Field notes from the studio.

Essays, teardowns and playbooks on the operating model behind modern growth. Written by the team that ships the work.

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18Why the agency model stopped workingEssay 17Programmatic SEO, properlyPlaybook 16The 14-day auditProcess 15Brand as an operating layerEssay 14What we put in every Shopify stackNotes

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Essay · 14 min

Why the agency model stopped working, and what comes next.

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Programmatic SEO, properly.

Compounding search visibility without polluting the index. Worked examples from three Shopify clients.

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The 14-day audit.

How we diagnose a stack in two weeks, and the questions we ask first that decide whether we take the file.

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Brand as an operating layer.

Why design systems should be a runtime, not a deck. Notes from rebuilding three brand layers.

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What we put in every Shopify stack.

Five integrations, three apps, and one piece of custom code that ship on every storefront we operate.

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AI workflows that actually save time.

What to automate, what not to, and three Claude-powered workflows on our own stack.

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Paid growth as infrastructure.

Why we treat Meta and Google like backend systems, and what changes when you stop running campaigns.

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The teardown: Vorto's storefront.

What we'd change about their pricing page, landing pages, and the analytics setup quietly leaking attribution.

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How we hire seniors only.

The studio's hiring loop, the questions we ask, and four tells we look for.