Developer, engineer, and systems builder in Cincinnati. I build sites, stores, and internal tools for businesses, make keep them fast, found, and running.
Capabilities
Websites, stores, and internal tools - built to be used.
WordPress, Shopify, and Next.js sites built from scratch - fast, findable, and easy for you to edit yourself.
Dashboards, generators, and scripts that replace the spreadsheet-and-copy-paste work your team does every week.
I connect the tools you already use - APIs, MCPs, data syncs, and AI where it genuinely saves hours, not where it looks impressive.
Slow pages and invisible listings cost real money. I fix speed, schema, and local search - including whether AI tools can find you at all
Portfolio
Browser-based SEO audit tool - paste a page, get technical, structural, and performance findings. No server, no signup.
Open-source audit tool for automotive dealership pages, built to run across large dealer groups at scale.
Browser tool that turns a CSV of employees into consistent, branded email signatures - built for a company-wide rollout, no server required.
My own AI operating system - multi-agent workflows on the Claude API running agency, SaaS, and daily-ops lanes. It's the lab where I test what I ship to clients.
A fully custom Shopify theme built from the ground up - no template, no Dawn. Video-driven storefront with a portfolio, product collections, and integrated email capture, designed and coded to match the brand exactly.
Visit Site
Full build for a lifestyle apparel brand - product setup, custom design, and a storefront built to convert.
Visit Site
Restaurant site focused on what matters locally: menu, hours, directions, and showing up first when neighbors search.
Visit SiteCase Study
Shopify-based retail brand — built, operated, and scaled from zero.
Built and operated a full Shopify e-commerce brand end-to-end - custom theme development, email automations, paid media, SEO, POS, and product merchandising. Nearly $10M in lifetime sales across 8 years and 25,000+ orders.
Process
Understand the problem, the business, and what success actually looks like.
Plan the system — platforms, integrations, and structure before any code is written.
Develop clean, maintainable software using the right tools and technologies.
Deploy, monitor, and continue improving the system as your business grows.
Clients
Built for teams and businesses where digital execution actually matters.
You have an idea or an early product — I help you build the real thing.
Start a conversationYour website performance directly hits revenue. I help you close the gaps.
Start a conversationManual workflows slowing you down? I build the internal tools that replace them.
Start a conversationLess agency back-and-forth. More working software, delivered clean.
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About
I'm Jacob Cain - a developer, engineer and systems builder in Cincinnati, Ohio. I got here by building things businesses actually needed: e-commerce stores, restaurant sites, dealership tooling, and the internal apps nobody sells off the shelf.
Before this I founded and ran my own Shopify brand for eight years — I know what it's like to depend on the tech working, because my own business did.
I build with AI as part of how I work, which means I ship in days what used to take months. Based in Cincinnati, working with companies nationwide.
A site that underperforms, a workflow that eats hours, an idea that needs to exist — bring it. Fifteen minutes and you'll know exactly what it would take to build.
Get in Touch
Tell me about it — what it is, what's broken, or what doesn't exist yet. I reply within one business day.