METHODOLOGY · THE WDA STANDARD™

What ships by default.
Before custom work begins.

The Standard is the set of engineered defaults every WebDevAuto engagement ships with — Foundation, Growth, or custom build. Not "premium features." Not "best practices." Table stakes. We ship them by default because the rest of the engineering doesn't work without them.

WHY_THE_STANDARD_EXISTS

Most agencies sell these as upgrades.

You've seen the proposal: "We'll add schema markup for $2,500." "Lighthouse optimization is a separate engagement." "Accessibility audit is $4,000 if you want it." It's the same play across every agency.

We don't sell them as upgrades because the rest of the engineering breaks without them. A site that loads in 4 seconds doesn't convert. A CRM that gets added in month 6 has 6 months of leaks you can't recover. An accessibility audit done after launch finds 200 issues that cost 10× more to fix than building correctly.

The Standard is what you get because the alternative is a system that doesn't work.

DEFAULT_CAPABILITIES · 08 ENGINEERED IN

The eight things
we ship before custom work begins.

Sub-2s mobile load

Lighthouse 95+. Sub-2s LCP on 4G. No exceptions across any page we ship.

Schema + structured data

JSON-LD on every page. OpenGraph, sitemap, canonicals. Pre-rendered HTML for crawlers.

CRM seed on day one

Single-tenant Firestore namespace. Lead routing rules wired. No "we'll add CRM later."

Event instrumentation

Page-view + scroll-depth + CTA-click. Custom event API for product surfaces. GA/Mixpanel/Segment as opt-in.

Lead capture + routing

Forms with anti-spam validation, UTM/source attribution. SMS + email routing baked in. Webhook fan-out to CRM.

Production hosting

Firebase Hosting + Cloud Run. Per-environment configs. Uptime monitoring + alert routing on day one.

Accessibility AA minimum

WCAG AA contrast. Keyboard nav. Reduced-motion respected. Screen-reader landmarks. We test in VoiceOver.

Security defaults

HTTPS-only. Per-tenant data isolation. Stripe webhook signature verification. No secrets in client bundles.

LIFECYCLE_STAGES · HOW_THE_STANDARD_SHIPS

The Standard rides with every engagement type.

  1. 01

    Foundation

    The Standard ships with the site + CRM seed in 4 weeks. Tier price covers everything in The Standard plus the custom site build.

  2. 02

    Growth Engineering

    Engineer team operates The Standard month over month. Anything that breaks (schema drift, accessibility regression, perf degradation) is caught and fixed by the retainer.

  3. 03

    Custom App-Builds

    Even on $40k+ custom infrastructure builds, The Standard applies. We don't skip schema on a marketplace platform because it's "custom."

PROTOCOL_SPECS · ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA

Hard numbers. Verifiable.
Audited before sign-off.

Every metric below is checked before any engagement we ship goes live. Your project doesn't move to "deployed" until each one passes.

METRICTARGETVERIFIED VIA
LCP (mobile, 4G)< 1.5sLighthouse CI
CLS (lifetime)< 0.05PerformanceObserver
INP (p75)< 200msWeb Vitals
Body text contrast≥ 7:1 (AAA)axe-core
Tap targets≥ 44×44pxmanual + lint
Reduced-motion compliance100% of animationsCSS audit
Schema coverageEvery page routeSchema.org validator
Bundle size (initial CSS)< 50KB gzVite analyzer

Build with the
Standard already shipped.

Foundation gets your site + CRM + everything in The Standard live in 4 weeks. Growth operates it. App-builds inherit it. No upgrade tickets. No add-ons. Just shipped.