Goodspeed vs Glaze Digital: Shopify Agency or Framer Studio?

Goodspeed vs Glaze Digital at a glance

If you need a Shopify store, Glaze is likely the better fit. If you need a marketing site, Plan my site in two minutes, or book a call and get the free 48 hour audit. If Glaze is the better call, we will say so.

Two different jobs

Glaze describes itself as a full service Shopify agency, based in Belfast, with over a decade of experience. Its homepage says it has delivered 250 or more stores and supports £20m or more in monthly revenue. Work is grouped into three areas. Build covers platform decisions, Shopify migrations and store development. Aftercare covers support and ongoing improvements. Performance covers paid media, CRM and retention, measured against commercial return.

We do not specialise in stores. We build the marketing site: the homepage, product and solution pages, pricing, case studies and the CMS your team uses to publish. Most of our clients are funded SaaS and AI companies, and the trigger is usually a raise, a launch or the person who built the old site leaving. We are not a Shopify agency.

Price and timeline

Glaze does not publish project prices or a standard timeline on its site. Quotes are handled with their team.

Our prices are published: Landing Page from $2,500, Signature Site from $10,000, Migration from $10,000, and the Embedded Team from $2,000 a month. Most first builds land between $15,000 and $25,000, fixed before we start and paid 50% up front and 50% at launch. A Signature Site goes live in three to six weeks, and a Landing Page in about five working days.

Choose Glaze Digital if

• You sell, or are moving to selling, on Shopify or Shopify Plus.

• You want one team for the store build, aftercare and performance marketing.

• The job is ecommerce revenue, not a SaaS or AI marketing site.

Choose Goodspeed if

• You are a funded tech company whose marketing site no longer matches the company. Sydecar is the proof for that situation. Gavin Newman, Marketing Manager, said: “Goodspeed felt like an extension of our team. They provided daily updates via Slack and Loom, so we always knew exactly what was happening and what was coming next.”

• A raise, launch or press date is coming and the site has to be ready. Reka needed pages live the day each model was announced.

• You want a fixed price and a date the site will go live, written down before work starts.

• Your marketing team will run the site after launch, without waiting on a developer. Zen Educate now runs ten times more growth experiments without engineering. Olivier Mermet, Group Product Manager, said: “Goodspeed were a brilliant partner throughout the migration. They were fast, responsive, and incredibly easy to work with.”

What to ask any studio before you hire

• Is the price fixed, and when is it paid?

• What is the date the site will go live, in writing, before work starts?

• Who does the work, and are they in house?

• Can your marketing team edit the site after launch without a developer?

• If you are moving platforms, how are URLs, redirects and rankings protected?

• What does help look like after launch, and can you pause it?

If you are moving a marketing site and rankings matter, we plan the move URL by URL. Waste Logics moved from WordPress to Framer with no rankings lost, and organic search rose 44% within five weeks.

Get a free website audit

Plan my site in two minutes, or book a call and get the free 48 hour audit. If Glaze Digital is the better call, we will say so.

Plan my site in two minutes, or book a call and get the free 48 hour audit. Or see our fixed prices first. For a wider shortlist, see Goodspeed alternatives.