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// Pricing

Fully transparent pricing,
no surprises.

Every project is scoped and quoted up front in a fixed written proposal. Choose a one-off project package or an ongoing monthly retainer.

Project packages

One-off builds with a clear scope, timeline and deliverables.

Starter

From £3,500

A bespoke brochure website for a small business, with editable content and a clear enquiry journey.

  • ✓ Up to 5 custom pages
  • ✓ Discovery and page-structure planning
  • ✓ Responsive design and performance checks
  • ✓ Edit agreed page text and images in your CMS
  • ✓ Technical SEO foundations and analytics setup
  • ✓ Contact form and enquiry testing
  • ✓ Content guidance using your supplied copy and images
  • ✓ 2 agreed design review rounds
  • ✓ Handover and 30 days of fixes for delivered work
  • ✓ Indicative delivery: 2–3 weeks after content is ready
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Business Website

From £5,500

A content-led website for an established business needing more service pages, useful resources and a clear route to enquiry.

  • ✓ Up to 10 custom pages
  • ✓ Discovery and content-structure planning
  • ✓ Responsive custom design and CMS
  • ✓ Blog or news section
  • ✓ Technical SEO, structured data and redirect planning
  • ✓ Contact forms and analytics setup
  • ✓ Content guidance using your supplied materials
  • ✓ 3 agreed design review rounds
  • ✓ Handover and 30 days of fixes for delivered work
  • ✓ Indicative delivery: 3–5 weeks after content is ready

Growth

From £8,500

A commercial website with one defined shop, booking or member workflow, scoped around how your business operates.

  • ✓ Up to 15 pages within the agreed scope
  • ✓ CMS and custom responsive design
  • ✓ One scoped shop, booking or member workflow
  • ✓ Staff controls needed for that workflow
  • ✓ One standard payment or service integration where required
  • ✓ Technical SEO and analytics setup
  • ✓ Workflow testing and staff handover
  • ✓ 3 agreed design review rounds
  • ✓ 30 days of fixes for delivered work
  • ✓ Indicative delivery: 4–8 weeks, subject to scope

Enterprise

From £15,000

A focused first release of a custom application or SaaS product. Larger systems are quoted in phases.

  • ✓ Written discovery, architecture and release scope
  • ✓ One core business workflow with agreed supporting features
  • ✓ User accounts and agreed permissions
  • ✓ Admin tools and integrations listed in your proposal
  • ✓ Responsive interface
  • ✓ Automated tests for important business flows
  • ✓ Deployment, documentation and handover
  • ✓ 3 review rounds within the agreed release scope
  • ✓ 30 days of fixes for delivered work
  • ✓ Indicative delivery: 8–12 weeks, subject to scope

// AI costs, made clearer

What should you budget for AI?

Start with the decision you need to make, understand the opportunity, test a useful idea, or build a working application. These are guide budgets for my services, your fixed price and deliverables are agreed in writing before work begins.

Understand where to start

AI discovery & advice

£650–£1,250

One-off guide budget

A focused review of one team or business process, with practical advice you can act on.

  • A discovery session with the people doing the work
  • Review of your workflow, tools and sample data
  • Prioritised opportunities and a written recommendation
  • An outline scope and budget for the next step

Advice and planning only. Implementation and wider organisational audits are quoted separately.

Test one useful idea

Focused AI pilot

£2,500–£5,000

One-off guide budget

A small working pilot to assess whether one AI-assisted task is worth taking further.

  • One agreed use case and a limited set of sample inputs
  • An existing AI model and a straightforward connection
  • Human review steps and tests against agreed examples
  • A walkthrough, findings and estimated running costs

A limited pilot, not a full production application. Wider rollout, complex integrations and substantial data clean-up are separate.

Build it into your business

Bespoke AI application

£8,500–£20,000+

One-off guide budget

A custom internal tool or AI-enabled application built around an agreed business workflow.

  • Application design and development for the agreed scope
  • User access, integrations and human approval where needed
  • Representative testing, error handling and usage visibility
  • Deployment, documentation and a team handover

Larger platforms, complex permissions and multiple integrations can exceed this range. New model training and ongoing support are separate.

What about ongoing costs?

AI provider usage, software subscriptions and hosting are separate from my fees. The cost depends on the model, number of users, document sizes and how often the system runs. Your proposal includes an estimate at your expected usage, with agreed limits and alerts where supported.

Maintenance, monitoring and further development are optional and scoped separately through an ongoing support arrangement.

One step at a time

A simple automation may need a smaller, individually quoted piece of work. Pilot budgets include evaluation and a decision on whether to proceed. Discovery, pilot and production are separate engagements. You can stop after any agreed stage. These budgets are not an all-inclusive bundle. If earlier work can be reused, the next proposal will explain how that affects its price.

The lower end assumes a focused workflow, usable data and straightforward access to your systems. More users, sensitive data, complex integrations or a wider rollout increase the scope.

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Monthly retainers

Ongoing development, maintenance and support to keep things moving.

Website Care

£195

Per month

For a stable brochure or content website. Subject to an initial suitability review.

  • ✓ 2 total hours/month for upkeep, fixes and small content edits
  • ✓ Security and dependency checks within your allowance
  • ✓ Uptime monitoring and scheduled backups
  • ✓ Monthly work summary
  • ✓ Response target: within 2 business days
  • ✓ New features, shops and complex applications quoted separately

Essential Support

£500

Per month

Practical maintenance for a stable Laravel application, with a defined monthly allowance.

  • ✓ 6 total hours/month for maintenance, fixes and small changes
  • ✓ Security and dependency checks
  • ✓ Uptime monitoring and scheduled backups
  • ✓ Monthly work summary
  • ✓ Response target: within 1 business day
  • ✓ Major upgrades and new features quoted separately
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Professional Support

£1,000

Per month

A development partnership for an application that needs regular improvements.

  • ✓ 12 total hours/month shared across maintenance and development
  • ✓ Small feature improvements within the allowance
  • ✓ Security checks, monitoring and scheduled backups
  • ✓ Performance investigation within the allowance
  • ✓ Monthly work summary and quarterly planning call
  • ✓ Urgent incident response target: same business day

Premium Support

£2,000

Per month

Reserved development capacity for an evolving business application.

  • ✓ 24 total hours/month shared across maintenance and development
  • ✓ Agreed feature development and integrations within the allowance
  • ✓ Security checks, monitoring and scheduled backups
  • ✓ Performance work within the allowance
  • ✓ Monthly planning call and work summary
  • ✓ Critical incident response target: within 6 business hours

How monthly support works

All hands-on maintenance, investigation, development, testing, deployment and calls use your monthly allowance. Automated monitoring and scheduled backups do not. You receive a work summary, and additional work is agreed before it is charged. Unused hours expire at month end.

Support hours are Monday to Friday, 10am–6pm UK time, excluding bank holidays and notified closure dates. Response targets mean acknowledgement and initial triage, not guaranteed resolution. Incident severity and escalation are agreed at onboarding. Out-of-hours support is not included.

Plans run monthly with 30 days notice to cancel or change. Upgrades depend on capacity. Existing problems and onboarding are assessed and quoted separately. Hosting, domains and third-party subscriptions are separate unless explicitly included in your proposal.

// How pricing works

Every project is unique

  • ✓Every project is scoped and priced before any commitment.
  • ✓You get a fixed, written proposal. No hourly-rate creep.
  • ✓These packages are starting points. Timelines depend on scope, content and feedback. Extra features or review rounds are quoted before work begins. Hosting, subscriptions, full copywriting and ongoing support are separate unless included in your proposal.
Fixed-price project planning

Pricing questions, answered

What does website maintenance cost, and what do your retainers include?

Website Care is £195/month with 2 total hours. Application support is £500 for 6 hours, £1,000 for 12 hours or £2,000 for 24 hours each month. All hands-on work and calls use that allowance; automated monitoring and scheduled backups do not.

What is included in a project package?

Starter websites begin at £3,500 with editable content. Business Website begins at £5,500 for a larger content-led site. Growth begins at £8,500 for one scoped commercial workflow. A focused custom application starts at £15,000. Your written proposal confirms the inclusions. Smaller tools, fixes and integrations are quoted individually.

Can I upgrade or cancel a retainer?

Plans run monthly with 30 days notice to cancel or change. Upgrades depend on capacity. Unused hours expire at month end, and your code and accounts remain yours.

Do you offer payment plans?

For larger projects I split payment across milestones - typically a deposit, a mid-project stage and a final payment on launch. Get in touch and I will set out a schedule that works for your cash flow rather than asking for the full amount up front.

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