# Introduction

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(/tax-accounting/), pricing.jpg (/pricing/). Take them from a build of the released commit, with
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Consultiz is an Astro and Tailwind CSS theme for business consulting, advisory, tax, and accounting firms. Every page ships in English and French.

Most changes in Consultiz are edits to plain text files, not code: text, images, buttons, menus, contact details, and the options of each section. Brand colors are a few values in one CSS file. When you do want to change code, the theme ships instruction files (`AGENTS.md`) that tell AI coding tools how it is built.

### What Is Included
- **3 homepages**: business consulting (`/`), corporate consulting (`/corporate-consulting/`), and tax and accounting (`/tax-accounting/`). Each one also has a one-page landing version under `/landing/`
- **Company**: about (two layouts), company, awards, people with profile pages, and careers with role pages
- **Practice**: solutions (a list page, two layouts, and a detail page per solution) and industries (a list page, two layouts, and a detail page per industry)
- **Proof**: portfolio with categories and project pages, and case studies with detail pages
- **Resources**: a blog with three list layouts, categories, tags, and post pages; a webinar and event page
- **Other pages**: pricing, FAQ, contact, site search, privacy policy, terms, a shortcode demo page, and a 404 page per language
- **Built in**: reusable sections with English and French defaults, buttons with five hover effects, sliders, smooth scrolling and scroll animations, contact forms (Formsubmit, Formspree, or Netlify Forms), Mailchimp newsletter signup, SEO (meta tags, Open Graph, JSON-LD, sitemap, `robots.txt`, a blog RSS feed per language), `llms.txt` and Markdown copies of pages, and a cookie consent banner

<Aside type="note" title="What Consultiz is not">
  Consultiz is a static marketing site. It has no client portal, no booking or
  payment system, and no dark mode. Forms send their data to a service you
  choose. Right-to-left languages are not supported.
</Aside>

### Choose Your Path
<CardGrid>
  <LinkCard
    title="I don't code"
    description="Follow the Quick Start. You only edit text files."
    href="/consultiz/getting-started/quick-start/"
  />
  <LinkCard
    title="I want AI to help"
    description="Use Claude, Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf, or ChatGPT with ready-made prompts."
    href="/consultiz/ai-customization/ai-overview/"
  />
  <LinkCard
    title="I'm a developer"
    description="Learn how pages, sections, and overrides fit together."
    href="/consultiz/getting-started/how-consultiz-works/"
  />
  <LinkCard
    title="I need to find a setting"
    description="Every key in config.toml, explained in one place."
    href="/consultiz/customization/config-reference/"
  />
  <LinkCard
    title="I'm ready to launch"
    description="Set your URL, connect forms, and deploy."
    href="/consultiz/deployment/"
  />
</CardGrid>

### The Files You Will Edit Most
| What you want to change                                   | Where it lives                                         |
| --------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ |
| Site name, URL, contact details, forms, global switches   | `src/config/config.toml`                               |
| Header and footer links                                   | `src/config/menu.en.json`, `src/config/menu.fr.json`   |
| Social profile links                                      | `src/config/social.json`                               |
| Colors, type scale, and breakpoints                       | `src/styles/theme.css`                                 |
| Fonts                                                     | `src/config/fonts.json`                                |
| Text and images of a reusable section                     | `src/content/sections/english/` (and `french/`)        |
| Text and section settings of one page                     | `src/content/<page>/english/-index.md`                 |
| Blog posts, solutions, people, and other lists            | `src/content/<collection>/english/`                    |
| Small interface text (labels, form messages)              | `src/i18n/en.json`, `src/i18n/fr.json`                 |

<Aside type="tip">
  The theme's own `README.md` has a short editing map, and
  `docs/section-ownership.md` lists every section component with the content
  file that feeds it and the pages that use it. Keep both open while you work.
</Aside>

#### Links

- [Support](https://getastrothemes.com/contact/)