[ A practice of Drive By Automation ]
World-Class Manufacturing
Expertise.
Now Available for SMB Ecommerce.
Silicon Valley meets the shop floor. We blend the operating systems of global manufacturers — Lean, kaizen, value-stream mapping — with the best of modern tech, AI, and custom software. Built for SMB ecommerce operators that ship real things.
01 // The Practice
We bring the global
factory to your shop.
Industrial engineering — Lean, kaizen, value-stream mapping, continuous improvement — was built for the floors of the world's most disciplined factories. Silicon Valley spent two decades building the tools those same factories now run on: automation, AI, custom software, integrated data. Neither reached the SMB ecommerce operator running ten thousand SKUs out of a Shopify backend they barely understand.
That asymmetry is what Drive By Customs exists to close.
We sit between the two worlds. Out of San Francisco, we translate global-manufacturer operating systems and the modern tech stack into tools the SMB ecommerce operator can actually run — storefronts that ship in weeks, ecommerce systems that hold quality at scale, AI inside operations, integrations across the stack.
From the global factory floor to your operating system.
02 // Capabilities
The toolset we deploy in your shop.
AI for Manufacturing
Product photography at scale. Demand forecasting. Process-document generation. Real AI inside operations — not chatbots bolted on top.
Shopify Strategy & Ecommerce
End-to-end Shopify for hardware and physical-product brands. Strategy, custom-coded storefronts, headless setups, and the ecommerce operations behind them. Maintainable stack, not a drag-and-drop trap.
Apps & Integrations
Wire Shopify to inventory, ERPs, fulfillment, and the rest of the stack. Custom apps when the App Store doesn't fit. Workers. Automations. API glue.
Hardware & Software Design
/ Digital to Prototyping
From digital concept to physical prototype. Industrial design, mechanical engineering, embedded software, and the tooling that connects them. We design products that get built.
03 // Portfolio
Selected work.
/ Under Construction
Case studies coming soon.
04 // Engage
Start a project.
We work with SMB ecommerce operators, hardware brands, and the manufacturers behind them. First conversation is free.
/ Currently
Selecting projects for Q3 2026.
/ Based in
San Francisco. Working with brands everywhere.