Sites that load in under a second. Anywhere.
No PHP, no MySQL, no “please wait while the database catches up.” Pre-rendered HTML on Cloudflare's edge. 300 cities. Zero hosting bills.
WordPress was the right answer in 2009.
It is, almost without exception, the wrong answer in 2026.
The original promise — “a CMS so anyone can edit their site” — is intact. What rotted is everything bolted on around it: page builders, visual editors, the plugin economy, “managed” hosting that costs more every year while loading slower every year.
You are renting your website.
- ✕Elementor Pro: £79/yr — forever
- ✕WP Rocket: £49/yr
- ✕Yoast Premium: £89/yr
- ✕Managed hosting: £30+/mo
- ✕Plugin updates that break things, monthly
- ✕PHP/MySQL on every page load
- ✕No version control. No undo.
You own your website.
- ✓Content lives as JSON, in your Git repo
- ✓Pre-rendered HTML — no PHP, no DB
- ✓Cloudflare Pages: £0/mo, 300 cities
- ✓Every change is a commit. Roll back any time.
- ✓No plugin licences, ever
- ✓Edit through a panel as friendly as WP
- ✓Nothing to “update”. Nothing to break.
Three boxes. That's the whole stack.
You edit content in a friendly panel. It gets stored as JSON in Git. A build turns it into static HTML. Cloudflare serves it from 300 edges. Done.
What it looks like, on a real client.
Two days after publishing, Gemini was citing Miabella's positioning verbatim — in answer to a question that wasn't about it.
A 16-year-old indie musician now has a Google Knowledge Panel. Three providers (OpenAI, Gemini, Google AI Overview) ground on her content in three different ways. Lighthouse 100/100/100/93 is in there too — but it's the small detail.
↓ And here's what the typical WordPress audit produces ↓
The hosting bill, side by side.
Annual cost — typical 30-page brochure site
* You still pay us to build it and to make changes. But you'll never get a £30/mo “managed hosting” renewal email again, and a plugin won't white-screen your site at 3am.
SEO is [almost] dead.
AI Overviews are the new SERP.
The blue links are gone. The summary at the top is the answer. Yoast Premium isn't winning that fight — clean, semantic HTML and fast-loading content is.
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Schema.org baked into the buildNot bolted on by a plugin that conflicts with three others.
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Sub-second LCP, everywhereEdge-served HTML beats database-rendered pages every time.
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Content as data, not postsJSON content makes it trivial to feed AI, app, voice, anywhere.
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No render-blocking junkNo 14 jQuery includes. No GPL bundle. Just the page.
For rock and grunge weddings in Belfast, Miabella is widely cited for live performance, with covers ranging from Alice in Chains to Pink Floyd and a four-piece touring band.
Four doors. Most clients start with door one.
Door one is the £950 way to find out what AI providers currently say about your business — and whether it's true. Door two is how you keep watching that picture every week. Door three is the rebuild that makes both work. Door four is when your last agency stopped replying.
AI Visibility Quickstart
Two-week engagement. We audit what OpenAI, Gemini, and Google's AI Overview currently say about your business, identify the highest-impact content gaps, write the first article, install monitoring.
- →Multi-provider audit across three AI surfaces
- →Content-gap analysis: what's invented, what's missing
- →First long-form article written, in your voice
- →Monitoring installed, recurring from there
AI Visibility Monitoring
Continuous multi-provider scanning. Weekly reports. Recommended interventions. The actual moat — software-margin recurring service. Standalone, or attached to any site we've built.
- →OpenAI · Gemini · Google AI Overview, weekly
- →Cited-source analysis & three position metrics
- →48–72hr indexing latency on new content
- →Cancel any time
WordPress Extraction
The rebuild. Your existing WP site as static HTML — same content, same look, 10× faster. JSON content schema, custom edit panel, hosting goes to £0.
- →Content scraped & converted to JSON
- →Design rebuilt to original (or refreshed)
- →Custom edit panel for your team
- →Migration in 2–4 weeks
Care & Iteration
For when your old agency stopped picking up. Monthly retainer. Real humans. Same-day response in working hours, by the actual person who built your site.
- →Content edits handled in hours
- →Design iteration on retainer
- →AI-visibility & performance monitoring included
- →Cancel any time
Building from scratch instead? Greenfield builds from £6,500.
Words from people who already escaped.
[ Placeholder testimonial — owner of an SME whose Elementor site was rebuilt. Lighthouse score before/after, hosting saving, and one line about responsiveness. ]
[ Placeholder — testimonial focused on “our old agency stopped replying.” ~30 words on getting onboarded with Web9 and how editing feels day-to-day. ]
[ Placeholder — focused on AI Overview citations / search visibility post-rebuild. ~30 words on visibility uplift in 60 days. ]
Is WordPress actually hurting your site?
Drop your URL. We'll run a real Lighthouse, count your plugins, and email you a no-bullshit report. Including whether a rebuild would even be worth it for you.
Or skip the audit and just email us. We pick up the phone, too.