Ecommerce growth, engineered for direct-to-consumer brands.
Altavega conducts comprehensive audits, plans and prioritises growth with your stakeholders, and executes complex, high-budget replatforming projects for large-scale ecommerce brands.
Growth, replatforming, web development, process improvement
Services
A unique blend of in-house, agency and personal brand experience.
Customised, collaborative support to help your business achieve its direct-to-consumer goals.
Ecommerce audits
A comprehensive review of your store, technology, data and trading operation, producing a clear picture of where growth is being held back.
Platform, integrations and technical health
Customer journey, conversion and merchandising
Analytics, measurement and reporting
Growth planning and prioritisation
We work with your stakeholders to plan and prioritise ecommerce growth, so the whole business is behind a roadmap that is sequenced by impact and effort.
Stakeholder workshops and alignment
Prioritised roadmap with owners and milestones
Process improvement across the operation
Replatforming
We specialise in executing complex, high-budget replatforming projects for large-scale ecommerce brands, from platform selection to launch and beyond.
Platform selection and partner management
Data, ERP and integration migration
Launch planning, SEO protection and hypercare
Data-driven optimisation
Insights from customer behaviour and website analytics drive a continuous programme of optimisation across conversion, retention and trading.
Analytics set-up and behavioural insight
Conversion rate optimisation and testing
Trading rhythm and performance reporting
Approach
Audit. Plan. Execute. Optimise.
Every engagement follows the same disciplined path, whether it is a targeted review or a full replatform.
Audit
A comprehensive audit of your ecommerce operation to establish what is really driving, and limiting, growth.
Plan
Working with your stakeholders to plan and prioritise the opportunities into a roadmap the business can commit to.
Execute
Hands-on delivery, from replatforming programmes to individual improvements, integrated with your existing team.
Optimise
Insights from customer behaviour and analytics feed a data-driven cycle of measurement and improvement.
We pride ourselves on a personal touch: integrating seamlessly with your existing team and enhancing its internal expertise, rather than creating a dependency on ours.
In-house, agency and founder experience
We have led ecommerce from inside retailers, delivered for them from the agency side, and built direct-to-consumer brands of our own. That blend shapes practical advice that survives contact with the real world.
Customised and collaborative
No fixed packages. Support is shaped around your goals, your team and your stage of growth, and delivered alongside the people who will own it afterwards.
Data first
Decisions are made on customer behaviour and website analytics, not opinion. Measurement is set up early so that every change can be judged on the numbers.
Max Cartwright-WilsonFounder and Consultant
About
Led by a practitioner, not a sales team.
Altavega was founded in 2021 by Max Cartwright-Wilson as a consulting and advisory vehicle providing marketing, ecommerce and technology strategy to ambitious UK brands. Engagements have covered replatforming, full-funnel marketing strategy and ecommerce operating-model design.
Max has worked in retail ecommerce and digital growth since 2015, across high-growth and scale-up environments, and is currently Chief Marketing Officer at DUSK.com, a UK digital-first homeware retailer. His first engagement there through Altavega was to lead the replatforming of the ecommerce and technology estate: a Shopify Plus migration, ERP integration and the foundations of the data and measurement infrastructure.
An earlier career leading IT infrastructure in the public sector still informs how he thinks about the technology and data layer underneath ecommerce and marketing.
Over a decade in retail ecommerce, digital growth and marketing leadership
Shopify Plus replatforming, ERP integration and measurement infrastructure delivered at scale
Founder of a direct-to-consumer brand, so the advice is grounded in running one
Let's talk about your growth.
Request a meeting using the form and we will schedule you in. Tell us where you are, where you want to be, and we will come back with an honest view of how to get there.