The AI growth company for ecommerce

Your store, run by
systems that learn.

AI agents, AI retention, AI search visibility, AI operations — the full stack, built and shipped by engineers. 12 systems that read your own data and decide from it: the decline code that picks the retry window, the consumption curve that sets the reorder date, the ticket that never reaches a person. For Shopify brands doing $3M–$30M.

10 years Shopify development Claude & OpenAI on n8n you own Shopify Plus Recharge, Skio & Smartrr Klaviyo Amazon & TikTok Shop

We qualify on complexity, not category.

$3M–$30M a year on Shopify or Shopify Plus. A paid subscription platform, Klaviyo, a paid helpdesk and a 3PL already in the stack. More than one sales channel, more SKUs than anyone can hold in their head, and five to forty people — usually just after the first Head of Ops or Head of Retention was hired, because that is the point where the complexity outruns the founder. What you sell matters far less than that.

  • Subscription brands

    You bill on a schedule, so every failure repeats monthly.

    Recharge, Skio, Smartrr, Stay AI or Loop installed

  • Shopify Plus brands

    You pay for the enterprise tier. Use the parts you're paying for.

    Shopify Plus, from $2,300/mo

  • Multi-channel brands

    DTC plus Amazon, TikTok Shop or retail — and nothing reconciles.

    Selling on two or more channels

  • Brands scaling past $3M

    The tooling that got you here stopped fitting somewhere around $3M.

    First ops or retention hire posted

Our floor is $3M+ annual revenue, on Shopify Plus or running a paid subscription platform. Below that, a $5,000 project is a large enough share of your annual profit that it is the wrong trade, and we will say so rather than take it. We don’t do brand design.

Four verbs. We ship all four.

Most “AI for ecommerce” is content generation. Ours runs the parts of the business nobody has time for — the retries, the reconciliations, the reorder timing, the tickets. 12 systems, grouped under four verbs.

  • 9%

    Recover

    Money you already earned, going out the door at the payment layer.

    9% of recurring revenue goes to cards that decline and are never properly retried. Recharge, Skio and Smartrr all ship a flat schedule that treats every failure the same. We replace it with routing that reads the decline code first — insufficient funds is a different problem from an expired card — and picks the retry window, the dunning message and the card-update path per code.

  • 41%

    Retain

    Money that repeats — if the second order happens.

    41% of email revenue comes from automated flows, off about 5% of sends. Underneath ours: a model that sets the reorder prompt from actual consumption per SKU rather than a flat 30-day guess, and a cancel flow that offers a pause, a smaller quantity or a later date instead of a cancel button. Typical monthly subscription churn is 6–7%, and the gap to top quartile is almost always billing infrastructure and cancel-flow logic.

  • 12+

    Run

    Money you spend on people doing what a system should do.

    12+ hours a week go on reconciling Shopify against Amazon, the 3PL against the returns queue, the ad platforms against the P&L. Agents on n8n running on your own VPS do the reading and the drafting: order status answered from the actual fulfilment record, the purchase order drafted off real velocity and supplier lead times, a nightly job that reports the rows where two systems disagree. Anything touching a refund, a discount or a cancellation is prepared by the agent and pressed by a person.

  • 13×

    Reach

    Money that never arrives, because the model never named you.

    Orders from AI-powered search on Shopify grew about 13× year over year. Whether ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity names your brand when a customer asks for a recommendation is now a distribution question, and almost nobody in this revenue band can tell you their current answer. We run the prompt set on a schedule to get a baseline, then fix what those models actually read: structured data on real templates, one canonical entity across the web, and the third-party surface they quote.

Sources, in order: Baremetrics · Klaviyo benchmark data, 183,000+ brands · Recurly Consumer Goods Churn Benchmark, for the 6–7% churn figure inside Retain · Harley Finkelstein, Shopify Q1 2026 earnings call, for the 13×. The manual-ops figure under Run is our own estimate for a brand at this size, not a published benchmark — we label it that way rather than dress it up as one.

Discover in AI, buy on site.

AI-driven traffic to Shopify stores grew roughly eightfold year over year, and orders coming from AI-powered search grew close to thirteenfold — the figure on the Reach card above. Almost nobody in this revenue band can tell you where they currently stand on either.

The honest counterweight: OpenAI launched Instant Checkout inside ChatGPT and withdrew it on 4 March 2026 with around thirty merchants live, and Walmart measured in-chat checkout converting about three times worse than a click through to walmart.com. The pattern that works today is discover in AI, buy on site. Anyone selling you finished agentic checkout is selling something that was pulled six months ago.

Sources: Harley Finkelstein, Shopify Q1 2026 earnings call · OpenAI Instant Checkout withdrawal, 4 March 2026 · Walmart, reported in-chat conversion

AI search visibility →

Everyone demos an agent. Almost nobody ships one.

An AI agency

  • Demos an agent
  • Runs a pilot
  • Reports on what AI could do

Pointerflow

  • Demos an agent
  • Runs a pilot
  • Puts it into production in draft mode, and grants autonomy one action at a time, after the logs have earned it
  • Deploys n8n on your own VPS against your own credentials, so there is no per-task platform bill and nothing to lose if we part ways
  • Scopes every system the agent can touch behind an MCP tool that is logged, bounded and revocable
  • Rebuilds the retry ladder inside Recharge, Skio or Smartrr, so the decision the model makes has somewhere to land
  • Reconciles Shopify, Amazon and the 3PL into one profit number, nightly
  • Ships the integration when the app for it doesn’t exist
  • Says which parts should stay a rule, and which should stay a person

84% of ecommerce businesses now rank AI their top priority and 97% are raising AI budgets — and in any given business function, no more than 10% of organisations are actually scaling agents rather than piloting them. The gap between those two numbers is the whole job. Ten years of Shopify development is what closes it: when the fix needs an integration, a webhook or a piece of software that doesn’t exist yet, that’s a Tuesday for us, not a scoping call with a third party.

The 84% and 97% are from 2026 ecommerce AI-adoption surveys; the ceiling of 10% scaling rather than piloting is from cross-industry agent-adoption analysis. Publisher citations to confirm before launch — we would rather show a number with an honest gap next to it than attach a source we cannot point at.

The Revenue Recovery Audit

Before you commit to anything, we tell you exactly what you’re losing and what it costs to stop it. Two weeks. Fixed fee. Credited in full against any build you go ahead with.

  • Full failed-payment and retry-logic teardown, with a recovered-revenue projection
  • Flow-by-flow audit of your Klaviyo and SMS stack against category benchmarks
  • Subscription churn split into voluntary and involuntary, with the cancel-flow gaps mapped
  • Replenishment timing analysis against your actual reorder data
  • Ops automation opportunities across your 3PL, helpdesk and marketplace channels, ranked by hours returned
  • Where you currently show up when ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity is asked to recommend a brand like yours
  • A prioritized build plan with a dollar figure next to each line

What this looks like in practice.

Public teardowns of real brands’ retention and ops setups — the parts you can observe from the outside: post-purchase email, cancel flow, reorder timing, and what a model says when you ask it to recommend a brand like theirs.

  • Teardown 01 · Supplement subscription

    Recovered failed payments in 60 days metric to confirm

    Brand and result to be published once the teardown is written. Nothing here is a placeholder for a number we don’t have.

  • Teardown 02 · Cold-chain food & beverage

    Reorder-window accuracy metric to confirm

    Brand and result to be published once the teardown is written.

Small team. Dhaka. Overlap hours with you.

Pointerflow is a small engineering team based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, working with brands across the US, UK, EU, Canada & Australia. We say that up front because the way we work is the reason it’s a non-issue.

Fixed scope, fixed price
You know the number before we start. No hourly surprises.
Overlap guaranteed
Four hours of live overlap with US Eastern and UK time, every working day.
Video-first
Every deliverable ships with a walkthrough recording. You see the work, not a status update.
You own everything
Every workflow, integration and piece of code is in your accounts, documented, and yours if we part ways.

Find out what you’re losing.

Two weeks. A fixed fee. A number you can act on.

Book your Revenue Recovery Audit →

Not ready? Run the numbers yourself with our failed-payment calculator →