B5 Platform
Serving Edmonton, Sherwood Park, St. Albert, and across Alberta. B5 Platform is an owned WordPress stack — not a rented website builder and not a pile of unrelated plugins. The product is B5 Interface Platform (Command Center) plus the modules that actually ship today: Platform Core, subscription add-ons, and a short a-la-carte list. That is the engineering: one admin, one design system, one publishing editor, and native tools for SEO, speed, chat, booking, security, and backups.
When we say the stack is more engineered than a typical agency site, we mean a specific architecture — not a slogan.
Core stays on (Design Studio, Visual Editor, security, privacy).
Add-ons attach as named products (Speed, Growth, Engagement, Builder, Protection, Storage, AI Designer).
You own the WordPress site and can host with Boost5 or move to any standard WordPress host.
We do not claim Elementor compatibility, and we are not a Wix clone.
- What’s included — how Core and add-ons are packaged for a launch
- Ownership & hosting — you own the platform and content; host with us or migrate to any WordPress installation
- Subscription, updates & custom features — latest entitled add-ons, support, and scoped custom work
What the full stack actually is
A conventional WordPress build is a CMS plus whatever you bolt on: a page-builder plugin, an SEO plugin, a chat widget, a form SaaS, a booking calendar, a cache plugin, an image CDN, a firewall, and a backup product. Each vendor ships its own CSS, JavaScript, login, and update cycle. B5 Platform replaces that assembly job with layers that share Command Center, Design Studio tokens, and one support path.
Four layers you can point at
- WordPress + Boost5 Marketing theme — the site you own; design tokens come from Design Studio, not a locked SaaS theme
- Platform Core — always-on Command Center, Admin Branding, Site Design, Content Layer (including Page Designer), Security, Privacy Mode, and the Site Ops bridge
- Subscription add-ons — Speed (Performance, Image Engine, Autopilot), Growth (SEO Suite, AI Connectors, Data Miner), Engagement, Builder, Protection, Storage, Internal Browser, and AI Designer (Onboarding)
- A-la-carte only — Fleet Bridge (WP Offload Host pairing), Secure Comms, Paywall / Members, and Site Migrator are never implied as Core or included in the platform subscription
What a visitor actually gets
- A site you can edit in Page Designer and restyle in Design Studio without renting Wix, Duda, or GoDaddy
- On-page SEO scores, crawl, competitor analysis, rank browser, and a PageSpeed / waterfall lab — not “SEO” as a checkbox
- Local AVIF/WebP with srcset sizes and default library backfill, minify/compress, and Autopilot playbooks with a kill switch
- On-site chat and SEO agents that read your knowledge library (crawl + Use this to learn), popups (including keyword hover), review widgets, heatmaps, forms, and multi-staff booking
- Core firewall and privacy fingerprint hiding, plus optional ClamAV, mail relay, spam firewall, Local Vault, and backups
Platform Core — always on
Core is the product identity. These modules stay locked on. Names and one-sentence jobs come from Command Center, not a brochure rewrite.
Command Center and design
- B5 Interface Platform / Command Center — the admin surface for branding, content, theme, security, and privacy
- Admin Branding — custom admin styling, login screen, and white-label UI
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Site Design / Design Studio (formerly Brand Studio) — central brand tokens: Light vs Dark section groups, transparent background and wash, Area (width/inset), type scale H1–H6 (
--b5-fs-h1…h6), and a token map. Site Identity sets animated favicons (idle, pulse, or off) plus heading strobe, favicon-on-headings, and favicon-on-bullets. Examine any live URL for fonts, colors, weights, and sizes; crawl the site to wire leftovers. Instant sitewide apply via CSS variables on pages, posts, templates, and components — plus site identity, header/footer, and mega menu - Content Layer — pages, posts, templates, and the Command Center content hub
- Page Designer (Visual Editor) — design pages with live preview; reorder sections, edit content, and tune global colors and typography
- Templates & Import — download a template pack, then import it; industry demo packs preview composition before a production rebuild
- Activity Review and Team Access — site activity reports, scheduled HTML delivery, and Admin / Editor / Reviewer assignment
Security, privacy, and site ops
- Security — firewall, headers, login protection, maintenance gate, and hardening
- Privacy Mode — hides WordPress fingerprints on the frontend and in output
- Legal pages and consent — Terms, Acceptable Use, and self-hosted cookie consent from Site Design
- Social Media — network profiles and custom links for header, footer, and structured data
- Site Ops Bridge — plugin manager and site operations studios (ships with Core; not Fleet)
- Boost5 Marketing theme — child theme whose design tokens are managed from Command Center; content photos take a brand-green hover tint, logos stay clean
Add-ons that ship today
These are real WordPress plugins and Command Center cards. A cancelled subscription keeps Platform Core; addon grants can be revoked. Fleet, Secure Comms, Paywall, and Site Migrator are sold separately.
Speed, growth, and storage
- B5 Site Speed — Performance — minify, B5 Compress (zstd/brotli/gzip), and next-gen images (WordPress bloat strip is Platform Core)
- Image Engine — sitewide AVIF + WebP by default, with srcset sizes and library backfill; portable converters when server Imagick is unavailable
- Autopilot — observe → decide → advise or guarded act on allowlisted ops playbooks, with a kill switch
- B5 Growth — SEO Suite — on-page scores, site crawl, PageSpeed lab, Remix, editor dock, competitor analyzer, and rank browser. Remix and suggest run as on-site agents from the knowledge library
- AI Connectors — optional unused. Gemini and OpenAI stay off by default. Chat, SEO, and Designer run as on-site agents without a third-party LLM
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AI Designer — Command Center Onboarding (
?b5=onboarding) compiled into a working site: pages, posts, contact form, local-stock images, Design Studio tokens, and Site Identity favicon motion (idle, pulse, or off) plus heading and bullet favicon placement - B5 Data Miner — ranked URL miner for keyword/phrase SEO; stores historical runs in portable SQLite and compounds learnings (standalone or inside SEO Suite)
- Local Vault — encrypted SQLite offload for non-critical caches, SEO archives, and deferred tasks
- Site Continuity — Updraft-compatible backups, partial archives, and Block Editor offboard (isolated preview → handoff package)
Engagement, builder, and protection
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Visitor Chat — themed chat widget plus an on-site agent that reads
b5_chat_knowledge_library. Grow via crawl and Use this to learn (pages default on, posts default off). Soft search may run a few public lookups when local knowledge is thin — not a scrape farm, not a cloud brain. FAQ training, Messenger handoff, leave-a-note, and coordinated scroll-to-top - Engagement Popups — entry, exit-intent, scroll, timed, and return-visitor prompts with page targeting and frequency caps. Keyword and keyphrase hover popups show two to three paragraphs plus a more-info link, reuse across URLs, and are created, edited, disabled, removed, or retargeted in Visual Editor; Command Center logs hover, host URL, and more-info clicks. The copy is in the page HTML so search engines and Growth SEO count it
- Review Widgets — Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn — slider, grid, list, and badge layouts
- Behavior Heatmaps — per-page click and read-depth maps from anonymous visitors
- Forms & Booking — contact forms, self CAPTCHA, and multi-staff appointment scheduling
- Layer Slider — lightweight layered slideshows — backgrounds, text layers, fade or slide, autoplay
- Gallery — optional image galleries — grid or masonry, category tabs, pagination
- ClamAV Antivirus — scan uploads; block and quarantine infected files
- Spam Firewall — IMAP spam filter with public blocklists, ClamAV, and learning feedback
- B5 Mail — SMTP relay for site email instead of PHP mailer
- Internal Browser — proxied browser in Command Center (Normal or Private)
A-la-carte — not implied in Core
Installing related host software does not unlock these. They are never Core, never a gift pack, and never part of the platform subscription what's included What’s included is the honest inventory of Core modules: design, content, engagement, SEO, speed, security, and continuity. Optional add-ons stay labeled so a subscription is not a surprise bill. Operators should be able to point at a live switch in Command Center for each line on that list. If a capability cannot be shown, it is not in the offering. Demos preview industry skins. They do not change this inventory or the live Boost5 Home stack. More info .
Site Migrator is an optional add-on (not Core) that imports an existing public site’s colors,
images, and articles as a draft base.
- Fleet Bridge — WP Offload Host pairing, workers, topology, and Developer Lab
- Secure Comms — P2P messaging hub in Command Center (compose, inbox, outbox, sent, archive); requires WP Offload P2P + Host
- Paywall / Members — gate content with shortcodes; allow all or subscribed users (manual list for now)
- Site Migrator — optional add-on (not Core); imports an existing public site’s colors, images, and articles as a draft base
Onboarding wizard & AI Designer
Command Center opens the wizard at ?b5=onboarding. You answer plain questions. The AI Designer add-on (b5-addon-designer) compiles those answers into a working website — pages, posts, a contact form, local-stock images, and Design Studio tokens. Keep the compile as-is or continue in Visual Editor. Gemini and other third-party LLMs are not required.
Onboarding questions
- Site name — the name people see at the top of every page
- SEO tagline — suggested wording that also helps search
- Products vs services — plus the keyphrases for those offers
- Local vs global — city focus for nearby promotion; location pages stay out of the main menu
- Pages to create — start from a sensible set, then add or remove
- Contact + visibility — phone, email, address, and where each one appears
- Social profiles — paste the full URL for each network you use
- Per-page copy — paste your own words or describe what the page should cover
- Logo — upload now, or add it later in Design Studio; tab icon motion is idle, pulse, or off
- Live color and font previews — see header, button, and footer before compile
What AI Designer compiles
- Real WordPress pages and optional starter posts
- A working contact form — not a picture of a form
- Local-stock images matched to the offer (no remote stock CDN)
- Design Studio tokens so colors and type apply sitewide, including the H1–H6 type scale
- Favicon motion (idle, pulse, or off) and heading or bullet favicon placement
- Preview first; take as-is or customize in Visual Editor
Visual Editor & Design Studio: Real-Time Page Design
Design and launch high-converting landing pages, service showcases, and campaign assets with live visual preview. Design Studio (formerly Brand Studio) is the central brand-token repository — Light vs Dark section groups, transparent background and wash, Area (width/inset), type scale H1–H6, and a token map. Site Identity sets animated favicons (idle, pulse, or off), heading strobe, and favicon placement on headings and bullets. Examine any live URL for fonts, colors, weights, and sizes; crawl the site to wire leftovers. Save applies instantly via CSS variables on pages, posts, templates, and components.
- Live Visual Editing — Assemble sections, edit headlines, and swap imagery with instant preview.
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Design Studio tokens — Light vs Dark groups, transparent wash, Area, type scale H1–H6 (
--b5-fs-h1…h6), and a token map — no theme-code edits. - Examine + crawl — Read a public URL for collateral; inventory leftovers and wire them to tokens.
- Modular Block Library — Hero sliders, photo split layouts, comparison grids, and conversion bands.
- Zero Layout Drift — Updates maintain exact visual hierarchy across desktop, tablet, and mobile.
AI Chat Studio & Proactive Visitor Engagement
Turn anonymous site traffic into qualified leads with our built-in 24/7 conversational sales assistant. Chat, SEO suggest, and remix are on-site agents — they read b5_chat_knowledge_library and do not require Gemini, OpenAI, or another third-party LLM (those connectors stay off by default). Unlike dumb chatbot widgets that sit unnoticed in the corner, the assistant greets visitors and offers timely, context-aware help tied to the page they are reading.
- Customizable First-Visit Greeting — Warmly welcome first-time visitors with personalized copy and instant action buttons.
- Static Trigger Popups — Configure prompts triggered by dwell time, scroll depth %, page URLs, or exit intent.
- Dynamic Journey-Driven Prompts — Agents use inbound search keywords, visitor journey history, and active page content.
- Use this to learn — Crawl plus a per-item flag grows the library as the site changes. Pages default on; posts default off.
- Soft search — When local knowledge is thin, agents may run a few real-user-mimicked public searches and store useful notes. Not a scrape farm. Not a cloud brain.
- Lead Capture & Seamless Handoff — Collects lead details with full journey touchpoint history and alerts your sales team.
Forms, Scheduling & Multi-Staff Appointment Booking
Convert interested prospects directly into scheduled calendar appointments. B5 Platform includes a native booking engine and lead capture system that eliminates the need for expensive third-party scheduling software and disjointed form plugins.
Multi-Staff Appointment Booking
- Multi-department and multi-staff routing with individual provider calendars
- Customizable buffer intervals between appointments and advance notice limits
- Automatic email confirmations, calendar invitations, and reschedule workflows
- Direct integration with CRM pipelines and lead notification dispatch
High-Converting Lead Capture
- Multi-step intake forms optimized for high completion rates on mobile
- Self-contained anti-spam defense — zero tracking cookies or external CAPTCHAs
- Full visitor touchpoint logging: logs prompt interactions and entry sources
- Instant lead email alerts sent to sales representatives with full journey context
Built-In SEO Suite & Sub-Second Page Speed
Search visibility and site speed go hand in hand. B5 Platform includes a comprehensive SEO analyzer and speed suite directly in your publishing workflow, ensuring your money pages satisfy both human visitors and Google’s Core Web Vitals.
- Real-Time On-Page Scoring — Live evaluation of content depth, keyword prominence, readability, and headings.
- Automated Technical SEO — Auto-generated XML sitemaps, canonical tags, and structured JSON-LD schema.
- Site Crawl Health Monitor — Scans your site internally to detect broken links, 404s, and indexation bottlenecks.
- Next-Gen Media Engine — Sitewide AVIF and WebP with srcset sizes, default library backfill, and local caching.
- Code Minification & Asset Bundling — Instant CSS/JS compression and lazy loading for sub-second paint times.
Enterprise Security, Privacy & Local Vault Continuity
Keep your customer data secure, your reputation intact, and your site protected around the clock. Platform Core integrates hardened security defenses and data sovereignty protections directly into WordPress.
Security & Threat Hardening
- Application firewall blocking malicious requests, SQL injection, and bad bots
- Brute-force protection, login rate-limiting, and administrative IP whitelisting
- Continuous file integrity monitoring and automated malware/antivirus scans
- Fingerprint scrubbing: obscures underlying software details from attackers
Privacy & Local Vault Backups
- GDPR and CCPA compliant privacy mode with self-hosted cookie consent
- Zero external tracking pixels or third-party behavioral surveillance scripts
- Local Vault automated database and asset snapshots stored securely
- Complete portability: export and migrate your full website to any WordPress installation anytime with zero lock-in
How Boost5 compares to builders you already know
This chart is capability-for-capability, not a claim that Boost5 is “Wix but better.” Wix, GoDaddy Website Builder, and Duda are hosted SaaS products. Traditional WordPress is an owned CMS you assemble yourself. Elementor, Beaver Builder, and Oxygen are page-builder plugins — they are not a full platform. Boost5 is owned WordPress plus a native stack. We do not run inside Elementor.
B5 Platform compared with Wix, GoDaddy Website Builder, Duda, traditional WordPress, Elementor, Beaver Builder, and Oxygen
| Capability | Boost5 | Wix | GoDaddy builder | Duda | Traditional WordPress | Elementor | Beaver Builder | Oxygen |
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| Ownership | You own WP + content | SaaS lease | SaaS lease | SaaS / agency CMS | You own WP | Plugin on WP you own | Plugin on WP you own | Plugin on WP you own |
| Host / migrate away | Boost5 host or any WP host | Wix only | GoDaddy only | Duda cloud | Any WP host | Any WP host | Any WP host | Any WP host |
| Unified ops console | Command Center | Wix dashboard | GoDaddy dashboard | Duda site panel | WP admin + plugins | Elementor panel | Beaver panel | Oxygen panel |
| Visual editor | Page Designer (native) | Wix Editor | GoDaddy editor | Duda editor | Gutenberg / blocks | Elementor | Beaver | Oxygen |
| Brand / design tokens | Design Studio (CSS vars) | Theme settings | Limited | Design system | Theme / FSE | Theme kit / plugins | Theme settings | Classes / design sets |
| On-site AI (no cloud LLM required) | Yes — chat, SEO, Designer | Cloud AI apps | Limited | Cloud AI | Plugin / SaaS | No | No | No |
| SEO suite (on-page, crawl, competitors, rank) | Yes — SEO Suite + Data Miner | Partial (Wix SEO) | Partial | Partial (Duda SEO) | Plugin pile | No (needs SEO plugin) | No | No |
| Performance / Core Web Vitals lab | Yes — minify, compress, waterfall | Partial (their CDN) | Partial | Partial | Plugin pile | Partial (assets) | Partial | Partial (if coded lean) |
| Local AVIF / WebP engine | Yes — Image Engine (srcset + backfill) | CDN formats | Limited | Partial | Plugin / host | No | No | No |
| Autopilot ops playbooks | Yes — advise or guarded act | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Visitor chat + site knowledge | Yes — trained library | App / add-on | Add-on | Integration | Plugin | No | No | No |
| Popups, reviews, heatmaps | Yes — native add-ons, including keyword hover | Apps | Limited | Apps | Plugin pile | Widgets / no | No | No |
| Forms + multi-staff booking | Yes — native | Wix Bookings | Limited | Apps | Plugin | Forms widget | Forms | No |
| Core firewall + privacy hide | Yes — Security + Privacy Mode | Platform | Platform | Platform | Plugin | No | No | No |
| Antivirus / mail / spam | Yes — Protection add-ons | Platform email | Platform | Platform | Plugin | No | No | No |
| Backups / continuity | Local Vault + Updraft-compatible | Wix backups | GoDaddy backups | Duda backups | Plugin | No | No | No |
| Industry demo packs | Yes — import, then rebuild yours | Templates | Templates | Templates | Themes | Kits | Templates | No |
| Lock-in if you leave | Standard WP export | High | High | High | Low | Template lock-in | Template lock-in | High (replaces theme) |
| Elementor compatibility | No — own editor | No | No | No | Yes (install plugin) | Yes | No | No |
Fair reading: SaaS builders include hosting and some apps; page builders edit layouts only. Traditional WordPress can match many rows if you buy and maintain a plugin pile — that is the cost Boost5 is built to remove. Cells are Yes / Partial / No or a short phrase, not a feature essay.
Frequently Asked Questions About B5 Platform
Serving Edmonton, Sherwood Park, St. Albert, and across Alberta. Related reading and service pages: Custom web design in Edmonton · Full website development
Can we migrate our existing website to B5 Platform?
Yes. Because B5 Platform is built on modern, standard-source CMS architecture, we can cleanly migrate your existing content, blog archives, URLs, and SEO authority onto Platform Core.
During migration, we replace bloated third-party plugins with native B5 modules (Design Studio, Visual Editor, on-site chat agents, Forms, SEO, and Security), immediately improving site speed and reliability.
We plan redirects, preserve critical landing URLs, and keep analytics and form destinations intact so paid and organic traffic do not fall into dead ends during the cutover.
Most teams leave migration with a lighter stack, clearer ownership, and a backlog for the first growth sprint — not a “new site” that still needs five SaaS logins to convert.
How does the AI Chat Studio learn about our specific business and offerings?
On-site chat and SEO agents read b5_chat_knowledge_library. You can populate it with company FAQs, service descriptions, pricing guidelines, and key differentiators. Gemini andAI are not required.
The library grows with the site via crawl and Use this to learn (pages default on, posts default off). When local notes are thin, soft search may run a few public lookups and store useful notes — not a scrape farm and not a cloud brain.
Proactive triggers and journey context keep answers tied to the page someone is reading — pricing, services, or booking — instead of a generic chatbot script that ignores intent.
When a question needs a human, handoff paths (team alerts, Messenger, or booking) stay inside the same engagement layer so leads are not stranded between chat and a separate form tool.
How do proactive trigger popups work across different pages?
You have complete control over both static and dynamic proactive popups. First-time visitors receive a customizable welcome greeting after a specified dwell time.
Across the rest of the site, you can set static rules (e.g., offering a pricing guide on the services page after 15 seconds or 50% scroll) or enable dynamic AI triggers that tailor prompts to the visitor’s active page content and browsing history.
Rules stay page-aware so a services visitor is not asked the same “welcome” question they already answered on the home page. That keeps prompts useful instead of noisy.
Every trigger can point to a concrete next step — chat answer, form, or booked call — so the popup is part of the conversion path, not a decorative interruption.
Do we own our website and content completely?
Absolutely. Unlike proprietary website builders (like Wix, Squarespace, or HubSpot CMS) that hold your site hostage on closed infrastructure, B5 Platform provides 100% data sovereignty.
Your database, content, templates, media, and customer records belong entirely to you. Host with Boost5 or migrate to any WordPress installation — details on ownership & hosting. Your subscription also covers latest addons, updates, support, and custom features at no extra cost — see subscription & support.
Ownership means you can leave without exporting into a dead ZIP that cannot run elsewhere. The stack is designed to stay portable on any WordPress installation.
Subscription then funds ongoing capability — addons, updates, support, and included custom-feature potential — without turning the asset itself into rented software.
How do B5 Platform and Boost5 marketing services work together?
B5 Platform provides the technology engine; our marketing services drive high-intent demand to it. Because our web developers, SEO specialists, Google Ads managers, and content writers all work on the same platform, your campaigns and landing pages are completely aligned.
Explore our services, read about our approach, or book a strategy call to discuss your 90-day growth roadmap.
You can run Platform with our team end-to-end, or keep ownership while we execute only the channels you need — search, ads, content, or conversion fixes.
Either way, the brief stays shared: the page that ranks or runs ads is the same page Design Studio and Visual Editor maintain, so message match is not a multi-vendor accident.
Ready to See B5 Platform in Action?
Schedule a 1-on-1 walkthrough with our platform team. We will review your current website, identify technical bottlenecks, and demonstrate how Design Studio, Onboarding, Visual Editor, and on-site chat agents can transform your lead generation lead generation Lead generation is only real when a person can finish a request and a human replies. Forms, chat, and booking sit in one engagement layer so the lead is not copied between tools. Boost5 measures this by conversations and booked calls, not by a screenshot of vanity traffic. The page that creates the inquiry has to match the ad or search snippet that sent the visitor. Contact and Book are the flagship finishes. If a campaign cannot name which of those it feeds, it is not ready to spend. More info .
- Review your current site architecture, speed scores, and plugin liabilities
- Live demo of AI Chat Studio, proactive triggers, and the auto-learning knowledge base
- Walk away with a concrete 90-day platform migration and growth roadmap