AerisForge
The engine behind every site we build.
Every website we make runs on AerisForge, a publishing engine we built ourselves. We made it because the off-the-shelf tools couldn't do what we wanted: deliver large-agency craft and correctness from a small studio, and let clients keep their own site current without ever breaking it.
It isn't magic. It's disciplined engineering aimed at one outcome: your site, done right, and kept that way. Here's what makes it different.
No database
Your site is just files that belong to you. Nothing to hack, nothing to patch, no monthly software license. If you ever left, you’d take everything with you, readable.
One source of truth
The words on the page, the data search engines read, and the social-share preview all come from the same place. They can never disagree, because there’s only one copy.
Built to be found
Underneath the design, AerisForge is an SEO and structured-data engine. The technical foundations Google rewards (the ones most sites get wrong) are correct by default, on every page.
You can’t break it
Clients edit the words, the events, the staff, the parts that should change. Never the design or the structure. The worst a bad edit can do is fail a safety check before it ever goes live.
Collections
A team, a list of services, a blog, a calendar of events: each is a single definition that is the data, the search markup, and the form you edit from, all at once. That is how a small studio delivers the range you’d expect from a large agency, without the large-agency cost.
Beautiful social previews, automatically
Share any page — a sermon, an event, your home page — and it unfurls as a designed, on-brand card, never a broken link. Every page gets one, generated for you.
One photo, sized everywhere
Upload a single master image. It’s cropped to the right focal point and served at the right size for every place it appears, on every device. No fiddling, no blurry thumbnails.
Ready for the AI era
Your site speaks the structured language search engines and AI assistants read, so tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity can understand and recommend you, not just skim a wall of text.
It can never go live broken
A risky edit fails a safety check before it ever ships, and the new version is swapped in all at once. There’s no in-between where your visitors catch a half-broken page.
Every event gets a QR code, free
Add an event and it comes with a QR code, ready to drop on a bulletin, a flyer, or a slide. People scan straight there, no long URL to type. Generated automatically, with zero extra effort.
What it's not
Not a page builder. You don't get to drag the layout around, and that's the point: your site still looks like a professional made it, a year and a hundred edits later.
Not lock-in. Your content is your files, and you can walk away with everything, readable, any time you like.
Not magic. Just a known idea, publishing straight from version control, taken further and aimed at one specific outcome.
Want a site that runs on it?
Every project in our work is built on AerisForge. Let's talk about one of your own.