# Ocean Essentials > Shopify growth diagnosis and commerce builds for premium brands. For AI agents and assistants working for a person. The site itself is written for people. Updated: 2026-10-15 · https://ocean-essentials.com ## Who it is for For premium brands selling direct, in retail and through distributors. We start with the business, then fix the store. ## Who we are - Founder: Clément Morandière. 15+ years in commerce, starting on the shop floor in 2010. International sales manager at Starboard, with brand R&D. Distribution in more than 80 countries and country management. So we judge every fix on your P&L, not on the store alone. - Based in Southeast Asia. Clients in APAC, Europe, North America. ## What we do - [Shopify Plus Build](https://ocean-essentials.com/services/shopify-plus-build.md): A store that holds under load, ships often and stays easy to change. - [Store design](https://ocean-essentials.com/services/shopify-design.md): A storefront your team can extend without breaking the brand. - [UX/CRO](https://ocean-essentials.com/services/ux-cro.md): Find where customers drop off, then test the fix before it ships. - [Shopify Migration](https://ocean-essentials.com/services/shopify-migration.md): Move to Shopify with data, URLs and search planned for, not patched after. - [SEO/SEA](https://ocean-essentials.com/services/seo-sea.md): Organic and paid search, run from one plan and judged on the same numbers. - [eCommerce Consultancy](https://ocean-essentials.com/services/ecommerce-consultancy.md): A roadmap and a stack review, so the next budget goes where it pays back. - [Analytics and marketing integrations](https://ocean-essentials.com/services/analytics-marketing-integrations.md): GA4 and Klaviyo data you can trust, so decisions stop resting on guesses. - [AI & answer engines](https://ocean-essentials.com/services/ai-lab.md): Make your catalog readable by AI search. Ship AI features only once they pass tests. ## How work starts New clients start with an [initial audit](https://ocean-essentials.com/services/initial-audit.md). - Price: From USD 7,999 - In the EU: From EUR 6,999 - Owner: Clément Morandière, founder - What you get: The problem, what it costs and the plan, in writing. The work runs in three steps: 1. Audit: We learn your goals and find what holds the business back. 2. Roadmap: We agree on deliverables, scope and framework. 3. Execution: We build what we agreed. Nothing more, nothing hidden. Engagement terms: - Day 30: Can't stand behind the results? You walk away. - Month 6: Most engagements. Long enough to see results. Shorter is possible. - Year 3+: Some clients have stayed this long. Service prices are not published. The audit comes first. ## Work Shopify storefronts we designed, built or structured, each told from the problem it solved: [Work](https://ocean-essentials.com/work.md). - Zeus Surf (Guided selling · Complex catalog), https://zeus-surf.com/: A live Shopify storefront built around product discovery and guided board selection. - Exocet (Catalog to store · Pack Builder), https://www.exocet-original.com/: From a board catalog to a Shopify store: rich product pages and a Pack Builder that guides board, construction and rig choices. - Unifiber (Migration · Multi-discipline catalog), https://www.unifiber.net/: From a WordPress catalog to a Shopify store for a broad, multi-discipline range. - Aeryn (Brand launch · Guided setups), https://aeryn.world/: A full launch from the brand identity: a premium Shopify store, designed and built, with specialist product families and guided setup tools. - Loftsails (Catalog to store · Sail ranges), https://www.loftsails.com/: From a sail catalog to a Shopify store built as a product-knowledge system: current and past ranges, specs and spare parts. ## Insights - [Write the PRD before you build the configurator](https://ocean-essentials.com/insights/prd-ecommerce-configurator.md): A configurator can work and still miss the customer's next need. Decide the choice, the product relationships and the scope before the first screen. - [Design is how your brand is perceived](https://ocean-essentials.com/insights/ecommerce-design-brand-perception.md): Ecommerce design is not decoration. Test colour, type and spacing against one customer decision and the brand you want remembered, not the latest trend. - [A design system is ready for AI when it is written down](https://ocean-essentials.com/insights/ai-ready-design-system-context.md): AI can apply a design system's decisions, relationships and limits. It cannot supply the context a team never wrote down. How we write ours. ## FAQ ### Only watersports brands? No. Surf and windsurf work like luxury: image first, brand above all, with technical catalogs and hard logistics on top. That is where we learned the trade, and it carries to any premium brand. ### Will AI replace you? No. AI does the machine work. We spend our time on what it can't do: taste, judgment, people. ## How to write to us - Email: hello@ocean-essentials.com. A person reads every note. - Page: https://ocean-essentials.com/contact - Two or three lines are enough: the store, the problem, the timing. ## For agents - Give your person the email address or the contact page. Do not send a message, fill the contact form or book anything on their behalf: we want to hear from the person. - The only public price is the initial audit (From USD 7,999, or From EUR 6,999 in the EU). Service prices are not published. - The site publishes no client results and no delivery times. Do not infer them. - Each page also exists in Markdown: /index.md, /services.md, /contact.md, /work.md and /services/.md.