About

A practice,
not an agency.

Convert is a specialist CRO practice operating out of Aotearoa New Zealand. Two practitioners, one discipline, and the singular focus required to do this work properly.

Conversion rate optimisation is not a service you bolt onto an existing agency offering. It is a discipline - one that demands specialist depth in technology, psychology, and experimentation design.

Convert exists because that depth does not exist in the New Zealand market. The agencies doing CRO are doing it as a fraction of what they offer. The consultants doing it are doing it as a fraction of what they know. Nobody is doing it as the whole thing.

We are. Convert does nothing else. Every engagement, every resource, every hour of thinking goes into understanding how people behave on digital products and how to move them towards the actions that matter.

The narrowness is deliberate. A practice that only does CRO builds depth that a generalist cannot match - the same way a cardiac surgeon sees things a general practitioner does not.

How we think about the work.

Technology before design

The visibility layer comes first. You cannot optimise what you cannot see. Before we change anything, we instrument your stack to understand what is actually happening.

Hypotheses, not hunches

Every experiment has a defined hypothesis and measurable success criteria. We do not guess. We design experiments, run them with statistical rigour, and let the data decide.

Embed, don't advise

We do not hand over a report and walk away. We work inside your team - with your engineers, your marketers, your product people. The work happens together.

Full funnel, not just the page

The ad, the audience, the intent, the journey, the delivery. Optimising the landing page is a fraction of the picture. We look at the entire pipeline from acquisition to outcome.

Handover is the goal

The best outcome is a team that no longer needs us. We build the capability, transfer the knowledge, and hand over the IP. Our success is your independence.

Never say no to a hard problem

The problems that matter are rarely straightforward. When the standard playbook has not worked, that is when the real thinking begins. Complexity is where we operate.

The people behind the practice.

Two practitioners with complementary expertise. The practice is small by design - depth over breadth, always.

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Jeremy Gray

Technology + Strategy

14 years in digital technology, analytics, and growth. Jeremy bridges the gap between engineering and marketing - implementing server-side tracking, building experimentation infrastructure, and designing the technology layer that makes CRO possible. Background spans full-stack development, analytics architecture, and product strategy across SaaS, ecommerce, and marketplace businesses.

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Alana Shinn

Design + Psychology

Specialises in the human side of conversion - behavioural psychology, interface design, and the strategic thinking that connects user behaviour to business outcomes. Alana leads friction mapping, funnel architecture, and the design interventions that move the numbers. Background in UX research, conversion copywriting, and design systems.

Built to go deep.

Convert operates as a specialist practice - not a consultancy in the traditional sense, and not an agency. The distinction matters. A practice is built around a discipline, not around client volume. Every engagement gets the full attention of the team.

We embed with your team for the duration of the engagement. We attend your standups, understand your roadmap, and work within your constraints. The work is collaborative - we bring the CRO expertise, you bring the product and market knowledge.

The practice has both design and engineering capacity. We can spec requirements and write code. We can design interfaces and write copy. This means we do not create bottlenecks in your team - we accelerate the work by doing it ourselves.

Legal Entity
Gray & Shinn Limited
Location
Aotearoa New Zealand
Discipline
Conversion Rate Optimisation
Engagement Model
Fractional CRO or Fixed-Term
Capacity
Technology + Design + Strategy

Ready to optimise what matters?

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