AI Website Development With a CMS Your Team WillActually Use

AI website development uses AI coding assistants such as Claude Code and Cursor AI to write scaffolding, components, integrations and tests, with human engineers reviewing and refactoring every change before it reaches production. It typically reduces build time by half to two-thirds compared with writing everything by hand.

Only if it is reviewed. AI produces working code quickly but is confidently wrong often enough that unreviewed output is a genuine liability — silent error handling, missing accessibility attributes, insecure defaults. Every change on our projects is read by an engineer before merge, which is what makes the speed usable.

It depends on who edits and how often. WordPress when your team already knows it and content changes daily. A headless CMS such as Sanity or Payload when you need structured content across several channels. A lightweight custom admin when the editing needs are narrow. We recommend based on your team, not our preference.

A standard five to eight page site with CMS is one to three weeks of build time once designs are approved. Larger sites with multiple templates and integrations run four to eight weeks. The build is rarely the bottleneck now — content and approvals usually are.

We agree a Core Web Vitals budget before build and verify against it before launch — LCP, INP and CLS measured on a throttled mobile connection, not on a developer laptop. Performance is a build constraint rather than a post-launch optimisation project.

That is the point of the CMS work. Content types use plain-language field names, validation prevents broken layouts, and preview shows changes before publishing. We test the editing experience with a non-technical person before launch and include training in the handover.

Yes. We set up hosting, deployment pipelines, staging environments and monitoring, all under accounts in your name. You can keep us on for maintenance or take it in-house — the setup does not depend on us remaining involved.

Analytics, CRM, email marketing, booking systems, payment gateways, inventory, custom APIs and internal tools. During scoping we confirm what each system actually permits, because vendor API limitations are the most common source of late surprises.

Yes. The repository is in your organisation from the first commit, not transferred at the end. Documentation, environment configuration and a runbook come with it, so another developer could pick the project up without us.

Most content changes your team can make in the CMS without us. For code changes we offer hourly work or a monthly retainer — no minimum contract, and no requirement to hold one for the site to keep running.

A front-end build from approved designs starts from $6,000 AUD. A full website with CMS integration, training and handover starts from $11,000 AUD. Complex builds with authentication, custom functionality or multiple integrations are quoted after scoping.

Both, depending on what the project needs. Astro or Next.js when performance and structure matter most, WordPress when editing familiarity and plugin ecosystem matter more. We are explicit about the trade-offs of each before you decide.