Premium Shopify theme specialists Livingston, Montana

The team premium theme makers recommend.

Customization, rescue, and ongoing work on premium Shopify themes. When your theme maker draws the line at support, we pick it up.

Three of the studios that made the premium Shopify theme market. I've been inside them. Now I work for the merchants who buy their themes.

— Jamey Warren, founder

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The shoreline. The edge where two systems meet. Land and water. Theme and customization. What the studio ships and what the merchant needs next. That's the work.

The gap

Premium themes end where your store begins.

A premium Shopify theme is a strong starting point. Your theme maker ships a capable, well-supported product. But the moment you customize it (and you will, because every real store needs real customization), you hit the edge of what support covers.

Every premium theme studio draws the line in the same place: "sorry, that's outside support." TaskHusky and Storetasker fill that gap for generic themes. Nobody fills it for the ones you bought.

That's the desk kahakai sits at.

Themes we've been inside.

03 studios
12+ themes
11 yrs in the craft
Maestrooo
2022 — present
Prestige
Focal
Impact
Warehouse
Archetype
2017 — 2022
Impulse
Motion
Expanse
Streamline
Out of the Sandbox
2014 — 2017
Turbo
Flex
Retina
Canopy

When your theme maker says "sorry, that's outside support," that's our line.

The premium theme specialist's edge kahakai
What we do

Four ways we work with premium theme customers.

01
Fix
Something broke after a customization. An app conflict. An update that undid your edits. We diagnose it and fix it.
From $499One-off
02
Customize
The thing the theme doesn't do natively. Built to survive theme updates and documented so you know what changed.
From $1,500Project
03
Rebuild
The store has accumulated tweaks over years and nothing works right anymore. We take it apart and put it back better.
From $5,000Project
04
Retainer
A specialist on call for ongoing work. Theme updates, seasonal changes, new sections, small asks. Hours flex to the month.
From $2,500Monthly
Who runs this

I've been on the other end of thousands of theme support tickets.

I've worked inside three of the studios that made the premium Shopify theme market. Out of the Sandbox first, then Archetype, now Maestrooo. Eleven years of shipping themes, answering tickets, and watching merchants hit the same wall over and over.

The wall is this: a premium theme is a solid starting point until you customize it. Then support ends. Generic agencies don't know the theme you're on. Freelancers leave tweaks that break the next update. The merchant is stuck.

kahakai is what I'd want if I were the merchant. Someone who knows the theme cold, respects its architecture, and fixes what's broken.

— Jamey

Ready to hand it off?

30 minutes. No slides. We'll tell you if we're the right fit.