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Website and AI chatbot case study
Optimize Australia
A reliability engineering consultancy had expertise and no shopfront. This is the shopfront: fast, editable by them, and staffed after hours by an assistant trained on their own material.
- IndustryReliability and asset management
- UsersIndustrial operators and plant managers
- DeliveredOctober 2024
- ServicesWeb Design, Development, AI
Overview
Optimize Australia advise industrial operators on reliability engineering and asset management — keeping expensive equipment running, and knowing which maintenance is worth doing. The expertise was established. The website was not.
The brief was not just a brochure. It had to carry the services, publish a blog worth reading, list affiliate products through a custom field system, take consultation and quotation enquiries through separate forms, and answer questions without a person at the other end.
Built on WordPress and Elementor over the Hello Elementor theme — chosen because it adds almost nothing to the page — with custom CSS and JavaScript where a plugin would have cost more than it saved.
- WordPress
- Elementor
- Hello Elementor
- Custom Fields
- Custom CSS
- JavaScript
- AI Chatbot
- SEO
Project video
optimize australiaStrategic consulting, with a shopfront to match.
The build, from an empty landing page through to the assistant answering on it.
Key capabilities
The services, said plainly
Reliability engineering and asset management, each with its own page, written so a plant manager recognises their own problem in it.
A blog that is part of the site
Not a bolted-on subdomain. Built into the same templates, so publishing is writing rather than a deployment.
Affiliate products, from custom fields
A product listing driven by post fields rather than a full commerce plugin — the smallest thing that could carry a catalogue and a revenue line.
Two forms, two intents
A consultation request and a quotation request are different conversations, so they are different forms and land as different enquiries.
An assistant trained on the site
It answers from the company's own pages, which is what stops it inventing consulting advice on their behalf.
The challenge
Decades of engineering judgement, and no way for anyone to find out.
Reliability consulting is bought on trust, and trust is built by reading something and recognising that the writer knows the work. Optimize Australia had the expertise and no surface on which to show it — no case studies a prospect could read, no articles that would turn up in a search, and no way to ask a small question without committing to a phone call. Every enquiry arrived cold, and the ones that never arrived cost the most.
Nothing to read before a call
A prospect wants to see how you think before they book thirty minutes with you. There was nowhere to do that.
Australia is a long way from most time zones
An enquiry from another hemisphere waits until morning, and by morning it has usually gone somewhere else.
One form for two different questions
"Can you help us?" and "what would this cost?" need different answers, and a single contact form makes them indistinguishable.
Our solution
A site light enough to be quick, and structured enough to grow.
Everything here is chosen against a page-weight budget. Hello Elementor rather than a theme with a demo site bundled inside it; custom fields rather than a commerce plugin for a list of affiliate products; custom CSS and JavaScript wherever a plugin would have earned its place only by being easier for us. What that buys is a site the client can keep adding to — a post at a time, a product at a time — without it getting slower each year.
Products as posts, with fields
Custom fields on a post type carry the affiliate listings. No cart, no checkout, no plugin suite maintaining an inventory that does not exist.
The assistant reads the same pages you do
Trained on the site's own content, so it can explain a service and stop where the site stops rather than improvising.
How it works
The claim, over the work
A photograph of an actual plant rather than a stock handshake, and two buttons that go to two different places — a consultation and the product catalogue. The assistant's launcher sits at the bottom right of every page from here down.
How they work, in three cards
The methodology section exists because consulting is bought on approach rather than deliverables. Three cards, each a sentence, sitting where a prospect is deciding whether these are people who think like they do.
Evidence, not adjectives
Case studies with photographs from real engagements. It is the part of the page that does the work the home page only promises, and the reason the blog and this band share a template.
What we had to solve
A page builder on a performance budget
Solution: Elementor is generous with markup and most themes are generous again on top. Hello Elementor is deliberately close to empty, so the page loads this design and nothing else — which is what let a builder-based site stay quick.
A catalogue without a commerce plugin
Solution: The affiliate listings needed structured fields, a template and nothing else — no cart, no stock, no checkout. Custom fields on a post type gave the client a listing they can add to from the editor, at a fraction of the weight and maintenance of a full store.
Keeping the assistant inside its own knowledge
Solution: An assistant on a consultancy's website that answers a technical question from general knowledge is a liability. Its knowledge base is the site's own content, so it explains the services and hands over rather than offering engineering advice nobody at the company has signed off.
What the client said
Bug-free on delivery, and rated five out of five.
Working with Jh Akash was fantastic! He exceeded expectations with an impeccable, bug-free website, showing incredible attention to detail. His deep understanding, timely delivery, and polite demeanor made the whole process a breeze. 🙌
Optimize Australia
Client, via Fiverr
Questions
Because the client publishes. A blog, new services and a growing product list all had to be editable by them, and a custom build would have meant a developer in the loop for every post.
As posts with custom fields. Adding one is filling in a form in the editor — no plugin suite, no inventory to keep, and nothing to update when the affiliate link changes.
Consultation requests and quotation requests are separate forms and arrive as separate enquiries, so they can be answered by the right person with the right amount of detail.
Yes. It is trained on the site's own content, so publishing a page or a post is most of the work — and the knowledge base takes plain text on top of that.
Expertise nobody can find yet?
Let's give it somewhere to live.