every test documented: hypothesis, result, significance and the decision it drives. Monthly, you see the programme's cumulative revenue impact, not a vanity dashboard.

Does CRO help our other channels?

Directly. A higher-converting site lowers your paid CAC, raises email revenue per send and makes SEO traffic worth more. The research also feeds ad angles and email copy, because it surfaces the exact words customers use about your product.

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Want more revenue from the traffic you already have?

Send us the URL and your analytics access. On the first call we will tell you where the money is leaking and what we would test first.

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