For independent businesses with a story

A website that tells your story, not a template's

Pubs, venues, events, heritage sites and trades. We research what makes you different, show you concepts, build the one you pick, and keep it running.

  1. Research
  2. Concepts
  3. Build
  4. Run

Concept sprint: £750, 5 working days, credited against the build.

Who it's for

Independents with something worth telling

If you have a history, a place, a crowd or a craft that a big chain can't copy, the site should show it.

Pubs and inns

Your regulars know the story. A first-time visitor should too, before they walk in.

Venues

What's on, how to get there and where to book, answered in the first screen.

Events and festivals

One home for the programme, the history and the tickets, every year.

Heritage and community sites

A building with centuries behind it deserves more than a listing.

Trades

Local people searching for you in a hurry. Findable, trustworthy, one tap to call.

The method

Research, concepts, build, run

The same four steps every time, so you know what happens next.

Step 1

Research

We read everything public about you: your history, reviews, listings, local rivals and what customers ask. Every fact is sourced, so the site never says something untrue about you.

Step 2

Concepts

Two or three working homepages from the same research, each with a different idea of who you are. You click through them and choose, or tell us what to merge.

Step 3

Build

The chosen concept becomes the full site. Fast on a phone, set up for local search, with events coming in from FolkAir so you can add them yourself.

Step 4

Run

We host it, keep it patched, and make the small changes. You can take the keys instead whenever you like.

Four steps, three prices

Start small. The concept sprint costs £750 and is credited in full if you go on to the build. It covers research and concepts.

Step one

Concept sprint

The entry step. We research your business and show you where the site could go, before you commit to a build.

£750
  • A research file: your history, your place, your customers and your rivals, every fact sourced
  • Two or three concept homepages you can click through
  • A recommendation and a fixed quote for the build
  • Credited in full against the build if you go ahead
Delivery: 5 working days

Step two

Build

The chosen concept becomes the real site: fast, findable, and set up so changes are easy to make.

from£4,000
  • The chosen concept, built as a complete site in Next.js
  • Local search set-up: titles, structured data, Google Business Profile guidance
  • Events pulled in automatically from FolkAir, where you list them once
  • Handover session: how the site works and how to ask for changes
  • Price fixed in writing after the sprint, before you pay for the build
Delivery: 20 working days

Step three

Run

We keep the site alive: hosting, updates and the small changes.

from£250/month
  • Hosting and security updates
  • Small content changes each month
  • Bigger changes quoted separately, never started without your yes
Rolling monthly, cancel any time

Questions

Questions & answers

It lets you see the direction before you commit to a build. For £750 you get the research file and two or three working homepages in 5 working days. If you go ahead, that £750 comes off the price of the build.

Then you keep the research file and the concepts and owe us nothing further. We would rather you know early than pay for a site you don't want.

Independent pubs, venues, events, heritage and community sites, and trades: businesses with a real history, place or craft. If you are a chain or a franchise, a template will probably serve you better.

Builds start at £4,000. After the sprint you get a fixed price in writing, based on the concept you chose, before you pay for any build work.

We set the site up properly for local search: clear page titles, structured data, fast loading on a phone and guidance on your Google Business Profile. Where you appear in search depends on many things we don't control, so we don't promise a ranking or a number of enquiries.

Events can be added by you through FolkAir and appear on the site. Everything else, such as menus, opening hours and wording, we change for you: on the Run plan the small changes are included, otherwise we quote them.

No. Once the site is live it is yours. You can arrange changes with us as and when, or choose Run from £250 a month. It rolls monthly and you can cancel any time.

Yes. The demos page shows what we build when nobody is paying us to, and we'll walk you through relevant projects on a call.

Tell us about your place.

A short conversation about what you do and what you want the site to do. If a concept sprint makes sense we'll say so, and if it doesn't, we'll say that too.