For local business — London & UK
Built for you rather than dragged together in a builder, on a domain registered in your own name, and set up so somebody searching nearby actually finds you. Ninety-nine pounds to build it and from £17.99 a month to run it, which is about what the do-it-yourself tools charge you to do it yourself.
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Six invented firms
Every firm on them is made up, so no real business is on show and nothing here is a client's site used as a shop window. They are all trades at the moment — that is where the work has been so far — so if you run a café or a salon, read them for the build rather than the trade: the speed, the way the page answers a question before it is asked, and how little you have to hunt for a phone number.
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Whatever the business
You register it, you hold it, and it never passes through us — so there is nothing to hand back and nothing to hold to ransom. We sit with you while you do it.
Your Google Business Profile claimed, filled in and pointed at the site, and your details marked up so search engines can read them properly. For most local businesses this is the part that decides everything and the part nobody has done.
Which things depends on what you sell. A builder is asked the price, the reviews, the guarantee and the postcodes. A café is asked the hours, the menu and where exactly it is. Either way they go where people look instead of on an about page.
A static site that loads immediately on a bad signal. No page builder, no plugin stack, nothing to slow down or go out of date underneath you.
New photographs, a review worth showing, a price that has moved, hours over Christmas — one WhatsApp thread, included from the cheapest plan up.
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What it costs · launch pricing
A straight answer, because most firms make you ring to get one. Ninety-nine pounds to build it, then a monthly of £17.99, £35 or £65 depending on how much you want us doing. Nothing hiding behind any of the numbers, and nothing to pay until it is built and you have seen it.
An agency building the same thing usually quotes four figures up front, then charges separately for hosting, for changes and for anything not on the original list. That is not a rip-off — it is what an agency with account managers, a sales process and an office costs to run. So the fair question is what the catch is here. There is not one, but there are three reasons.
A finished site a customer can point at is worth more to us right now than the difference in fee.
You are not paying for someone to start at a blank page and learn your trade on your money.
You deal directly with the person who builds it. Nobody is taking a cut for arranging the call.
The trade-off is real and you should know it: this is a launch price and it is capped. The first ten to take it get it, and anyone already on it keeps their rate for as long as they stay.
To get it built
£99
one payment, whichever plan
Design, copy, your photos, your Google Business Profile set up and linked, a quote tool if your trade suits one, and going live. Your domain is registered by you, in your own name, with us on hand while you do it — we never hold it, so it is never ours to ransom. Built first, paid for after — see the terms below.
Then pick a monthly, and there are three. The question that decides it is this: do you want a site that simply exists, a site that is kept current and findable on Google, or a site that is working to bring you more? Most know their answer immediately, and there is no wrong one — plenty of firms are full on word of mouth and just want somewhere to send people.
For a firm that wants somewhere proper to send people, and nothing more than that.
£17.99
a month
What it covers
For a firm that wants to be found when somebody searches, not just to have a site.
£35
a month — about £8 a week
Everything in the first, and then
For a firm that wants the phone to ring.
£65
a month
Everything in the first two, and then
Your part
Review requests go from your phone, not ours — the customer knows your number, and the same text from us reads as spam. The directories verify to you by text or post, so we fill them in and you confirm. Checkatrade and the like are not included: those are memberships you pay for, and that is your call.
What we will not promise
No position on Google is promised, because nobody can promise one — how close you are to whoever is searching is one of the biggest factors and it is not for sale. What is listed above is what gets done, every month.
New pages, new sections, changing how the quote tool works out a price, design or logo work: £95 an hour, quoted and agreed before anything starts. We would rather tell you a number up front than surprise you with one.
No deposit, and no invoice until the site is built and you have seen it. If you look at the finished thing and decide against it, you walk away owing nothing — we would rather carry that risk than ask a trade to pay up front for something that does not exist yet.
The site is in your name from launch, and the domain never even passes through us — you register it yourself, in your own name, and we set the site up on it. Not after twelve months, not for a transfer fee. Most pay-monthly websites are rented — ask anyone who has tried to move one.
Thirty days' notice and you stop paying. The site stays yours, it just stops being ours to look after. We would rather you could leave easily than have to lock you in.
If we ever stop trading, the site and everything needed to run it transfer to you at no cost — and your domain was never ours to hold in the first place. It is a clause in the agreement you sign before we start, because it is the thing you would most want to know and nobody in this market puts it in writing.
Ten. That is the number, not a date that quietly resets — after the tenth site the build fee goes up, and anyone already on the launch price keeps it.
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Any local business
The build is the same whatever is on the van or above the door. What changes is the argument the page has to make, so the sectors we have done the work for get their own page rather than a paragraph on this one.
Roofers, builders, glaziers, tilers, landscapers, plasterers. Your customer is checking what it costs, who vouches for you, what happens if it goes wrong and whether you cover their postcode — usually before they ring anyone. There is a full page for this, four guides written per trade, and six worked examples you can open.
The trades pageHere the website is the smaller half. Somebody choosing where to get coffee is on a phone a few streets away, and they decide off the map pin, the hours, the photographs and the reviews — which means the Google side matters more for you than it does for a builder, and a menu that loads on a phone matters more than a homepage does. No page of your own yet. The offer is the same and the conversation is free.
Garages, gyms, takeaways, cleaners, driving instructors, dog groomers. Same build, same price, same terms. If your trade is not listed it is because nobody has asked yet, not because it does not fit.
Bigger builds
Web applications, mobile apps and AI automation are a different thing entirely and live on the services page. This offer is for a business that needs a good site and to be findable, not for one that needs software. See what else we build.
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