SwissTechNova left Webflow behind and got a site it fully owns
SwissTechNova is a Zürich architecture and engineering practice serving clients in five languages. ShiftPress rebuilt its Webflow site as fast static code, generated the full multilingual version in an instant, and put it live in under a week, while the founder was on vacation.
IndustryArchitecture & engineering
StudioZollikon (ZH), CH
Languages5
PlatformWebflow → ShiftPress
< 1 week
from kickoff to live
built while on vacation
5
languages, whole site
built in an instant
0
builder fees & plugins to run
the site is theirs
2
content autopilots
blog & social, hands-off
Outcomes from the SwissTechNova migration, July 2026. Independent page-speed benchmarks will be added here once the remaining Webflow builder scripts are trimmed from the copied site.
Who they are
Swiss precision, from first sketch to finished building
SwissTechNova is an architecture and engineering practice based in Zollikon, on the shore of Lake Zürich. It takes a project from the first sketch to the finished building: architecture and interior design on one side, and project delivery, capital and interim leadership on the other.
Its promise is simple: "it starts with your idea, we make it real, with the quality and precision of a Swiss engineering practice." The team averages 19 years of experience and works in five languages, so its website has to speak to clients across borders from day one.
The challenge
The builder tax
The site looked good on Webflow, but it came with the usual costs of a website builder. Four things stood out.
A subscription that owns your site
The site lived inside a builder plan. Stop paying and the site stops working. The design looked professional, but the practice was renting it, not owning it.
Every visit dragged in a stack of scripts
Each page pulled the builder runtime, jQuery, an animation library and a consent tool before it could settle, a lot of machinery the visitor never asked for, tied to a platform the team didn't control.
Five languages meant five times the work
A practice that serves clients in five languages needs the whole site in five languages. On a builder that is a manual, ongoing chore, or an agency invoice, every time the content changes.
Publishing needed a person every time
New articles and social posts only happened when someone found the hours to make them. Marketing was a to-do that kept slipping, not something the site did on its own.
The migration
How the move actually went
ShiftPress does the heavy lifting and keeps the design intact. Here is the path SwissTechNova took, start to finish, in under a week.
Step 1
Capture the whole site
ShiftPress read the live Webflow site, every page and every section, so nothing had to be rebuilt or copied over by hand.
Step 2
Rebuild as fast static code
The site came back as plain, fast HTML served from the edge: the same design, the same words, the same structure, now owned as code instead of rented from a builder.
Step 3
Generate the multilingual version, instantly
ShiftPress produced the translated version of the whole site automatically, across all five languages, and put it online right away, with no second build and no translation agency.
Step 4
Go live in under a week
Start to finish took less than a week, and it happened while the founder was on vacation. He came back to a finished, published site.
Step 5 · ongoing
Run marketing on autopilot
New blog articles now draft themselves with Blog Autopilot, SEO-structured and interlinked, and social posts are planned and produced from the site's own content, so the channels stay active with almost no manual work.
The new site
Same design, now theirs
The rebuild kept the practice's look and feel exactly, down to the hero and the typography, just delivered as fast static code the team fully owns.
Home
The hero, wordmark and language switcher, carried over faithfully and served as static code.
Architecture
Interior pages kept their editorial layout and project photography, in all five languages.
Pages from the live site after the rebuild.
“
The multilanguage version of the site was built in an instant. Quite amazing, and already online.
Pascal CornuezFounder, SwissTechNova
What they got
Built in, not bolted on
The move swapped a builder subscription for infrastructure the practice owns. The design is identical, but the site is now plain static code, with an AI editor for changes instead of a monthly plan and a stack of add-ons.
The multilingual site, the blog and the social channels are all part of the platform, not separate tools to license and wire together. New articles draft themselves, ready to publish and structured for search. Social posts come from the site's own content. And when something needs to change, it takes a sentence, not a support ticket.
“
I like the blog and social media autopilot features very much. It's quite powerful.
Pascal CornuezFounder, SwissTechNova
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Less than a week, from kickoff to a published site, and it happened while the founder was on vacation. He came back to a finished, live site with the same design, rebuilt as fast static code.
How was the multilingual version built?
SwissTechNova serves clients in five languages. ShiftPress generated the translated version of the whole site automatically and put it online immediately, with no second build, no translation agency, and no per-language plugin.
What are the blog and social autopilot features?
Blog autopilot drafts SEO-structured, interlinked articles from a topic or keyword, so the practice can publish without a content team. Social media autopilot plans and produces posts from the site's own content to keep the channels active with almost no manual work.
Did SwissTechNova keep its Webflow design?
Yes. ShiftPress copied the site faithfully, keeping the same design, words and structure, and rebuilt it as static code the practice fully owns, with an AI editor for changes instead of a builder subscription.
