soul
Elevare Studio · Cluj-Napoca → Worldwide

Most stores look fine. Yours should feel inevitable.

I design Shopify stores to a billion-dollar standard — where the palette, motion, and conversion mechanics are built around the one emotion that makes your buyer reach for their card. No template ever feels like this.

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Stores Engineered
€799+
From Brand Launch
1 Soul
Per Brand, Never Reused
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The Method · Brand Soul First

One product type. A completely different soul.

A dog-food brand and a luxury watch should never share a look. Tap through and watch the same store preview re-skin live — palette, type, motion, and copy all shifting to the emotion that sells that product.

Tap a brand world
harvestandroot.com

Harvest and Root store Howl and Honey store Thunder and Pulp store Ironjaw store L'Duchen store
Palette
Type
Conversion Lever

Same component. Same code discipline. Five irreconcilable souls. That difference is the whole job.

Brand Soul FirstConversion EngineeredFull-Width, Edge to EdgeMobile-First at 375pxWorking Liquid, Not ThemesBuilt to a Billion-Dollar Standard Brand Soul FirstConversion EngineeredFull-Width, Edge to EdgeMobile-First at 375pxWorking Liquid, Not ThemesBuilt to a Billion-Dollar Standard
Why It Converts

A look is not a strategy.
This is the strategy.

  1. Find the buying emotion

    Before colour or layout, one question: what must the visitor feel to buy? Calm luxury, hungry impulse, fighter's pride. Everything downstream serves that single answer.

  2. Engineer the scroll

    Per-unit price math, sticky buy bars, a product passport, a quiz that feels personal. Each section removes one specific hesitation between landing and checkout.

  3. Build it edge to edge

    Full-bleed sections, restrained motion, gold as a hairline not a flood. Delivered as working Liquid you paste once — never a fragile theme tweak.

  4. Tune on mobile first

    Most of your buyers are on a phone at 375px. That's where I design, where I test, and where the store has to feel inevitable first.

Selected Work

Each one could only
ever be that brand.

A dark-luxury showcase build and a quiz-funnel skincare brand — each with its own soul, its own conversion mechanics.

LumiPaw store Showcase Build
Dark Luxury · Pet Tech

LumiPaw

Steam-infused grooming brush rendered as a dark-luxury ritual. Cinematic hero, steam-particle product showcase, an interactive coat-science visualiser, and a breed quiz that routes every owner to "their" match.

9Custom Sections
7Coat-Type Demo
100vhCinematic Hero
Lomera Glow store Quiz Funnel
Personalised · Skincare

Lomera Glow

A guided quiz funnel as the primary conversion path. The visitor never just browses products — they're led to "their perfect match," then straight to checkout.

3Question Funnel
1Guided Match
Butila Cristian
2+Years Building Brands
About Me

Butila Cristian

I'm a Shopify designer and brand builder based in Romania. I specialise in building stores that don't just look premium - they're engineered to convert visitors into buyers from the first scroll.

Every store I build starts with one question: what would this look like if a billion-dollar brand built it? Then I work backwards from that answer - section by section, pixel by pixel.

I've built brands across pet wellness, skincare, and lifestyle e-commerce. My approach combines brand psychology, conversion design, and luxury aesthetics into one complete system.

Shopify Brand Design Conversion Optimisation Copywriting Facebook Ads UI/UX Liquid · HTML · CSS
Engagements

Two ways to build.

Both delivered as working Liquid you own. Pick the scope; the standard never changes.

Brand Launch

For getting live, fast, and premium.
€799
  • Brand-soul direction & palette system
  • Homepage + one product page
  • Conversion buy-box + sticky bar
  • Mobile-first, full-width sections
Start Brand Launch
Most Chosen

Full Premium Build

The complete billion-dollar treatment.
€1,499
  • Everything in Brand Launch
  • Full multi-section homepage + about
  • Interactive piece — quiz, passport, or visualiser
  • Live purchase popup + review ticker
  • Comparison table + final CTA system
Start Premium Build

Not sure which fits? Book a free 15-minute call and we'll scope it together.

Get In Touch

Have a product?
Let's give it a soul.

Tell me what you're selling and who it's for. I'll come back with the direction — palette, soul, and the mechanics that'll make it convert.

  • Emailbutilacristian@gmail.com
  • Phone / WhatsApp+40 759 378 697
  • Based InCluj-Napoca, Romania — building worldwide
  • Response TimeWithin 24 hours