For Shopify brands with paid traffic

Find the three leaks costing your store the most money.

A free 30-minute teardown with Julian Sousa, founder of Rivus: the fixes, and roughly what each one is worth.

  • Done live, on your store
  • Recap in about two hours
  • Yours to keep, either way

No obligation. If you hire us later: revenue per visitor up 10% in 90 days, or every fee back.

Is this you?

Sound like your store?

It isn’t a traffic problem. It’s changes going live that nobody ever checked against revenue.

  • Ad spend / week$3,900$5,100$6,480Orders / week214wk 1wk 8

    More ad spend. Same orders.

    Your Meta bill went up again this month; your Shopify orders didn’t.

  • Conversion rate breakdownThis weekSessions5,60011,240Added to cart640only 5.7% of sessionsReached checkout360Sessions converted214Left without adding to cart10,600

    Plenty of visitors. Few carts.

    Your Shopify admin this week: 11,240 sessions, 640 added to cart.

  • Theme changesLivePaid off?1Sticky add to cartwk 1?2Trust badgeswk 3?3Bundle upsellwk 4?4Free-shipping barwk 6?Revenue / day1234

    Changes shipped. No idea which paid.

    Sticky cart, trust badges, a bundle upsell: all live, none measured against revenue.

Why we test

Most store changes don’t make money.

So we test each one on your real traffic. You keep only what earns more per visitor.

Untested changes

Shipped on a hunch, never checked.

  • Some help, some hurt, and you never find out which.
  • The ones that hurt quietly cancel out the ones that helped.
  • It goes live on all your traffic, for as long as nobody notices.

How we test

One change at a time, proven before you keep it.

  1. One change per test

    So when revenue moves, you know exactly what moved it.

  2. Your real traffic, split

    Some visitors see the change, the rest see your current page, on the same days.

  3. Losers come down early

    If a change is clearly costing you money, it’s switched off, and you hear about it.

  4. Winners go live for everyone

    Only if revenue per visitor rises. Not clicks, not add-to-carts: the money.

Get my free teardown

Free, 30 minutes, and the recap is yours either way.

The free teardown

What you get in 30 minutes.

Live on a call with Julian, on your own store. You keep all of it, whether or not you hire us.

  • The three leaks costing you the most

    Marked on your own pages.

  • A rough figure for each

    What fixing each one is worth, with the inputs shown so you can check the maths.

  • A written recap

    In your inbox within about two hours of the call.

  • No obligation

    If we’re not the right fit, we’ll say so.

Three real pages, three leaks each, and the fix we’d test.

Teardowns of public product pages, marked up the way we’d mark up yours.

Furest Pet

Dog allergy chews · product page, on mobile

Public page teardown

Furest Pet’s public product page on mobile: photo, a six-line product name, the chew count, shipping notes, then Add to Cart, with no price and no reviews
Before The public page, as we found it
Our mock-up of the variants we’d test: stars and a customer quote above the name, a two-line name with one line on what it does, and the price beside the chew count above Add to Cart
After The mock-up we’d test, starting with 1 Its prices, counts and quotes are placeholders, not Furest Pet’s figures.

The three leaks we’d mark

  1. No price on the screen

    From the photo down to Add to Cart, not one line says what it costs. Where a price usually sits, it gives the chew count.

    We’d test the price beside the chew count, right above the button.

  2. No stars, no reviews

    Nothing near the name says anyone has bought it, on a product people give their dog.

    We’d test a star rating and a short customer quote above the name.

  3. A six-line name

    The benefit, nine ingredients, a flavour and a count, all in the title. It pushes the button down the screen.

    We’d test a two-line name, with one plain line on what it does.

The figure for each leak

Comes on your call, worked out from your own sessions, conversion rate and average order, like the maths above. We don’t have Furest Pet’s numbers, so we won’t guess at its revenue.

Huge Supplements

Creatine · product page, on mobile

Huge Supplements’ public creatine product page on mobile: the product name, the price, One-time purchase selected above the subscription, Add to Cart, then three benefit lines at the bottom
Before The public page
Our mock-up of what we’d test: a line on what it does under the photo, the three benefits straight after it, and Subscribe for 10% off selected first
After The mock-up we’d test Its prices, counts and quotes are placeholders.
  1. The name says what it is, not what it does.

  2. One-time purchase is preselected. The 10%-off subscription sits second.

  3. The three benefit lines sit at the very bottom, under Add to Cart.

Cécred

Conditioner · product page, on mobile

Cécred’s public hydrating conditioner product page on mobile: a row of dashes under the photo, the stars and 403 reviews, then one paragraph with a cookie badge and a chat bubble over it
Before The public page
Our mock-up of what we’d test: a row of photo thumbnails under the main photo, three short lines on what it does, and a customer quote right under Add to Bag
After The mock-up we’d test Its prices, counts and quotes are placeholders.
  1. No thumbnails. The other twelve photos hide behind a row of dashes.

  2. 403 reviews, and not one quoted near the button.

  3. What it does is one paragraph, with a cookie badge and a chat bubble over the words.

Every after is a mock-up of what we’d test. Each numbered fix goes live against the original page, and stays only if it earns more per visitor.

“Julian absolutely overdelivered on this project.”

“Amazing job! Julian absolutely overdelivered on this project. He provided an extensive report based on both quantitative and qualitative analysis, a Loom video walking through every detail, and several highly actionable tests and optimisation recommendations. I’ve already gotten some great inspiration to work on. He’s incredibly responsive and thorough—I couldn’t recommend him enough.”

Zoe Lyang

Founder & CEO, Lyang & Co

A fine jewellery store

Results

One menu change: +13.7% revenue per mobile visitor.

Product images in a $3M home-gym brand’s mobile menu beat the original in 21 days.

Test 22 · Mobile menu

A $3M Shopify home-gym brand

Mobile traffic only

  1. The problem

    Text-only mobile menu makes product discovery difficult, contributing to lower engagement and conversion.

  2. The change

    Product images added to the mobile navigation menu.

  3. How it was read

    Real mobile traffic, split between the original menu and the new one for 21 days, judged on revenue per visitor.

  4. The decision

    Kept. It beat the original, so it went live for everyone.

The result

Mobile revenue per visitor

+13.7%

Original$2.34
Tested$2.66

Conversion rate

+6.0%

Original1.02%
Tested1.09%

Rates rounded; the lift is worked out on the unrounded rates.

On your store

Every Shopify theme has a mobile menu, whatever the store sells. The teardown checks yours.

113,003 mobile sessions21 daysReported in full, as every test is

Who you’ll work with

You work with the person who runs the tests.

Julian Sousa, founder of Rivus, arms folded outside an office building

I’m Julian Sousa, founder of Rivus.

You will never pay less for traffic than you do today. That’s the arithmetic I built Rivus on. Media costs only go one direction, and the site is the one lever that pays you back on every visitor you’ve already bought.

After six years in ecommerce and four in conversion, I stopped writing recommendations and started shipping them: find the leak, build the fix, measure it honestly. I run every teardown myself.

The stack

  • GA4
  • Microsoft Clarity
  • Intelligems
  • Figma
  • Shopify dev

Shopify and Shopify Plus only. We don’t work on platforms we don’t know cold.

How it works

We do the work. You approve it.

Your first test usually ships the same week we kick off, with results 2⁠–⁠3 weeks from launch.*

  1. Free teardown

    30 minutes · $0

    The three biggest leaks on your store and what each is worth, plus a written recap in about two hours.

  2. Find what pays

    Starts at kickoff

    We go through your analytics, session recordings and reviews, and rank every test by what it’s likely to earn.

  3. Test on real traffic

    2⁠–⁠3 weeks per test*

    We design it, you approve it. It runs on part of your traffic, and one that’s costing you money gets switched off early.

  4. Keep what wins

    After every test

    Winners go live for all of your traffic. Every result is reported to you, losses included, so you know exactly what worked.

  • Nothing breaks on your live store. Every variant is QA’d on desktop and mobile and runs in Intelligems, so nothing changes permanently until it has beaten your current page.

  • No clash with your developer. Winners get built in by us or handed to your developer, whichever you prefer.

*Typical timing; every store is different.

The guarantee

+10% revenue per visitor in 90 days.

Or you get every program fee back. A promise on the whole program, not one test.

You can check it yourself, in Shopify.

The metric
Store-wide revenue per visitor, in Shopify.
The window
Days 61–90 of the program, against the 90 days before kickoff.
The bar
Up at least 10%.
If it isn’t
You get every program fee back, and we part ways. No hard feelings.

Step 1 is free, and yours to keep.

Thirty minutes with Julian, and a written recap in about two hours. If there’s a fit, we book a call to scope the program with you, cost included. If there isn’t, we’ll say so.

Get my free teardown

$0 · No obligation.

Before you book

Nothing to lose by booking.

Keep the teardown either way. Nothing changes without your sign-off.

Is the free call a sales pitch?

Only at the end, and only if there’s a fit.

The rest of the 30 minutes with Julian Sousa, founder of Rivus, is a teardown of your store. You leave with the three leaks, a rough figure for what fixing each is worth, and a written recap about two hours later, whether or not you hire us. If there’s a fit, Julian walks you through what working together looks like and what it costs. If there isn’t, you’ll hear that too.

Will this break our theme or step on our developer?

No. You approve every design before it goes live, and nothing changes for good until it has beaten your current page.

Tests run in Intelligems on a split of your traffic, so the rest of your visitors see your store exactly as it is.

What if a test loses?

You don’t keep it, and it only ever ran on part of your traffic.

Plenty lose — that’s why we test before you keep anything. A variant that’s clearly costing you money gets switched off early, and every result is reported, losses included.

That’s also why the guarantee covers the program, not any single test: if your store-wide revenue per visitor in Shopify isn’t up at least 10% in days 61–90, against the 90 days before kickoff, you get every program fee back.

How soon will we see results?

The first test usually ships the same week we kick off, with results 2–3 weeks from launch.*

Before any of that, the teardown itself: three fixes in 30 minutes, and a written recap about two hours after the call.

*Typical timing; every store is different.

Why not hire in-house?

You skip the hiring and the ramp-up: the first test usually ships the same week we kick off.*

We bring the stack (GA4, Microsoft Clarity, Intelligems, Figma, Shopify dev) and the process. When you’re ready to hire, we hand over the playbook and the full test log.

*Typical timing; every store is different.

What platforms do you work with?

Shopify and Shopify Plus only, custom themes and checkout extensibility included.

We don’t work on platforms we don’t know cold.

Something else? Email hi@rivusco.com

Your free teardown

Find the three leaks costing you the most.

Marked on your own pages, with what fixing each is worth. Yours either way.

Book my free teardown

Pick a 30-minute slot with Julian Sousa, founder of Rivus. You’ll add your store on the next page.

30 min
Teardown of your store
~2 hrs
From call to written recap
$0
No obligation

If you hire us, it’s guaranteed: revenue per visitor up at least 10% after 90 days, or every program fee back.