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Engineering studio · Teesside, UK · Est. 2021 · Worldwide A founder-led engineering studio in Teesside, UK. We build the software, integrations and dashboards that keep ecommerce, B2B and SaaS companies running — for clients in five timezones, from London to Auckland.

What we build
71K PRODUCTS SYNCED14 LIVE AGENCIESBOOKED OUT · 14 DAYS
SECTION 00aPLAIN ENGLISH · NO BUZZWORDS
00a / SKIP THE JARGON

What we actually do,
in plain English.

We build custom software for established businesses — websites, CRMs, internal tools, customer portals — designed around how your team actually works, so you sell more and waste less time.

No buzzwords. No frameworks. Just the work.

01WHAT WE BUILD

Custom software your business doesn’t have yet.

Websites, internal dashboards, customer portals, CRMs, quoting tools, booking systems — built from scratch around how your business actually works, not a template bent to fit.

  • Websites + customer portals
  • Custom CRMs + internal dashboards
  • Bespoke tools that replace spreadsheets
02HOW WE BUILD IT

Tailored to how your team actually runs.

We sit with your people, learn the workflow, and build the software around the real shape of the business. The tool fits the team, not the other way around — no off-the-shelf SaaS bent into something it isn’t.

  • Built around your real workflow
  • Connects the tools you already use
  • Owned by you — no platform lock-in
03WHAT CHANGES

You sell more, run leaner, and free your team up.

The point isn’t the software. It’s what happens after: more enquiries handled, fewer hours wasted reconciling spreadsheets, your staff doing the work that actually moves the business forward.

  • More sales — cleaner enquiry-to-quote flow
  • Less admin — hours back across the team
  • Better data — know what is actually happening

We don’t pitch platforms.

We build the unsexy plumbing

that keeps your business running.

— THE STACKPULSE WAYSINCE 2021 · FOUNDER-LED · 14 LIVE CLIENTS · 5 TIMEZONES
SECTION 01WHAT WE BUILD · FOUR PRACTICES
01 / WHAT WE BUILD

Engineering that fits
the shape of your business.

Four core practices, one studio. We move between them depending on where the leverage is — usually all four end up in play.

01

Custom dashboards

Internal dashboards your team will actually use. Built around your real workflow, not stitched from off-the-shelf tiles.

Ops dashboards · KPI walls · Internal reporting
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02

System integrations

We wire your stack together. APIs, webhooks, queues, ETL — the connective tissue that keeps everything in sync.

ERP ↔ Shopify · CRM sync · Webhook routing
Explore →
03

Ecommerce engineering

Shopify, WooCommerce, headless storefronts, feed pipelines, CRO instrumentation. We ship what your platform won’t.

Hydrogen builds · Custom checkout · Feed engineering
Explore →
04

Bespoke platforms

When your problem doesn’t fit a SaaS shape — internal tools, data products, ops platforms built ground-up.

Workflow tools · Data products · Admin UIs
Explore →
SECTION 02PROCESS · FOUR STEPS
02 / HOW WE WORK

Four steps. Repeatable.

Same shape for a one-week dashboard or a six-month platform build. The cadence stays — only the scope changes.

STEP 01

Listen

60 MIN · FREE · NO DECK

A 60-minute call. We figure out where you actually hurt — not the surface request, the underlying system problem.

DELIVERS
Annotated briefRisk + scope memo
STEP 02

Map

1–2 WEEKS · PAID DISCOVERY

We sketch the system as it is, then as it could be. Concrete enough to estimate, abstract enough to evolve.

DELIVERS
Architecture diagramPhased delivery planFixed-price quote
STEP 03

Ship

2-WEEK ITERATIONS

Small, working slices. Production from day one. We refuse to disappear into a six-month build.

DELIVERS
Weekly deploysDemo every FridayShared GitHub
STEP 04

Operate

ONGOING · MONTHLY RETAINER

When it’s live, we stay. Monitoring, iteration, and the boring upkeep that keeps software actually working.

DELIVERS
On-call rotaQuarterly reviewIncident reports
02a / THE REEL14 LIVE SITES · ALL IN PRODUCTION · HOVER TO PAUSE — CLICK TO VISITVIEW ALL + CASE STUDIES
SECTION 03FEEDPULSE · OUR FLAGSHIP PRODUCT
FEEDPULSE · LIVE TOPOLOGYSYNCING
GMC4.2k OPS
META1.8k OPS
TIKTOK920 OPS
PINTEREST410 OPS
AMAZON1.1k OPS
GMC 4.2kMETA 1.8kTIKTOK 0.90kPINTEREST 410AMAZON 1.1k
5 CHANNELS312 ACTIVE FEEDS
03 / FEEDPULSE PLATFORM

The internal tool that became a product.

FeedPulse started as one client's product feed problem. It turned into the system we now run for retailers in five timezones — feed transformation, channel sync, performance monitoring.

  • 01Feed transformation — clean, enrich and reshape product data for any channel.
  • 02Channel sync — Google, Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, Amazon — pushed in real-time.
  • 03Anomaly detection — we tell you when something’s wrong before your channels do.
  • 04Performance reporting — feed health, channel ROAS, lost revenue — one view.
SECTION 04FOUNDERS · WHO YOU'LL ACTUALLY WORK WITH
04 / FOUNDERS

Founder-led, by design.

No account managers, no junior offshore team, no handover after the sale. Rikky and Jeff still pitch, scope and stay close to every project — supported by a small team of senior engineers based out of Teesside. If you book a call, one of the founders picks up.

Rikky Pink

Co-founder · Design & Front-end

Designs the part of the product your customers actually touch — interfaces, interactions, motion, the polish that makes the engineering visible. Twelve years moving between Figma and a codebase, with the front-end skills to ship the design instead of handing it over a wall. Started Stackpulse with Jeff in 2021 because most growing companies need senior design embedded in the build, not bolted on at the end.

UI / UXFRONT-ENDMOTION

Jeff Nicholls

Co-founder · Full-stack & Design

Full-stack engineer with a designer’s eye. Spent ten years building ecommerce platforms across Shopify and WooCommerce — long enough to know the difference between a working app and a great one is usually a designer who can also ship the back end. Scopes every project, owns the platform layer, and reviews every interface Rikky pushes.

FULL-STACKDESIGNOPERATIONS
SECTION 05SYSTEMS · WHERE WE LIVE
05 / SYSTEMS WE WORK IN

Pragmatic stack, opinionated execution.

We pick boring technology on purpose, then push it harder than the marketing pages suggest. Here's where we spend most of our days.

Shopify · headless

Hydrogen, Liquid, custom apps. Storefronts that move fast and don’t break.

SHOPIFYHYDROGENREMIX

WooCommerce · custom

Bespoke plugins, performance tuning, custom checkouts — WordPress + WooCommerce taken seriously.

WOOCOMMERCEPHPWORDPRESS

Channel integrations

Google Merchant Center, Meta CAPI, TikTok, Pinterest — push the right data, watch the right errors.

GMCMETATIKTOK

Data pipelines

Ingest, transform, monitor. From CSV chaos to clean event streams.

NODEPOSTGRESBIGQUERY

API & webhook layer

The plumbing that makes the rest of your stack reliable. APIs, webhooks, queue workers, idempotency keys.

RESTGRAPHQLQUEUES

Internal tooling

Operations dashboards, admin panels, workflow automation built for your team.

REACTNEXTTAILWIND

Email & lifecycle

Klaviyo, Iterable, in-house. Triggered flows tied to your real product data.

KLAVIYOLIQUIDSEGMENT

Search & discovery

Algolia, Typesense, in-house. Relevance tuned to actual conversion data.

ALGOLIATYPESENSEVECTOR

Observability

You can’t fix what you can’t see. Logs, metrics, traces — wired in from day one.

DATADOGSENTRYGRAFANA
SECTION 06THE PULSE · LIVE METRICS
06 / THE PULSE

Numbers we're actually proud of.

Live-ish. Pulled from our own dashboards, lagged a few minutes so we don’t embarrass ourselves on a bad afternoon.

PLATFORM UPTIME0.00%Trailing 90 days, FeedPulse core
ACTIVE AGENCIES0Live tenants on FeedPulse
PRODUCTS SYNCED0.00kAcross all live retailers
BLOG POSTS SHIPPED0Via FeedPulse Blog Automation
SECTION 07PRICING · STRAIGHT NUMBERS
07 / WHAT IT COSTS

Roughly, what you’ll pay.

Most studios make you ask. We won't. Bands below cover 90% of what we do — exact numbers come out of the discovery call and depend on scope.

011–4 WEEKS

Sprints

A fixed scope, fixed price slice.
from £4k
  • Audit + recommendations
  • One specific feature
  • A bug investigation
  • A performance pass
BEST FOR: ONE THING THAT NEEDS DOING
03ROLLING

Retainer

We become your engineering team.
from £2k / mo
  • Roadmap + sprint planning
  • Dedicated hours each month
  • On-call rota included
  • Quarterly architecture review
BEST FOR: ONGOING PRODUCT WORK

All numbers ex. VAT. We invoice monthly, in arrears. Long-term contracts knock up to 30% off list. We don't do equity-only work, ever.

SECTION 08WRITING · TEARDOWNS, ESSAYS, POSTMORTEMS
08 / WRITING

What we’ve been thinking about.

The studio's working notes — a few essays a year, mostly teardowns of things we've shipped or broken. Aimed at engineers and the people who hire them.

SECTION 0XSTUDIO LIFE · OFF-RECORD
0X / STUDIO LIFE

Off the clock.

The bits we never put on a slide deck. What's playing, what's reading, who's barking, what the tide is doing today — Teesside specifics.

NOW PLAYING

Hey Jude

The Beatles · 1968 · Single · Side A
TIDE · TEESSIDE
HIGH14:42 · 5.4m
LOW20:58 · 0.8m
NOW3.2m · rising
TODAY'S STACK
  • Next.js14.2.18STACKPULSE FRONTEND
  • Laravel11.9FEEDPULSE MONOLITH
  • Three.js0.169HERO + GALLERY SCENES
  • MySQL · Redis8 · 7FEEDPULSE DATA + QUEUE
RECENT SHIPS
  • TrottersSHIPPED · 2DFeedPulse · GMC sync v3
  • Kettle ClubSHIPPED · 5DSendPulse · winback flow
  • BM Trade HubIN FLIGHTTrade pricing v3
  • Hell BunnyIN FLIGHTFeedPulse · stock-aware routing

This week

2 ships · 2 in flight · 0 reverts
09 / WORK WITH US

Show us your stack.
We’ll tell you exactly what we’d ship.

One call. We'll dig into what you've got, where it's friction, and whether we're the right people to help. No deck, no pitch.

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