Accessibility posture
Built toward WCAG 2.1 AA and Section 508 expectations — semantic structure, keyboard paths, contrast, and focus states handled during the build rather than patched after an audit.
Website Design & DevelopmentDefense · Government · Industrial
Your company is impressive.Your website should be too.
We design and build high-impact websites for defense contractors, government contractors, manufacturers, and specialized businesses.
Modern design. Modern development. Less traditional agency overhead.
Custom WebsitesWebsite RedesignDefense & GovernmentWordPress Modernization
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PLT-01 / SUSTAINMENT & MAINTENANCE
Transformations
See what happens when the website finally matches the company.
Some of the most capable companies we meet are being represented online by websites that haven't kept up with the business. We change that.
Saint Industries
Defense · Manufacturing
Wayback Machine · 2022
Capabilities
Design and development, delivered as one discipline.
No handoffs between a design shop and a dev shop. One team, one standard, start to finish.
We design the site around how your customers actually evaluate you: what they need to see first, what earns trust, and what removes doubt. Typography, imagery, and hierarchy are chosen deliberately, then documented so the brand stays consistent as you grow.
Included
- Art direction
- Design system
- Page design
- Responsive layouts
Sites are built on a modern stack with clean, semantic markup and no plugin sprawl. That means pages that load quickly, hold up under scrutiny, and can be extended later without a rebuild.
Included
- Next.js / React
- Headless CMS
- Performance budget
- Analytics wiring
We keep what still works, remove what does not, and rebuild the structure around current capability. Existing content is audited, rewritten where needed, and reorganized so the strongest parts of the business are the first things a visitor sees.
Included
- Content audit
- Information architecture
- Rebuild
- Redirect mapping
Legacy WordPress sites accumulate risk: outdated plugins, slow load times, and maintenance no one wants to own. We migrate content into a modern architecture, keep editing simple for your team, and reduce the surface area you have to worry about.
Included
- Content migration
- Editor training
- Security posture
- Hosting move
Single-purpose pages built quickly and measured properly — for a capability push, a product launch, a trade show, or a hiring campaign. Same standard as the main site, scoped to move one metric.
Included
- Message strategy
- Rapid build
- Form and CRM handoff
- Conversion tracking
Most sites are abandoned the week after they go live. We stay on to publish updates, add pages, keep dependencies current, and make incremental improvements based on what real visitors do.
Included
- Content updates
- New sections
- Monitoring
- Quarterly review
Defense & Government
We understand who is evaluating you.
A defense or government contractor's website is read by program offices, prime contractors, compliance staff, and engineers — people trained to look for signal, not marketing.
We build with that audience in mind. Clear capability, restrained presentation, and no claims the business cannot support.
Sectors served
Defense
Federal & State
Aerospace
Industrial supply
Engagement
Fixed scope
NDA on request
US-based team
Direct access
Controlled content discipline
We work with your team on what belongs on a public site and what does not. Export-sensitive and controlled program detail stays off the page by design, not by accident.
Capability presentation
Capability statements, NAICS codes, CAGE and UEI, certifications, contract vehicles, and past performance presented where evaluators expect to find them.
Hosting and security
Modern hosting with hardened defaults, HTTPS everywhere, minimal third-party scripts, and a dependency surface small enough to actually maintain.
US-based delivery
Design and development handled by our team. No offshore subcontracting of your content, imagery, or source code.
1Dev.ai is a website design and development firm. We are not a compliance authority — we build to published accessibility and security standards and coordinate with your compliance team.
How We Work
A better website without the traditional agency process.
Five stages, clearly defined. No discovery decks, no committee reviews, no status calls that exist to justify a retainer.
Stage 01 — Understand
We learn what your company actually does, who buys from you, and what makes you different.
One conversation, not a discovery series
Stage 02 — Position
We determine what visitors need to understand and how the company should be presented.
Message and structure agreed before design
Stage 03 — Design
We create a visual direction that matches the quality and capabilities of the business.
One direction, refined — not three to vote on
Stage 04 — Build & Refine
We develop the site using modern tools, test it across devices, and refine the details.
You review the real site, not a mockup
Stage 05 — Launch
We transition from the existing website and launch the new experience.
Redirects, cutover, and monitoring handled
You work directly with the people building the site. Decisions get made in hours, not scheduled for next quarter.
Fixed scopeFixed priceDirect access
The AI Advantage
Built differently.
AI has changed the economics of modern development.
1Dev.ai uses modern AI-assisted development tools to prototype faster, explore more ideas, automate repetitive development work, and spend more time refining the parts of the site customers actually experience.
This allows a small, experienced team to accomplish work that traditionally required a much larger agency.
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Faster Iteration
More versions explored in the same calendar time.
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More Creative Exploration
Directions get tested instead of theorized about.
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Less Agency Overhead
Fewer billable hours spent on repetitive work.
AI helps us build better websites.
Why 1Dev
Agency-level work without the agency machinery.
You are paying for design and engineering. Everything else is overhead.
Axis
Traditional Agency
1Dev.ai
Timeline
Four to six months, most of it waiting
Roughly five weeks, start to launch
Team
Sold by a principal, built by juniors
The people you meet are the people who build it
Cost structure
Account managers, offices, and layers you pay for
Small senior team, no overhead to subsidize
Technology
Page builders and a stack of plugins
Modern framework, clean code, real performance budget
After launch
Handed over and effectively abandoned
Continuous improvement as part of the relationship
What you receive is a website designed and engineered by people, with every decision reviewed by the person responsible for it. Judgment is not delegated to a machine.
How we build fasterIndustries · Who We Build For
Built for companies that build serious things.
We work in fields where the product is physical, the standards are real, and the buyer is technical. Generic does not survive there.
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Held to a real standard
Our clients are audited, inspected, and qualified by people who do not accept a claim at face value. The website should be built to survive the same scrutiny.
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Read by a technical buyer
Engineers, procurement officers, and program staff arrive with a specific question. They are not browsing, and they do not stay long enough to be persuaded slowly.
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Judged before contact
In every one of these sectors the evaluation happens before anyone calls. Most of the people deciding will never tell you they visited the site at all.
SEC-01Primary Sector
Defense & Government
Primes, subcontractors, and suppliers being evaluated by program offices, contracting officers, and technical buyers who read a website for signal.
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Manufacturing & Industrial
Fabrication, machining, and production at scale.
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Fire & Wildfire
Suppression equipment, response services, land management.
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Mining & Energy
Extraction, materials, infrastructure, and power.
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Engineering & Technical
Systems, controls, and precision engineering firms.
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Specialty Businesses
Niche operations where the buyer already knows the field.
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Not listed? If the work is technical and the buyer is serious, it fits.
All sectorsWordPress Modernization
Your WordPress site doesn't need another patch.It may need a replacement.
Many companies are maintaining websites built years ago around outdated themes, plugins, and design decisions.
We can take the useful content, structure, and knowledge from an existing WordPress site and rebuild it as a cleaner, faster, more modern website.
wp-content / themes / legacy
- Theme purchased in 2016
- 14 plugins, 9 out of date
- Mobile layout breaking
- Six seconds to first paint
modern build / static + cms
- Purpose-built design system
- No page-builder dependency
- Responsive to every breakpoint
- Sub-second first paint target
Potential benefits
01Modern visual design
02Better mobile experience
03Faster performance
04Cleaner architecture
05Reduced plugin dependency
06Easier maintenance
07Clearer messaging
08Better conversion pathways
This is a replacement, not maintenance.
We do not sell plugin updates or retainer patchwork. We rebuild the site so there is far less to maintain in the first place — and so it finally converts the traffic you already have.
Modernize My WebsiteSend the URL. We will tell you honestly whether it is worth rebuilding.
Testimonials
What our clients say.
Recorded on camera and written in their own words. No paraphrasing, no composites.
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Build Standard
Engineered to a spec, not assembled from parts.
Every build is held to the same measurable targets. If it does not meet them, it does not ship.
< 1.5sLargest Contentful PaintTarget on a standard connection
AAWCAG 2.1 ConformanceContrast, focus, semantics, keyboard
100%Responsive CoveragePhone through ultrawide
0Page Builder PluginsHand-built markup only
Stack
Chosen for longevity and speed. Nothing exotic, nothing that traps you with a single vendor.
Framework
- Next.js
- React
- TypeScript
Interface
- Tailwind CSS
- Design tokens
- Motion
Content
- Headless CMS
- MDX
- Structured data
Delivery
- Edge CDN
- CI deploys
- Preview builds
Integration
- CRM handoff
- Forms + routing
- Analytics
Assurance
- Lighthouse gates
- Cross-device QA
- Uptime monitoring
About
A small studio built around one observation.
The gap between how capable a company is and how capable its website looks is often enormous — and it is almost always costing the company work it would have won.
1Dev.ai exists to close that gap. We are a design and development studio working with defense contractors, government contractors, manufacturers, and specialized businesses whose reputation is built on precision and whose website has not caught up to it.
We keep the team small on purpose. You talk to the people doing the work, decisions get made in hours instead of weeks, and the money goes into the build rather than the org chart.
Operating principles
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Restraint is the point
Serious companies are not sold by decoration. We remove everything that is not doing work.
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Structure before surface
If the information architecture is wrong, no amount of design will fix it. We start there.
III
Say only what is true
No invented metrics, no borrowed credibility. The site should survive a skeptical reader.
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Build it to last
Clean code, documented systems, and no dependencies you will regret in two years.
Website Review
What would we change about your website?
Send us your current site. Tell us what's bothering you. We'll take a look.
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Your company has evolved.Has your website?
Show us what you're working with. We'll tell you what we'd change.
Accepting projectsTwo-day review turnaroundNo sales call required