AI-native Shopify development - The IMMACULATE Loop
The Loop is how we build. Agents carry the work from the first call to launch, and a senior developer signs off at every gate before anything moves forward. You get the pace of an AI-native team and the judgment of people who’ve shipped on Shopify for years.
How it runs - Five stages, with a person at every gate
Work moves around the loop, not down a line. Agents hand work from one stage to the next, and nothing crosses a gate until a person signs off.
Scope
- Agents
- Turn the first call into written requirements and map what your store runs on today: theme, apps, and integrations.
- People
- We decide what’s worth building, flag what isn’t, and write the proposal with you.
- Gate
- You sign off on the scope.
Plan
- Agents
- Break the scope into tickets, sequence the work, and surface dependencies before they turn into blockers.
- People
- A senior developer owns the architecture and every trade-off with a business cost.
- Gate
- A senior developer signs off on the architecture.
Build
- Agents
- Draft theme sections, app code, migration scripts, and the tests that go with them.
- People
- We take the hard parts and review every change an agent drafts.
- Gate
- Every change is reviewed by a developer.
Review
- Agents
- Run tests and checks on every change in preview themes and staging, all the way through the project.
- People
- We click through it the way a customer would, then hand you a preview to do the same.
- Gate
- You sign off on what’s ready.
Ship
- Agents
- Prepare the release notes and the rollback path.
- People
- A person decides what goes live. Agents never push to production.
- Gate
- A person ships it, and any change can roll back.
Then it loops. What we learn after launch feeds the next scope, so each round starts with more context than the last.
Why AI-native - Faster, and more careful
AI-native doesn’t mean handing your store to a model. It means agents carry the volume, so senior people spend their time where it counts.
- Speed. Groundwork that used to fill a sprint moves in a fraction of the time. More of your budget goes to the parts that need judgment.
- Accuracy. Requirements are written down from the first call, and every change is checked against them. What gets built is what we agreed to build.
- Room to change course. When priorities shift mid-project, the rework is cheap. We re-plan with you and keep the launch date honest.
- Coverage. Agents don’t skip the tedious checks. More of the store gets tested before anything reaches a customer.
What stays human - Agents make us faster. They don’t make decisions.
These stay with a senior developer on every project, every time.
- Architecture. How your store is put together, and what it needs to support a year from now.
- Trade-offs. Anything with a business cost, like what to build custom and what to leave native.
- Checkout, payments, and customer data. Code that touches money or personal information is owned and reviewed by a senior developer.
- Every review. Each change an agent drafts is read by a developer before it goes anywhere near your store.
- Production. Agents work in branches and preview themes, never in production. Everything lives in your GitHub, so any change can roll back.
- The call to ship. A person decides what goes live, with your sign-off.
Your side of the loop - You see what we see
Requirements, tickets, previews, and the weekly update all live where you can read them. When something needs your call, it comes to you early, and nothing ships without your go-ahead.
Questions about how we use agents are answered in the FAQ.
Let’s build it together.
Show us what you’re working on. One of us will read it and come back with questions and a first take on how we’d build it.