Headless Assessment
Find out what you're actually dealing with
A fixed-price technical assessment of your current platform — architecture, performance, risks and a costed route forward. You get a written report and a stakeholder presentation you can act on with or without us.
£1,500
Fixed price. No obligation to build with us.
One-off · standalone deliverable
Who it's for
Groups that have grown by acquisition
You have inherited a different website with every practice, clinic or site you bought, and nobody can tell you what it would take to bring them onto one platform.
Firms whose new business depends on being found
Your site is slow, plugin-heavy or hard to edit, and you need to know what a rebuild would risk before you sign anything off.
Teams part-way through a decision
You have quotes, opinions or a half-finished project, and you want an independent read on the platform before committing further budget.
What you get
Architecture review
How the current platform is put together, what it depends on, where the fragile joins are, and which parts are worth keeping.
Performance and Core Web Vitals
Measured field and lab data for your key templates, and what is actually causing the numbers you are seeing.
Search and content risk
URL structure, indexation, internal linking and tracking — what a migration would put at risk and how each risk is handled.
Integration inventory
Every commerce, CRM, booking and marketing system the site touches, and whether it moves, stays or gets replaced.
Costed route forward
A recommended approach with scope, sequencing and a price. If a rebuild is not the right answer, the report says so.
Written report and presentation
A document your stakeholders can read without us in the room, plus a session to walk through it and answer questions.
How it runs
One kickoff call
We agree what matters most to you, who needs to be convinced, and what decision the report has to support.
Read-only access
Analytics, Search Console and a look at the codebase or CMS where that is possible. We work with whatever access you can give us.
Written report
Findings, risks and recommendation in plain language, with the technical detail in appendices for whoever needs it.
Stakeholder presentation
A live walkthrough with your team, including the parts you disagree with.
Timeline
Kickoff
Week 1
Scope agreed, access arranged, and the decision the report needs to support is written down.
Analysis
Weeks 1–2
Architecture, performance, search and integrations reviewed against how the platform is actually used.
Report and presentation
Weeks 2–3
Written report delivered, then presented to your stakeholders with time for questions and challenge.
What happens next
The report is yours. You can take it to another supplier, use it to brief an internal team, or do nothing with it. If you do decide to build with us, the assessment becomes the scoping document for the engagement, so nothing is repeated and the price is based on what we found rather than what we guessed.
Common questions
Do I have to build with you afterwards?
No. The assessment is a standalone deliverable. The report is written so that another supplier could act on it, and plenty of clients use it exactly that way.
We have several websites. Does one assessment cover them all?
For groups, the assessment looks at the estate rather than a single site — what each platform is, what it would take to consolidate them, and which sites should move first. Tell us how many sites are involved at the kickoff call so we scope it properly.
Will a migration cost us our search rankings?
That is one of the main things the assessment exists to answer. We map URL structure, indexation and internal linking before anything is committed to, so redirects are planned and tested rather than patched after launch.
Do we have to leave WordPress?
Not necessarily. WordPress can stay as the editing environment behind a modern front-end. The assessment covers whether that is the right call for you or whether a different CMS serves you better.
What if we cannot give you access to the code?
We work with whatever access you can give us and say plainly in the report where a lack of access limited what we could conclude.
Why is there a fee at all?
A free audit is a sales document. A paid assessment lets us spend the time to reach conclusions we are willing to put our name to, including the conclusion that you should not rebuild.
Daniel takes every kick-off call personally.
Daniel · Founder
Book a Headless Assessment
£1,500, fixed price, no obligation to build with us. Tell us what you are running and what decision you need to make.
No lock-in. No obligation.