What’s inside the guide?
A practical roadmap packed with checklists, charts, and real-world advice.
This isn’t theory—it’s a step-by-step guide created by an agency for agencies, to help you adopt low-code and maximize its benefits.
Getting Ready
Prep your agency with audit checklists, documentation guidelines, and advice for training your team before making the shift.
Choosing a Platform
Follow an 8-step evaluation process with budget tips, considerations, and a sample comparison table.
Systemizing Processes
Streamline internal workflows for low-code efficiency, with a clear outline and an end-to-end project example.
Rolling it Out
Train your team, onboard clients, and ramp up quickly with a 10-step rollout plan covering every department.
Adjust Your Pitches
Revamp your sales approach with positioning insights, messaging tips, and bonus advice on using low-code to win more pitches.
Scaling & Productization
Go beyond project work with proven strategies for scaling services, productizing deliverables, and growing profit margins.
Why Low-Code Matters
The foundation for agency growth.
Traditional workflows keep agencies stuck: high developer reliance, shrinking margins, and too much stress. Low-code unlocks scalable systems, empowering your existing team and moving you closer to Stage 5 maturity.
Explore the Vibe Agency Maturity ModelFaster Builds
Cut repetitive work, reduce developer bottlenecks, and deliver projects more efficiently—without sacrificing quality.
Scalable Workflows
Standardize processes so your team can manage more projects smoothly and predictably.
Happier Clients
Give clients greater creative and structural control over their websites while keeping everything polished, professional, and on-brand.
Higher Margins
Free your team from busywork so you can focus on strategy, creativity, and growth.
Proof of Impact
Agencies are already seeing measurable results.
Refoundry was built within a working agency—and the results speak for themselves. Low-code adoption has delivered faster builds, more launches, and stronger profits.
70%
Faster builds
Cutting build time with reusable components and streamlined workflows.
25%
More Annual Launches
Scaling delivery without scaling headcount or overhead.
30%
Faster Project Completions
Reducing QA delays and dev reliance across teams.
20%
Higher Profitability
More time for strategy, less wasted effort, stronger margins.
Agency efficiency drove a $300K annual profit increase.
Forge and Smith knew something had to give—developer bottlenecks, QA delays, and clients demanding more control were slowing growth. By adopting Refoundry, they cut build time by up to 90% and launched 25% more sites two years in a row. The result? streamlined workflows, happier clients, and over $300K in additional annual profit.
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Early adopters are already seeing results.
Refoundry is helping agencies streamline delivery, scale profits, and give clients exactly what they want. These forward-thinking teams are already proving the power of low-code adoption.
Expert-Driven
Built by an agency, for agencies.
The Low-Code Adoption Playbook was developed by Shawn Johnston, founder of Forge and Smith and Refoundry. With 25+ years in digital strategy and 14+ years running a successful agency, he’s seen every bottleneck, margin squeeze, and client demand firsthand.
This guide distills the lessons learned from building over 600 websites and developing Refoundry as the low-code system agencies needed but didn’t have—until now.
Don’t lose any more time.
Position your agency for scalable success.
Agencies that embrace low-code are already building faster, scaling smarter, and earning stronger margins. This playbook gives you the step-by-step path to join them.
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