Ranking decisions for e-commerce. Proven by revenue. Most teams optimize for CTR — and leave revenue on the table. We test and deploy ranking strategies that balance relevance, margin, and stock — and prove every change by revenue per session.

Ranking decisions for e-commerce. Proven by revenue. Most teams optimize for CTR — and leave revenue on the table. We fix that.

Balance relevance, margin & stock
Validate impact with experiments
Ship only proven strategies

One service. Three phases. Full revenue impact.

We work with your existing search or category ranking stack — turning product signals, business constraints, and experiments into a ranking layer that can be safely shipped.

01 — Audit & Diagnosis

We analyze search behaviour, query coverage, and product exposure to identify where ranking changes are most likely to create business impact.

Typical: 1–2 weeks

02 — Ranking Layer

We design the business-signal layer: relevance, margin, stock, availability, and product priorities translated into ranking rules or scoring logic with clear guardrails — without letting one goal silently destroy another.

Output: Test-ready ranking strategy

03 — Experiment & Ship

We validate the strategy on live traffic using revenue per session as the primary metric. Ship when impact is proven and guardrails hold; stop when it is not.

Goal: Prove business impact before rollout

One decision layer for ranking strategy.

We work on top of your existing search or category ranking stack. Using experiments, business constraints, and product signals, we turn ranking decisions into measurable systems.

From ranking audit to a validated decision layer

We start by finding where ranking may be under-monetizing demand, turn those findings into controlled experiments, and keep only what proves revenue impact.

1

Search Ranking Audit

Find ranking mismatches and revenue opportunities. We analyze search and catalog behavior to identify where product exposure, clicks, and revenue outcomes may be misaligned — and where a ranking experiment is worth testing.

2

Candidate & Strategy Design

Select the products, queries, and business signals worth testing. We turn audit findings into concrete hypotheses: what to expose higher, where margin or stock signals matter, and what guardrails must hold.

3

Experiment Implementation

Run controlled A/B tests with Revenue per Session as the primary metric. We define acceptance criteria upfront, implement the ranking change on live traffic, and validate impact with business guardrails.

4

Ranking Decision Layer

Turn successful experiments into repeatable ranking logic. Winning tests become reusable rules, scoring logic, or ML-based ranking strategies — not one-off fixes.

Why this matters

✓ CTR is not revenue

Clicks can rise while revenue stays flat

✓ Experiments prove impact

We test before shipping changes sitewide

✓ RPS is the verdict

Revenue per session shows if the decision worked

01

Audit & Diagnosis

We analyze search behaviour, query coverage, and product exposure to identify where ranking changes are most likely to create business impact.

  • Query-level opportunity analysis
  • Position & exposure diagnostics
  • Candidate selection for testing
Typical: 1–2 weeks
02

Strategy & Experiment Design

We define ranking strategies around your business goals — revenue, margin, stock turnover, or conversion — with clear guardrails before launch.

  • Revenue vs margin strategy design
  • Guardrails for CR, CTR, and inventory
  • Experiment planning & KPI definition
Output: Test-ready ranking strategy
03

Controlled Experiments

We validate ranking changes through controlled A/B experiments using revenue per session as the primary decision metric.

  • Experiment implementation
  • Revenue impact measurement
  • Risk & guardrail monitoring
Goal: Prove business impact before rollout
04

Rollout & Decision Layer

Winning strategies become repeatable ranking policies integrated into your merchandising workflow.

  • Strategy deployment
  • Decision playbooks
  • Continuous ranking optimization
Result: A measurable ranking system — not one-off experiments

Why this matters

✓ CTR is not revenue

Clicks can rise while revenue stays flat

✓ Experiments prove impact

We test before shipping changes sitewide

✓ RPS is the verdict

Revenue per session shows if the decision worked

What a typical engagement delivers

Ranges depend on your baseline and traffic. Either the ranking change wins clearly — or we kill it quickly and move on.

Search revenue
Revenue opportunity, sized after audit

Target uplift is estimated from your own search and catalog data, then validated through a controlled experiment.

Ranking clarity
After the audit you know exactly what to fix

A clear diagnostic of which ranking decisions are costing you revenue — and what to change first. Most teams have never had this view.

Speed to learning
1–2 weeks to first audit insight

Time-boxed experiments that either show a clear effect or get stopped — no zombie projects carried into the next quarter.

What a typical engagement delivers

Higher revenue per search session
Better margin-aware product exposure
Faster ranking decisions
Safer experimentation process
Reduced merchandising conflicts

Built from both sides of e-commerce

Detra is founded by Denys Bolkovenko — an e-commerce product leader with over 10 years of experience across agency delivery and large-scale retail.

He previously founded M-integration, a full-cycle e-commerce agency that served 30+ clients. Later, as Online Development Director at ALLO (one of Ukraine’s largest retailers), he led 50+ people across web, mobile, and marketplace teams, with full ownership of the product roadmap and development budget.

That experience showed him how difficult it is to connect ranking decisions to real revenue impact at scale — and became the foundation for Detra.

Detra focuses on one narrow problem: turning search and catalog ranking decisions into measurable revenue experiments.

Built from both sides of e-commerce

Detra is founded by Denys Bolkovenko — an e-commerce product leader with over 10 years of experience across agency delivery and large-scale retail.

He previously founded M-integration, a full-cycle e-commerce agency that served 30+ clients. Later, as Online Development Director at ALLO (one of Ukraine’s largest retailers), he led 50+ people across web, mobile, and marketplace teams, with full ownership of the product roadmap and development budget.

That experience showed him how difficult it is to connect ranking decisions to real revenue impact at scale — and became the foundation for Detra.

Detra focuses on one narrow problem: turning search and catalog ranking decisions into measurable revenue experiments.

Now taking on early projects

We are opening a small number of carefully selected engagements with e-commerce teams that want to test how search and catalog ranking affect revenue. Public case studies will be published as experiments complete.

Want to be among the first?

Early partners get direct founder involvement, deeper diagnosis, and a lower entry point. If your stack runs on Elasticsearch or Algolia and you want to move Revenue Per Session — let's talk.

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What to expect

A short discovery call. We’ll look at your current ranking setup, discuss your business goals, and identify whether there’s a measurable opportunity to improve revenue performance.

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