Websites & AI — for local businesses

A proper website you own outright.

Hand-built, fast, and handed over — your domain, your hosting, your keys. One fixed price. No monthly platform fees, ever. And if you want something cleverer: an AI assistant like the one answering on this site right now.

Don't take my word for it

Click the work. It's all live.

Four different jobs, four different looks — all hand-built, all fast, all owned by the people they belong to.

The bit nobody mentions

Rented vs owned

⛓ The website builders

  • £264+ every year, forever — Wix's business tier, and it only goes up.
  • Leave, and the site doesn't come with you — it's theirs, not yours.
  • Slow, template-y, and you're one of a million identical sites.
  • I've un-stuck a local business from exactly this trap — it's why this page exists.

🦅 Hand-built & handed over

  • One fixed price, agreed in writing before I start.
  • Ongoing cost is small — usually just your domain renewal, around £15–20 a year. No monthly hosting fees, no surprise bills. Want branded email or a shop added later? I'll tell you the cost up front before anything's switched on.
  • Registered in your name — domain, hosting, the lot. You can sack me and lose nothing.
  • Fast, hand-made, and it looks like your business — see above.

Fixed scope, fixed price

What it costs

One-page showcase

A sharp single page that makes you look proper — your story, photos, prices, map, tap-to-call. Like the Scandex build.

Fixed price£495

Business site

Four to six pages — services, prices, about, contact — like this site. Built to turn visitors into phone calls.

From£995

AI assistant

A 24/7 front desk on your site: answers the common questions, takes bookings, captures the leads you currently miss. Like mine, but trained on your business — and nobody else round here builds these.

From£795

Site + assistant bundle

The full machine — a fast site you own with the AI desk on top. The complete second front door for your business.

From£1,495

What's always included

Fixed scope agreed in writing · two rounds of changes · set up in your name · a sit-down handover so you can run it yourself.

Standard

What I don't do

No retainers, no lock-in, no "maintenance plans" you don't need. The job ends with a handover, not a subscription.

Promise

Launch rates — they'll rise as the book fills. Agencies charge £2,500+ for the site and £4,000+ for the assistant, plus monthlies. I'd rather be busy.

The assistant on this site is the product.

Open it and try to catch it out — ask it prices, try to book a job, ask it if it's human. What it does for my repair bench, it can do for your bookings, quotes or FAQs — trained on your business, on your site, owned by you.

Dead simple

How it works

We talk

Phone, the assistant, or over a brew — what the site needs to do for you.

Fixed quote, in writing

Scope and price agreed before anything starts. No surprises.

I build it

You watch it take shape on a live link and steer as we go.

Handover

Domain and hosting in your name, a walkthrough, and the keys. It's yours.

Fair questions

Asked & answered

So I really don't pay you monthly?
Really. The build is a one-off fixed price; after handover your only ongoing cost is the domain (~£15–20/year) and whatever hosting you choose — often pennies or free for sites like these. If you genuinely don't want to hold the keys, I offer a small "I'll hold them for you" tier — but I'll try to talk you out of needing it.
What about changes after handover?
Two rounds of changes are included in the build. After that it's simple pay-as-you-go tweaks when you want them — no retainer, no minimum.
What does the AI assistant actually know?
Only what we agree it should — your services, prices, opening hours, booking rules. It introduces itself honestly as an AI, never makes promises you wouldn't, and hands people to your phone the moment that's better. Mine's the live example — go and interrogate it.
Can you rescue my existing site off Wix / GoDaddy / Squarespace?
Usually, yes — content comes out, the design gets rebuilt properly, and the new site goes up in your name. That rescue is how this service started.
Who looks after the AI's running costs?
The assistant runs on your own account at honest cost — typically pennies per conversation, capped so it can never run away. No platform mark-up, no per-seat nonsense. I set it up, show you the dials, and it's yours.

Got a business that deserves better than a template?

Tell me what you do. I'll tell you straight what I'd build, what it costs, and what it won't cost you forever after.

Tap to call Nick — 07562 838116