Premium Shopify theme specialists Livingston, Montana

The team premium theme makers recommend.

Customization, rescue, and ongoing work on premium Shopify themes. When your theme maker draws the line at support, we pick it up.

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Three of the studios that made the premium Shopify theme market. I've been inside them. Now I work for the merchants who buy their themes.

— Jamey Warren, founder

✦ Shopify Partner 11 years in premium themes Livingston, MT Replies within 1 business day
The gap

Premium themes end where your store begins.

A premium Shopify theme is a strong starting point. Your theme maker ships a capable, well-supported product. But the moment you customize it (and you will, because every real store needs real customization), you hit the edge of what support covers.

Every premium theme studio draws the line in the same place: "sorry, that's outside support." TaskHusky and Storetasker fill that gap for generic themes. Nobody fills it for the ones you bought.

That's the desk kahakai sits at.

Themes we've been inside.

03 studios
12+ themes
11 yrs in the craft
Maestrooo
2022 — present
Prestige
Focal
Impact
Warehouse
Archetype
2017 — 2022
Impulse
Motion
Expanse
Streamline
Out of the Sandbox
2014 — 2017
Turbo
Flex
Retina
Canopy
Work, documented

A recent rebuild, start to finish.

Theme: Prestige (Maestrooo) Catalog: 11,000+ SKUs Category: DTC apparel Engagement: Rescue + Rebuild

Three years of patchwork, rebuilt in four weeks.

The store had accumulated customizations from four different developers over three years. Cart drawer broken on mobile. Filter section hardcoded against a deprecated metafield. Theme updates blocked because every update undid a different custom section. We pulled the theme into a dev environment, audited every customization against the current theme version, rebuilt the sections that mattered using Prestige's native schema, and migrated what was worth keeping to theme app extensions so the next update doesn't break anything.

Load time
4.2s → 1.8s
Time in backend
12hr/week → 2hr/week
Theme updates
blocked → current
Anonymized at client's request · details available on request
How it works

Four steps. No surprises.

01
Book a call
30 minutes, no slides. You describe what's broken or what you want built. We confirm if we're the right fit.
30 min
02
Scope and quote
Within 2 business days we send a fixed-price quote with a defined outcome and a turnaround window. No retainers to unlock a quote.
2 business days
03
Build and verify
We do the work on a development theme first. You review before anything goes live. Every change is documented.
1–4 weeks (varies by scope)
04
Handover
You get the completed work, a plain-English change log, and a 14-day post-launch window for any follow-up issues at no cost.
14 days included

When your theme maker says "sorry, that's outside support," that's our line.

The premium theme specialist's edge kahakai
What we do

Four ways we work with premium theme customers.

01
Fix
Something broke after a customization. An app conflict. An update that undid your edits. We diagnose it and fix it.
$750One-off
02
Customize
The thing the theme doesn't do natively. Built to survive theme updates and documented so you know what changed.
$3,000Project
03
Rebuild
The store has accumulated tweaks over years and nothing works right anymore. We take it apart and put it back better.
$12,000Project
04
Retainer
A specialist on call for ongoing work. Theme updates, seasonal changes, new sections, small asks. Hours flex to the month.
$5,000Monthly
What former colleagues and clients say

Receipts, not slogans.

“
Jamey is the kind of developer you call when something's broken and nobody else can figure out why. I worked with him at Maestrooo for two years. He'd untangle theme customizations most of us wouldn't touch, and the merchants he worked with always came back calmer than they started.
Eduardo Pimental
Senior Developer, Maestrooo
“
We hit a wall on a Prestige customization that had broken three updates in a row. Jamey diagnosed the root cause in about an hour and shipped a fix that survived every update since. Worth whatever he charges.
Derek Molina
Founder, Northfield Supply Co.
“
Hired Jamey for a Motion theme migration that the previous developer had made into a mess of custom sections. He rebuilt it cleanly, documented everything, and left the theme update-safe. First developer in three years I'd recommend without a caveat.
Priya Anand
E-commerce Director, Olsen & Company
Who runs this

I've been on the other end of thousands of theme support tickets.

I've worked inside three of the studios that made the premium Shopify theme market. Out of the Sandbox first, then Archetype, now Maestrooo. Eleven years of shipping themes, answering tickets, and watching merchants hit the same wall over and over.

The wall is this: a premium theme is a solid starting point until you customize it. Then support ends. Generic agencies don't know the theme you're on. Freelancers leave tweaks that break the next update. The merchant is stuck.

kahakai is what I'd want if I were the merchant. Someone who knows the theme cold, respects its architecture, and fixes what's broken.

When a project calls for something outside my core — a specific design voice, an integration I haven't worked on — I bring in collaborators who are better at their specific thing than I am.

If that sounds like the kind of work you need, the call is 30 minutes.

— Jamey

Ready to hand it off?

30 minutes. No slides. We'll tell you if we're the right fit.

Book a call or email hello@kahak.ai