George Reilly
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Operator

The MMA Guru

Merch line and online store for a 417K-sub MMA channel. The creator had the audience and the brand. No supply chain, no website, no commercial machinery. I built the operation behind it.

The MMA Guru homepage with the Gurusalem Drip merch collection and live YouTube content

What I did

From zero commercial infra to a running operation.

Sourced the supply chain

Three external partners, vetted and signed: design, manufacturing, fulfilment. Negotiated terms, set quality bars, stitched them into one operating workflow.

Built the storefront

Hand-built e-commerce on the brand's own domain. Product pages, cart, Stripe checkout, order management. Mobile-first because the audience lands from a phone.

Wired the fulfilment loop

An order at checkout triggers manufacturing, dispatch, and customer comms automatically. Nobody touches a spreadsheet.

Connected the channel

YouTube API pulls latest videos and live status into the site in real time, so the homepage reflects what the channel is doing without anyone updating it.

Handed it over

The creator runs the brand. I run the operation behind it.

The system

The commercial machinery behind the brand.

A merch line plus a YouTube channel plus a fulfilment partner is three systems unless someone connects them. I built the layer that makes them act like one.

Zero-touch fulfilment

Built the integration to the fulfilment partner's platform. Orders flow in as production and dispatch jobs automatically, with status pulled back for the customer. No manual handoff.

Custom Stripe storefront

Hand-built on the brand's own domain. No Shopify markup, no template-store look. The brand owns the customer relationship.

YouTube API layer

Latest videos and live status pull from the channel in real time. The homepage stays current without anyone updating it.

MMA Guru product page on desktop showing a featured beanie from the Gurusalem Drip collection

Now

Where it stands.

Gurusalem Drip merch is shipping. Orders flow from site to fulfilment without anyone touching them. The site stays live with the channel. The creator runs the brand. I run the operation behind it.