Living System Audit

The audit that tells you what's true, not what sells

A fixed-scope measurement of your site's carbon, performance, accessibility, claim-safety, and security, handed back straight, even when the honest answer is that you don't need us.

Example scorecard

  • Digital footprint Needs work
  • Performance & UX Fine
  • Accessibility Act now
  • Claim-safety Needs work
  • Security & resilience Fine

An illustration, not your result. Every audit is scored like this, then explained in plain language.

Fixed scope

What's included

An honest, measured baseline of what's actually true about your site, before you spend money changing it. Five things, measured, not asserted:

Digital footprint

Page weight, CO₂e per visit, green-hosting status, carbon rating on the Sustainable Web Design scale.

Performance & UX

Core Web Vitals, PageSpeed mobile and desktop, the single biggest drag on the page.

Accessibility

WCAG 2.2 AA automated scan, top 5 friction points with remediation priority.

Claim-safety

Your existing sustainability claims checked against the EU Green Claims directive, flagged green, amber, or red.

Security & resilience

Security headers, HTTPS/TLS, known vulnerabilities in the scripts your site loads, checked as pass or fail.

When relevantWorkflow & automation

If your site runs real processes behind it, booking, ordering, manual admin, we map those too and flag where automation would help. If it's a straightforward marketing site, we tell you that instead of inventing something to fill the space.

Proof, not promises

See a sample report

See exactly what lands in your inbox: measured numbers for every dimension, a plain-language read on what they mean, and the fixes worth doing first, with the limits of each result stated openly.

View the sample report

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Where you stand: needs work.

  • Footprint 0.27g CO₂e per visit on the homepage, grade D
    Needs work
  • Accessibility 14 findings, 4 serious
    Act now
  • Speed 61 of 100 on a phone, 84 on desktop (PageSpeed)
    Needs work

Plus claims, security and workflow, each measured, then explained, and the four actions to take first.

One number, no surprises

Price and process

Fixed scope

Living System Audit

€500

Credited in full against your project. Build with us afterwards and the audit costs you nothing.

If the audit finds nothing worth acting on, you don't pay.

For a standard website, up to 15 pages. VAT-exempt under §19 UStG.

Sites larger than 15 pages are scoped as a larger audit, not turned away, so ask.

No website yet? Then there is nothing to measure. Skip the audit and talk to us about a build instead.

  1. Tell us about your site.
  2. We confirm it's a fit.
  3. You pay €500.
  4. Within about five working days you get your audit and a scoped proposal for what comes next.

Questions

Common questions

Why does an audit cost money if there's no guarantee you'll hire us after?

Because measuring your site properly takes real time, and because charging for it means our findings aren't shaped by hoping you'll say yes to a bigger project. If you walk away after the audit, you keep an honest report and we keep our independence.

How long does it take?

About five working days from when we confirm the audit is a fit.

What does "credited" mean?

If you move forward with a project after the audit, the €500 comes off the project price. If you don't, you keep the report and owe nothing further.

What if you find nothing wrong?

In practice that's rare: five dimensions, and most sites have at least one real gap. If it happens, you don't pay. We'd rather tell you that for free than invent findings to justify the fee, which is the same reason we charge unconditionally in the first place.

What if we're not a fit?

We'll tell you honestly, before any payment is taken, and point you toward someone better suited if we can.

Is this a certified audit?

No. It's an honest, evidence-based measurement using the same public tools anyone can check, not a legal or certification scheme. See the sample report for the full explicit limits.

Ready for an honest look?

One fixed price, one clear report, and a scoped proposal you can take or leave.