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What is your custom tool?

Your custom tool is an interactive mini-app Ollie builds for your niche — a finder, calculator, quiz, or size guide — made to keep visitors on your site and point them to your products.

Your custom tool is an interactive little mini-app I build for your niche — a finder, a calculator, a quiz, or a size guide. It's made to give visitors a reason to stay on your site longer and a nudge toward the right product for them.

Here's the idea: a tool gives people something to do, not something to read past. A coffee store might get a brew-ratio calculator; a reptile store might get a feeding-schedule builder. It's useful on its own, and it quietly leads people toward buying.

What kind of tool you get

The tool I build is shaped by what you sell, so it fits your store rather than being one-size-fits-all. Some common shapes:

  • A finder or quiz — answers a few questions and recommends the right product.
  • A calculator — works out an amount, a ratio, or a cost the customer cares about.
  • A size or fit guide — helps someone pick the right size with confidence.

Why a tool helps your store

Two reasons, and they build on each other. First, a useful tool keeps visitors engaged for much longer than a plain page — and time on your site is good for you in search and in sales. Second, every tool ends by pointing the visitor at the products that match their answer, so engagement turns into a real path to buy.

Where your tool lives on your store

Your tool gets its own page on your store, and you can link to it from anywhere — your menu, a blog post, a product page. Wherever you send people, the tool does its job and guides them onward.

Asking for a specific tool

Have an idea for a tool you'd love? Tell me in chat — something like "build me a size guide for my shoe store" is all I need. I'll design and build the whole thing and add it to your engine for you to preview.

Keeping your tool working

One thing worth knowing: your tools run through RunOctopus, so they keep working as long as your plan is active. Your articles and collection pages stay on your store no matter what, but the interactive tools are the part I keep powering for you.