At Andes Development, we redesigned our own website to capitalize on advances in artificial intelligence without locking ourselves into vendors or recurring costs. The result is a 100% static site built on Laravel 13 and Statamic CMS, with a mixed Livewire and Alpine frontend: fast, SEO-optimized, manageable via Markdown or the CMS, and fully under our control. We shipped it to production in two weeks, combining AI-assisted design with manual development reviewed module by module.
// The challenge
Our digital presence is key to capturing organic demand and showcasing our portfolio, but the previous platform imposed limits on us. The challenges to solve were:
- Dependency and Lock-In Third-party SaaS platforms (such as visual site builders) with recurring monthly costs and technological dependence.
- Leverage AI Without Being Tied to It Benefit from AI for design, content assistance, and workflows — without operationally depending on code agents or external APIs to maintain the site.
- Content Agility Update content and architecture quickly, without excessive technical complexity.
- Technical and Local SEO (GEO) Drive organic acquisition from people searching for development services, while preserving the previous site's SEO signals (redirects, metadata, structured data) through the migration.
- Measurable Performance Demanding standards for performance, accessibility, and responsiveness across multiple resolutions, backed by objective measurements.
// The technology solution
We designed and built a new static-site architecture, drawing clear boundaries between static and configurable modules to maximize maintainability and build speed.
- A Modern, Static Stack A Laravel 13 backend, Statamic as the CMS, and a mixed Livewire and Alpine frontend, all compiled into a static site deployed as flat pages.
- End-to-End Technical SEO Structured data (JSON-LD) and metadata (meta title, meta description) per template, optimized images, and an SEO migration with the Statamic redirect package to preserve the previous site's equity.
- Governable, Scalable Content Taxonomies, blueprints, and collections in Statamic for categories, industries, and case studies, with relationships between entities that automate listings and aggregate pages.
- A Dual Publishing Flow Updates via Markdown documents (which AI can generate and edit as an assistant) and editing via the CMS for non-technical teams.
- Performance and Security by Design Optimized assets to improve TTFB, LCP, and CLS, and a minimal attack surface from serving static content and reducing third-party dependencies.
- AI-Assisted Design, Reviewed by Hand Layouts and components proposed with AI support, but reviewed manually module by module, avoiding dependence on "code agents."
// Results and key wins
The redesign consolidated a fast, governable, minimal-cost technical foundation, validated with objective measurements:
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2 Weeks
Site redesigned and launched, combining AI-assisted design with controlled manual development. -
100% Static
Pages served statically for top speed (TTFB, LCP, CLS) and a minimal attack surface, with SEO and accessibility standards passed in PageSpeed Insights audits. -
Zero Lock-In
No more recurring SaaS platforms or AI licenses — full control of the infrastructure and the technical roadmap.
// Conclusion
Our new website consolidates a static, fast, governable technical foundation that maximizes SEO and minimizes recurring costs, enabling the strategic use of AI without lock-in. More than a redesign, it's a statement of how we work: full control of the infrastructure, content that scales via Markdown and the CMS, and measurable performance. It's the same engineering philosophy we apply to our clients' projects — now put to the test in our own house.