Cloudnine
We build and run Shopify & Amazon stores for DTC brands — AI-native, Japan specialists
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#14,343
of 28,921 agencies on Upwork by lifetime earnings, and #2,009 in Shopify Development.
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Total earned
$3.0K
lifetime, as published
Jobs
17
contracts to date
Hours
78
billed hourly
Job Success
100%
JSS
Hourly rate
$40–$65/hr
min. project None
Index Score
49
#9815 overall
Insights
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- pending
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- Lifetime pace
- $1.0K/yr estimate
- Lifetime earnings divided by years on Upwork. A floor on historical pace, not a forecast.
- Earnings per job
- $177
- Average contract value to date.
- Recent earnings, per Upwork
- $468
- The "recent" figure Upwork attaches to the directory card. Upwork does not publish the window, so it is shown as its number, not ours.
- Realised hourly
- $39/hr
- Total earned over billed hours. Fixed-price work inflates it; compare with the rate card.
Index Score breakdown49.4/100
Scale 19.9/40Quality 20/20Trust 0/15Momentum 6/15Team 3.5/10
Observation history
Every read of the public page. Last observed Oct 29, 2026 (live read).
| Observed | Earned | Δ | Jobs | JSS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 2026 | $3.0K | 17 | 100% |
One observation so far. The index re-reads every page on a rolling schedule; claimed pages are read weekly.
About
We run Amazon Japan and Shopify Japan operations for overseas DTC brands. Native Japanese team, based in Hyogo. We've been doing this for US, UK, and EU sellers since 2020. Here's the pattern we see most often. A brand translates its listings into Japanese and assumes Japanese buyers will find them. They don't. The keyword research was done in English. The translation itself is fine. But Japanese shoppers search differently from US shoppers, and listings that read like translations rarely convert. Borrow a TACoS target from a US playbook on top of that, and the first six months just burn cash. So we start with Japanese keyword research, then write the listings around what people actually search for. Ads, customer support, monthly reports, all in Japanese, all async. We reply within 12 hours JST. Beyond Japan, we also build and migrate stores for any market: Liquid and theme work, WooCommerce/Magento/Framer-to-Shopify rebuilds, and conversion fixes for stores that pull traffic but not sales. The AI-native part is literal. We built our own stack and run it daily: a shared brain that holds context across every client and tool, and a real-time Japanese-English interpreter we use on live client calls. It means faster work with nothing dropped between sessions. We use AI where it earns its place and leave it out where it would dent the quality. How we work: Pilot. $1,200 for 4 weeks. Listing audit, Japanese keyword research, and one brand set up. You keep the deliverables. Retainer. From $3,500/month. Ongoing Amazon JP or Shopify JP operations. $800 per brand onboarding when you add more. If you're launching in Japan, or you're already live but conversions don't add up, send your top 3 ASINs or your Shopify URL. We'll send back a written gap analysis within 24 hours. No call required.Read more
Skills
AutomationGenerative AIShopifyAmazon Listing OptimizationAmazon FBASEO ContentShopify MarketingAmazon PPCLocalizationEnglish to Japanese Translation
Agency facts
- Team size
- 2-10
- Teams on Upwork
- 1
- Founded
- Not published
- Member since
- Dec 2023
- Last contract
- Apr 2026
- Owner
- Shoko Y.
- Client focus
- Very small business, Small business
- Members in
- Japan
- Languages
- Not published
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