Case Study Travel With Class · Wisconsin, US · Destination weddings

More weddings. Not more hours.

Stephanie Steinert built a ten-year destination-wedding business on referrals, and her growth ceiling was her own calendar — every couple’s guest website built by hand. We rebuilt her sales funnel to run itself, then packaged the repeat work into an AI skill that turns a Trello board into a finished guest landing page.

0 Weddings running
on the new system
Live
0 Rooms in a single
contracted group block
Client contract
0 Room nights booked
on that one wedding
Client contract
0+ Guests travelling
on that booking
Client contract

Room and guest counts come from the client’s signed hotel contracts and represent real booked business; contract values are withheld. This is an automation and infrastructure engagement — paid media was scoped and creative produced, but no campaign has run, so no advertising performance is claimed.

(01) — The brief

In demand, and doing it all by hand.

A planner with more interest than time — where every additional couple meant another full website built from scratch and another follow-up sequence run manually.

A / What we walked into

A genuinely successful business whose constraint was throughput, not demand. Each couple received a bespoke guest website, built page by page in WordPress — work Stephanie neither enjoyed nor had time for.

The sales process ran the same way. Consultations, agreements, deposits and reminders were all chased personally, which meant the business could only grow as fast as one person’s week allowed.

B / What we set out to build

Automate the sales process end to end so enquiries convert without being chased, then turn the guest-website build into a repeatable system rather than a bespoke project each time.

One rule made it usable on real clients: no invented details. Every price, date and room category the automation publishes must trace back to a signed contract or the couple’s own board.

(02) — What we did

Automate the sale, then the delivery.

01 AI automation

Trello board in, wedding site out

A packaged skill that reads a couple’s board and produces a complete guest landing page, with a mandatory source check on every figure it publishes.

Removes the per-couple build
02 Guest experience

Sites couples send to guests

Room tiers, pricing tables, travel timelines and FAQs in one place, so guests book the right room without calling the planner to ask.

Fewer enquiries back to Stephanie
03 Product offering

Pick a look, not a build

Pre-built designs mean a couple chooses a direction and the page is rebranded to suit — turning custom design work into a menu.

Design time out of every project
04 Sales funnel

Enquiry to deposit, automated

One consultation form routes to the right calendar, nurture runs before the call, and the agreement and deposit links fire automatically after it.

Converts without being chased
05 Pipeline hygiene

Nothing sits in limbo

A staged follow-up sequence keeps unconverted enquiries moving and closes them out automatically, so the pipeline reflects reality.

Accurate forecasting
06 Infrastructure

Faster site, fully owned

Migrated the website to managed hosting the client owns outright, with the booking path and calendar working properly end to end.

Client owns the platform 100%
(03) — Build spotlight

The skill that writes the website.

Repeatable automation

A board goes in. A finished site comes out.

The work that used to consume days per couple now runs as a system. The automation encodes the page structure, a brand-agnostic design system, the rules for reading a couple’s board, and a set of hard copy standards.

Those standards are what make it safe on a real client. Every price, date and room category must trace to the signed contract or the couple’s own materials, Stephanie is the only point of contact it will ever name, and every call to action routes back to her.

  • Input A couple’s Trello board
  • Output A finished guest website
  • Design Chosen from a set, not built
  • Every figure Traced to a signed contract
  • Effect More couples, same week
(04) — Where it stands

A one-person business that scales like a team.

The bottleneck was never the work. It was that only she could do it.

The sales funnel now runs from first enquiry through to signed agreement and deposit without manual chasing, and the guest-website build is a system rather than a project. Four weddings are running on it, across three destinations.

The paid-social creative is built and waiting on her own photography. Next in scope is a client-facing assistant trained on the funnel, so the same leverage applies to answering couples as to building their pages.

Live Enquiry to deposit
running without chasing
0 Destinations delivered
Caribbean and Pacific coast
Owned Website and platform
fully in the client’s hands

Room, night and guest counts are from the client’s signed hotel contracts; contract values, commissions and revenue are withheld. No advertising campaign has run, so no media performance is claimed.

(05) — Start a conversation Let’s build your engine.
BasedGold Coast, Australia
WorkingGlobally · a handful of clients at a time