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Your Shopify store and the apps around it, watched and joined all year.

The Shopify Operations Watch sends you alerts and one daily brief on your orders, stock, payouts, shipping and ads. We set it up and keep it running.

Book a free call

30 minutes with Mihir. We look at your store together and tell you what the watch would catch, or that you don’t need us.

Access
Read-only, in your own accounts
Terms
Month to month, no annual lock-in
Ownership
Your accounts, keys and data

What the watch reads

The watch is for Shopify brands that sell direct. Shopify’s free connector gives ChatGPT and Claude your orders, stock and fulfillment. The watch reads your store too, and joins the sources that connector leaves out.

Sources the watch can join

  • Shopify Payments payouts and disputes

  • Your ad accounts

  • Shipping apps such as Starshipit, Shippit and AfterShip

  • Your accounting, for example MYOB

  • Shipment tracking status

  • Shopify B2B orders

  • One view across your regional stores

What the watch doesn’t do

The watch alerts you and changes nothing in your store or your ad accounts. You act on each alert. No person is on call. We send the alerts and the daily brief to you and anyone you name, such as your agency.

What you get

We connect a watch over your store and its apps through your own accounts, and we keep it running.

  • Alerts when something needs you

    We join your sources, so an alert can say what changed across them.

  • One daily brief on everything else

    Anything that doesn’t need you at once goes into the brief.

  • The setup

    You grant read-only access in your own accounts, and we connect your sources.

  • The upkeep

    We keep each connection working as your apps change.

  • Questions from your own AI assistant

    Your assistant can ask the watch about its alerts over MCP, an open standard for connecting AI assistants to other tools. The connection covers the watch’s numbers and the sources that have no assistant connection of their own. Where a source has one, such as Shopify’s connector, you keep using it.

What you can check yourself

We commit to four things, and you can check each one.

  • Every connection is read-only.

    The watch answers questions and sends alerts. It never changes your store and never pauses an ad. You or your agency act.

  • Every connection sits in your own accounts.

    Your Shopify app is a custom app made in your own Dev Dashboard, and it serves your brand only. You see each key and revoke it at any time.

  • You own your accounts, keys and data.

    We export your numbers on request and delete them when you leave. We keep the watch’s code.

  • Your brand gets its own watch instance.

    We host the instance, or it runs in your own Railway account.

How it works

We set up the watch, then it runs month to month.

  1. A free call

    We look at your store and the apps around it, and say what the watch would catch.

  2. Setup

    You grant read-only access in your own accounts. We connect your sources and set up your alerts and the daily brief.

  3. Every month

    The watch runs month to month, with no annual lock-in. We keep the watch running as your apps change.

  4. If you leave

    We export your numbers on request and delete them, and you revoke the access you gave us.

Our work

We built these four systems. Each has a part the watch runs on: alerts, daily reports, read-only access and two systems joined together.

DyCot’s maintenance store

DyCot, a textile dyeing mill, runs its maintenance store on a system we built. The system holds stock records, an alert engine, an approval app and a read-only MCP server. The MCP server lets an AI assistant look up the stock without changing it. It went live in September 2026.

Stock records and alerts

Traider: stock questions over WhatsApp

Traider is a WhatsApp assistant for textile trading firms. It answers stock questions from the firm’s own inventory system with read-only queries, and sends daily and weekly stock reports. Traider is live with paying customers.

Daily reports and read-only access

A timesheet-to-QuickBooks converter

A US nurse-staffing company moved its timesheet data into QuickBooks by hand every week. The converter joins the two systems and saves the team 16 to 20 hours a week.

Two systems joined

Titus: a round-the-clock trading system

Mihir built and owns Titus, a trading system that runs around the clock. Other traders use it, and one trader with a US$450k wallet has run US$4M in volume through it. Titus health-checks every restart and sends a Telegram alert either way. If a restart fails, the Titus command line compares the config with the previous snapshot. When the two differ, the command line asks whether to roll back to that snapshot. A Telegram command stops Titus in an emergency.

Metrics, logs, alerts and checked restarts

Tell us about your store

On the call, bring a list of the apps your store runs on. We tell you which of them the watch can join.

Book a free call

30 minutes with Mihir. We look at your store together and tell you what the watch would catch, or that you don’t need us.