CoAd

Modernizing an established workforce brand for its next stage of growth

Overview

Modernizing an established workforce brand for its next stage of growth

CoAd helps businesses navigate the complexities of workforce management through a combination of technology, expertise, and human support.

The company already had decades of experience and a strong service offering. The opportunity was to make its brand and digital presence feel as modern and capable as the business behind them.

Role

Digital Designer

Scope

Creative Direction, Brand Design, Website Design, UI/UX Design, Webflow Development

Locations

Team

Charity Hudnall, CMO

Prateek Maitra, Head of Growth

Casey Marx, Director, Web Experience

Ryan Balck, Digital Marketing Manager

Timeline

May 2026
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Present
CoAd home page
CoAd home page

Context

Bringing an established brand forward

Workforce management is a crowded category.

Companies need help with payroll, HR, compliance, benefits, and the growing complexity of managing people—but many providers communicate those services through dated visual systems and interchangeable corporate language.

CoAd had the experience and expertise.

The brand needed to communicate it with more confidence.

The goal was not to make the company feel like a startup. It was to modernize an established business without losing the credibility it had earned over time.

Previous CoAdvantage's home page
Previous Primepay's home page

Direction

Balancing expertise with approachability

The new direction needed to feel professional enough for business buyers while avoiding the cold, overly corporate language common in the category.

We focused on clearer hierarchy, stronger typography, more intentional use of color, and a visual system flexible enough to move between service information, thought leadership, conversion, and human stories.

The result feels more contemporary without becoming trend-driven.

References in the visual research board
Selected sections from the wireframes
Color palette, typography, components, motifs

Website

Making a complex offering easier to navigate

CoAd supports businesses across several interconnected workforce needs.

The website needed to make that breadth feel useful rather than overwhelming.

We reorganized the experience around clearer service paths, stronger calls to action, and more scannable content so visitors could understand where CoAd fits into their business without having to decode the entire service model first.

The visual system then helped differentiate sections while keeping the experience cohesive.

Hero with background video, value proposition, and call-to-actions
Intro with relatable moments in small businesses
Solution tour with products and services visualized by conceptual compositions
Social proof with high-quality video customer stories
Facts and stats that create clear differentation
Featured resources for articles, guides, reports, and tools
Simple and engaging pricing with dense information
Contrasting outro for primary call-to-actions
Footer with full navigation, trust seals, external links, and brand signature
Streamlined navigation with clear hirearchy
Low friction conversion page
Serving multiple communication channels with simple contact routing

Building for the marketing team

A system designed to keep growing

The website was developed in Webflow around reusable components and CMS structures.

That gives the marketing team room to expand services, publish content, create campaigns, and evolve the site without treating every new page as a redesign project.

Design and development stayed closely connected throughout the work, allowing decisions to be tested directly in the browser and refined as the system grew.

Tabs, badges, cards, icons, boxes
Callouts, buttons, rich blocks
Flexible outro sections
Customizable heros and compositions visual language
Subheadings and diverse content anatomy
Split blocks for usual rich content structure
Expanded visual layout for easier scannability

Outcome

A more current expression of an established business

The work gives CoAd a stronger foundation for its next stage of growth: clearer positioning, a more contemporary visual presence, and a website system designed to evolve alongside the business.

The project is still ongoing, so the system continues to expand as new needs emerge.

I had the opportunity to work closely with Max on one of the most ambitious website projects I’ve led, and I can’t recommend him highly enough.

We completely rebuilt CoAd.com following a major rebrand, and Max took the site from wireframes through design, development, QA, and launch in just two months. What started as roughly 30 priority pages quickly grew to more than 80, and Max handled the changing scope, tight timeline, and constant collaboration with an incredible level of skill and professionalism.

Max is much more than a developer who simply builds what’s handed to him. He understands the full website experience and was a true partner throughout the project—thinking through UX, responsive design, technical implementation, performance, and the details that make a site feel polished. He was incredibly responsive, solution-oriented, and willing to jump in wherever needed to keep us moving forward.

Launching an entirely new enterprise website on that timeline was a huge undertaking, and Max was instrumental in making it happen.

Any company looking for a talented, dependable, and collaborative web developer would be lucky to have Max on their team.
Author
Casey Marx
Director, Web Experience
Author

Built on experience. Ready for exponential growth.

The goal was never to make CoAd look newer for the sake of it.

It was to make decades of expertise feel relevant to the businesses choosing a workforce partner today.

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