Cavalier Design Group
The Raleigh Room at the Historic Cavalier Hotel: a gallery wall of gilt-framed portraits, a grand piano, and magenta velvet armchairs
Cavalier Design Group

Websites worth framing.

Cavalier Design Group builds high-performance websites and search strategies for organizations that refuse to be ordinary.

Why Cavalier

Most agencies rent the same tools and reskin the same templates. We engineered our own a private platform that designs, protects, and grows every site we ship. The difference is not taste. It is machinery.

Web DesignE-commerceCustom DevelopmentAI IntegrationsSEOGoogle AdsAnalyticsE-CommerceIntegrations

Four disciplines. One standard.

Every engagement is built to perform, not just to look the part.

Selected work.

Three recent commissions, on the wall. The full collection hangs in the portfolio.

The Cavalier Platform

Software no other agency has.

We build and run our own platform — five proprietary systems that design, protect, measure, and grow every site we ship. They come with every engagement. They are not for sale.

PortalEvery project, live.

A private portal for every engagement: watch design rounds land, pin feedback to the exact pixel, approve work, and read reports written for decision makers — not a status-call email chain in sight.

  • Review rounds with pixel-pinned notes
  • Approvals and progress in real time
  • Plain-English performance reports
Client Portal — Project view
Homepage designRound 2 in review
Copy & photographyApproved
Monthly reportReady to read
Build progress82%

VaultEvery byte, recoverable.

Automated backups of your site, content, and data — verified, stored off-site, and restorable in minutes. Most agencies hope nothing ever breaks. We rehearse for the day it does.

  • Automated, verified backups
  • Off-site copies of everything
  • Restores measured in minutes, not days
Vault — Protection status
Site codeBacked up 2 min ago
DatabaseBacked up 2 min ago
Content libraryBacked up 2 min ago
Last restore rehearsal: passedRestore point ready

PatrolEvery night, on watch.

While you sleep, Patrol scans every site we host for vulnerabilities, applies patches automatically, and watches uptime around the clock. Problems are fixed before your visitors — or you — ever see them.

  • Nightly vulnerability scans
  • Patches applied automatically
  • Uptime watched 24/7
Patrol — Overnight watch
Nightly security scan0 critical findings
Dependency patchApplied automatically
Uptime, last 30 days99.99%
Watching while you sleep

ReconEvery market, mapped.

Before we quote a dollar, Recon maps your ground: search visibility, competitors, technical debt, and the gaps worth taking. Strategy here starts from evidence, never opinion.

  • Deep site and search audits
  • Competitor intelligence
  • Findings on the table before the first call
Recon — Market intelligence
Search visibility62 → 89
Competitors mapped3 tracked

PublishEvery story, everywhere.

One engine publishes your case studies, articles, and news straight to your site — structured so search engines rank it and answer engines cite it. Content that compounds instead of expiring.

  • One-click publishing to your site
  • Structured for search and AI citation
  • A library that builds authority over time
Publish — Content engine

Case study: consultation requests doubled

Structured, cited, and search-ready

Published toYour siteSearch enginesAnswer engines

Included with every engagement. Never licensed, never rented, never for sale.

Put the Platform to Work

Reliable platforms. Peak performance.

We build on secure, proven infrastructure and hold every launch to measurable standards, so your site stays fast, safe, and online.

  • Performance

    Our 1031 Ivy Exchange build scores 100 on Google PageSpeed. Every site is held to that bar.

  • Security

    Hardened hosting, managed updates, SSL everywhere, and monitoring that catches problems before your visitors do.

  • Reliability

    Proven platforms and tested deployments. The relationship does not end at go-live, and neither does the uptime.

A process designed to eliminate surprises.

  1. 01

    Discovery

    A deep dive into your business, audience, competitors, and goals. No template thinking.

  2. 02

    Strategy

    A documented creative brief and sitemap before a single pixel is designed.

  3. 03

    Design

    Iterative design with your feedback at every stage. You see it before it is built.

  4. 04

    Build

    Precision development, tested across every device and browser.

  5. 05

    Launch & Grow

    SEO setup, analytics, and ongoing support after go-live.

The work speaks. So do our clients.

“They didn’t just build us a website. They built us a sales tool. Consultation requests doubled in 60 days.”
Sandy Kenslow
CEO, Riviera RCM
“Cavalier understood our brand immediately. Professional without being stiff.”
Tony Surber
AWS Law & Title
“Our interactive state map became the centerpiece of our advocacy work.”
Yes. Every Kid.
Education policy non-profit
Magenta velvet armchairs beneath the gilt-framed gallery wall of the Raleigh Room

We build brands worth remembering.

Most business websites are forgettable, and forgettable costs real money. Our work is built around one principle: every pixel should earn its place.

We take our name and our standard from the Historic Cavalier Hotel, where the Raleigh Room hangs classical portraits beside modern art and makes it work. Eclectic, elegant, and impossible to ignore. That is the bar for every screen we ship.

Ready to build something remarkable?

Tell us about your project and we will tell you how we would approach it. No obligation, no templates.