Ascent
Programme site and application funnel, from design to deployment.
ASCENT is the tripartite action-sports incubation programme run by ActionSportTech with EuroSIMA and Mont X: twelve months, five startups, one cohort a year. Unslash delivered the whole web setup, the bilingual programme site and the serverless application funnel, from design to launch.
- Year
- 2026
- Programme
- 12 months · 5 startups
- Languages
- FR + EN
- Partners
- AST · EuroSIMA · Mont X
- Astro · static output
- Netlify serverless function + SMTP
- Bilingual SEO · GA4 · Search Console
// The brief
A credible programme, a seamless application
Three partners to represent on equal footing, a two-year calendar and a demanding promise: the site had to establish ASCENT as a real incubation programme, legible for startups and institutions alike, in French and English.
On the application side, the point was reliability. A complete file, with attachments and co-founders, has to leave without error and land cleanly on both the team and the candidate side. No third-party platform: a custom, serverless funnel, owned end to end.
// What we delivered
The site and the funnel
A bilingual site, end to end
Programme, partners and FAQ pages, a "base camp, ridge, summit" identity, a two-year calendar and the selection grid. Bilingual FR/EN with reciprocal hreflang, careful SEO and markup, GA4 and Search Console wired in, audience measurement under consent.
A full application, serverless
A multi-section form (contact, project, team, documents, agreements) with multipart submission: startup logo and founder photo upload, dynamic co-founder block, link validation. On submit, a Netlify serverless function routes the file over SMTP, a notification email to the team and an acknowledgement to the candidate, a dedicated thank-you page and an anti-spam guard.
// Stack & method
How it is built
- Front
- Astro with static output, per-section components, centralised bilingual content.
- Serverless funnel
- Multipart form with uploads, Netlify function in TypeScript, SMTP delivery (team notification + candidate acknowledgement).
- Bilingual SEO
- Reciprocal hreflang, localised sitemap, per-page markup and metadata.
- Analytics & GDPR
- GA4 and Search Console, audience measurement gated on consent.
// Live
Live, applications open
The site is live on ascent.actionsportech.fr, applications open for the first cohort, funnel tested end to end. The cohort will be inaugurated at the EuroSIMA Surf Summit, in autumn 2026.
See the ASCENT site