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AI-Native Infrastructure

A modern React build that loads fast and reads clean for AI engines.

The frontend is React (Vite, Next.js, or TanStack Start), the content lives in a headless layer (Sanity, Contentful, Strapi, or a TypeScript data file). Sub-second loads, clean semantic HTML, schema baked in.

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The challenge
Your old WordPress, Squarespace, or Wix site rolls everything into one rendering engine. Marketing wants to launch a service-area page, somebody has to wrestle a template system designed in 2005. Engineering wants to speed the site up, the path runs through a tangle of plugins and hooks. Your old SEO agency keeps adding more plugins, the Lighthouse score keeps dropping, and the AI engines walk past you because the markup they fetch is plugin soup. The cost of staying coupled to that stack is not just maintenance. It is the rankings you do not get, the bookings you do not capture, and the AI citations going to a competitor whose site renders cleanly.
How we solve it
We rebuild on a modern React stack we use on every project. TypeScript + React (Vite, Next.js, or TanStack Start depending on the use case), Tailwind, shadcn/ui. The content sits in a headless layer: Sanity for flexible content modeling, Contentful for large editorial teams, Strapi for self-hosted open source, or a TypeScript data file in the repo for sites where content changes rarely. Every page outputs clean semantic HTML with structured data baked in at build time, so AI crawlers parse it on the first fetch. You get Lighthouse scores above 90, sub-two-second loads on 4G, and accessibility that holds up. Marketing assembles pages from a component library without writing code while engineering ships features without waiting on content, which means both teams move faster at once. Most rebuilds land at the Story tier ($5,000) or the Engine tier ($9,000), depending on whether you need programmatic SEO at scale.

Key benefits

Independent Deployment Cycles

Frontend and content teams ship on their own schedules: marketing launches pages without opening a developer ticket, and engineering deploys features without waiting for a content freeze to lift. The time you save adds up fast.

Perfect Core Web Vitals

React Server Components and edge rendering give you sub-second LCP and a layout that does not shift while it loads, and the site reacts the moment a visitor taps. Google and the AI engines both reward that gap between you and a slower competitor.

Composable Page Builder

A library of conversion-tested React components your marketing team assembles visually, so nobody waits on a developer to build a campaign page. A new page can launch in hours instead of a sprint.

Omnichannel Content Delivery

Your content API serves web, mobile, digital signage, AI agents, and channels that don't exist yet. One content source, unlimited presentation layers.

Our process

  1. 01

    Architecture Discovery

    We map your current CMS: how content is modeled, how editors actually work, and what it connects to. From there we pick the decoupling path that disrupts the team least and speeds it up most.

  2. 02

    Component System Design

    Our design engineers build a composable component library aligned with your brand system. Each component is built from day one to convert well, meet accessibility standards, and parse cleanly for AI engines.

  3. 03

    Headless Implementation

    We build the React frontend, configure the headless CMS, establish content APIs, and implement ISR caching strategies. Your editorial team trains on the new workflow during build.

  4. 04

    Migration & Launch

    Content migration, redirect mapping, QA across devices and AI crawlers, and a zero-downtime cutover. Post-launch, we monitor performance and iterate on the component library.

Proof you can check

4 → 30

pages for Starlit Homes, a NetZero builder whose self-built site became a page per model plus a building-science blog.

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6 → 190+

pages for Zebra Home Cinema, rebuilt from a 6-page WordPress site with 22 city pages and 96 posts.

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90 days

for Lotso Travel's blog to rank one slot under Rogers and Telus on Canadian roaming-versus-eSIM searches.

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WordPress to Headless Migration

We rebuild small business sites off WordPress onto a modern stack (TypeScript + React + Vite or Next.js or TanStack Start), Lighthouse 90+, AEO baked in, and a content workflow your team can actually use.

API-First Content Architecture

API-first content means a single source of truth your site, your AI agents, your email tools, and future channels can all read from. We model it once and render it everywhere.

AI-Native Hosting (Cite-met)

Cite-met is our own hosting platform. It edge-renders pages in under 200ms and stays open to the AI crawlers that decide who gets cited. Every site we ship runs on it by default.

Industries that ship this

Real Estate

Real estate agents and developers sites with RealEstateAgent schema.

Construction

Builders and contractors sites with HomeAndConstructionBusiness schema.

Custom AV Installers

AV installers sites with LocalBusiness schema.

Schools and Training Programs

Schools and training providers sites with EducationalOrganization schema.

Accountants and CPAs

Accounting firms sites with AccountingService schema.

Professionals

Professional practices sites with ProfessionalService schema.

Boutique Retail

Boutique retailers sites with Store schema.

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Quick answers

Frequently asked.

Headless architecture decouples your content management system from your frontend presentation layer. Instead of a monolithic platform like WordPress rendering pages, your content is served via APIs to a React frontend that renders at the edge. It matters because the front-end and content teams can then deploy on their own cycles, the site runs faster, and the same content can be reused across channels.

No. We build a visual page builder on top of the headless CMS so your marketing team composes pages from pre-built, brand-consistent components. Most teams find it easier than the traditional CMS they came from, with real-time preview and drag-and-drop assembly.

Typical enterprise migrations run 8-16 weeks depending on content volume, integration complexity, and custom functionality requirements. We use a phased approach that allows sections of your site to migrate incrementally, so you never face a risky big-bang cutover.

It helps a lot. Headless React with server-side rendering produces clean, semantic HTML that AI crawlers read far more easily than a JavaScript-heavy monolith. Add structured data generated at build time and it becomes one of the highest-impact technical moves you can make for AI citability.
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