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Brendan Gillen

Grow Your Shopify Store
With 80% AI.
20% Human.

Join the Ecommerce Academy and get a personal AI-powered Growth Plan built for your specific store — backed by senior coaches who've scaled real brands.

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If you don't grow in the first 90 days, it's free.
665%
Fight Gear Direct growth — 9 months
500+
Shopify stores scaled
15 YRS
Ecommerce operator experience
21+
Average months members stay

Founder's operator background — brands scaled personally

Superdry 2XU Petstock Wesfarmers Fight Gear Direct DOSED
Sound Familiar?

You're Working Hard.
But Something
Isn't Adding Up.

Most Shopify operators doing $10k–$300k/month aren't struggling because they lack effort. They're stuck because they're working on the wrong things, with the wrong tools, in the wrong order. If any of these sound like you — keep reading.

This is your reality right now...

  • You're spending money on ads but can't tell what's actually working
  • You know AI is changing everything but don't know where to start
  • You're doing everything yourself and still feel behind
  • Revenue is growing but so are your hours — and profit isn't keeping up
  • You've tried courses and tools before but nothing stuck

This is what's possible...

  • A clear 12-month Growth Plan built specifically for your store
  • AI running 80% of your store so you focus only on what matters
  • Senior coaches who've scaled real brands guiding every move
  • Measurable improvement in revenue, margin, or time — within 90 days
  • A business that grows without needing more of you
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🛡️ If you don't grow in the first 90 days, it's free.

Real Results

Real Stores. Real Numbers.

These are real members with real stores. What happens when operators with good stores get the right system and the right coaching.

Matt — 5th Element Wellness
★★★★★
$9k → $120k/month

"We scaled from $9–10k per month to $120–130k per month in less than a year in a highly competitive industry."

Matt
5th Element Wellness
Jason — World Wine
★★★★★
$5k → $60k/week

"We went from $5k per week to $60k per week. We are now more than 10x since starting, and that magnitude of growth is what I'm most proud of."

Jason
World Wine
Jess & Elle — Bandicute
★★★★★
246% growth

"Thanks to the growth we were able to open a bricks and mortar store, buy new equipment and employ staff. A handmade business up 246% on last year."

Jess & Elle
Bandicute
Lala — Paper & Ink
★★★★★
Revenue doubled

"Revenue has doubled, we fired our agency. You and your team just make it easy to understand and implement — everything is so simple."

Lala
Paper & Ink
Angela — Enlighten Me
★★★★★
Sold out + passive income

"I wasn't sure it would work — but I sold out of stock and was able to create a passive income on top."

Angela
Enlighten Me
Emmy — The Sweet Potato Kitchen
★★★★★
A month's sales in 7 days

"When I joined, I got the amount of sales in a week that I had in a month before — record week after record week. My advice would be: do it."

Emmy
The Sweet Potato Kitchen
The Guarantee
🛡️

If You Don't Grow in the First 90 Days, It's Free.

Follow your personalised plan, attend your sessions, and execute your Growth Plan. If any of your five Scorecard metrics haven't moved by Day 90, we keep working with you free until one does. No fine print. No long-term lock-in. Just results.

What do I actually get?

Coaching sessions with your personal coach, ongoing implementation of your Growth Plan, and AI handling the build work between sessions — plus weekly live classes and direct calendar access to expert coaches whenever you need it. Designed to fit around your store, not take it over.

How is this different from courses?

Courses hand you content and leave you to it. Isolated tools don't work — a connected system does. The 9 AI Levers use the right AI in the right place, in the right order for your specific store, with a coach accountable to your numbers.

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The Operating Model

80% AI. 20% Human.
This Is How We Run Your Store.

Most operators run their store 100% on human effort. That's why they're hitting the ceiling. Our members run 80% on AI — saving the 20% for the decisions only a human can make.

80%

AI HANDLES THIS

Processing · Creation · Repetition · Automation · Reporting

20%
You + Coach

What AI handles (the 80%)

  • Email sequences — written, tested and optimised automatically
  • Ad creative — generated and iterated without you
  • Customer service — 80% of queries resolved before they reach you
  • Reporting — insights surfaced, not raw data dumped on you
  • Operations — scheduling, forecasting, fulfilment monitoring
  • Content — on-brand copy across every channel, consistently

What stays human (the 20%)

  • Brand decisions that only you can make
  • Supplier relationships that need a real conversation
  • Strategic calls that need judgment, not just data
  • Business direction and long-term vision
  • The culture that makes your store worth buying from
  • The final sign-off that keeps your brand authentically yours
The 90-Day Hero Phase

Your First 90 Days

The Academy is a 12-month program. The first 90 days is where the fear gets defeated. Three sequenced phases — diagnostic, plan, execution — that move you from "I don't know what to do" to a real, measurable result on your store.

By Day 14
Phase 1 — Diagnostic & First Win

By Day 14, something measurable has already moved.

AI runs the full diagnostic across your store, your coach picks the highest-leverage win, and you ship it — a Scorecard metric moves inside two weeks.

"Something visible has already changed. The fear takes its first hit."
By Day 21
Phase 2 — Your Personal Growth Plan

By Day 21, "I don't know what to do" gets answered. With dates.

AI drafts your Growth Plan from your baseline data plus the Day 14 result, your coach pressure-tests every assumption, and you sign off on a sequenced 12-month roadmap — which Levers to pull, in what order, on what timeline.

"A personalised plan built for your store. Not a template. Yours."
By Day 90
Phase 3 — First Big Lever Pulled

By Day 90, a real result is in the books.

AI does the build for your #1 priority Lever — copy, creative, automations, flows. You and your coach make the final calls, it ships, and a binary retro confirms the metric moved. Yes → next Lever. No → guarantee kicks in.

"You know the system works for your store. Not someone else's."
4–12Months

Execution Phase — The Plan Is the Asset

You execute the rest of your Growth Plan, lever by lever, with ongoing coach support and modules unlocked when you need them. The Plan isn't done yet, and the Plan is worth finishing. Most members stay 21+ months.

The Scorecard

Your Store's Vital Signs — Watched 24/7 by AI.

We built a custom Scorecard exclusively for Academy members — an expert-led AI system that watches your store's five vital signs around the clock, spots what's slipping before you do, and tells you exactly what to ship next.

A look inside the Scorecard — built exclusively for Ecommerce Academy members
app.ecomacademy.co/scorecard/your-store
EScorecardAurora Manufacturing · Last 30 days Live · Shopify · Klaviyo · Meta
Revenue trendDaily revenue · Last 30 days
$84,210
▲ 18% vs prev
TTraffic▲ 14%
CVRConversion▼ 2%
AOVOrder Value▲ 22%
RCRReturning▲ 5%
PProfit▲ 18%
✨ AI Coach · Recommendation

Your mobile CVR is down 2% week-over-week — likely cause: slow Apple Pay button on PDP. Ship the mobile checkout audit (Lever 4) this week. Estimated lift: +3–5% CVR by Friday.

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Monitored 24/7

Live data from Shopify, Klaviyo, and your ad platforms. No manual reporting. Nothing slips while you sleep.

🧠
Expert-led AI

Trained on 15 years of scaling Australian Shopify brands. Reads your numbers like a senior operator — not a chatbot.

🎯
The next move, always clear

Tells you exactly which Lever to pull, in what order, and the expected lift. No more guessing where to look first.

T
Traffic
Are the right people showing up?
CVR
Conversion Rate
Are they buying?
AOV
Avg Order Value
How much per order?
RCR
Returning Customer Rate
Are they coming back?
P
Profit
What's left at the end?
The Methodology
AI-Enhanced across all 9 levers

The 9 AI Levers of a
$1M Lean Shopify Store™

Three timeless ecommerce pillars. Nine levers that move the needle. AI runs through every single one. Your personal Growth Plan tells you which lever to pull first — and in what order. Busywork dies on contact. Every action is connected to a Scorecard metric.

01

AI Growth Engine

AI
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Getting the right humans to your store

Paid
Meta Ads
Google Ads
Owned
Email Marketing
Social Media
Earned
SEO
Referrals
02

AI Revenue Engine

AI
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Turning visitors into customers

Offer
Product Pages
Average Order Value
Tech
Apps & Themes
Conversion Rate Optimisation
Support
Feedback & Reviews
Customer Service System
03

AI Profit Engine

AI
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Bigger, leaner, more profitable — without burning out

Numbers
Economics
Analytics
Planning
Marketing
Growth Plan
Expansion
Team
Fulfilment
The Operator Behind It
Brendan Gillen
Superdry 2XU Petstock Wesfarmers Fight Gear Direct DOSED

I've Been In
Your Store.

Not metaphorically. Literally. I've spent 15 years running ecommerce at some of Australia's biggest brands — and building my own from scratch. I grew Fight Gear Direct 665% in 9 months. I founded DOSED. I led ecommerce at Wesfarmers.

I know what a scaling store looks like from the inside. I know exactly where the levers are. The Academy isn't a course. It's what I'd do if your store was mine.

3× Top 50 in Ecommerce — InsideRetail.

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Meet Your Coaches

Your Personal Team of A-Players

Our coaches have run ecommerce stores, built marketing teams, and scaled brands across multiple industries. They're not just here to teach — they're here to support you. Book time directly with them, ask questions in live classes, and get personalised guidance whenever you hit a roadblock. You're never on your own.

Brendan Gillen
Brendan Gillen
Founder
Antoine Orban
Antoine Orban
Paid Ads Expert
Kathryn Benedict
Kathryn Benedict
Email Marketing Expert
Paul Walton
Paul Walton
Brand & Optimization
Serene Lim
Serene Lim
Social Content Expert
More Results

More Member Stories

Josh — You Knead Sourdough
★★★★★
Training paid for itself

"Increased conversions, increased traffic — and I now have the skills to understand the numbers that make my business scale."

Josh
You Knead Sourdough
Leanne — Urban Rituelle
★★★★★
Took back control

"You set us a roadmap of everything we needed to do. It was the complete opposite of what we were doing before — fumbling in the dark trying to work it out."

Leanne
Urban Rituelle
Callum — AcquaStash
★★★★★
Growing every month

"1 or 2 lessons in and things just started skyrocketing. We learn new strategies every month and business just keeps getting better."

Callum
AcquaStash
Kamilla — The Good Sheet
★★★★★
Clarity & accountability

"I now have clarity and accountability on the exact steps I need to grow my business profitably."

Kamilla
The Good Sheet
Callum — AcquaStash (Etsy to Shopify)
★★★★★
Etsy → Shopify

"Made the leap from Etsy to Shopify — and finally had a real system to grow on, not just a marketplace stall."

Callum
AcquaStash
Kianna — Kianna Designs
★★★★★
Frameworks installed

"Having you on board meant we had all the frameworks in place to get the results we wanted from the program."

Kianna
Kianna Designs
Nicole — Mookah
★★★★★
Community support

"The Elite community is like no other. Access to that support at all times has given me so many valuable recommendations."

Nicole
Mookah

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Ecommerce Academy?

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Before You Apply

Common Questions

Do I need to be technical to use the AI systems?
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No. Everything is browser-based. No coding, no APIs, no technical background required. If you can use Google Docs, you can use our AI workflows. Your coach walks you through every setup.
How does the 90-day guarantee actually work?
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Do the work — show up to your sessions, execute your Growth Plan. If any of the five Scorecard metrics haven't moved by Day 90, we keep working with you free until one does. No fine print. No loopholes.
Is there a long-term commitment?
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There's a 90-day install period to give the system time to work. After that, it's month-to-month — no long-term lock-in. Most of our members stay 21+ months because it works, not because they have to.
What happens after I apply?
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We review every application personally and get back to you within 24–48 hours. Based on your store size, goals, and where you're at, we'll match you with the right program and coaching level — and walk you through everything from there.

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