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Platforms
We build on the platform that fits you,
not the one we'd rather sell.
We go deep in Umbraco, WordPress, Shopify, and Kentico, so the recommendation you get is about your goals, your team, and your budget, not our comfort zone. You end up on the right foundation, chosen honestly and built to grow with you.
Platforms we build on.
The flexible, secure .NET platform we know cold.
How we approach it
Umbraco is our home turf, and we build on it the way it's meant to be built: a clean content model, reusable blocks your editors actually control, and a secure .NET core hosted on Umbraco Cloud. From multilingual enterprise sites to personalization and A/B testing with Umbraco Engage, we take it well past a brochure site into a platform your marketing team can run without a developer on standby.
What you get
An enterprise-grade site that's secure, fast, and genuinely yours to manage, built by a team that lives in Umbraco every day rather than one learning it on your budget.
The world's most popular CMS, built the disciplined way.
How we approach it
WordPress runs a huge share of the web for good reason: it's familiar, flexible, and quick to get going with. The risk is a tower of plugins that turns into a security and maintenance headache. We build it the other way, with native block editing, custom themes and fields, and only the plugins that earn their place, so your team gets WordPress's ease without the fragility that usually comes with it.
What you get
A WordPress site that's easy for your team to run and stays secure and stable as it grows. You get the flexibility you came for without the plugin sprawl you didn't.
Commerce that just works, so you can sell instead of babysitting the store.
How we approach it
For selling online, Shopify handles the hard infrastructure: payments, security, scale, and checkout. That frees the work to go where it matters, a storefront that reflects your brand and a buying experience built to convert. We design and build custom themes, wire Shopify into the systems you already run, and tune the path to purchase against real behavior instead of guesswork.
What you get
A storefront that looks like your brand and sells like a system: reliable, fast, and built to turn browsers into buyers, with the operational load off your plate.
An enterprise DXP for teams that need more than a CMS: content, marketing, and data in one place.
How we approach it
Kentico, now Xperience by Kentico, brings content management, digital marketing, and customer data together on a single .NET platform. That suits organizations that have outgrown a plain CMS and want personalization, automation, and commerce governed centrally. We implement it around how your teams actually work, so the platform's depth turns into results instead of shelfware.
What you get
One platform your content, marketing, and data teams can run together. Enterprise depth put to work, not left sitting unused.
Lightburn didn't just go through the motions. They found creative solutions to make our website work well; for us, our budget, and our users.
More from our work.
The enterprise foundation a global payroll leader deserves.
10
Languages supported managed from a single Umbraco instance
94%
SEO health up from a 74% score at audit
Cooking up a digital presence that keeps getting better.
130+
Years Jones Dairy Farm has been a family-owned American food company
Digitizing the composite process with a custom web app and ecommerce website.
24%
Increase in pageviews
29%
Increase in page value
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FAQs.
How do you decide which platform is right for us?
We start from your goals, your team, and your budget — not a house favorite. What are you selling, who manages the site day to day, what has to integrate, and how much room do you need to grow? The recommendation falls out of those answers. Sometimes it's the platform you already have.
Do you only work in these four platforms?
These are the four we go deepest on — Umbraco, WordPress, Shopify, and Kentico — because they cover the vast majority of what our clients need. We work in others when a project calls for it, and we've built plenty of custom applications where no off-the-shelf platform fit. If you're on something else, we'll tell you honestly whether it makes sense to stay or move.
Can you migrate us from our current platform to a new one?
Yes, and we do it often — Sitefinity to WordPress, WordPress to Umbraco, and more. A migration is only worth it when it clears a real problem, so we'll say when it isn't. When it is, we handle it end to end, with a plan that protects your search equity, content, and integrations along the way.
We're not sure our platform is the problem. Can you help us figure that out?
That's often where we start. A digital strategy engagement looks at your platform, your content, and your goals together and tells you whether the fix is a migration, a rebuild, or just better use of what you already have. You get a clear recommendation before anyone writes a line of code.