We recently rebuilt http://red-badger.com using DocPad and had a fantastic experience doing so. Red Badger is a software consultancy and we tend to work with quite large corporate organisations. We want to convince them that should opt to head in the static site generator direction for new projects (where suitable) rather than plump for the "tried and tested" CMSs like Drupal.
The issue is that large corporates don't like risk. And if they don't understand something or feel that they're doing something no-one else is doing, then they get worried and back away.
This puts us in a catch 22 situation. We know they often don't need the complexity of a large CMS, but we also know that if we try and recommend something else (like DocPad) we face an uphill battle convincing them it's the right choice and that they should award us the work.
I suspect I am not the only person in this situation and as such would like to collectively build a case for statically generated sites that we can all use when pitching f