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Custom website design and development

Every project starts with a blank canvas.

No template to fit inside, no platform deciding what's possible. We design and build your website from scratch, around your business and the customers it's there to win. Fast, and yours to keep.

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What we do

One studio. Design, build, launch.

Strategy, design and engineering under one roof, so the thinking that wins your customer carries straight through into the code.

01

Design

Layouts that start from your customer's question, not a template. Type, spacing and colour chosen so the page feels inevitable, and unmistakably yours.

  • Brand-led
  • Bespoke layout
  • Typography
02

Build

Hand-built on modern foundations, so every page loads in a blink. Clean Next.js and React underneath: nothing boxed in by a template or plugin, and all of it free to move elsewhere tomorrow.

  • Next.js
  • React
  • Core Web Vitals
03

Own & grow

The code is yours, on any host you choose. A headless CMS lets you edit your own content. And if you would rather not, an optional care plan keeps it sharp.

  • You own it
  • Headless CMS
  • Optional care

How we build

Where a custom build pulls ahead.

Plenty of designers build on a platform. Here is what building custom buys you instead, and where a platform cannot follow.

  • Whatever you imagine, built.

    No theme, no preset grid, nothing to squeeze your idea into. Layout, motion and interaction are designed by hand for your site — GSAP and Framer Motion, always in service of the message — and if your business needs a feature no platform offers, we build that too.

    A template is a menu. This is a commission.

  • Only the code you need.

    A platform ships every feature it has ever sold, whether your site uses it or not. A custom build carries nothing but your site: modern, minimal, standards-based code that any developer can pick up and read.

    Platforms carry their whole feature list. Your site carries yours.

  • Fast, because visitors don't wait.

    A slow site can lose half its visitors before the first screen appears — including the ones your advertising paid to bring there. Pages here are built ahead of time and served from Vercel's edge, ready the moment they are asked for.

    A platform decides how your pages are served. Here, you do.

  • Easy to find, for search and for AI.

    AI assistants read the web the way search engines always have: clean, semantic pages, served ready to read. That is how every page here is built, with structured data underneath, so when someone asks an AI for a business like yours, yours is one it can actually read and quote.

    Being recommended starts with being readable.

  • Yours to keep, for good.

    Clean, standards-based code that belongs to you, on hosting in your name. Move host or developer whenever you like. No one can switch it off, lock you in, or change the terms underneath you.

    Nothing to cancel, no platform to outgrow.

Process

From first call to live site.

Four milestones, no mystery. You watch it take shape the whole way, and sign off each step before the next begins.

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Tools we build with

A palette, not a checklist. We choose what each project needs.

Pricing

One price to build. One to stay sharp.

Clear and fixed. The site is a one-off you own outright. The care plan is optional, for owners who would rather run their business than manage a website.

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The build

from
€4,800

Starting project fee, depending on project size and complexity, to be scoped and agreed upfront.

Everything from first call to live: design, build, content setup and launch on hosting that belongs to you.

  • Custom design, drawn from scratch for your business
  • Hand-built on Next.js, with no template underneath
  • Fast and accessible, measured on Google's own tests
  • A headless CMS so you can edit your own content
  • Yours to keep, on hosting you own

Larger scope, like visitor sign-in, multiple languages or a migration? We will give you a fixed quote after the brief.

The care plan

Optional
from
€200per month

Ongoing monthly fee, depending on the size of the site and how much cover you want.

Hand us the keys and forget about it. We host, monitor, update and report, every month.

  • Hosting, domain and monitoring handled
  • Performance, security and uptime looked after
  • A plain-English report, every month
  • Can optionally include a block of content edits each month

Starts the month your site goes live, and you can cancel any time.

If you add content edit blocks, the amount is variable.

Priced in euros
Sterling is converted at a fixed rate. If you would rather contract in your own currency, ask us.
Spain and EU consumers
Spanish IVA - the Spanish name for VAT - is added.
EU businesses
With a valid VAT number you account for it yourself, under the reverse charge.
Outside the EU
Including the UK. No VAT is added.

“If you're paying a designer to build your site, you can afford a custom one: free from the restrictions of platforms and templates, with clean code that you own.”

FAQ

Asked before. Answered straight.

If you are building it yourself on a budget, a platform is a sensible choice, and we would happily tell you so. But the moment you are paying a professional either way, the maths changes. The same fee buys one of two things: an arrangement of a template, inside a platform's limits, or something designed and built entirely around your business, which you then own. You are not paying more for less, you are paying for the thing itself rather than permission to use it.