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Aileron Shift is a digital agency and AI consultancy for brands that measure results. We build and rescue WordPress platforms, engineer e-commerce that converts, make sites accessible to every visitor, and put AI to work on content, SEO and the busywork strangling your team. Every discipline below is a control surface — a small, precise thing that steers the whole aircraft. Every engagement starts the same way: a free site scan, an honest readout, and a fixed-scope route to where you need to be.
AI Consulting & Automation.
Most teams don’t have an AI problem — they have a busywork problem. Scheduling, routing, reporting, content assembly: hours of skilled time spent on work a machine should carry. We audit how the work actually flows, then build production automations that hold up after launch — intelligent scheduling, dynamic content generation and real-time analytics wired into the tools you already use.
No science projects. Every automation ships with guardrails, human override and a number attached: hours returned, cycle time cut, error rate down. When SkyOne Federal Credit Union asked us to untangle their workflow, the operation came back 85% more efficient — with regulatory compliance intact.
Web Accessibility (WCAG).
One in four adults lives with a disability, and an inaccessible site turns them away at the door — while ADA demand letters get cheaper to send every year. Overlay widgets don’t fix it; they paper over it. We build to WCAG standards from the first wireframe: semantic structure, keyboard flow, contrast, focus states and screen-reader fidelity as engineering requirements, not an afterthought.
Already live? We remediate existing sites the same way we build new ones — a prioritized audit, fixes at the template level so they hold, and documentation you can put in front of counsel. This very site ships with reduced-motion fallbacks, visible focus rings and AAA-contrast type on every page.
AI-Powered Content Development.
Content calendars starve because production is expensive — and generic AI output is worse than nothing, because it reads like everyone else. We build editorial systems where machine learning does the heavy lifting and your brand keeps the byline: trend analysis to catch topics early, audience-interest prediction to choose what’s worth writing, and personalized messaging tuned to the reader.
For AXS TV we put this engine behind a broadcast brand’s digital presence. Pageviews doubled, average engagement time per user grew 91%, and digital revenue grew 124% — because the content was built for the audience it reached, at a pace no newsroom could staff.
SEO & Metadata Optimization.
Rankings decay quietly: a slow template here, a missing schema block there, metadata written once and never touched. Most agencies notice in the quarterly report. We wire SEO into the running site — keyword generation, metadata optimization and ranking improvement driven by live performance analysis, with technical fixes shipped as they’re found.
The work is unglamorous and it compounds: crawlable structure, Core Web Vitals, structured data, internal linking that actually routes authority. When we rebuilt the Jewish Community Foundation’s site, targeted terms climbed 33% inside the first 90 days — before the content program even started.
WordPress Development & Rescue.
WordPress runs almost half the web, which means almost half the web’s technical debt lives there too. We do custom builds the right way — child themes, clean templates, no plugin roulette — and we rescue platforms other teams have written off: hacked installs, abandoned agency builds, and migrations off antiquated stacks like end-of-life Drupal.
The Foundation came to us stranded on discontinued Drupal with failing migration tools. Ninety days later they were on WordPress with enterprise hosting, 67% faster, easier to update, and monitored around the clock. Malware scanning and security oversight never clock out — and if you want one throat to choke, we host what we build.
E-Commerce Development.
Most storefronts leak revenue in the last thirty seconds — a slow checkout, a confusing option, a missed upsell. We engineer the whole funnel: dynamic pricing, offer personalization, monetization strategy and checkout flows tested against real behavior, on WooCommerce or fully custom platforms.
Meadowlark Media’s store grew sales 600% in its first year, on a 450% higher conversion rate. Huck Finn Festival needed ticketing, live streaming, a merch store and a custom checkout stitched into one property — margin grew 475%. Ask us about either one.
Four legs. No mystery.
Departure check
The free scan maps your accessibility, SEO, performance and content issues in about a minute. Or just email us. Either way, a senior person replies inside 24 hours.
Flight plan
A fixed-scope quote with the route plotted: what we’ll build, what it costs, what number it moves. No discovery-call gauntlet, no retainer fog.
The legs
We build in short legs with a demo at every waypoint. The people you met in the first call are the people writing the code.
Landing & ops
Launch, measure against the number we promised, then keep it flying — monitored hosting, security scans and real support, 24/7.
“Built a website that not only looks great but truly works for our business — whether it’s promoting events, updating tap lists, or helping customers find us.”
Fair questions.
How does an engagement start?
With a departure check, not a discovery-call gauntlet. Run the free site scan or email hello@aileronshift.com — a senior person replies within 24 hours with an honest read on where you are and a plotted route to where you need to be.
How is pricing structured?
Project work is quoted fixed-scope after the departure check, so you know the number before we start. Managed hosting is published openly — plans start at $25/month and scale to enterprise SLAs. No retainers you can’t explain to your CFO.
How long does a website rebuild take?
A full platform rescue — including a migration off a dead stack — has taken us 90 days from kickoff to launch. Smaller builds ship faster: we launched three astronaut sites in four months, in parallel, on time and on budget.
Do you work alongside in-house teams?
Constantly. Senior hands only, so your team talks to the people actually building — with git endpoints for your developers, documented handoffs, and training so the work keeps working after we land.
Can you host what you build?
Yes — dedicated containers, Cloudflare CDN/WAF, daily security scans and a 99.99% uptime SLA on enterprise plans. One team owns the build and the runway it lives on.
Do you fix accessibility on existing sites, or only new builds?
Both. New builds are WCAG-compliant from the first wireframe; existing sites get a prioritized audit and template-level remediation — real fixes, not an overlay widget.