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Stephen B.

Shopify & BigCommerce Partner | CRO, SEO/GEO & Dev

AI is changing how ecommerce work gets done. We’ve built it into how we work. At Always Open Commerce, AI is not a bolt-on tool we occasionally use for copy or ideas. We use AI-enabled workflows to bring company knowledge, platform experience, documented requirements, project context, research, analysis, documentation, and QA preparation into the work more efficiently. The advantage is not AI replacing experienced people. It is experienced ecommerce specialists starting with stronger context, spending less time rebuilding information from scratch, and having more time available for strategy, technical judgment, problem solving, creative decisions, and execution. Our team remains responsible for the decisions that matter: strategy, feasibility, architecture, design direction, implementation, QA, client commitments, and final quality. We help ecommerce businesses evaluate where AI is practical, prepare their operations and data for it, implement appropriate systems and workflows, and understand how AI is changing search, product discovery, shopping, automation, and measurement. We’ve been in business and focused on ecommerce since 2012.

🇺🇸Altamonte Springs, United States$100/hr100% JSS4.94 (40)Since Apr 2012
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Earnings and projects

MRR
$5k

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#5,453 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#1,823 / 62.1k
Revenue, last 30 days
$4.8k

Last 6 months: $30k

World#6,101 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#1,922 / 62.1k
Total earnings
$388k

Billed in all: $388k

World#4,732 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#1,431 / 62.1k
Per project
$3.6k

$3k in the last 6 months

World#47,196 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#7,889 / 62.1k
Projects, last 6 months
10

Across 11 contracts

91% fixed9% hourly
World#18,298 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#2,788 / 62.1k
Projects in all
107

Across 121 contracts

88% fixed12% hourly
World#25,375 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#4,081 / 62.1k

Earnings, last 30 days

$388k+$4.8k earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$382.5k$385.0k$387.5k$390.0kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

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