One Partner Instead of One Employee: How Aii Cut Web Costs Without Slowing Down

The Asian Institute of Insurance (Aii), formerly the Malaysian Insurance Institute, runs Malaysia’s largest insurance education and certification body — professional qualifications, e-learning through iLMS, industry events, and the Asian Quality Business Awards (AQBA), one of the region’s biggest recognition events in the insurance industry. Their site is large and built on Bricks, a powerful but technically demanding page builder that’s easy to break if you don’t know it well. Laman7 manages the site’s ongoing maintenance, security, and — most visibly — turns around new award and event pages within one business day, so Aii never misses a registration deadline waiting on a developer.

Aii’s website isn’t a simple brochure site — it carries training programmes, e-learning (iLMS), professional certifications, membership, exam schedules, and a packed events calendar. On top of day-to-day traffic, Aii needs new pages built fast several times a year for major award events like AQBA — a huge event with hard deadlines that can’t slip.

Two things made this hard to manage:

• The site is built on Bricks. It’s flexible, but not forgiving — a generalist WordPress freelancer or a rushed in-house hire can easily break the layout without deep Bricks-specific experience.
• High, sensitive traffic. Insurance professionals and exam candidates rely on the site constantly for exams, memberships, and registrations, making it a frequent target for attacks — any downtime or breach risks disrupting exams or event sign-ups at the worst possible time.

Hiring a full-time developer skilled specifically in Bricks was expensive and hard to justify for workload that spikes around a handful of major events a year rather than staying constant.

Laman7 manages Aii’s site as an ongoing Bricks-specialist partner rather than a one-off vendor:

• Same-day page builds — new award and event pages are built and live within 1 business day of request, keeping pace with registration deadlines for AQBA, conferences, and programme launches.
• Continuous security monitoring — active blocking of attack attempts, keeping the site available during high-traffic periods like exam season and award registration windows.
• Bricks-specific expertise retained in one team — no ramp-up time re-explaining the build to a new hire, and no risk of losing site knowledge to turnover.
• No in-house developer required — Aii gets dedicated, fast-turnaround development and maintenance without carrying the cost or hiring risk of a full-time technical hire.