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Case Study 01 - Retail & E-commerce

Rugs of Petworth

A complete business operating system

In Plain English

Yes, I built this one for my own business. Running a luxury rug showroom means juggling stock imports, Shopify listings, SEO, competitor moves and the books - and none of the off-the-shelf tools talk to each other.

So I built one system that does. It turns raw data from Semrush, Google and my site crawler into a plain-English weekly plan, publishes stock to Shopify with AI-generated descriptions, and matches sales back to my bank feed in Xero. It is the clearest demonstration of what I can build for you.

The big picture

A complete SEO and operations command centre. It connects Semrush, Google Analytics, Search Console and a site crawler, then turns the data into a clear action plan rather than another dashboard to read.

Marketing & SEO

  • Search performance dashboard for organic traffic, impressions, clicks and keyword position trends in one view.
  • Keyword strategy engine that recommends targets, flags slipping rankings and expands one keyword into a full content cluster.
  • Competitor gap analysis to surface keywords competitors rank for that we do not.
  • AI content handoff - a keyword recommendation becomes a draft blog post inside the existing workflow.
  • Auto-approval rules to control how aggressively ideas are promoted into real tasks.
  • Weekly plain-English SEO reports of what moved, what broke and what changed.

Technical health

  • Meta tag audit for titles, descriptions and image alt text.
  • Link graph and orphaned page detection across the whole site.
  • Core Web Vitals monitoring from real visitors.
  • Backlink change detection - gains and losses flagged automatically.
  • Scheduled sitemap and status-code crawls.
  • A unified fix queue - every technical issue lands in one prioritised Health list.

Inventory & operations

  • Rug and cushion inventory hub with a nine-stage import workflow, AI colour and tone tagging, AI-generated product descriptions and direct-to-Shopify publishing.
  • Label printing in multiple formats, including a discount promotional rug label.
  • Roomvo photo pipeline that prepares flat-lay images for room-visualisation services.
  • Cleaning and repair module that tracks jobs, services and auto-closes completed work.
  • Sales clearing that matches Shopify sales to Xero bank deposits.

Business admin & knowledge

  • Operational dashboard with priority view, Google Drive cleanse tool and developer pipeline.
  • Knowledge base with an AI research assistant that cites sources, scores purpose alignment and flags gaps.
  • Action Centre task manager with kanban and calendar views, pulling tasks from email, WhatsApp and Google Tasks.

Connectivity

  • Shopify - two-way sync, with the platform as source of truth.
  • Xero - bank-deposit categorisation and reconciliation.
  • Google - Gmail, Drive, Search Console and Analytics.
  • Semrush - keyword, competitor and backlink intelligence.
  • AI WhatsApp assistant - a staff-facing number that runs tools, answers queries and handles inbound leads.

Why this matters

Semrush is a powerful research tool. Shopify is a great store. Xero handles the books. The gap most businesses live in is the manual work between them - copying data, chasing tasks, translating insight into action. This platform closes that gap. Recommendations become tasks. Tasks become blog drafts. Technical issues become a fix queue. Competitor gaps become content targets.

That is the kind of system I build for other founders too - tailored to your business, your tools and the way you actually work.