It shipped in a weekend. Now it needs to be good.

AI builders got the site live fast. We turn what's there into something that ranks, converts, holds up to scrutiny, and someone other than the founder can maintain.

Why teams call us

The site exists. That was the easy part.

Generating a website is now close to free, which means the site is no longer the achievement. What separates you from every competitor who also generated one is everything the generator didn't do.

  • It looks like everything else

    Generated output converges on the same handful of layouts. So does your competitor's. Nobody is differentiated by a template.

  • Performance is unmanaged

    Bloated markup, unoptimised images, blocking scripts, and no performance budget anyone is accountable for.

  • SEO was never designed

    Metadata duplicated across pages, no internal linking strategy, no schema, headings used as styling. Nothing is structurally wrong. Nothing is structurally right either.

  • There's no design system

    Every page was generated separately, so brand consistency erodes with each page added and nothing composes.

  • Nobody can maintain it

    No component structure, no CMS. Changing a headline means re-prompting and hoping the rest of the page survives.

  • Accessibility is absent

    Contrast, semantics, focus order, and keyboard paths: a real problem the moment you sell to anyone with a procurement process.

Honest assessment

When it's worth rebuilding.

If the AI-generated site is doing its job, leave it alone. It's a genuinely good answer for a pre-revenue landing page, and we'll say so.

Bring us in when

  • The site is now a real commercial channel
  • You're competing on brand, not just existence
  • Organic search matters to the business
  • A marketing team needs to publish independently
  • Enterprise buyers are auditing you
  • You've raised and the site now represents the company

Keep what you have when

  • You're still validating the offer
  • The site is a placeholder with no traffic
  • Nobody is searching for what you do yet
  • Speed matters more than differentiation
  • There's no budget and no team to maintain more

What happens to what the AI built?

The content and the structure are usually worth keeping. They're a decent first draft of what you wanted to say. The implementation rarely is.

We treat the generated site as a brief: it tells us the pages you think you need and the story you're trying to tell, both of which we'll then interrogate.

  • Content extracted and edited, not rewritten from scratch
  • Page structure used as the starting IA
  • URLs preserved wherever they're worth preserving
  • Implementation rebuilt on a maintainable stack
  • Original kept live until the new site is verified

The actual work

What a rescue actually involves.

  • Audit and crawl

    A full crawl of the generated site: pages, duplicate metadata, heading structure, broken links, orphan pages, and what is actually indexed.

  • Brand and design system

    A real visual identity and a component system, so the site stops looking like the default output of a tool everyone has access to.

  • Content and IA

    The generated copy edited into something with a point of view, and the page structure rebuilt around what people actually search for.

  • SEO foundation

    Unique metadata, deliberate heading hierarchy, internal linking, schema, sitemaps, and canonicals, designed rather than emitted.

  • Performance

    Rebuilt on a stack that ships almost no JavaScript, with image optimisation and a performance budget that holds after launch.

  • CMS and publishing

    A visual CMS so your team edits pages instead of re-prompting, with components that keep new pages on-brand.

  • Accessibility

    WCAG 2.2 AA: semantics, contrast, focus management, and keyboard paths, checked rather than assumed.

  • Analytics and QA

    Analytics, consent, and conversion tracking implemented and verified, then the whole site tested against a written checklist.

Architecture

How it fits together.

We use AI heavily in this work too. It's what makes a rescue economical. The difference is that a designer decides what the site should be, and an engineer is accountable for what ships.

The generated site

  • Proves the pages you need.
  • A first draft of the content.
  • A URL set worth preserving.

Brand + system + CMS

  • Design system and identity.
  • Content model and visual CMS.
  • SEO and performance foundation.

Production site

  • Fast, accessible, differentiated.
  • Your team publishes to it.
  • Built to be maintained.

Process

How a rescue runs.

Audit

Crawl the existing site, pull Search Console and analytics, and produce a written list of what's broken and what's worth keeping.

Architect

IA, content model, platform recommendation, redirect plan, and the SEO foundation the generated site never had.

Design

Brand-led visual system built as real components, designed against your actual content.

Build

Rebuild on Astro or Framer with a visual CMS, migrating the content that earned its place.

Validate

Accessibility audit, Core Web Vitals, redirect testing, analytics verification, and content QA.

Launch and monitor

Staged cutover, then Search Console, crawl errors, and vitals watched closely for the first weeks.

Starting points

Wherever it was generated.

  • Lovable → production

    Full-stack output with a real data layer, usually the closest to viable and the most tempting to leave as-is.

  • v0 → production

    Good component-level output that needs a design system, a CMS, and an SEO foundation around it.

  • Claude → production

    Capable, clean code that still needs brand, content strategy, and someone accountable for performance and search.

  • Replit → production

    Working software in a hosted sandbox that needs a real deployment story and publishing workflow.

  • Bolt → production

    Fast scaffolding that needs the architecture, accessibility, and edge cases filled in properly.

  • Wix, Squarespace or Hostinger AI → production

    Agentic site builders that get you live quickly and then cap what the site can become.

SEO & redirects

There's usually less equity to protect, and more to gain.

Full URL inventory

Every URL the generated site produced, including the ones it created and forgot, pulled from a crawl plus Search Console.

Prune before you redirect

Generated sites accumulate thin and duplicate pages. A lot of this work is deciding what should stop existing.

Redirect map

301s for anything with traffic, links, or rankings; deliberate removal for everything else.

Build the foundation properly

Unique metadata, heading hierarchy, internal linking, schema, and sitemaps, which is usually the first time the site has had any of it.

Post-launch watch

Crawl errors, indexation, rankings, and vitals monitored for the first weeks, with fixes shipped fast.

The details

Integrations, performance, accessibility.

Integrations

  • CRM and marketing automation
  • Forms and lead routing
  • Search
  • Chat and scheduling
  • GA4, GTM, consent management
  • Anything the generator faked

Performance

  • Rebuilt with minimal JavaScript
  • Image optimisation at build
  • Edge caching and CDN delivery
  • Core Web Vitals verified pre-launch
  • Real-user monitoring after launch

Accessibility

  • WCAG 2.2 AA as the build standard
  • Semantic markup and landmarks
  • Keyboard and focus states
  • Contrast checked against tokens
  • Screen reader passes on key flows

Relevant work

Rebuilds and migrations we've run.

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FAQs

AI-generated site questions.

Are you saying AI site builders are bad?

No. They're a good answer to a real problem, and we use the same class of tooling ourselves. They're just not a substitute for deciding what your site should be, and that gap is what this page is about.

Do you keep our content?

Usually, as a first draft. Generated copy tends to be structurally reasonable and strategically empty, so it gets edited hard rather than thrown away.

Will we lose the rankings we have?

There usually aren't many to lose, which makes this lower risk than a typical migration. What rankings exist are protected with a proper redirect map.

How much does a rescue cost compared to a new site?

Often less, because the content and page structure already exist. The saving is in discovery and copywriting, not in design or build.

What platform do you rebuild on?

Astro with a visual CMS, or Framer for simpler marketing sites. We recommend after the audit, based on your team and content volume.

How long does it take?

Four to eight weeks for a typical marketing site, including a real design pass. Faster if you're happy to keep more of the existing content.