The website that finally sells the product.
We rebuilt an industrial software marketing site around the way technical buyers actually evaluate.
- Industry
- SaaS
- Duration
- 10 weeks
- Division
- Websites & Commerce
- Year
- 2025
Rivet sold a genuinely sophisticated product to plant engineers and IT directors, and its website spoke to neither. The homepage led with a vision statement, the product pages listed features without context, and the technical documentation sat behind a form.
Sales spent the first fifteen minutes of every call correcting misconceptions the site had created.
We interviewed eight recent buyers and both sales engineers, then rebuilt the argument in the order those buyers actually used: the failure mode they recognise, the mechanism, the integration reality, then the commercial model.
Documentation came out from behind the form. Architecture diagrams, API references and a security overview were published openly, on the reasoning that a technical evaluator who cannot verify your claims assumes the worst.
Demo starts rose 41% on flat traffic, and sales reported that calls now began at the integration question rather than at "so what does this actually do".
Publishing the documentation also produced an unexpected search effect: technical pages began ranking for the specific integration terms their buyers search for.
“Oakstone gave us the rarest thing in a rebuild: a sharper business. We stopped explaining ourselves and started being chosen.”
One strategist, one designer, one engineer, plus their two sales engineers
- No new brand identity — the existing one had to be extended
- Technical documentation had to publish from the engineers’ own Markdown
- Launch date fixed to a trade show
Publishing the documentation openly was the single highest-return decision and we argued for it too gently at first. It should have been in the first proposal rather than reached in week four.
We under-scoped the internal review burden on clinical-grade technical claims. Two rounds of engineer review per page is realistic; we planned for one.
Web development
Custom, WordPress and Shopify builds for teams who need a site that sells, not just one that exists.
UI/UX design
Product-focused design: flows, states and interfaces judged on whether the job gets done.
Speed & performance optimisation
Core Web Vitals, bundle size and server response times taken seriously enough to move revenue.
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