Case Studies

The work that's actually shipped.

Three sites in active rotation, two published case studies, more in flight. We don't write case studies until the results are in — so the list grows slowly, and stays honest.

● In progress · Our own domain · 2026 Follow the experiment →

Can a site rank from zero footprint?

We put our own brand-new domain on the line: zero backlinks, zero history, a clean static site instrumented for AI. Baselined in Search Console on 4 Jun 2026 — 31 pages discovered, everything else at zero — and documented in public as the clock runs.

● 31 pages discovered (day 0) ● 0 backlinks · 0 history ● Static HTML · AI-instrumented ● Hosting £0/mo
● Live · Music · 2025–26 View the full case study →

Two days after publishing, Gemini was citing Miabella's positioning verbatim.

A 16-year-old indie musician from the Ards Peninsula now has a Google Knowledge Panel. Three providers ground on her content in three different ways. Static-HTML rebuild + JSON content schema + multi-provider AI-visibility instrumentation.

● 48hr publish-to-grounding latency ● 16-entry sameAs · Wikidata Q138857029 ● Lighthouse 100/100/100/93 ● Hosting £0/mo
● Live · Music · 2025–26 Read the build →

A cinematic, video-heavy site that loads in under a second.

Full-bleed video, big imagery, custom fonts, cinematic motion — every reason to be slow. Concept-first planning and a static build deliver it sub-second on a real phone on real mobile data. The build behind miabella.uk.

● LCP 0.9s · CLS 0.00 · TBT 40ms ● Static HTML · pre-rendered ● Hosting £0/mo
● In progress · Wedding photography · 2026 Read the process →

WordPress → static. Performance 45 → 90, three other panels to 100.

A Belfast wedding-photography site, rebuilt from a page-builder WordPress stack to clean static HTML. The build is shipped and the Lighthouse numbers are real; the AI-grounding instrumentation isn't in yet, so this case study is published in-flight — the nine-step process is the story for now.

● Perf 45 → 90 (mobile) ● Best Practices 96 → 100 ● SEO 92 → 100 ● Hosting £0/mo
Also in flight: Taylor Lally (musician, greenfield rebuild). Outcomes case studies publish when the instrumented results land — typically 8–12 weeks post-go-live. Process case studies (like Shinepics, above) publish earlier, on the same standard: nothing claimed that isn't shown.