Gadget PartnerBuilt for ShopifyThe front door
The AI Ops Sprint. One problem, solved in weeks.
A fixed-scope, fixed-price engagement to design and ship one custom Shopify tool or automation — bounded, low-risk, and easy to say yes to. It's the simplest way to start working with us.
What it is
Not a retainer. Not a vague “discovery.” One shipped thing.
Most agency engagements ask you to commit before you know what you're getting. The Sprint flips that: we agree one specific operational problem, fix the scope and price, then build and ship it. If it goes well, there's a natural path to a bigger build — but you're never locked in to find out.
One problem
A single, well-defined operational gap — not an open-ended wishlist. That's what makes it fast and fixed-price.
Built for you
A private, single-merchant app — yours alone, never listed on the public App Store. Not an off-the-shelf install.
Easy to say yes to
Fixed price, fixed timeline, clear deliverable. You know exactly what you're getting before we begin.
What fits a Sprint
Bounded builds that punch above their size.
If it's one clear thing an off-the-shelf app doesn't do, it probably fits. A few of the shapes a Sprint takes:
A custom admin tool
Visibility or control Shopify doesn't give you — an audit trail, a reconciliation view, a bulk operation your team runs by hand today.
One workflow automation
A repetitive manual process — tagging, syncing, routing, alerting — that a background job should quietly be doing for you.
A targeted integration
Connect Shopify to the system that doesn't talk to it yet — an ERP, a PIM, a warehouse, an internal database.
A compliance or data tool
Something that has to be correct and provable — price-history/Omnibus, exports for auditors, a record of what changed and when.
Not sure it fits, or bigger than a Sprint? That's fine — the Sprint is the front door, and larger builds get scoped from there. Tell us the problem and we'll say honestly.
What you get
A working tool — and everything around it done properly.
- ✓One custom tool or automation, live on your store at the end of the Sprint
- ✓A scoped brief agreed up front — you know the deliverable before we start
- ✓Built on production-grade infrastructure (Gadget), not a fragile script
- ✓Correctness-first engineering where it matters — the calculations, the edge cases, the audit trail
- ✓A clean handover— it's your app, and you own it
- ✓A clear route to what's next if the problem turns out to be bigger
How it works
Three steps, no mystery.
Scope
We pin down the one problem worth solving, agree exactly what “done” looks like, and fix the scope and price — before any code is written.
Build
AI-native speed on the undifferentiated work; hand-engineered rigor on the parts that have to be right. You see progress as it happens.
Ship
Live on your store, handed over cleanly, with a short walkthrough — and an honest view on whether there's a bigger build worth doing.
Pricing
Fixed price. Agreed before we start.
No hourly meters, no open-ended retainers, no surprises. Once we've scoped the one problem, you get a single fixed price for the whole Sprint. If it's a fit, you say yes knowing exactly what it costs and when it lands.
- ✓2–3 weeks, kickoff to shipped
- ✓One custom tool or automation
- ✓You own the result
- ✓No lock-in beyond the Sprint
FAQ
The questions people ask first.
How much does it cost?+
A single fixed price for the whole Sprint, quoted once we've scoped the one problem together — so you approve the number before anything starts. We don't do hourly billing or open-ended retainers for this.
Is this a public App Store app?+
No. A Sprint builds a customapp — private to your store, built around your exact workflow, and never listed publicly. It's the opposite of a one-size-fits-all app you share with thousands of other brands.
Do I own what you build?+
Yes. It's your app. You get a clean handover and it runs on your store — not something you rent from us indefinitely.
What if my problem is bigger than a Sprint?+
The Sprint is deliberately the front door. If scoping reveals a larger build, we'll tell you honestly and scope a custom project from there. Plenty of Histora- and Salt-Finance-scale work started as a small, specific problem.
Is this Shopify only?+
Shopify is our focus and where most Sprints happen. The same Gadget-powered engineering also builds ChatGPT apps and custom web apps — if your problem lives there, ask.
How do you move fast without cutting corners?+
We use AI as a first-class part of the workflow for the undifferentiated work, and we know exactly where AI-generated code breaks — so the calculations, the edge cases and the audit trail get proper engineering. Fast to build, engineered to be right.
Tell us the one problem
costing you hours.
Describe the operational wall you've hit. We'll tell you honestly whether an AI Ops Sprint can solve it — and what it would cost.