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A new brand, a fixed launch date, and a site that had one job.

Three business lines, a new brand, and a launch date tied to the reveal. The site got there by doing one job above the others: turning founder leads into discovery calls.

Client Humans of Purpose, Melbourne
Engagement Website rebuild & launch, fixed scope
Year 2026 · Live
Disciplines IA · WordPress · Migration · HubSpot · SEO
The rebuilt Humans of Purpose homepage: the headline Where Purpose Becomes Power over a duotone photographic collage.
The rebuilt homepage at humansofpurpose.com, carrying the new brand.
01 / The situation

A Squarespace site that couldn't carry a rebrand or three business lines.

Three audiences on one site, and a brand arriving in weeks.

Humans of Purpose runs three things at once: an Agency selling marketing services, a Salon of podcast and events, and an Academy training the next cohort. The Squarespace site had to carry all three, and a completely new brand was arriving with a public launch date attached.

Give equal weight to all three and the site converts none of them. So they were ranked.

  • First: convert founder leads into a discovery call with the Agency.
  • Second: the Salon, the podcast and events that build the trust feeding it.
  • Third: the Academy, the impact engine.
02 / The approach

Fix the scope to protect the date.

Sign off the architecture first, then build against it.

With launch tied to a brand reveal, the biggest threat to the date was structural churn mid-build. The full sitemap and information architecture were signed off before the build started, with wireframes for every core template. Structural changes after that point became change requests, priced separately.

Scope was cut to the pages and integrations that mattered most; everything else was listed as out of scope and quotable later. The brand system was staged as a dependency: typography, colour and components dropped in when the brand designer delivered them, with one coordinated round of refinement.

Navigation follows the ranking. Services, Salon, Academy, About, Contact. Case studies surface from the Services page and the home grid instead of taking a top-nav slot, and legal pages live in the footer.

03 / What was built

A custom WordPress theme replacing Squarespace, without losing the search equity.

The rebuild

  • A custom WordPress theme on a block foundation with ACF, covering six core templates plus a dedicated Deep Now page.
  • The new brand implemented across typography, colour and components.
  • A case-study post type with grid and long-form templates, populated at launch, so the team publishes its own proof without a developer.
  • Squarespace migration with a full 301 redirect map to protect search rankings.
  • HubSpot throughout. Contact form, newsletter, and a Meetings link wired straight to the discovery-call goal.
  • Spotify and Instagram embeds.
  • SEO baseline. RankMath, metadata across every in-scope page, sitemap, robots.txt and schema.
04 / The outcome

Launched with the brand it was built to carry.

Live at humansofpurpose.com.

The rebuilt site launched alongside the new brand and is live at humansofpurpose.com. The old Squarespace URLs survive only as redirects.

Every path through the site still runs where it was designed to run: to a discovery call. And the machinery belongs to the team now. Case studies and pages go up straight from the CMS, no developer required.

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