How much does a website cost?

It depends on the scope, but our builds start at £650 for a landing page and £1,400–£5,866 for a custom website. E-commerce starts at £4,150. For ongoing support, WP Care plans start at £59/month, SEO retainers from £549/month, and our all-in Studio packages from £270/month. However a project is priced, we break it into milestones — each with a fixed price tied to a working deliverable. You never pay 50% of the total cost up front. Instead, you pay 50% of the first milestone to start it. When that milestone is complete, you pay the remaining 50% of it together with the 50% deposit on the next milestone — and that's what unlocks the next phase of work. The pattern continues until the final milestone is delivered, at which point you pay the remaining 50% of it. The effect: cash flow stays smooth, you always see a working deliverable before paying for the next, and we never carry more than half a milestone of unbilled work.

How long does a project take and what does delivery look like?

Indicative timings: Landing page: ~4 weeks from kick-off Custom website: 4–8 weeks E-commerce build: 8–12 weeks Brand work: 2–8 weeks depending on tier Delivery is broken into milestones built around working functionality, not internal phases like “design” or “build” in isolation. Think of it like an MVP and then MVP+1, MVP+2 — at the end of every milestone you have a live, usable thing you can see and sign off on. For a typical website project, the milestones look something like this: MVP — A working homepage and core navigation on staging, with your brand applied. Real, clickable, mobile-friendly. MVP+1 — All inner pages built, forms wired, analytics installed. MVP+2 — SEO foundations, schema, performance optimisations, content polish. Launch — Final QA, DNS cutover, hand-over docs. You'll always know what we're working on each week and what's due back from you. We never start the next milestone until the previous one is signed off and paid for, which keeps surprises out of the project.

What if I need a bit of everything — can you do that?

Yes, and this is what our Studio packages are built for. Instead of piecing together a freelance designer, a marketing agency, a developer, and a hosting account, you get all of it from one team on one monthly fee: Studio Lite — £1,200/month. SEO retainer + GBP management + WP Care + 6 hours/month of design, dev or content time. Studio Standard — £2,250/month. Bigger SEO scope, 13 hours/month design + dev, quarterly brand reviews. Studio Pro — £3,500/month. The whole stack — 18 hours/month of flex time, weekly GBP posts, monthly cross-discipline strategy session. Studio is best for businesses who'd otherwise hire a junior designer plus a part-time marketer. It's also how we work with most of our long-standing clients — they like having one point of contact for the whole digital side.

Do you offer ongoing maintenance after launch?

Yes — four WP Care plans, £59–£259/month, covering plugin and core updates, daily backups, security and performance monitoring, and content tweaks. Most clients pair their build with at least our Essentials plan so the site stays healthy and up to date.

AEO — Answer Engine Optimisation for small businesses

What is Answer Engine Optimisation?

People used to search Google. Now they ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude or Google AI Overviews. The answers those tools give don’t come from the same signals that rank you on Google — they pull from structured data, AI-readable content patterns, and a small number of trusted sources per topic.

Answer Engine Optimisation is the work that gets your business named in those AI answers, not just lost on page seven of Google.

What I do

AI-friendly site structure — Schema markup (Organization, LocalBusiness, FAQPage, Article, HowTo) so AI engines can parse who you are, what you do, and which questions you answer. Built into the theme so every page inherits it.
llms.txt file — A standardised, structured index of your site’s content written for AI crawlers. Emerging convention, low cost, signals readiness.
AI crawler access — robots.txt configured per your stance on training models (OpenAI’s GPTBot, Anthropic’s ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, Perplexity) — clear opt-in or opt-out, no accidental blocking.
Question-shaped content — FAQ pages, how-to articles, and service pages written so AI engines can lift specific Q&A pairs verbatim. The same content still works for human readers — it just reads cleaner.
Citation hygiene — clear source attribution, author bylines with datePublished, easy-to-extract facts and figures. AI engines prefer content they can confidently cite back.

How it fits with SEO

SEO and AEO overlap but aren’t the same thing. SEO gets you ranked on Google’s blue links. AEO gets you mentioned in the AI summary above them. Both matter, both compound. Most of the AEO work happens to also improve regular SEO — schema and structured content are universally good — but the planning, content choices, and measurement are different.

If you’re already on an SEO retainer, AEO can be folded in. If you’re starting fresh, an AEO-first audit is a sensible entry point.