Layers 2–3 · Conversion and capture

A website that is wired into the rest of the business

Designed, written, and engineered as one component of a growth system, connected to intake, CRM, follow-up, and measurement from the first day it ships.

  • Built in code you own, with Git history intact
  • Connected to intake and CRM, not just to an inbox
  • Instrumented before launch, not after someone asks for a report
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A website can be delivered as an isolated artifact: the studio ships it, invoices, and moves on, while inquiry routing, CRM context, and page-to-revenue measurement remain separate. This service includes those handoffs in the scope.

The site is not the growth system. It is the part of it a visitor can see. Building it in isolation from intake, routing, follow-up, and measurement is what produces a beautiful site that generates nothing.

So the build here includes the wiring. Where the inquiry goes, who it reaches, how fast, what gets recorded, and how you will know whether any of it worked.

Fit

Who this is for

A good fit

  • Your current site cannot answer fit, scope, process, or price, so every call starts from zero.
  • The site is disconnected from the tools the business actually runs on.
  • You are locked into a platform or an agency account you do not control.
  • You want an asset you own outright, with the source code and the accounts.

Not a fit

  • You want the cheapest possible brochure site. A template on a page builder will cost less and is a legitimate choice.
  • You sell ecommerce or DTC products. Different mechanics, different stack.
  • The website is fine and the constraint is somewhere else. The audit will tell you if so.

Symptoms

You're in the right place if

  • Your site was built by someone you can no longer reach.
  • Nobody can edit it without a developer, or nobody can edit it safely.
  • The contact form sends an email and that is the entire system.
  • Page speed and mobile behaviour have never been measured.
  • You do not have access to the hosting, the domain, or the source code.
  • The site says what the business does but not who it is for or what it costs.

Scope

What gets built

01

Positioning and page architecture

What you do, who it is for, what it costs, and why someone should choose you, in the order a buyer needs to hear it. This is the part that determines whether the site works, and it happens before any visual design.

02

Design and front-end engineering

Custom, responsive, and accessible, built in modern code rather than assembled from a page-builder. Written and designed and engineered by the same person, so the argument does not get lost between a copy document and a component library.

03

Performance and accessibility

Core Web Vitals targets, real device testing, keyboard and screen-reader support, reduced-motion handling, and semantic structure. Buyers arrive on phones as well as desktops, and a slow page can lose them before it can persuade them.

04

Technical SEO foundations

Crawlable structure, per-page metadata, canonicals, structured data, sitemap, and redirects handled at build time rather than patched afterwards by a plugin.

05

Intake wired through

Forms that validate server-side, resist spam, confirm delivery, and land in one record with the source attached. Connected onward to whatever the business actually uses.

06

Measurement at build time

Conversion events defined and instrumented as the pages are built, so the question "which pages produce inquiries" has an answer from launch rather than from the first month someone thinks to ask.

07

Ownership and handover

Source code, accounts, domain, content, and documentation, with Git history intact. Another capable engineer can pick it up without calling me.

Process

How the work runs.

01

Diagnose before designing

What decision does the buyer have to make, what do they need in order to make it, and where does the current site fail to give it to them. If the site is not the constraint, that is what the audit will say.

02

Architecture and copy

Page inventory, information hierarchy, and the actual words, agreed before design starts. Copy first is slower to begin and much faster to finish.

03

Design and build

Interface design and engineering in the same pass, with real content rather than placeholder text. Reviewed on real devices, not only in a design tool.

04

Connect, measure, hand over

Intake connected, events instrumented, performance and accessibility measured with the results published, then accounts and code handed to you with documentation.

Outcomes

What changes, and what does not.

These are the kinds of change this work produces. No numbers appear here, because no client result has been measured and published yet. When one has, it will appear in Work with its baseline, method, and time window.

  • A visitor can tell within seconds what you do, who you do it for, and what to do next
  • Fit, scope, process, ownership, and price range are answerable without a call
  • Inquiries arrive as structured records rather than as unstructured email
  • You can see which pages produce inquiries and where visitors leave
  • You own the code, the accounts, and the data, and can hire anyone to maintain them

Tooling

What this typically connects to

Categories, not endorsements. You buy and own your own accounts; Ariadne takes no commission on software.

Hosting

  • Vercel
  • Netlify
  • Cloudflare
  • Your existing host

Content

  • Static content in code
  • Headless CMS
  • Existing CMS where it earns its keep

Capture

  • Server-side form handling
  • Booking tools
  • Call tracking
  • Live chat

Downstream

  • Your CRM
  • Email delivery
  • Analytics
  • Workflow automation

What this is not

  • It is not a redesign because the site looks dated. If the current site converts, the audit will tell you to leave it alone.
  • It is not a template with your logo dropped into it.
  • It is not a hostage arrangement. There is no proprietary platform you have to keep paying me to access.
  • It is not the answer to every growth problem. It serves the conversion and capture layers of a larger system.

The connected view

This sits inside the diagnostic path.

A growth system is only as strong as its weakest handoff. Fixing one checkpoint in isolation helps only if the adjacent checkpoints can carry the result.

See the whole system
Audit view / nine diagnostic checkpoints Every handoff visible
  1. 01DemandSearch + AI
  2. 02ConversionClear decision
  3. 03CaptureOne record
  4. 04RoutingRight person
  5. 05Follow-upNo forgetting
  6. 06SalesRepeatable
  7. 07MeasurementSource to sale
  8. 08AutomationHands off
  9. 09CompoundingEvidence

Checkpoint 9 feeds evidence back into checkpoint 1. That loop is the point.

Straight answers

Common questions.

If yours is more specific, put it in the audit form.

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Do you work with WordPress, Webflow, or Squarespace?

Yes, when the platform is not the constraint. Rebuilding a site that works is expensive and rarely the highest-value change. If the platform genuinely limits the outcome you will see the tradeoff written down before anyone decides to move.

How long does a website build take?

The current planning range is usually six to ten weeks for the scopes described here. Content readiness, access, integrations, review speed, and technical complexity can all change it. The proposal states those dependencies and the agreed timeline before work starts.

Who owns the site when it is finished?

You do. Source code, content, accounts, domain, and data, with documentation and Git history so another capable engineer can maintain it. There is no proprietary layer you have to keep paying to use.

Can we edit it ourselves afterwards?

Yes. How that works depends on how often you actually publish. Frequent publishing may justify a full CMS; a smaller editing surface may suit a site that changes occasionally. The editing layer is sized to the real workflow rather than assumed in advance.

Is a new website going to bring in more leads?

Only if conversion is the constraint. A website sits inside the conversion and capture layers; if the real problem is discovery or unread inquiries, a new site alone will not fix it. That is why the engagement starts with a diagnosis.

Your practical starting point

Find out whether the website is actually the constraint.

The audit reviews your site alongside the other diagnostic checkpoints and tests whether a rebuild is the highest-priority change or whether the evidence points somewhere cheaper to fix.

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