VQ Consulting: from Webflow to Astro and Sanity in one day
We moved VQ Consulting off Webflow and onto Astro and Sanity in a single day. The site got 20% faster, and a personal studio assistant in Slack now ships their changes. That is why VQ now runs every project with us.
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VQ Consulting was one of our fastest launches: a full consulting site, live in under 24 hours, built in Webflow. It did its job. Then the firm started to grow, and what they needed from the site changed: more content, more often, without waiting on anyone.
So we rebuilt it. In one day, vqconsults.com moved from Webflow to Astro, with Sanity for the content and Cloudflare for hosting, the same foundation we moved our own studio site to.
Why move a site that already worked
Webflow got VQ online fast. But a consulting firm lives on what it publishes: insights, services, answers to the questions clients ask before they call. Every new piece meant opening a visual editor, and every small change was a small project.
On Astro and Sanity, the design is code we own and the content sits in a clean editor built around VQ's own blog and services. The page itself is plain, fast HTML, with nothing loaded that a visitor doesn't need.
One day, start to finish
The migration happened in a single working day: the design, the content, the blog and the services moved over, and the new site went live on Cloudflare. No redesign detour: visitors got the same VQ, on a better foundation.
20% faster
The new build is 20% faster than the Webflow site it replaced. The Webflow version already scored 100 on Lighthouse, so this wasn't a rescue. It's the difference between a site that is fast and one that has nothing left to slow it down.
The real upgrade: a personal assistant in Slack
Speed was the expected part. The part that changed the relationship was this: every beterdesign client now gets their own studio assistant in Slack.
VQ writes what they need in their Slack channel, in plain words. The assistant turns the request into the change, checks the build, and publishes it to the live site.
The first real test came almost immediately. VQ asked in Slack for a new blog post. It was on their site right away: no ticket, no email thread, no waiting for a slot in someone's calendar.
From one project to a partnership
That moment is what turned a website into a working relationship. VQ saw that their site could keep up with the firm, not the other way round, and decided to make it permanent: from now on, VQ Consulting runs all of its projects with beterdesign.
For us, that is the point of the work. A beautiful launch matters, but the site has to stay as fast and as current as the business behind it. Moving off Webflow made VQ's site faster; the assistant in Slack made it theirs.
Thinking about the same move?
If your site is on Webflow and every update has started to feel like a project, this is the conversation we'd love to have. See the VQ Consulting project, or start a project and tell us what your site needs to keep up with.
