This is the AI age, not 2003.

What we do.

What we offer

1. 01

   A complete AI-assisted rewrite of your WordPress template into custom code designed for your firm.

   Every page carried over, then rebuilt as a custom-coded website that exists for one firm. One fee. You own it.

2. 02

   A monthly service that makes sure all is good.

   A human who answers the same business day, an editor for the things you touch, monitoring, and real numbers each quarter. Cancel any time and keep the site.

3. 03

   We save you money.

   The rebuild is $750, once. That is less than half of what a typical firm pays Justia in a single year, and less than one year at Justia’s bare minimum. Five years on Justia costs $17,000 to $36,000 and you own nothing at the end. Five years with us is $750, $0 hosting, and the site is yours.

Justia five-year model in section 11 of the Justia page: published Elevate minimum, GoDaddy renewal rate, independent reviewer estimates for add-ons and rebuild.

How we do it

Why it is needed.

What worked before does not work now.

The web changed more in the last two years, with AI, than in the twenty before it. This is not your grandfather’s internet. On that clock, 2003 might as well be 1990.

1. 01

   AI moved the goalposts.

   Investors now ask search engines and AI assistants full questions before they call. A site that is fast, structured and specific gets cited. A brochure gets skipped. A template cannot answer a question. A custom-coded site can.

2. 02

   The platform under your site is dying.

   WordPress is off its peak and losing share faster each quarter. Justia Elevate is WordPress with a proprietary lid, and Justia cannot get off it without rebuilding thousands of sites, so it will not.

   The obituary, with sources
3. 03

   Google ranks on speed, and your site is slow on purpose.

   Roughly seven in ten WordPress sites fail Core Web Vitals. Justia sites we audited score 40 to 65 on Performance. That number is the ceiling of a template. No Google gimmick games: a site built right does not need SEO tricks to paper over WordPress’s shortcomings.

Pure code versus cheap tricks and gimmicks.

The expensive marketing services sold to law firms, $1,500 to $10,000 a month at Scorpion and FindLaw, exist to compensate for a slow platform: paid ads, link schemes and plugins piled on top of WordPress to get it ranking. Build the site right and most of that spend has nothing left to fix. We write custom code for what remains.

WordPress against a WPCynic rebuild, on a phone. Four seconds against a third of one.

A WordPress page is assembled on a server every time someone asks for it: PHP boots, the database answers, the theme runs, every plugin runs, then it ships. A Svelte page is built once and waiting at a server a few miles from the phone. One of these is measurably faster, and Google measures it.

Load times: our audits of live Justia-hosted attorney sites (largest contentful paint 4.3 s on a phone) against a rebuild on a warm Cloudflare worker. Abandonment: Google, The Need for Mobile Speed. Core Web Vitals pass rate: HTTP Archive Web Almanac. Hacked sites: Sucuri, 2023 Hacked Website and Malware Threat Report. Lighthouse scores: Google PageSpeed Insights on live Justia sites and on our rebuilds.

Do not believe WPCynic. Ask your own AI how bad WordPress is.

Type your address below, copy the prompt, and paste it into whichever assistant you already trust. It will read your site the way an engineer would and compare it to a modern build. We did not write the answer.

Review the website at [paste your website address] the way a web engineer would in 2026. Be blunt and specific. Tell me:

1. What it runs on. Is it WordPress? Which theme and which plugins can you see in the source? Is there a Justia, FindLaw or agency credit in the footer?
2. What it loads. How many script and stylesheet files, how much JavaScript, and whether it pulls Google Fonts, jQuery or other third-party code before the page can show.
3. How fast it is on a phone. Estimate its Core Web Vitals (LCP, CLS, INP) and its Google Lighthouse Performance score, and say whether Google would mark it down in search for speed.
4. Security. How many known vulnerabilities were disclosed in the last year for that platform and its plugins, and whether a contact or intake form on it runs through third-party plugin code.
5. Structure. Does it have proper schema (LegalService, Attorney, FAQPage, BreadcrumbList), city or practice pages built for search, and clean HTML an AI assistant can read and cite? How many URLs are in its sitemap, and how many of those are auto-generated tag, category, author or date archives rather than real pages?
6. What it cannot do. Can it answer a visitor's question, qualify a lead, or do anything beyond display pages until a human edits them?

Then compare it, point by point, to a site built from scratch in a modern framework such as SvelteKit or Vue, compiled to static files and served from Cloudflare's edge with self-hosted fonts and no plugins: what would that site score on each of the six points, and what would the owner gain?

Finish with one paragraph a busy attorney could read in thirty seconds.

Twelve things this pig needs that modern code does not.

WordPress shipped in 2003 as a blog, and every gap since has been patched with a plugin: another company’s code, loaded on every visit, slowing the page it was bought to fix. A caching plugin to undo the slowness. A firewall to undo the holes. A plugin to make the email send. Modern code does not need any of this. It was written this decade, for this job, and it ships nothing it does not use.

Why your web guy still sells WordPress. He is not a coder, and AI knows it.

Most web shops will sell you WordPress. Not because it is your best option. Because it is their easiest.

1. 01

   Designers do not code.

   A WordPress “developer” picks a theme, installs the plugins, and types your name into the header. No code is written. That is not a slur; it is the product description. The whole platform exists so that people who cannot program can ship a website, and most of the people selling them cannot.

2. 02

   It is their easiest, not your best.

   They have the templates, the plugins and the pitch ready before you call. A site that takes a coder a week takes them an afternoon of clicking, and they bill the week. Easy for them is what you are paying for.

3. 03

   The maintenance plan is the business.

   Updates, patches, “security monitoring,” $95 to $395 a month, forever. A site that does not break does not pay. WordPress breaks. That is not a flaw in their model. It is the model.

4. 04

   Nobody got fired for choosing it.

   For twenty years WordPress was the safe answer, the way IBM once was. Safe for the vendor. The attorney gets the slow site, the plugin bill and the monthly invoice, and the vendor gets to never learn anything new.

5. 05

   And now AI is coming for them.

   Picking a theme, installing plugins, typing a name into a header: that is the part AI does now, in minutes, for nothing. The web shop that never learned to code has nothing left to sell. The ones who write code use AI to write more of it, faster, for one firm at a time. That is the difference between a vendor who is about to be replaced and one who just got faster.

We are coders. We would rather write you a site than rent you one.

How it works. You see your rebuilt site before you pay anything.

Fee simple.

One build fee. Then a monthly for a human, if you want one. The site is yours either way.

Leaving Justia or WordPress, answered plainly.