This is the one section on the page whose content is genuinely sequential. Assess, then
Prioritize, then Protect and Grow: step two cannot happen before step one. Three cards in a row do not say that.
They say "three things", which is what section 5 already says with four cards and section 3 with six events. So a
progress device is not decoration here; it is the only element on the page that would carry meaning the copy
already has.
Two page-level questions ride along.Ground: section 5 now carries four NIGHT header
strips and this section is a full NIGHT band directly beneath it, and NIGHT arriving twice in two screens weakens
the second one. Option E is the same device on tint so the two can be compared. Icons: three step icons
plus three numerals is two systems saying the same thing, so the icons are dropped throughout, which also returns
three of the eleven icons the mockup brief budgets.
AStepper: node and trackEach step opens with a numbered node and a track running out of it toward the next one, and the last track is transparent so the sequence visibly ends. It is the most literal reading of "three simple steps" and the one a visitor decodes without thinking. The icons are dropped: three icons plus three numerals is two systems saying the same thing, and the numerals say it better because they carry order.
The Plan
Protecting Your Business Starts With Three Simple Steps
1
Assess
Take the Business Legal Health Assessment to identify potential gaps, risks, and areas that may need attention.
2
Prioritize
Meet with Equinox to discuss your business, understand your most important legal needs, and create a practical plan.
3
Protect and Grow
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BProgress bar, three segmentsA real bar: one rail split into three equal gold segments with the labels hung beneath. The segments are equal rather than graduated on purpose, because a bar that fills from 40 to 100 percent reads as "you are partway through" and this is a plan, not a status. The bar also gives the section a single strong horizontal, which is the one thing a NIGHT band with three text columns currently lacks.
The Plan
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Step 1
Assess
Take the Business Legal Health Assessment to identify potential gaps, risks, and areas that may need attention.
Step 2
Prioritize
Meet with Equinox to discuss your business, understand your most important legal needs, and create a practical plan.
Step 3
Protect and Grow
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CVertical spineThe sequence runs down rather than across, connected by a continuous line through three nodes. It is how a plan is actually followed, and it is the only option that gives the three descriptions room to be read at full measure rather than squeezed into a third of the container. The cost is height: this is roughly twice as tall as the horizontal options.
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1
Assess
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2
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3
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DOne continuous track, nodes sitting on itThe track runs edge to edge across the container and the three nodes sit ON it, cut out of it by a ring in the band colour. Where option A gives each step its own segment, this gives the section one line and places the steps along it, which reads as a single journey rather than three linked stages. Note the ring is the band colour, so this variant has to be retuned if the ground ever changes.
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EThe same bar, on tintOption B on a light ground, here to answer a page-level question rather than a section one. Section 5 now carries four NIGHT header strips and this section sits immediately beneath it; NIGHT arriving twice in two screens weakens the second. On tint the plan reads as a calm instruction rather than as a second dark event, and NIGHT is saved for the final call to action. Compare it with B before deciding.
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Step 1
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Step 2
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Step 3
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FThe numerals are the deviceNo bar, no nodes, no cards, no icons: three 72px numerals in gold over a single top rule. It is the quietest and the most typographic, and it trusts the reader to know that 01, 02, 03 is a sequence. It also spends the least, both in colour and in new machinery, and it matches the numbering already used in section 3.
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03
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GChevronsThe most literal process device there is: three blocks whose point sits in the notch of the next, cut with clip-path so they butt together with no gap. Nobody has to learn what it means. Two things to weigh: chevron flows are strongly associated with corporate slideware, which is the opposite of the elevated look the client asked for, and the notch forces 52px of left padding on blocks two and three so their text starts on a different line from block one’s.
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3
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HThe wizard barThe number and the name live INSIDE the bar segments, so the bar carries the steps rather than floating above them, and the gold is reduced to a 3px top edge on each segment. It is the tidiest of the progress options and the cheapest in colour, and the three segments read as one bar because the gaps are only 6px. Compare it against B: same idea, but B keeps the bar abstract and this one puts the content in it.
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03
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IThe riseNo bar at all: the three columns step UP from left to right, and the offset is the whole device. The direction matters more than it looks, a plan that descends reads as decline no matter what the words say, which is why this rises. It is the most confident of everything on the sheet and the only one that expresses progress without drawing a line. It also costs roughly 104px of height that a flat row would not.
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STEP 1
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STEP 2
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JThe bar on its sideOption B rotated: three vertical gold segments down the left, one per step, with the descriptions beside them at full measure. It keeps the bar reading of B while giving the copy the room that C gives it, so it sits between the two. The segments are separate rather than one continuous rail on purpose, since three discrete stages is what the copy describes.
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STEP 2
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KProgress bar, centred head and buttonsOption B with the eyebrow, the heading and the two buttons centred, and the three step labels left aligned under their segments. Keeping the labels left is what makes it work: a centred label floats in the middle of its segment and nothing marks where that segment begins, so the bar’s divisions stop lining up with anything beneath them. Left aligned, each label starts exactly at its segment’s left edge and the two gaps in the rail become visible in the text as well. Board B is left untouched above so the two can be compared directly.
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LThe line carries the namesCloser to a route map than a stepper: the rule runs THROUGH the step names rather than under them, and each name sits in a small patch of the band colour that cuts the line where it passes. It puts the three words on the strongest horizontal in the section, which is where the eye goes first, and it drops the numerals entirely since left-to-right on a line already says the order.
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MArcs at 33, 66 and 100The only device on the sheet that shows CUMULATIVE progress rather than three equal parts: a ring filling a third, two thirds, then all the way. It matches what a three-step plan actually promises, and it is the most distinctive thing here. Read the claim carefully though, because a full ring on step three says the job is finished, which is a statement about the service rather than about the layout, and the copy sells ongoing support. Worth a check with AISV before it goes to the client.
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NPlan beside the call to actionThe section restructured rather than the step device redrawn: the heading and both buttons hold a left column, the three steps run down the right as a compact numbered list. The call to action sits BESIDE the plan instead of after it, so a reader who is already convinced does not have to scroll past three steps to reach the button. It is by some distance the shortest option on the sheet.
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OFull-bleed thirdsThree rooms rather than three columns: the steps run edge to edge with a rule between them, each with its own 52px of breathing space, and the outer padding is a calc so the first and last still line up with the container. It is the most spacious treatment here. The cost is stated plainly: sections 2 and 4 are already full-bleed, so this would make three, and at three the device stops being a deliberate break and becomes the page’s habit.
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If you want one: B. It is the clearest progress device of the six, the bar gives the band the
strong horizontal it currently lacks, and equal segments state a plan rather than a status. C is the pick if the
three descriptions deserve to be read rather than scanned. E is not really a section choice at all, it is a
decision about how many dark bands the page should carry, and it is worth settling before the rest.