CASE STUDY · WEBSITE EVOLUTION AND AI SEARCH

How Synopsys realigned its website to the company it had become

A post-acquisition digital evolution that recovered conversion, reclaimed AI search visibility, and unified two brands into one strategic narrative.
+15.73% Contact Sales +187% webinar leads AI search visibility Silicon to Systems
+ 0 %

Lift on the Contact Sales page

The page that generates 80% of total leads

0 %

Increase in webinar lead submissions

Across webinar pages

+ 0 %

Improvement in form completions

From returning visitors

+ 0 x

Increase in AI Citations

Per page from glossary content

THE SITUATION

A company that had transformed, and a website that had not caught up.

In two years, Synopsys divested two major business units, completed the largest acquisition in its sector, and watched AI rewrite the rules of B2B discovery. The strategy had been rebuilt around a single idea: from silicon to systems, but the website hadn’t caught up.

A quarter of all content still pointed to products Synopsys no longer sells. The information architecture reflected how the company had been structured five years earlier, not how customers now bought. And in AI search, the channel rising fastest for technical buyers, Synopsys was losing visibility to competitors at the exact moment category authority mattered most.

The digital footprint was lagging behind the business it was meant to represent.
25% of site content still pointed to divested products
Divested-product content — 25%
Current portfolio — 75%

Content out of date

A quarter

A quarter of all site content still pointed to products Synopsys no longer sells.

Architecture from another era

Five years behind

The information architecture reflected how the company had been structured five years earlier, not how customers now bought.

Losing the AI channel

AI search

In the channel rising fastest for technical buyers, Synopsys was losing visibility to competitors at the exact moment category authority mattered most.

WHAT WE DID

A continuous program, not a redesign.

Make sure the tracking is working first, then build on that foundation.
Content audit
URLs audited100%
Mapped to strategyComplete
Retired25%
CRO testing · live wins
Compounding wins
+15.73%Contact Sales
+187%Webinars
+14.98%Return visitors
AI search visibility
Silicon to Systems: The Complete Platform
synopsys.com › solutions
Built for how AI engines parse and citeClosing the competitor gap in category authority
Silicon to Systems · one narrative
Silicon heritage Systems expansion
Silicon to
Systems
ONE NARRATIVE
01
Content Audit

Every URL, mapped to the new strategy

A comprehensive audit of every URL on the site, mapping content against the new business strategy and clearing out everything that no longer earned its place.

Content audit
URLs audited100%
Mapped to strategyComplete
Retired25%
02
CRO Testing

Compounding wins on the pages that carry the load

A structured CRO testing program on the pages doing the heaviest lifting: Contact Sales, Contact Us, webinars, and data sheets, designed to produce compounding wins rather than waiting for a big-bang launch.

CRO testing · live wins
Compounding wins
+15.73%Contact Sales
+187%Webinars
+14.98%Return visitors
03
AI Search Visibility

Built for how AI engines read and cite content

An AI search visibility program built around how AI engines parse and cite content, designed to close the competitor gap and protect Synopsys's category authority as the channel matured.

AI search visibility
Silicon to Systems: The Complete Platform
synopsys.com › solutions
Built for how AI engines parse and citeClosing the competitor gap in category authority
04
Silicon to Systems

One way to describe the combined entity

A unified Silicon to Systems messaging framework tied it all together, giving internal teams and external audiences a single way to describe the combined entity.

Silicon to Systems · one narrative
Silicon heritage Systems expansion
Silicon to
Systems
ONE NARRATIVE

THE RESULTS

Conversion recovered, visibility reclaimed, two brands made one.

The program produced compounding wins on the pages that matter most, and reset the trajectory in AI search.

CONVERSION

Compounding wins where it counts

Contact Sales conversion+15.73%
↑ The page that generates 80% of total leads
Webinar lead submissions+187%
↑ Across webinar pages
Returning-visitor form completions+14.98%
↑ From returning visitors

LIFT IN LEADS

Contact Us Conversions

0 %
Lift in lead submissions on the redesigned Contact Us page, the second-highest converter on the site.

AI SEARCH

The upside still ahead

0 x
More AI citations per page from glossary content updates than any other content type across the site, with more to come.

LEAD CONCENTRATION

One page, most of the pipeline

0 %
Of total leads flow through the Contact Sales page, the page we lifted 15.73 percent.

WHAT THIS PROVES

Not a redesign, but infrastructure for continuous evolution.

A redesign would have frozen the site at the moment the business most needed it to move. Treating the website as a strategic asset let it evolve at the pace of the strategy itself.

FROM A SITE POINTING TO THE PAST

A site that matches the company today

A quarter of the content that no longer earned its place is gone.

FROM LOSING GROUND IN AI SEARCH

Category authority protected

Built around how AI engines parse and cite, at the moment the channel matters most.

FROM TWO BRANDS STITCHED TOGETHER

One Silicon to Systems narrative

A single way for internal teams and buyers to describe the combined entity.

The site stopped reading like two companies stitched together and started reading like one. The website that lagged behind the business is now ahead of it.

LET'S TALK

Could your commercial engine work like this?

If your digital footprint has fallen behind the company you have become, the same evidence-led program can close the gap.

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