Pricing
What things actually cost
Most agencies make you sit through a discovery call before they will say a number. Here are the starting figures, so you can work out in thirty seconds whether we are in the same ballpark.
How to read these
Every figure is a starting point for a real project of that type, not a teaser. After a fifteen-minute call you get one fixed number against a written scope — and that number is what you pay. If the scope changes later we agree the change and its cost before any work happens.
One-off builds
| What you're buying | What's in it | From |
|---|---|---|
| Starter website | Up to five pages, enquiry form, search foundations | £750 |
| Business website | Five to ten pages, a page per service, local SEO | £1,450 |
| Corporate / multi-service website | Ten to twenty pages, service catalogue, local landing pages | £2,950 |
| Campaign landing page | Single page built to convert paid traffic, tracking included | £395 |
| Cross-platform app (Flutter) | iOS and Android from one codebase, store submission included | £3,000 |
| Native app (Swift / Kotlin) | Built per platform where performance or hardware demands it | £5,500 |
| AI agent | One agent, one job, in production with guardrails | £1,500 |
| App or site audit | Written assessment of what you have and what it needs | £295 |
Monthly services
| Service | What's in it | From |
|---|---|---|
| Website care plan | Hosting managed, uptime monitored, 30 min of changes a month | £45/mo |
| SEO | Technical fixes, Google Business Profile, one new page a month | £450/mo |
| Social media management | Two platforms, twelve posts, messages answered | £350/mo |
| Ads management | Google and Meta campaigns, tracking, monthly reporting | £495/mo |
| AI agent running costs | Usage-based, capped so it cannot surprise you | £15/mo |
All prices exclude VAT where applicable. Ad spend is paid directly to the platform and is separate from management fees.
Care plans
Once it's live, someone has to look after it.
Optional, cancellable with 30 days notice, and you keep the site either way. Most clients take Care; plenty take nothing and manage fine.
£45/month
Essentials
- Hosting and SSL managed
- Uptime monitoring
- Form delivery checked monthly
- Up to 30 minutes of text or price changes
- Annual privacy policy review
£95/month
Care
- Everything in Essentials
- One content update a month
- New reviews added to the site
- Replies drafted for your Google reviews
- Quarterly report: calls and enquiries
£250/month
Growth
- Everything in Care
- Google Business Profile managed
- Four social posts a month
- A seasonal landing page each quarter
- Review-request follow-up
Twelve months paid up front costs ten months. Work beyond a plan's included time is £65/hour, always quoted before it starts.
By service
Where each service starts
01 / MOBILE
App development
A focused cross-platform app on both stores.
From£3,000
Details →02 / WEB
Web development
A starter site of up to five pages.
From£750
Details →03 / AI
AI agent development
One agent doing one job, in production.
From£1,500
Details →04 / SEARCH
SEO
Ongoing local SEO, three month minimum.
From£450/month
Details →05 / SOCIAL
Social media management
Two platforms, twelve posts a month.
From£350/month
Details →06 / GROWTH
Ads & marketing
Management, plus your ad spend.
From£495/month
Details →Pricing questions
How much does a website cost in the UK in 2026?
Most UK agencies quote between £2,000 and £7,000 for a small business site. Mine start at £750 for up to five pages, £1,450 for a fuller business site and £2,950 for a corporate build — bespoke in every case, not a template with your logo dropped in. The gap is overhead, not quality: an agency price covers an account manager, a project manager, a designer and an office. Below about £400, anywhere, you are buying a template.
Why are your prices lower than a bigger agency?
Because there is one of me. An agency quoting £5,000 for the same site is covering an account manager, a project manager, a designer, a developer and an office. The work is not five times better; the overhead is. The trade-off is honest: you get a senior engineer writing your code, and no team to absorb it when I am ill or on holiday.
Why "from" prices rather than fixed packages?
Because a five-page site for a sole trader and a five-page site for a company with three locations and a compliance review are not the same job. The starting figures tell you which conversation you are in. After a fifteen-minute call you get one fixed number, not a range.
What are the payment terms?
50% to begin and 50% on go-live for builds. Monthly services are invoiced monthly in advance, with a three-month minimum on SEO and one month on everything else. No setup fee hidden on top.
Is there anything extra to pay?
Your domain (about £12 a year) and, if you run them, your ad budget, which goes directly to Google or Meta. Hosting is on Azure and most sites sit on the free tier. Where a build needs a paid third-party service I list it in the proposal with its cost before you sign.
What if I only need part of it?
That is usually the right answer, and the starter site exists for exactly that reason. Plenty of clients take a five-page site and do their own social, or take the Google Business Profile work and nothing else. Nothing here is bundled to force a bigger invoice.
Get one number instead of a range.
Fifteen minutes is enough for me to scope most projects well enough to quote them properly. No obligation, and no follow-up sequence afterwards.