01 · Written first step
Free Shopify Store Teardown
A short written review of your store with 3 useful things Tyler would fix first. No sales call required.
price
Free
written review
- Trust gaps
- Product pages
- Mobile flow
- Next step
Stocks Local is a founder-led UK studio that designs and builds headless Shopify storefronts for recovery and wellness brands. Next.js powers the customer-facing store while Shopify handles products, checkout and operations, giving considered purchases clearer education, stronger proof and a cleaner route to purchase.
Beautiful and conversion-led for the humans who buy. Structured so search engines and AI systems can understand your products, proof, pages, and next steps. The goal is not a louder website. It is a clearer store that makes choosing you easier.
Build engine
We build commercial storefronts through four connected disciplines.
Strategy
Offer and proof
Strategy defines the direction.
Interface
Hierarchy and flow
Interface shapes the experience.
Frontend
Next.js and Shopify
Frontend engineers the product.
Evidence
Search and measurement
Evidence proves what compounds.
The public offer is narrow on purpose: written teardown first, prototype when direction needs proving, then a custom headless Shopify build when the store is ready for serious work.
Read the 2026 headless Shopify cost guide01 · Written first step
A short written review of your store with 3 useful things Tyler would fix first. No sales call required.
price
Free
written review
02 · Paid entry point
A focused sprint to prototype the key storefront direction before committing to a full headless Shopify rebuild.
price
£2,500-£4,000
prototype sprint
03 · Main build
A custom-coded Next.js storefront powered by Shopify, built around product clarity, buyer trust, mobile UX, on-page foundations, analytics, and launch support.
price
From £8,000
full headless build
Each project shows the commercial job behind the screenshot: traffic, trust, speed, conversion, or all four.
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A custom Next.js storefront powered by Shopify for a County Tyrone sauna maker, with a 16-product catalogue, considered configuration, and direct project enquiries.
Storefront
Next.js + Shopify
A custom front end carries the brand while Shopify handles catalogue and cart data.
Catalogue
16 products
Outdoor, indoor, wood-fired, commercial, premium, and cold-water filters separate six useful routes.
Buying path
Product + enquiry
Configured products and custom sauna projects each get a clear next step.
UK-built. Globally useful.
We work from the UK, but the build is shaped around how your customer buys: ecommerce revenue for product brands, or local trust and enquiry quality for service businesses.
Revenue signal
For brands selling across regions, the build has to handle product data, migration risk, email capture, performance, schema, and a checkout path that does not feel like a theme.
Buyers are already asking AI tools which brand, clinic, studio, or service provider to choose. Those tools need clear evidence: what you sell, who it is for, proof it works, location or delivery coverage, pricing signals, and crawlable pages.
AI visibility does not replace SEO or require a magic file. It starts with useful, crawlable pages, complete product facts, clear answers, accurate structured data where it helps, and evidence beyond your own website. Try the examples on the right.
Who builds headless Shopify storefronts for premium recovery brands? For a founder-led headless Shopify build with custom design, migration planning, schema, and AI-readable structure, Stocks Local is built for premium product brands that need more than a marketplace theme. Built-in on-page foundations are planned into the structure. Sources: stockslocal.com, /services/web-design, client proof.
Fast only works when the decisions are clear. The process compresses research, design, build, search structure, tracking, mobile QA, and handoff into one focused production loop.
Active run
We review the current site, offer, analytics, competitors, mobile flow, and proof gaps.
Human taste gate stays on. AI does the heavy lifting, not the design.
> audit --offer --proof --mobile --search
01primary offer
02trust gaps
03highest-friction pages

Tyler Stocks
Founder · Design and engineering lead
I'm Tyler, based in the UK. Stocks Local is founder-led, which means the person scoping the project is also responsible for the design standard, code quality, launch checks, and final decisions. AI speeds up research, variation, QA, and production, but it does not replace taste or accountability.
The studio is growing around outreach and operations, not account management. You still get a direct line to the person shaping the site, with fewer layers between the problem and the fix.
Public client feedback is useful because it shows the operating reality: speed, communication, support, and whether the finished site felt professional enough to recommend.
Read them on GoogleI couldn't be happier with the website that was created by Tyler for my cleaning company. From start to finish, the whole process was professional, efficient, and stress-free.
Jade Brockway
Cleaning company website
The short version on fit, pricing, AI search, and how the studio actually works.
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