Your team for building a better online store.

We build better Shopify stores and make running them easier. Start with one project. Keep us as your development team.

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We build stores and tools for

  • TileCloud
  • Yabby
  • Kastel
  • GoldSource

Your business has grown. Your store needs to keep up.

More products, more markets and more stores bring new demands. The setup that worked before can start making everyday jobs harder.

Your products need more than a photo and a price.

Materials, fit, finishes, how it works. Your team can explain all of it in person, but a standard product page often can’t. Customers need that same help online before they’re ready to spend.

The same update needs doing in every store.

A better menu or product page shouldn’t become a separate development job for every store. When it does, each improvement costs more to roll out and takes longer to reach all your customers.

Your team manually maintains Excel sheets and click buttons all day

Copy product details between systems. Put a large quote together. Check every part of a sale before it goes live. These jobs keep coming back, leaving your team less time for customers and the next campaign.

Recent work.

TileCloud — conversion up 18% in 90 days and Yabby conversion up 41% in year one

Shared development across five distinct storefronts, so each improvement doesn’t have to be built five times. Tools for quoting and campaigns make the work behind the stores easier too.Read the case study

Easier to shop. Easier to run.

Make buying easier

Fast Shopify stores, clearer product pages and configurators that help customers choose. Across several stores, we share what works while keeping each brand’s own design and features.

Storefronts · Product experiences · Multiple brands

Keep your store fast and easy to use

We measure the speed real customers experience and fix what slows them down. We test changes to pages and features to learn what helps people buy.

Real-user performance · A/B testing · Ongoing development

Cut down on manual work

Connect the systems your team already uses and build tools around the work they repeat. Less copying, checking and piecing things together by hand.

Integrations · B2B tools · Campaign management

Use AI for everyday tasks

We help your team use existing AI tools and build agents where those tools fall short. We start with a specific job and whether the benefit is worth the cost.

AI consulting · Internal workflows · Custom agents

We’re Visma, Shopify and Sanity partners.

  • Visma — Skai is a partner
  • Shopify — Skai is a partner
  • Sanity — Skai is a partner

skái

/ˈskɑː.i/, old norwegian · masculine noun

Improvement. Forbedring, = bati

We’re Norwegian. Our name comes from home, and it says what we’re here to do: make things better.

You work with a small team who know your business, backed by agents that investigate problems and build improvements 24/7. We stay close to the work, so your store keeps getting better long after launch.

Fritzner’s Old Norwegian dictionary

Meet the team.

Skai is a lean and mean team. You work directly with the founders and we have agents on the team to make sure we're working for you 24/7 and that the quality of our work is high.

Ragnsan Finn Valla

Ragnsan Finn Valla

Founding team, co-founder

Ragnsan is a nerd through and through. As a kid, he built gaming computers and wrote school essays about mechanical keyboards. Must have been thrilling for the teacher.

He’ll excitedly tell the team about a keyboard shortcut that saves 3 seconds a day. No one else is quite as excited. He keeps telling them anyway.

That same obsession goes into making our agents and workflows a little better every day. We’re now completing 400% more tickets than a year ago.

You don’t have to share his enthusiasm for keyboard shortcuts to benefit from it.

Petter Elgheim

Petter Elgheim

Founding team, co-founder

Petter likes space, learning maths and building a really good integration. His idea of a good time may differ from yours.

He studied law before deciding it wasn’t for him. Apparently, it wasn’t intellectually stimulating enough.

He’s happiest getting systems to talk to each other and making sure the right data ends up in the right place. The work can sound boring, right up until your team has to copy everything between systems by hand.

Petter enjoys building the integration so you don’t have to do that.

Alex

Alex

Founding team, fullstack developer

Alex is the kind of engineer you want on your team. He takes the work seriously, follows through and cares about getting the details right.

Outside work, he likes riding his motorcycle and playing Escape from Tarkov. Apparently, a full day of programming still isn’t enough time at the computer.

Tyr

Tyr

Agent, code review

Tyr is the god of law, who gave his hand to bind the wolf Fenrir. Steady, fair and impossible to flatter, he judges the work and not the one who made it. When the oath is sworn, he keeps it.

He stands between finished work and our clients. Every change Regin makes passes his review, checked against the brief, the tests and the code exactly as it will ship. If it isn’t right, it goes back to the forge. Nothing leaves the workshop without his verdict.

Regin

Regin

Agent, coding

Regin is the master smith who reforged the sword Gram. Patient, precise and particular about his craft, he’d rather reforge good steel than throw it away. He studies the blade before he picks up the hammer.

Our codebase is his forge. He repairs what’s broken, builds new features and tests his work before handing it over for review. Give him a clear brief and he’ll get to work. The blade has to be proven before it leaves the workshop.

Mimir

Mimir

Agent, investigations

Mimir keeps the Well of Wisdom. He’s patient with difficult questions and has little time for confident guesses. Ask him something and expect a straight answer, including when the answer is that he doesn’t know yet.

He investigates before we start building, following the evidence through our code and past work. He’ll tell us what’s wrong, what’s still unclear or whether someone has already solved it. The well remembers, and Mimir would rather look deeper than send us off in the wrong direction.

Heimdall

Heimdall

Agent, client requests

Heimdall stands watch at the Bifrost, the bridge between worlds. Calm and sharp-eyed, he listens for distant footsteps and notices the details others miss. Nothing is too small to deserve the watchman’s attention.

At Skai, he guards the passage between a client conversation and the work that follows. He asks the missing question, keeps track of what’s agreed and makes sure the team has a clear brief. The bridge stands. The watch continues.

Odin

Odin

Agent, operations

Odin is the All-Father, watching over the realms with one eye while his ravens, Huginn and Muninn, gather news. Curious and decisive, he’s always looking for the connection between things. He says little, but expects to be well informed.

His realms at Skai are our projects, hours and business tools. He gathers the scattered details so we can see how things are going, then helps carry out the work we approve. Ask him for an answer and he’ll bring the records to back it up.

Start with what you want to improve.

Start with a useful piece of work. Build an ongoing relationship with the people who know your store, your systems and what you’re trying to do.

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  1. Talk through what’s getting in the way

    Book a 30-minute call. Bring a problem, an idea or a brief. We’ll discuss what you need and whether we’re the right people to help.

  2. Build the first improvement together

    We agree the scope and what success looks like, then build and test it with you. You work directly with the people doing the work.

  3. Keep improving with a team that knows you

    Once it’s live, we check how it works for your customers and team. We look after it and agree the next improvements with you, without starting from scratch with a new partner.

Before we talk

Do we need a new website?
No. We can improve your current store, build a tool or connect systems you already use. We recommend rebuilding when it’s worth the cost and effort of moving.
Do we need to know what to build?
No. Tell us what you want to improve and what you’ve tried. We’ll help you compare the options. If you already know what you need, we can work from your brief.
Does everything have to be custom-built?
No. We use the features and apps already available when they do the job. We build something custom when the benefit is worth the cost of building and maintaining it.
Can you work with our existing team?
Yes. We can take on part of the work alongside your team. On the first call, we’ll talk about who’s involved and who will handle what.
What happens after the first project?
We look after what we’ve built and continue improving it with you. We agree the priorities, scope and commercial terms together, so you know what the ongoing work includes.
How much will it cost?
The cost depends on the scope and the systems involved. We’ll discuss what you need, compare the options and agree the work and cost before starting. You can start with a focused project rather than a full rebuild.
How long does the work take?
It depends on what we’re changing. A full storefront build typically takes around 12 weeks, followed by 4 weeks of close monitoring. A smaller improvement has its own scope and timeline, which we agree with you before starting.
Who owns the code?
You own the store and code we build for you. You can keep working with us, hire your own developers or choose another partner. Software from other companies has its own terms.
“You will never work with anyone that is as painless, as good, as creative and as knowledgeable as you guys … I have only praise to say”
Luisa ArangoHead of Marketing & Ecommerce at Kastel Shoes

What would you like to improve?

Tell us what’s getting in the way or what you’d like to build. We’ll talk through the options and whether we’re the right team to help.

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