Service 05
Consultation & Strategy
Expert advice to streamline and succeed: audits, roadmaps and a second opinion from people who build.
What’s included
Everything you need, nothing you don’t.
- Website and content audits
- Platform and plugin due diligence
- Agency and quote reviews
- Migration and replatforming plans
- Editorial workflow design
- Analytics and measurement plans
- Technical interviews and hiring support
- Fractional technical leadership
Our approach
How we do it
Sometimes you do not need a new website. You need someone to look at the one you have, understand the business behind it, and tell you plainly what to do next.
Audits that lead somewhere
Content, usability, accessibility, SEO, security and editorial workflow, reviewed together rather than in silos, with findings ranked by impact and effort so you know where to start.
Audits have a fixed fee: two hours for a focused audit, five for a full one, at our usual £200 an hour. Start with the free website check to see what an automated pass finds first.
Strategy you can execute
Roadmaps are only useful if a team can follow them. Ours name the work, the order, the owners and the reasons, in plain language a non-technical stakeholder can sign off.
A builder's perspective
We are not a consultancy that recommends work it never does. Advice comes from people who will have to live with the consequences on the next project.
Outcomes
What you can expect
free first call, no strings
from go-ahead to a full written audit
daily or retained, as suits you
clear roadmap instead of twelve opinions
FAQ
Questions we hear a lot
Is the first consultation really free?
Yes. Fifteen minutes to understand your situation and tell you whether we can help. No pitch deck.
Can you review a quote from another agency?
Gladly. We will tell you what is fair, what is missing and what questions to ask.
Do you offer ongoing advisory?
Yes. Retained monthly hours work well for teams that need a technical lead without a full-time hire.
What does a one-off audit cost?
A focused audit is two hours (£400); a full audit is five hours (£1,000). Both are fixed price and checked by a senior developer, and the fee is credited if you book the fixes with us within 60 days.
More services
Pairs well with
Web Design
Custom designs for standout online branding, built around your content rather than a template.
Web Development
Sleek, scalable and secure WordPress builds with hand-written code and no page-builder lock-in.
SEO & Digital Marketing
Strategic, measurable campaigns that compound: technical SEO, content and the analytics to prove it.