Case Studies

Shipped work, measured results.

We don't publish vanity case studies. Every engagement below shipped real code into a production Shopify store and the numbers come from GA4, GSC, and Shopify Analytics.

01/

Outdoor apparel — $14M DTC

+187% organic revenue in 9 months via programmatic collection pages.

Problem. Brand ranked for ~40 head terms but had no presence on long-tail commercial intent (e.g. 'waterproof hiking jacket women's plus size').

  • +Built a custom Shopify app that generates filtered collection variants from metafield combinations
  • +Refactored Liquid templates to render schema, breadcrumbs, and unique meta on each variant
  • +Produced 60 buying guides routed into the new collections via internal linking
  • +Shipped Core Web Vitals fixes — LCP from 3.4s to 1.1s
+187%
organic revenue
+2,100
ranking keywords
1.1s
LCP (was 3.4s)
02/

Beauty & skincare — $6M DTC

Replaced 4 SEO apps with one custom internal-linking engine.

Problem. Store had 14 apps installed, 1.2MB of storefront JS, and was paying $2,800/mo for SEO apps that hadn't moved rankings in 18 months.

  • +Audited and removed 6 redundant apps
  • +Built a custom embedded app for internal linking driven by collection co-occurrence data
  • +Rewrote 80 product descriptions for FAQPage schema eligibility
  • +Migrated to a Hydrogen-powered headless build for the top 12 collections
+94%
organic sessions
$2,800/mo
app cost eliminated
+38%
conversion on optimized collections
03/

Home goods — $22M Shopify Plus

International SEO rebuild across 7 markets and 4 languages.

Problem. Botched Shopify Markets launch left 12,000+ pages with broken hreflang, duplicate content across regions, and 60% indexation drop.

  • +Full hreflang audit and rebuild via custom theme section
  • +Consolidated duplicate variants under correct canonicals
  • +Restructured currency-only markets to share content with hreflang
  • +Built monitoring dashboards for ongoing market parity checks
Indexation
restored to 98%
+62%
organic in EU markets
Zero
duplicate-content flags in GSC
Client signal

What founders say after 90 days.

"
Fortify shipped more in 30 days than our previous agency did in a year. Organic sessions up 87%, and they actually wrote the code themselves.
DTC Apparel Founder
$4.8M / yr Shopify Plus brand
"
They built us a custom Liquid-based programmatic landing page engine that 5x'd our indexed pages. Real engineers — not slide-deck consultants.
Head of Growth
Outdoor goods brand
"
The free consultation alone gave us a roadmap worth thousands. We signed a custom build package the next week.
Co-founder
B2B SaaS, Series A

* Names anonymized under client NDA. Verifiable references on request.

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