We're in Leeds, about an hour away, and we work with Manchester businesses and founders regularly. Same published prices, same fixed dates, same public build logs.
No "contact us for a quote". These are the bands we work in, and the proposal names one number inside them.
| What you want | Price | Typical time |
|---|---|---|
| Custom business site | £1,500 to £4,000 | 1 to 2 weeks |
| Online shop | £2,500 to £6,000 | 2 to 3 weeks |
| Internal tool or customer portal | £3,000 to £12,000 | 2 to 4 weeks |
| Care plan after launch | £75 to £250 a month | ongoing |
| Rescue teardown of an existing build | free, 30 minutes | same week |
Bands, not a quote. The proposal names one number and one date, and the contract carries both.
Manchester has a deeper agency and startup market than anywhere else in the north, which cuts both ways. There's more choice, and there's a wider spread of prices for identical work. The quote for a marketing site here can vary by a factor of five, and the difference is rarely the software.
For founders, the relevant comparison isn't a local agency at all, it's whether to raise money to build something you could test in three weeks for the price of a month's runway.
First drafts of screens, markup and logic. The repetitive 80%: forms, lists, plumbing, the fifth variation of the same page.
Scope, architecture, security, data protection, and the decision about what not to build. Every line reviewed and signed off by name.
Every project gets a build log: what was asked for, what it cost, how long it took, what the machine did and what the human did. Published, not summarised.
We're Leeds based. For Manchester work that means we'll come over for kick off and for anything that genuinely needs a room, and do the rest remotely. If you need someone in your office every week, we're not it.
The risk with AI generated code is real and well documented: more bugs, more security holes, when nobody reviews it. That's why review is the product here. A senior engineer reads everything, security and UK GDPR are deliverables rather than extras, and their name goes on it.
We're based in Leeds. We'll come to Manchester to scope the work and for anything that needs a room, and build remotely, which is part of why the price is what it is.
Because the typing got faster and we passed that on. The thinking, the review and the testing didn't get faster, which is why we're cheaper than an agency but not as cheap as a DIY tool. Anyone charging pre-AI day rates for AI-assisted work is pocketing the difference.
Yes. Code, repository, hosting and accounts, all in your name, no lock in. You can take it to any other developer the day after launch.