Go headless with Hydrogen and Oxygen when — and only when — the performance and flexibility actually pay for the complexity.
Custom storefronts on Hydrogen + Oxygen for teams that need a fully bespoke, high-performance frontend.
$28k
Bespoke headless build
A theme can't express the storefront you need. You want React, a bespoke design system, and edge performance — but headless done wrong is slower and more expensive than the theme you left.
Core Web Vitals, proven not promised
Every headless build ships with a documented before/after benchmark.
0.9s
Median LCP at launch
Everything the engagement ships
$ code
Hydrogen storefront
React storefront on Hydrogen with the Storefront API and streaming SSR.
$ bolt
Oxygen deployment
Edge hosting on Oxygen with preview environments per pull request.
$ search
SEO parity
SSR, structured data, and redirects so you don't lose rankings going headless.
$ speed
Core Web Vitals
Sub-second LCP budgets enforced in CI, not hoped for after launch.
What lands in your repo
From Sprint 0 to launch
Week 0
Sprint 0
Architecture and design-system audit
Weeks 1–5
Build
Storefront, data layer, components
Weeks 6–7
Perf & SEO
CWV budgets, structured data, redirects
Week 8
Launch
Cutover with rollback plan
“We'd been burned by an agency's headless build before. This team benchmarked every release against our Core Web Vitals budget and never let it slip.”
Melissa Chen
Head of Engineering, Fernweh Outdoor
What we build this on
Starts at $28k
What changes the price:
- trending_upDesign-system complexity
- trending_upThird-party integrations
- trending_upContent model depth
bolt48-hour onboarding once scoped — average match time 3.5 days.
Common questions
Often, no. We'll tell you when a fast Shopify 2.0 theme gets you 90% of the benefit at a fraction of the cost.
Ready to start your Headless Hydrogen Development project?
Book a free 15-minute technical fit call. We'll scope the work and give you a fixed price.
Vetted in 48 hours. Average match time: 3.5 days.