How this is built
Most agency directories are pay-to-play and won't say so. This one isn't, so it can afford to publish its rules.
Where the data comes from
The directory was seeded from the public Shopify and BigCommerce partner directories. Those are the two places where an agency's platform credential is verified by someone other than the agency — partner tier, review count and rating are issued by the platform, not self-reported here. Agencies can also submit themselves through Get listed.
What gets published
An entry has to clear four checks before it appears at all:
- A working website URL.
- A description of at least 120 characters — enough to tell what they actually do.
- At least one declared service, so the entry can be found from something other than its own name.
- No open data-quality flag from our ingest (for example, listing no build service at all).
About one in five seeded entries fails and stays unpublished. That is deliberate: a directory whose long tail is dead links is worse than a smaller one that isn't.4,306 entries currently pass.
How the ordering works
Ranking is a single computed score. In priority order it combines:
- Partner tier — Premier/Platinum, then Plus, then Select. This is the platform's own assessment and it dominates, because it is the only signal in the set that a third party staked something on.
- Rating, weighted by review count. A raw average lets a 5.0 from three reviews beat a 4.8 from three hundred, which is backwards. Scores are pulled toward 4.0 in proportion to how few reviews back them, so volume only helps an agency that is also rated well.
- Review volume, on a log scale, as the final tie-break.
0 of 4,306 listings carry a rating. The rest are ordered by tier and then alphabetically — no rating is treated as neutral, never as a penalty.
What we don't do
- No paid placement. Nobody can buy a position, a badge or a hub page.
- No review syndication. Ratings and counts are shown as numbers with a link to the source profile. We don't reproduce the review text people wrote on another platform.
- No fake scarcity. Counts on this site are the real counts.
Where the money comes from
The matching service. When a brief leads to a signed project, the agency pays a referral fee. That's the whole model, and it's why the matching form asks about budget — it's also why the ranking above deliberately can't be influenced by it. If an agency that pays us nothing is the right answer for your brief, that's the answer you get.
Screenshots and images
0 listings show a capture of the agency's own homepage, taken automatically. They're illustrative and can lag a redesign by a few weeks.
Corrections
Something wrong? Tell us and we'll fix it. Agencies can claim their own listing from the same form.