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Back to ServicesModern websites and rebuilds

A clearer path from visit to inquiry.

Make your services easier to understand and your next step easier to find. We plan the content, design, integrations, and migration around your business.

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Problem

Legacy sites are hard to maintain, hard for AI to reason about, and too slow to evolve.

How we help

We rebuild on modern stacks like Next.js so the experience is cleaner, faster, and easier to extend.

What we aim to improve

A better web surface now and a stronger foundation for future product work.

Project outcomes

What changes on the other side

The site reads cleaner, performs better, and stops acting like a fragile one-off project. It becomes part of a stronger operating system instead of a recurring source of drag, which is exactly what you want if the next phase includes AI-assisted updates, custom features, or a broader product roadmap.

A cleaner first impression and a better buyer path.
Faster updates and less technical friction when the business changes.
A web stack that supports future automation, apps, and product work.
How an engagement starts

Agree on the work before the build.

  1. 1. Share your problem

    Send your current website or tools, the result you need, and any budget or deadline.

  2. 2. Review the scope

    We clarify deliverables, integrations, responsibilities, and support before proposing a price.

  3. 3. Choose the next step

    Review the proposed work and any fees before deciding to proceed.

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Client work

See the work behind the service.

CMB HVAC

Explore the website project for a Utah HVAC business.

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Salt Lake Bride

See the directory rebuild and its published performance measurements.

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Explore the approach, technical comparisons, and sources
The Problem

The drag is not just design. It is maintainability.

WordPress stacks, Shopify themes, Squarespace custom code, and Wix extensions can all work when the ask is simple. The trouble starts when the site has to carry real custom behavior, strong performance, cleaner security posture, and ongoing iteration without turning every update into a fragile project.

What This Actually Means

What this actually means

A modern rebuild means replacing a tangled legacy setup with a cleaner, faster codebase on a stack like Next.js. That matters because the site becomes easier to update, easier to extend, easier to secure, and easier for both humans and AI to understand without guessing through plugins, injected scripts, or builder markup.

How We Use This

How we use this

We rebuild with modern structure, clearer content hierarchy, and a codebase that is easier to reason about than legacy CMS sprawl. That gives you a better buyer experience today and a system where AI agents can read the code, inspect the real logic, and help with future updates instead of working around page builders, code injection, or platform ceilings.

Industry research

What the outside data says

The broad pattern is real. Controlled platforms can post decent default scores, but legacy ecosystems and builder-heavy setups create more drag, more variance, and more limits when the site has to do serious work.

Core Web Vitals are field data from real users. Lighthouse is lab data from a controlled test profile. Both are useful, but they measure different things.

45% vs 74%

Mobile CWV pass rate

HTTP Archive's 2025 CMS chapter shows WordPress around 45% good mobile Core Web Vitals versus Wix around 74%, which says a lot about variance and default control.

41 vs 52 vs 64

Mobile Lighthouse context

On the CMS side, HTTP Archive shows WordPress around 41 on mobile Lighthouse performance, Shopify around 52, and Wix around 64. These are lab scores, so use them for comparison, not as the whole story.

11,334

WordPress ecosystem vulnerabilities

Patchstack's 2026 security report says 11,334 new WordPress ecosystem vulnerabilities were found in 2025, up 42% from 2024, with 91% found in plugins.

3,974 KB

Squarespace mobile page weight

HTTP Archive lists Squarespace among the heaviest CMS platforms on mobile, with median page weight around 3,974 KB, which makes performance and iteration more expensive.

Our proof

The SLC Bride rebuild on this site shows the same pattern in the real world: frozen WordPress baseline, cleaner Next.js rebuild, and a mobile Lighthouse jump from 61 to 86. See more.

Data sources:HTTP Archive CMS 2025HTTP Archive Ecommerce 2025Patchstack WordPress Security 2026web.dev Core Web Vitals
Old Way vs Better Way

Where the common platforms start fighting back

This is not a claim that every WordPress, Shopify, Squarespace, or Wix site is bad. It is a claim that each platform has a ceiling, and the ceiling matters once the site becomes a product, a sales system, or part of a larger operating layer.

WordPress

The flexibility is real. So is the maintenance variance.
HTTP Archive says WordPress performance varies heavily based on themes, plugins, and page builders rather than core alone.
Patchstack says 91% of 2025 WordPress ecosystem vulnerabilities were found in plugins, with overall vulnerability volume up 42% from 2024.
Page builders buy convenience early, then create markup bloat, asset drift, and long-term lock-in.

Shopify

Good box. Limited room inside it.
Shopify's defaults are steadier than many open ecosystems, and HTTP Archive's ecommerce data reflects that.
When you need deeper backend customization, Shopify's own docs gate important custom app capabilities behind Shopify Plus.
Serious custom behavior often pushes you toward headless or custom storefront work anyway.

Squarespace

Fine until you need the site to do something non-template.
Squarespace says checkout pages do not support code and custom code falls outside support scope.
Their docs also warn that custom code can interfere with editing and cannot be guaranteed across platform updates.
That works for simple brochure sites, but it gets brittle once the site has to do real product work.

Wix

Better defaults than people assume, but still a platform ceiling.
HTTP Archive shows Wix performing relatively well out of the box, which is worth acknowledging.
Wix still warns that third-party code is outside support, while advanced behavior moves into Velo and platform-specific tooling.
That makes portability, architecture freedom, and deeper AI-native workflows harder than a real codebase.

If the requirement is simple, these platforms can be fine. If the site needs to behave like a product, carry custom logic, support AI-assisted maintenance, or fit into a bigger system, a modern Next.js-style build is usually the stronger foundation.

Sources:Shopify Functions availabilitySquarespace code injectionSquarespace code-based customizationsWix third-party code supportWix Velo custom apps
Long-Term Cost

What the legacy path costs over time

The visible cost is the plan, theme, plugin, or app. The bigger cost is how much harder the system gets to evolve once the business outgrows the default setup.

Plan-gating and add-on creep

The box looks affordable until the useful capabilities sit behind a higher plan, a paid extension, or a custom escape hatch.

Maintenance variance

Themes, plugins, builders, scripts, and vendor conventions create more moving parts, which means more update risk and more long-term babysitting.

Migration pain later

The deeper the site gets into platform-specific patterns, the more expensive the eventual rebuild becomes. That is why a cheap start can still become an expensive operating model.

The real question is not whether the legacy platform can launch the site. It is what happens when the business needs the site to become part of a bigger system.

Sources:HTTP Archive CMS 2025Patchstack WordPress Security 2026Shopify Functions availability
Connected Services

The work usually connects to more than one system.

Most projects do not stop at one category. These are the other moves that usually make the outcome stronger, faster, or easier to operate.

Internal Tools & MCP

Internal tools, CLIs, and MCP servers

Tools that reduce repetitive admin and connect the systems your team uses.

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Custom Apps

Custom apps

Customer portals and business apps for requests, approvals, and reporting.

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Delivery Infrastructure

Delivery Infrastructure

Hosting, release workflows, monitoring, and clear ownership after launch.

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