Case study # Engineered to sell homes Updated October 10, 2026 Website Development Digital Infrastructure Hopewell Residential is one of Calgary and Edmonton's best-known home builders. Daughter Creative reimagined their brand and designed the site. We engineered it, a Sanity and Next.js platform that runs the whole business: a deep home directory, automated ad feeds, on-demand sales brochures, and Salesforce woven throughout. [See the Site ](https://www.hopewellresidential.com) ![Hopewell Residential, engineered to sell homes, a Paper Crane and Daughter Creative case study](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/0838mkru/production/c3fb369e9d50c4f067d241c111c63f5bd6424e8e-4800x2400.png) Detail ## A beautiful brand needs an engine Hopewell Residential is one of Calgary and Edmonton's best-known home builders, with new homes selling across dozens of communities in two cities. Daughter Creative reimagined the brand, the strategy, and the content, and designed a site to match. Our job was to make all of it real, and to make it run. A home builder's website is really an inventory platform. Hundreds of homes change in price and availability every week, fed by sales teams, ad agencies, and a CRM. Hopewell needed software that could keep all of it accurate, fast, and easy to manage, across both markets at once. ![The platform architecture: Next.js frontend, Sanity CMS, and a bespoke integration layer](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/0838mkru/production/618d3e21c49f5a5368fff87cbd9667e591d997ad-2960x2080.png) Field note ## Design by Daughter, built by Paper Crane Daughter Creative owned the experience: the UX, the UI, the brand, the words, and the relationship with Hopewell. We took their design and engineered the whole thing, a Sanity and Next.js platform built to enterprise standards. Everything routes through a single dual-market system. Calgary and Edmonton each get their own communities, content, and navigation, all from one codebase and one CMS. Add a community in one city and nothing leaks into the other. Project partner ![Daughter Creative wordmark](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/0838mkru/production/960ff10374c5fd0fa806fce7fbcd5aec4f3fb68c-611x144.svg) ## Daughter Creative We built this one alongside Daughter Creative. They led the brand, the strategy, the content, and the entire experience design, and brought us in to engineer it. A genuine partnership: their craft on the surface, ours underneath. Daughter Creative - Strategy - UX & UI Design - Brand - Content - Client Partnership Paper Crane - Development - CMS Architecture - Integrations - Design System [Visit Daughter Creative ](https://www.daughtercreative.com) Detail ## What we built A platform deep enough to run the business, not just show it: - A two-city site on one codebase, with content localized per market. - A comprehensive home directory, filterable by community, price, size, beds, type, and availability. - Flexible listing templates for new homes, show homes, and quick possessions. - Salesforce and Pardot woven in, with dynamic, context-aware forms throughout. - An automated pipeline that feeds Google and Meta ads fresh inventory daily. - An on-demand brochure generator that turns any home into a print-ready PDF. - A documented design system of 70 section types their marketing team can browse. ![The home directory with live filtering across communities, price, and availability](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/0838mkru/production/c87a07eec9835317ef5b34b7cbe9f9f7326e6fd8-3200x2400.png) ![A quick-possession listing with before-and-after pricing and one-tap booking](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/0838mkru/production/e73a11c94fecd55f9ff9163bebe88882f2b9c983-3200x2400.png) ![The Sanity content model: a 95-field home document linked to communities, types, and models](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/0838mkru/production/8936a8ca6e3ecad72d8e24d95c8bb99c437f8f74-3200x2400.png) ![The design system: 70 browsable section types and 68 Storybook stories](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/0838mkru/production/e6ca4c9f4b8075ce5342c1f2a61d23fb0d7bb141-3200x2400.png) Detail ## A directory that does the selling Behind the search bar is a real data model: a 95-field home document tied to communities, home types, models, and sales centres, across 16 content types in all. Buyers filter by community, price, size, bedrooms, and move-in date, and every filter is saved to the URL so a search can be shared or returned to. Quick possessions get their own treatment, with live availability, before-and-after pricing, and one-tap booking that hands a fully-qualified lead straight to the sales team. ![The automated pipeline syncing Sanity listings to Google and Meta ad feeds twice a day](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/0838mkru/production/0f1d9ed4147cdc5c9f706972dbf001026701622e-2960x2080.png) Field note ## Content that feeds the ad machine Hopewell's ad agencies used to copy home data into spreadsheets by hand, every week, to keep Google and Meta campaigns current. We automated the whole thing. Twice a day, a job pulls quick-possession listings from Sanity, geocodes them, removes duplicates, preserves the columns the agencies edit by hand, and writes clean feeds to both ad platforms. The ads stay current on their own now, with no exports and no double entry. ![The per-home brochure generator rendering a branded, print-ready PDF sales sheet on demand](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/0838mkru/production/9accff6f731ceaf6473eb1b0c92f44515bde995c-2960x2080.png) Field note ## Brochures without the bottleneck Every quick-possession home needs a sales brochure, and producing them used to mean booking designer hours every month. We built a generator that renders a branded, print-ready PDF for any home on demand. Elevations, floorplans, features, photos, a QR code, and pricing, all pulled live from the CMS and laid out the moment a salesperson clicks. No designer, no queue, no waiting. Detail ## Salesforce, woven through Lead capture isn't a contact form bolted on at the end. Every form on the site reads the home a buyer is looking at and passes that context through Pardot into Salesforce, so a lead arrives already tagged with the community, the model, the price, and the campaign that brought them in. Under the hood the form layer normalizes everything: slugs become clean names, prices get formatted, ad attribution is captured, with a three-layer fallback so the lead is tagged even when someone lands deep in the site mid-journey. The sales team gets context, not data entry. ![A booking form auto-filled with home context flowing through Pardot into a tagged Salesforce lead](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/0838mkru/production/7d040e9daf2a2c64595e8830e64641d8393b2fb8-2960x2080.png) ![The form layer normalizing slugs, prices, and ad attribution before the CRM](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/0838mkru/production/0594fe2209b204c47725144b24b927a20718792b-2360x2080.png) Measured outcomes ## By the numbers What the build added up to, a year in. organic traffic in the first year, after a careful URL migration 01+20% of manual work saved every month, across brochures and ad feeds 02~20 hrs of homes migrated off the legacy platform, redirects and rankings preserved 03100s run from one codebase and one CMS 042 cities In closing ## Built to keep building The platform is Hopewell's, owned outright, documented, and ready for more. New communities, new markets, and new tools all snap onto the same foundation. 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