Websites that earn their keep
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Custom-built, not dragged out of a template library. Fast on a phone on a bad signal, written for the words your customers actually search, and shaped around the one action you need them to take.
Kirosconsult .co.uk — London
Built properly.
Priced honestly.
We design and code websites, plugins and APIs for British businesses — then hand you the keys. Domain, hosting, mailboxes, email authentication, accessibility and Google indexing are all part of the build, not a list of extras discovered at invoice time.
What we build
Six things, done properly.
Most of our work is the part other agencies subcontract or skip: the code behind the pretty page.
Websites that earn their keep
Bespoke plugins and APIs
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When the off-the-shelf plugin does 80% of the job, we write the other 20%. Booking engines, quoting tools, stock feeds, courier rate lookups, patient portals, dispatch boards — coded to your process, not the other way round.
E-commerce and quoting
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Catalogues from 10 products to 47 000. Live courier rates at checkout, multi-warehouse stock, trade pricing tiers, quote builders for businesses that sell by quotation rather than by cart.
Portals and dashboards
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Members, staff, clinicians, funders, resellers — each with their own login, their own data and nothing they should not see. Role-based access designed properly, audited, and logged.
Apps without the app store
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Progressive web apps your customers install straight from the browser. Offline pages, home-screen icon, and self-hosted push notifications with no per-message fee.
Rescue and migration
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Site held hostage by an agency that has stopped replying? Host gone bad? We lift sites out, rebuild what needs rebuilding, and hand you the keys in your own name.
What is included, always
The extras are not extra.
Every plan, including the cheapest one, ships with all of this. Not as an upsell. Not in phase two.
Live in 12 months for one price
- Your domain name, registered and paid for the first 12 months
- 12 months of managed, SSD-backed hosting with a free SSL certificate
- Five mailboxes on your own domain, with webmail and phone setup
- Daily off-site backups, kept 30 days, restorable in minutes
- Staging copy of your site so changes are proved before they go live
Email that actually arrives
- SPF record published and validated
- DKIM signing keys generated and verified for every sending source
- DMARC policy rolled out on the safe path: p=none, monitored, then enforced
- Reverse DNS and sender reputation checked before launch
Locked down from day one
- Login page moved off /wp-admin and /wp-login.php to a private address
- Two-factor authentication on every administrator account
- A unique admin username per site — never "admin", never shared across sites
- Brute-force lockout, firewall rules and disabled file editing in the dashboard
Found on Google
- Google Search Console verified, sitemap submitted, indexing confirmed page by page
- Schema.org structured data for your business, services, reviews and opening hours
- Google Business Profile created or claimed, with categories, hours and photos
- Titles, descriptions and heading structure written for your actual search terms
- Core Web Vitals measured and passed on mobile before launch
Social, connected
- Facebook Page and Instagram Business account linked and verified
- Auto-posting: a new page, offer or article posts itself to your channels
- LinkedIn, TikTok and WhatsApp Business click-to-chat wired into the site
- Open Graph and Twitter card images so shared links look deliberate
Usable by everyone
- WCAG 2.2 AA contrast, focus states and keyboard navigation, tested not assumed
- A published accessibility statement with a real route to report a problem
- Skip-to-content link, semantic headings, labelled forms and alt text throughout
- Light and dark mode, both audited for contrast independently
Why the price is what it is
Cheap, because it is repeatable.
50Demo sites already built. Your build starts from a finished one, not a blank page.
~1 weekFrom content landing to live, on the entry plan.
20iHosted in the UK at wholesale, so hosting costs pennies and we pass that on.
100%Yours. Domain in your name, code exported on request, no exit fee.
Independent 2026 UK price guides put a small-business website at £1 500 – £2 500 from a freelancer and £2 500 – £10 000 from an agency, before a care plan of £29 – £99 a month and £100 – £300 a year for domain and hosting.
We charge £249 for the same job, because the security, email authentication, accessibility and indexing work is a runbook we execute — not a puzzle we solve again for every client — and because we host at wholesale on infrastructure we already run.
Compare the numbersHow it goes
Six steps. No mystery.
Discovery
A 30-minute call. What you sell, who buys it, what you want the site to do, and what has gone wrong before. You leave with a fixed price, not a range.
Design
You see your actual site — your words, your photos, your colours — not a stock mockup with someone else's business in it. Two rounds of changes, no meter running.
Build
Coded, not assembled. Security, email authentication, accessibility and indexing are part of the build, not an upsell afterwards.
Proof
Contrast checked, keyboard tested, Core Web Vitals measured, deliverability tested to three mail providers. You get the reports.
Launch
Domain, DNS, mail and search console go live together. Nothing points at a holding page for a week.
After
Backups run nightly, updates are tested on staging first, and there is a person who answers when you write.
Questions
The awkward ones.
How can you be this much cheaper than everyone else?
Two reasons, both boring. We build on a system we have already written — the security, email authentication, accessibility and indexing work is a checklist we run, not a puzzle we solve again per client. And we host at wholesale on infrastructure we already run for a portfolio of sites. Low cost per site, done many times, priced honestly.
What happens after the first 12 months?
Your domain, hosting, mail and backups roll onto a care plan starting at the rate shown on each plan. That is the only recurring cost, it is published, and it does not jump in year two. If you would rather take the site elsewhere, we export everything and help you move it. No exit fee.
Who owns the site?
You do. The domain is registered in your name, the hosting account is yours, and the code and content are yours. We keep a copy so we can support you, not so we can hold you to ransom.
Do you really configure DKIM and DMARC on a small business site?
Yes, on every single one. It is the difference between your quotes landing in an inbox and landing in spam, and between a scammer being able to invoice your customers in your name and not. It takes us under an hour because we have a runbook for it.
Can you build something no plugin does?
That is most of what we do. Live courier rate quoting, multi-practice prescription systems, immutable clinical notes, 47 000-line quote catalogues, school communication platforms, funder portals. If it can be specified, it can be coded.
Tell us what it needs to do.
Thirty minutes on a call and you leave with a fixed price and a date. Not a range, not an estimate, and no obligation.