Ridge Labs Case Study:
A Product Site, Not a Company Site
An engineer built a plugin that models culverts inside Civil 3D. He needed a site that could explain it to other engineers, and sell it.
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The Problem
A specialist tool for a narrow audience. The visitor is a civil engineer who already knows Civil 3D, and he decides in about a minute whether this plugin does something he needs.
Our Approach
We built it as a product site rather than a company site: what the tool is, what it does, what it looks like in use, what it costs, and a trial to download before paying anything. The design went to the client first, and his changes went in before a line of the site was written.
The Outcome
Seven pages carrying one product, from the first explanation through to checkout, with a free trial and a separate route to sales for larger teams. We finished with a session teaching him to run the site himself, and we are still on call for questions.
قصة المشروع
من الرؤية إلى الإطلاق — كل خطوة مدروسة
- Tarek Hamouda reached us through the contact form on our own site
- He had searched online for a web design and development company near Sheikh Zayed
- He told us the reason he made contact was our work with clients across a number of countries and our presence in more than one
- We arranged a first call to hear what the product was and who buys it
- Went through the product with him: what Culvert Builder does inside AutoCAD and Civil 3D, and who it is for
- Established that the visitor is a practising engineer, not a procurement manager, and will judge the tool on what it produces
- Set out the pages needed to take someone from never having heard of it to holding a licence
- Agreed a delivery timeline and a cost before any work started
- Designed and built the interface and presented it to him for review
- He asked for changes to it
- Implemented them in full and presented the revised design
- Development started only after the design was settled
- Built the seven pages of the site on the approved design
- Built the licence tiers, with checkout on the two standard plans and a sales route for enterprise
- Set up the trial download so a visitor can run the plugin inside their own AutoCAD before paying
- Worked through the testing stages across the pages and the purchase path
- Met with him to walk through the dashboard and show him how to run the site himself
- Handed the site over with him able to change it without coming back to us
- Stayed reachable after delivery to answer questions as they came up
- Kept that line open with no support contract attached to it
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الأداء & التسليم
One Product, Seven Pages
Home, Product, Features, Gallery, Pricing, About and Contact, all carrying a single plugin, so nothing on the site competes with the thing being sold.
The Feature Grid
Ten capabilities laid out so an engineer can scan them and find the one that matters to him, whether that is batch generation across a whole corridor or keeping a model editable after it is built.
A Gallery of Real Output
Screenshots of the plugin running inside Civil 3D and the models it produces, because a tool for engineers is judged on what comes out of it rather than on how it is described.
Three Licence Tiers
Basic and Advanced buy straight from the page. Enterprise routes to the team, because a company licensing across an office needs a conversation rather than a checkout.
A Trial Before the Price
The trial download sits in the navigation, above pricing. Someone buying a plugin wants to see it open in their own AutoCAD first.
Direct Lines to the Founder
Email and WhatsApp on the contact page, which for a one-product company run by the engineer who wrote the plugin is the honest answer to who a buyer will be talking to.
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Why He Called Us
He found us by searching, and got in touch because of the map.
Tarek looked for a web company near Sheikh Zayed and found ours. What he told us made him pick up the phone was not the portfolio in general but one thing inside it: that we had worked for clients in a number of countries and were present in more than one. He was selling a plugin to engineers anywhere, and he wanted the people building the site to have done that kind of work before.
A Product Site, Not a Company Site
The menu was the first decision, and it settled everything after it.
A company site opens with who we are. A product site opens with what the thing does. Ridge Labs has one product, so the navigation carries the product: what it is, what it does, what it looks like running, what it costs. About sits sixth, where a buyer who already wants the tool goes to check who is behind it. That order is a sales sequence, and it was fixed before the design started.
The Design Was Settled Before the Code
Changes are cheap in a design file and expensive in a built site.
We designed the interface and put it in front of him before writing the site. He asked for changes and we made them. Only then did development begin. It is the order we use on every project, and the reason is arithmetic: a change to a layout that has not been built yet costs an afternoon, and the same change after the build costs the build.
The Part After the Invoice
We taught him to run it, then stayed reachable.
The handover was a working session rather than a file transfer, and he left it able to change the site himself. After delivery we kept answering questions as they arrived, with nothing attached to them. This is the part clients remember, and it is why the people we work with send us the next one.
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