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Migrate to Astro

Are you tired offighting WordPress?

WordPress was great ten years ago. Today, it just holds you back. Our solution is simple: migrate your entire website onto . We handle the entire migration for you, then teach you to run it yourself using AI.

Migrate your website to Astro

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A new WordPress vulnerability is disclosed every 46 minutes.1

91% are in plugins2Core & themes — 9%

Every plugin is another vendor, another update cycle, another way in. Your website should be an asset, not a liability. See what that costs you per year →

01 · Before → after

Same website, better performance.

WordPressWordPress
Failed Core Web Vitals
Slow navigation and page load
Managing multiple plugins
Days or weeks to iterate
Dependent on devs & designers
AstroAstro
Passed Core Web Vitals
Fast navigation and page speed
1 caching layer,
No plugins to maintain
Hours or minutes to iterate
No dependency — just

WordPress passes Core Web Vitals on fewer than half of mobile sites.Calculate your savings →

Lightning speed website updates
02 · Why we exist

We got quoted $2,000 to fix our own Core Web Vitals. So we pulled the plug.

Photo of Benjamin Thornton
Benjamin Thornton
Photo of Artem Brezhniev
Artem Brezhniev

We're not an agency. We're just two colleagues turned friends on a mission to help websites break away from WordPress for good.

Like a lot of website owners, ours ran on WordPress and Elementor: an agency build, stuffed with plugins, impossible to touch without something breaking. We spent more time debugging it than updating it. And one problem never went away — our Core Web Vitals. We fixed them more than once, but it never lasted. So when we got quoted $2,000 to fix them yet again, we ditched the plugins for good and moved the whole site to Astro.

It took less than 10 days, and it was transformative. The site got faster, the Core Web Vitals improved dramatically, and updating it became ridiculously fast — with Astro, you connect your site to AI tools like Claude and change anything just by describing it.

That's why we're here. What worked for our site can work for yours. If you're tired of fighting WordPress, get in touch.

03 · Methodology

From migration to handoff, in six steps.

01
Discovery call. Book a 20-minute call. We look at your site together, scope the work, and make sure it's a fit — both ways.
02
Free homepage preview. If it's a fit, we rebuild your homepage in Astro, free. You judge us by the result before paying anything.
03
Approve & start. Like the preview? We invoice half and migrate your full site in a private GitHub repository we set up and prepare for launch.
04
Delivery. We send you the finished site to review. Once you're happy, you settle the remaining 50% and we hand over the repository and code in full — your technical SEO (redirects, schema, internal linking, content) preserved exactly, improved where we see room. Hosting, domain, and deploys set up if you need. It's yours.
05
Onboarding. We teach you to run it with Git and Claude Code — edit, publish, update — until you can do it without us.
06
If something breaks because of our work, we fix it for free while you find your footing.
04 · Proof

Keyword.com — WordPress → Astro in under 10 days.

BEFORE · WordPress · Clunky and hard to update
Keyword.com homepage before, on WordPress
AFTER · Astro · Fast and effortless to update
Keyword.com homepage after, on Astro
CORE WEB VITALS BEFORE · Performance 33
33
Performance
89
Accessibility
100
Best Practices
98
SEO
CORE WEB VITALS AFTER · all green
98
Performance
93
Accessibility
100
Best Practices
100
SEO

Our own site — the exact before/after we promise, done fast.

Ready for the same before/after?

05 · Frequently Asked Questions
What kind of sites do you migrate?

Marketing and content sites — homepages, landing pages, blogs, docs, portfolios. That's what Astro is built for, and where the payoff is biggest. We don't take on e-commerce, or sites with logins, user accounts, or a complex backend — those need a different architecture than the fast, static sites we specialize in — pre-built pages that load instantly and are still easy to edit. Not sure yours fits? Run the free site check and it'll tell you.

Why Astro over Framer, Webflow, or Lovable?

Those builders are great at getting a nice-looking site up fast. For everything after that, Astro wins: no dynamic JavaScript, real code with no platform lock-in, free and open source with near-zero hosting cost, and especially strong for content-heavy sites. It's also the friendliest for AI: because it's plain code, you can point any AI agent at it — Claude, Codex, Cursor — instead of being tied to the one assistant a platform bundles in, often as a paid add-on.

Are you a dev agency?

No. We're two people who migrated our own site — Keyword.com — off WordPress after being quoted $2,000 just to fix its Core Web Vitals. It worked so well we decided to do it for others. We're not here to become your ongoing vendor.

What's included in the 2-month support?

You're covered for two months after we hand the site over — enough time to get comfortable running it yourself. It's there to help you find your footing, not an open-ended retainer.

Included
  • If something breaks because of a change we made during the migration, we fix it for free.
  • We help you use Claude Code and AI the right way to edit, publish, and update your site with confidence.
Not included
  • New pages, features, or design changes — that's fresh work, quoted separately.
  • Fixing things after you've made significant structural changes to the site yourself.
Is the code clean, or AI slop?

Clean. We're experienced engineers, and AI is a tool we direct — not a substitute for knowing how to build something well. Every migration is built to established best practices and reviewed by hand, so you get a solid, maintainable codebase, not the fast-but-fragile output you'd be afraid to touch.

Is the site easy to update with Astro?

Extremely. You tell Claude, Codex, or whichever LLM you use what you want changed, and it happens. And it's not a free-for-all: a rigorous design system keeps every change — and every new page — coherent, and we set up guardrails, skills, and agents that steer the AI depending on the kind of change you're making.

Do you need access to my site, or an NDA?

Neither. Your site is already public, so we rebuild from what's live — no logins, no credentials, no access to your WordPress admin. You send us your assets (images, fonts, video) directly, and since we only work with publicly available sites, there's nothing an NDA would cover.

Is Astro good for SEO?

Yes. Great Core Web Vitals, static pages that AI answer engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google's AI Overviews — can actually read and cite, and the technical SEO structure in place so your site launches SEO-ready.

Do you change the design of the website?

No — we rebuild your site to look like it already does. The difference from a straight copy is under the hood: as we migrate, we infer the design system behind your site — its colors, spacing, and type scale — and encode it as tokens in the code, so every page stays consistent. The one place you might notice a change is where your current pages disagree with each other — say, a heading spaced one way on one page and differently on another. We bring those into line, because carrying that inconsistency across pages is hard to maintain and makes for a worse experience anyway. Your assets — images, video, fonts — you send us directly, so those come across exactly as before.

How would you like to start?

We review every entry and reply either way.

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Savings calculator

What is WordPress actually costing you?

WordPressWordPress today
HostingWP Engine Professional · $69/mo$828
Developer time1×4h × $40$1,920
Your timebriefing · 1.75h/mo × $40$840
Plugin licensestypical stack · $25/mo$300
WP Engine add-onsupdates + WAF + NitroPack · $100/mo$1,200
Per year$5,088
AstroAfter migration
HostingCloudflare · free tier$0
Developer timenot needed$0
Your time3×5min + 1×30min × $40$360
Claude subscriptionPro · $20/mo$240
Security & speedCloudflare + static · included$0
Per year$600

You'd save$4,488every year — $374 a month.