Products, customer accounts, cart, checkout, merchandising, and the stable commerce services behind the public store.
Live client platform // Shopify + custom software
Blacklist Tattoo Parlour.
A distinctive commerce site, booking front door, member experience, and operating platform built around the way a tattoo studio actually works.
The honest build story
Shopify underneath. Far more than a theme on top.
Shopify provides the dependable commerce foundation: catalog, products, cart, customer accounts, and the services a live store should not reinvent just to sound custom.
Approximately 40% of the experience is custom code, including Liquid work maintained in repositories and integrated inside Shopify. Shopify’s AI tools were combined with human design and engineering to move faster without giving up control of the build.
The goal was never to hide Shopify. The goal was to make Shopify serve Blacklist instead of making Blacklist look like everybody else using Shopify.
One public experience // several working layers
What makes the platform intelligent.
Repository-managed theme code, custom sections, branded interaction, navigation, artist content, events, and studio-specific presentation.
AI-assisted development used as a production tool, with the brand, workflow, testing, decisions, and final accountability kept human.
Booking, client intake, artist scheduling, member access, communication, deposits, planning, and internal workflow beyond the storefront.
Proof, not a pitch deck
The storefront and the operating layer.
A proven platform where it made sense.
Shopify handles the commodity commerce problems well. Keeping that foundation saved time for the parts that actually differentiate the business.
The parts the business could not buy off a shelf.
The brand system, Liquid implementation, studio workflows, member experience, operational logic, and custom software were shaped around Blacklist rather than a generic tattoo-site checklist.
EAS builds around the operation
Use the platform. Own the difference.
Custom does not have to mean rebuilding every reliable service from zero. It means knowing what to trust, what to extend, and what your business uniquely needs built.
Want to see the operations software live?
The booking, intake, and studio-planning software behind this platform is real, working software. Call for a live walkthrough, or have your shop's contact reach out to build something similar.
Know Sean Brown? He disappeared in the middle of this job. If you know how to reach him, have him call us—we'd like to close this out properly.