Independent Engineering · Corporate Websites
We build corporate websites with modern headless CMS architectures — Astro, Next.js, Sanity, Storyblok. Multilingual, SEO-optimized, performant. EU hosting on Hetzner or STACKIT as standard. No US-CDN lock-in, no tracker pollution, no WordPress plugin hell.
What we build
Corporate websites differ not only in looks, but above all in editorial architecture. Who should be able to change what, how fast, drives the tool choice.
Astro with Markdown-based content. Versioned locally in Git, no CMS backend. For companies where 1–2 people handle maintenance and stability matters more than self-service. Build time ~30 seconds, page speed 95+.
Range: on request · Hosting: from €6/month
Astro or Next.js + Sanity or Storyblok as headless CMS. Multiple editors, live preview, scheduled publishing, asset management. For companies with active content maintenance and a marketing team. Scales to hundreds of pages.
Range: on request · Hosting: from €18/month
i18n as an architectural principle from the start — not retrofitted. URL structures per language, hreflang tags, language-specific SEO, translation workflow in the CMS. Typical DACH+UK or EU-wide, 4–12 languages.
Range: on request · Hosting: from €28/month
Multiple brands or business units under one codebase. Shared components, separate brand styles, separated editorial permissions per brand. Plus design system, component library (Storybook), centralized asset management.
Range: on request · Hosting: from €60/month
Live showcase · arades.de
What you're reading right now we built by exactly the standards we apply for you. Instead of an abstract feature list, you find here a productive corporate site uniting all disciplines — viewable, testable, debuggable.
Fixed price · three packages
Three fixed-price packages for the most common mid-market scenarios. You know before signing what you pay and what you get for it. Anyone needing a special twist — multi-tenant, AI chat, custom backend API — gets a fixed-price sprint from us. No daily-rate roulette.
On request net · fixed price
Delivery time approx. 4 weeks · hosting from €6/month
Suited for: mid-market with clear content, 1 language, editorial maintenance by 1–2 people.
On request net · fixed price
Delivery time approx. 8 weeks · hosting from €18/month
Suited for: mid-market with active content maintenance by marketing team. This website (arades.de) roughly corresponds to this package.
On request net · fixed price
Delivery time approx. 12–16 weeks · hosting from €60/month
Suited for: enterprise, multi-brand, international presence, AI chat integration.
What is not included in the fixed price: photo shoots, large-scale copywriting (beyond short editorial work), purchase of stock photos, external services (translation agency, external SEO specialist). We bill these separately as pass-through without margin. What is included in the fixed price: a clear delivery outcome against a fixed price — if we miscalculate, that's our risk, not yours.
Tech stack
We don't build what we know best, but what fits the task. Headless CMS has, in recent years, replaced WordPress in almost all mid-market use cases — because it's faster, more secure, lower-maintenance, and stronger for SEO.
Astro for content-heavy sites with minimal interactivity (90% of cases). Next.js when React components or Server Components are required. Build time under 1 minute, Lighthouse score 95+ as expectation.
Sanity for structured content modeling and live preview. Storyblok for visually oriented editors (drag & drop). Strapi or Directus for strict data-localization requirements — self-hosted in the EU.
Default is Hetzner — German company, German data centers, EU law. STACKIT for sovereignty-strict engagements (Schwarz Digits, data center in Germany). We avoid US CDNs as a default — when necessary, Cloudflare with EU region pinning.
Tailwind as utility-first standard, Open Props for CSS-variable-based systems. Storybook for isolated component development and design reviews. Figma token sync for designer-developer consistency.
Cookie-free analytics as standard (Plausible or Matomo). Avoids the cookie-banner requirement and reduces tracking traces. SEO audits with Ahrefs and Screaming Frog before and after every launch.
Git repository as single source of truth. Preview deployments per pull request. Production deployment by merge to main. Error tracking with Sentry, performance monitoring with Plausible custom events.
Why headless, why not WordPress
We no longer do WordPress. If that's your requirement, we refer you to other firms in our network.
Accompanying services
Before building
Content architecture, sitemap, editorial concept, multilingualism strategy. For complex sites, an architecture workshop before the build is worthwhile.
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After launch
Monthly flat rate for continuous maintenance — framework updates, security patches, new content models, component extensions.
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Enable editorial
Editor training in the chosen headless CMS, SEO basics, image optimization, content strategies — as a 1-day crash course or dynamic 4-week learning program.
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FAQ
Yes. We extract content from WordPress (XML export, REST API, or directly from the database), structure it in the new headless CMS, and set up redirects for all old URLs so SEO rankings are not lost.
Mid-market website without CMS: 6–10 weeks. Headless CMS with editor workflow: 10–18 weeks. Multi-language: 14–22 weeks. Multi-brand platform: 6–12 months. Each from kickoff to go-live.
For a static Astro site on Hetzner: from €6/month (Cloud server CX22). Headless CMS with Sanity: from €0 (free tier) to €199/month (Growth) depending on volume. Storyblok: from €99/month. Self-hosted Strapi/Directus: from €12/month on Hetzner. Plus optional Plausible Analytics from €9/month.
No. Editors work exclusively in the CMS backend, which is visual. Tailwind is only relevant in development — if you later want to extend components yourself, then yes, a one-day Tailwind crash course is worthwhile.
Both. We work with our own designers or with your agency designer. Design in Figma as the source, handover via Figma tokens. If you have an established brand identity, we adopt it without a redesign.
Corporate website project?
Together we clarify whether Astro, Next.js, or a different setup fits. If we're not the right choice, we refer you on from our network.
