Aurelian

About this template

Aurelian is a complete website for independent automation advisers. Written from the seat the firm occupies before a vendor contract is signed, it prices what a business case will not clear, and puts that number in front of the board first.

The difference is the exception line. Every agent ROI calculator multiplies tasks by minutes by hourly rate and calls the answer a payback period. None price the tasks the agent gets wrong, or the person who checks its work before it goes back out. Aurelian's payback model prices both, side by side. Take 500 tasks a month at 6 minutes each and a 35 an hour loaded rate: the typical pitch returns 2.9 months and 14,340 in the first year. Price the exceptions in at 92% accuracy and 12 minutes each, and 40 tasks a month still need a person: 3,360 off the first-year headline, and the honest payback moves to 3.5 months.

Ten pages plus two CMS detail templates and a custom 404: home, practice, a full payback model page, engagements with a detail page, fees, the firm, notes with a detail page, enquiries with a working contact form, privacy and terms.

Engagements and notes are CMS collections, edited as content rather than design. Each engagement stores its own hours returned, payback months, accuracy and exceptions a month as numbers, driving the card and the detail page.

Agent accuracy and minutes per exception are controls, not hard-coded numbers, and the currency switches across eight options.

This is a full retarget, not a palette swap. True black replaces white, champagne gold is the only accent, and Instrument Serif sets the display type over wide-tracked small caps at a 150/110/76 rhythm, centred. Nine isometric 3D renders ship with the template, and home keeps the twelve-state animated band on a warmed cream chip, because a dark canvas needs contrast a light one does not.

Every colour comes from one of ten tokens, all contrast-checked against the dark canvas, so rebranding is a colour change rather than a rebuild.