Case study — Strategy Consulting

Sage & Rowe: the build that paid for itself.

Sage & Rowe came to us as strategy consulting operators in Boston, USA with a problem that was costing them weekly. The program below is what moved their headline number: +138% proposal downloads.

Sage & Rowe — hero visual

Fig. 01 — WordPress RebuildBoston, USA

Client
Sage & Rowe
Year
2024
Industry
Strategy Consulting
Location
Boston, USA
01

The challenge

The business had outgrown the site by about two years: new services had nowhere to live, the brand had evolved past the templates, and the codebase carried the fingerprints of four previous vendors.

Leadership needed a platform that marketing could run daily without engineering, and engineering could trust without babysitting — those two requirements had never coexisted here.

02

The approach

The work started in analytics and server logs, not moodboards: which templates carried revenue, which URLs carried links, which plugins carried logic. The rebuild was scoped from evidence.

Migration ran parallel — content, customers and order history moved behind a frozen URL map, with redirects staged and tested before cutover day, not after.

Every integration was mapped with failure modes before writing code: queues, retries and alerts where data mattered, graceful degradation where it didn't.

  • Editor block library built from the design system
  • Core Web Vitals in the green on production hardware
  • Integration layer with queues, retries and failure alerts
  • 30-day post-launch stabilisation and training
03

The results

R—01 +41% Form completion rate
R—02 -68% Plugin and app overhead
R—03 99.98% Uptime since launch
R—04 -52% Average page weight
For the first time in four years, the website is faster than our ideas for it.Oliver Grant — Managing Partner, Sage & Rowe
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