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Constellate

A site you own outright, perfect from the first day.

Proprietary Web Development is one of the four streams in every engagement. We do not lease a digital asset back to you and we do not assemble a theme. We build a custom static Nitrosite, hand it over with the content and the domain, and ship it perfect on the day it launches rather than promising to fix it later.

The site is the visible output. What decides its shape is the intelligence pipeline behind it: before any page is drawn, NitroCMS unifies five data sources and hands the picture to our analysis engine. We read the evidence, then we build. It is the difference between an architecture and a guess.

What we build

A bespoke architecture, not a template.

Every page is written by hand, purpose-built for a single firm and its practice areas. If you already have a site, we rebuild it from the ground up on the same architecture and preserve the search equity you have earned. Each page is performance-tested, accessibility-audited, and search-optimized before you ever see it. It is a site you can hand a referring partner without apologizing.

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    Custom design and build Bespoke pages per practice area, not a theme adapted to fit.
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    Redesign with equity preserved Full migration and redirect mapping, no rankings lost in the move.
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    Accessible and mobile-first WCAG 2.1 AA on every page, edge-deployed across 300+ locations.
Architectural drafting tools, representing a site built to specification rather than assembled
Fig 1. Built to specification, not assembled from parts
The shift away from WordPress

The platform was built for blogs in 2003.

Most law firm sites run on a content management system layered with plugins. That stack is slow, breachable, and forever in need of maintenance. A static site removes the failure points by removing the moving parts.

The typical WordPress site
  • cancel Three to eight second load times
  • cancel A database, a server, and plugins to exploit
  • cancel Lighthouse scores commonly between 40 and 70
  • cancel Continual updates, patches, and backups
The Constellate Nitrosite
  • check_circle 0.4 second load time
  • check_circle No server, no database, no login endpoint
  • check_circle Lighthouse 100 across all four dimensions
  • check_circle Nothing to maintain because nothing runs

The static architecture is not a feature bolted on top. It is the whole reason the other claims hold. There is no plugin to render-block the page, no admin panel to compromise, and no server to fall over. Removing the machinery is what makes the speed, the security, and the uptime possible.

The Evidence

Proof you can verify right now.

Every claim on this page is independently testable. No testimonials are required; the architecture speaks for itself.

speed

Run Google Lighthouse

Open Chrome, press F12, click Lighthouse, and audit this page. Then run it on your current site and compare. The average law firm site scores 34.

timer

Test the speed

This page loads in under 0.4 seconds. Every second of delay costs roughly 7% of the visitors who would otherwise have called the firm.

code

Inspect the code

Right-click and view the source. No WordPress, no plugins, no bloat. Clean, purpose-built HTML with per-page inlined CSS that search engines reward.

shield

Check the security

No database, no server, no login page, no plugins. There is no attack surface to exploit, which is why the security record is zero breaches.

Performance Scorecard Lighthouse v10
100
Performance
100
Accessibility
100
Best Practices
100
SEO
0.4sLCP
0msTBT
0.00CLS
0.2sFCP
Fig 2. Every Nitrosite. Every page. Every time.
The build

From study to launch in six weeks.

The build follows the evidence rather than the other way around. The whole process asks roughly three hours of the client's time; we handle everything else.

Study and strategy

We open with a study, not a pitch deck. NitroCMS unifies five data sources: Google Analytics, Search Console, Google Ads, independent SEO and competitor intelligence, and Nexus, our own first-party analytics. Our analysis engine reads them together and produces a ranked picture of the firm, its competitors, and its market. The site architecture follows from that, not from a stock layout.

What it draws on
  • add Five unified data sources
  • add Competitor and market gap
  • add Synthesized by our analysis engine

Design and prototype

Every page is designed in high fidelity, on mobile and desktop, so you see exactly what you are getting before a single line of code is written. Two short design reviews, at weeks two and four, are the only meetings the build requires of you.

Your time
Discovery30 min
Interview1 hour
Reviews x230 min

Build and optimize

The site is built on NitroCMS as a static Nitrosite. Every page is performance-tested, accessibility-audited, and search-optimized before it reaches you. Intake forms, click-to-call, and analytics are built in, not sold as add-ons.

Built in
  • add Intake forms and click-to-call
  • add Analytics and conversion tracking
  • add Schema for legal entities

Launch and ownership

We handle DNS, SSL, and the edge configuration, then go live. The site is edge-deployed across 300+ locations and backed by a 100% uptime SLA. You own the site, the content, and the domain. If you ever leave, we facilitate the transfer; nothing is held hostage.

At launch
  • add Managed DNS, SSL, and CDN
  • add 100% uptime SLA
  • add You own everything
Why it matters

The standard agency builds a template, then guesses.

We read five streams, let a model synthesize all of it, and only then decide what the site should do. That is the end of guess-and-check marketing. Proprietary Web Development is included in the flat fee alongside Marketing and Compliance, SEO and Infrastructure, and Editorial Nitroblogs, all run in parallel under one number.

"We do not lease digital assets. We build proprietary systems owned outright."

Begin with a letter, not a lead form.

If you are a partner or marketing principal at a law firm and the above is how you would like your firm to be built for, write to us. Four questions. We reply within two business days.