• Web Design
  • Technical SEO
  • Headless CMS

Northwind SaaS — Rebuild & Rank

A headless rebuild paired with a technical SEO program that tripled organic pipeline and put Northwind on page one for 240 commercial terms.

Northwind SaaS — Rebuild & Rank
Northwind SaaS website redesign on a dark dashboard layout
CLIENT
Northwind
INDUSTRY
SaaS
SERVICES
Design + SEO
YEAR
2025

[01]OVERVIEW

CHALLENGE

Northwind's legacy WordPress build was slow, hard to update, and invisible in search. Bounce rates were high, the brand felt dated, and the team had no way to ship landing pages without engineering.

0.0s LCP

APPROACH

We rebuilt the marketing site on a headless stack with a component-driven design system, then layered a full technical SEO program: schema, internal linking, and a programmatic content engine.

0 PAGES

OUTCOME

Organic traffic tripled within two quarters, page-one rankings climbed to 240 commercial terms, and the team now ships campaign pages in hours instead of weeks.

0% TRAFFIC

Mara Voss, lead strategist at ByteForge StudioMara VossMarch 2025Website Design
CLIENT
Northwind
SERVICES
Design, SEO, Dev
TIMELINE
14 weeks
STACK
Next.js + Sanity

The Brief

Northwind came to us with a familiar problem: a fast-growing SaaS company stuck on a slow, sprawling WordPress site that no longer reflected the product. Marketing couldn't ship pages without engineering, organic traffic had plateaued, and the brand felt a decade behind the software it sold.

The mandate was clear — rebuild the marketing site as a growth engine, not a brochure. It had to be fast, editable by the marketing team, and engineered to rank.

We didn't want a redesign. We wanted infrastructure that compounds.

The System

We rebuilt the entire front end on a headless stack and shipped a component-driven design system so the team could assemble landing pages from branded blocks — no engineering tickets required.

  • A token-based design system mapped to a single source of truth.
  • Sub-second loads via static generation and edge caching.
  • A block library marketing uses to launch campaigns in hours.

Performance was a first-class requirement. We held a hard budget on LCP and shipped the new build at a 0.7s largest contentful paint.

The SEO Engine

Speed alone doesn't rank. We layered a full technical SEO program on top of the rebuild: a clean information architecture, structured data across templates, an internal-linking model, and a programmatic content engine targeting 240 commercial terms.

What we shipped

  1. Schema markup across every template type.
  2. An internal-linking graph tied to topical clusters.
  3. A programmatic page system for long-tail intent.

The Result

Within two quarters, organic traffic tripled and Northwind held page-one positions for 240 commercial keywords. More importantly, the marketing team now owns the site — shipping pages, running experiments, and compounding the gains without us in the loop.

  • SaaS
  • Technical SEO
  • Headless CMS
  • Traffic Growth

[02]RESULTS

+0

ORGANIC TRAFFIC

0

PAGE-ONE TERMS

0.0

SECONDS LCP

0.0

X MORE LEADS

ORGANIC TRAFFIC+312%
Before
18k/mo
After
74k/mo
PAGE-ONE TERMS+674%
Before
31
After
240
SECONDS LCP−63%
Before
1.9s
After
0.7s
X MORE LEADS+320%
Before
1.0x
After
4.2x

[03]GALLERY

[05]YOUR TURN

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