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Welcome, I'm Kiah

I'm the founder of Kida Digital, a Sydney-based Shopify specialist studio working specifically with small and startup Australian eCommerce businesses.

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My story

Why Kida Digital exists

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I've been building websites in Shopify for over 10 years, scaling businesses in house and managing website builds for clients of all sizes working for some of Australia's biggest marketing agencies.

Before going out on my own, I spent years inside digital agencies managing multiple Shopify and eCommerce builds at once. At any given time, I was juggling 15+ projects, multiple stakeholders, and long feedback loops, and I started noticing the same patterns over and over again.

Good businesses were paying a lot of money, waiting a long time, and still ending up with sites that were harder to manage than they needed to be.

That disconnect is why Kida Digital exists. I built it to solve one problem: provide a faster, affordable and quality solution for small Australian ecommerce businesses to run their business on Shopify.

Need to change a photo? Back to the developer. Need to update a price? Another invoice. That never sat right with me either.

So Kida Digital is a studio, not an agency. It's deliberately small, so you get senior Shopify expertise without paying for the layers in between. When you work with Kida Digital, you work with me.

Studio vs agency

A studio, not an agency

Studio vs agency

Agencies aren't bad. They're built for a different kind of client. Here's how working with me compares for a small business.

Typical agency
Kida Digital studio
Who you talk to
An account manager relaying messages
Me, the person doing the work
Who builds it
A team you may never meet, often juniors
Me, start to finish
Pricing
Estimates padded to cover overheads
Upfront, uninflated pricing
Timeline
Months, with long feedback loops
A core store live in four weeks
Getting answers
Tickets, status meetings and waiting
Message me directly
Advice
Upsells to fill out the scope
Honest, even when you spend less
After launch
An invoice for every small change
A walkthrough so you can run it yourself
01

You work with me

The person on your discovery call is the person building your store. No account managers, no junior devs, no handoffs.

02

Upfront, uninflated pricing

Clear pricing before anything starts. No padded estimates and no agency overheads baked into your quote. My pricing is published in my investment guide.

03

Direct access

Questions go straight to me, not a ticket queue. You talk to the person who actually knows your store.

04

No BS

Honest advice, even when it means you spend less. If you don't need it, I'll tell you.

05

Fewer layers

No stakeholder chains or weeks-long feedback loops. Decisions get made and the work gets done.

06

Yours to run

Built so you can manage it yourself, not so you need a developer for every change.

What I bring

Expert, developer & educator

01

Brand development

Stores that feel like a real business, with a brand people trust, not a template with your logo on it.

02

UX & theme customisation

Professional themes customised properly for performance, usability and conversion.

03

Education

I explain the why, so you understand your own store and can run it with confidence.

The goal

Ownership& clarity

Not ongoing dependency. Every build is set up so you can run it yourself.

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Client results

What it's like to work together

4.8 ★★★★★ · 18 Google reviews

Let's talk

Work with me, directly

Launching, optimising or just stuck? Book a call and let's work out what actually makes sense for your business.