How people find and interact with businesses is changing fast.

I help ambitious businesses and startups with

I help ambitious businesses and startups with

Website Design and DevelopmentSearch Engine Optimisation (SEO)Improved AI Visibility (GEO)E-Commerce & Online StoresBranding & DesignContent Strategy & CreationPaid Search & Social CampaignsDigital Consultancy

Website Design and DevelopmentSearch Engine Optimisation (SEO)Improved AI Visibility (GEO)E-Commerce & Online StoresBranding & DesignContent Strategy & CreationPaid Search & Social CampaignsDigital Consultancy

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Build

Websites and online stores that are fast, solid, and easy to run once they’re yours.

Get Found

Built to be found in Google and in AI answers, by potential customers or clients already looking for you.

Stand Out

A clear brand and the words to match, so your business looks and sounds as good as it is.

Brands I’ve worked with.

Nearly two decades delivering in digital; agency-side, in-house and independently.

How I can help.

A full range of services, and the same senior person across all of them.

Wherever your business is heading, there’s almost certainly something here that helps you get there.

Web Design & Development

Websites that convert, load fast, look right on every screen, and don’t fall apart when you edit them.

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

Get found in Google and other popular search engines for the searches that matter, with work that compounds over time.

AI Visibility (GEO)

Have your products and services show up when people ask AI. Built to be quoted in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google’s AI answers and more.

E-Commerce

Online stores built to sell – products, bookings, gift vouchers and subscriptions, engineered to run smoothly at scale.

Branding & Identity

The look, the feel and the details that make a growing business seem far more established than it is.

Website Care & Hosting

Everything your site needs to stay fast, safe and current, looked after by the person who built it. One plan, and you never think about it again.

Plus.

Paid Search  ·  Paid Social  ·  Organic Social  ·  Presentation & Pitch Design  ·  Website Migrations & Platform Moves  ·  CMS Training  ·  One-off Audits  ·  Analytics & Reporting  ·  Accessibility Audits (WCAG)  ·  Conversion Rate Optimisation  ·  Content Strategy & Copywriting  ·  Email MarketingPaid Search  ·  Paid Social  ·  Organic Social  ·  Presentation & Pitch Design  ·  Website Migrations & Platform Moves  ·  CMS Training  ·  One-off Audits  ·  Analytics & Reporting  ·  Accessibility Audits (WCAG)  ·  Conversion Rate Optimisation  ·  Content Strategy & Copywriting  ·  Email Marketing

Selected work.

Websites and campaigns built to do a job.

Here’s how they performed.

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in online bookings, first quarter

Fit4Work

Website Build + E-Commerce

Fit4Work weren’t selling anything online before. I built them a WordPress site with course bookings in WooCommerce, and it brought in over £10k in its first three months.

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sales uplift YoY
0%
more orders

The Velveteen Rabbit

Digital Gift Voucher Sales

Gift vouchers that used to arrive by post now land in the buyer’s inbox within seconds. I replaced a manual print-and-post process with instant digital delivery.

0%
more site users · cited in AI answers

Zone CCTV

Website Redesign + AI Optimisation

A rebuilt ZoneCCTV site that turns more visitors into real enquiries, with a 23% lift in key events and multiple new AI citations landing in the first week.

Want results like these for your business? Let’s talk.

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You get me. Start to finish.

I’ve worked inside digital agencies and sat on the client side dealing with them, so I know how the model usually goes: they win the work with a senior in the room, then hand your project to whoever’s free. You meet the experienced person, sign, and never really deal with them again.

I work the other way round. The person you speak to is the person who designs the site, writes the code, builds search and AI visibility in from the start, and picks up the phone a year later when something needs changing.

No account managers passing messages along. No handover to someone who wasn’t in the first conversation.

It’s a deliberate choice, and it means I take on fewer clients at once. What you get back is direct access, straight answers, and someone who knows how your site works because I built it and stay close to where your business is going. The site is yours, documented and built on industry-standard platforms, not locked to me.

It also means you’re not on your own as things change. Search is moving quickly right now, and one person who follows it closely and understands how your whole site fits together will serve you better than a project split across multiple teams.

Fewer clients. Direct access. One person who owns the work.

In their words.

Kind words from people I’ve had the pleasure of working with over the years.

“Thoughtful and smart. Steve takes a considered, methodical approach and treats the budget like his own. From a client’s perspective, I feel like I’m in a safe pair of hands.”

Paul Foden,
CEO & Founder of Aedon.Accounting

“Thoughtful and smart. Steve takes a considered, methodical approach and treats the budget like his own. From a client’s perspective, I feel like I’m in a safe pair of hands.”

Paul Foden,
CEO & Founder of Aedon.Accounting

“The biggest project we’d embarked on: an entire website for our growing company, built to extremely tight deadlines. Steve went above and beyond. High quality, and great communication throughout.”

Dr Molly Clavey,
NatureMetrics

“The website looks amazing. Very well designed, and you can see the effort you put in. A delight to work with, very professional. Would recommend to everyone.”

Fiona Suleman,
Foila Group

“Steven was the driving force behind getting our website over the line. We were very vague on what we wanted as an end result, as we weren’t sure ourselves. However, Steven nailed it with the limited information he had to work on. We are extremely impressed and happy with the final draft.”

Mike Empson,
C-Tech Solutions Ltd

“Doubled web traffic in 8 months largely due to Steve’s work with structural SEO quickly followed by consistent content marketing strategy. Steve has been our “Google whisperer” and he has taught our team the SEO game. To boot, Steve is a personable dude that we always had fun working with.”

Steve Kaminski,
Castle Metals

“Steve has done an excellent job supporting us with digital marketing over the years. He brings a huge amount of experience, and it shows. Incredibly organised and methodical, with excellent attention to detail.”

Simon Hinton,
ZoneCCTV

“Worked extremely hard to raise our search profile. His knowledge is excellent, and he comes up with unique solutions. I’d highly recommend talking to Steve.”

Nick Doran,
Direct Golf UK

You can find more personal recommendations on my LinkedIn profile.

Common questions

Questions I get asked a lot. If yours isn’t here, just ask.

Not at all. Most of the people I work with run great businesses and have no interest in the technical side, which is exactly the point of hiring me. I’ll handle the build, the jargon and the decisions behind the scenes, and explain anything you want to understand in plain English. You stay focused on your business.

It depends on what you need, so I don’t publish fixed prices that would either overcharge a simple project or undersell a complex one. Once I understand what you’re trying to achieve, I’ll scope the work properly and give you a clear, fixed quote before anything starts, so there are no surprises. I work in a few ways depending on the job: one-off scoped projects, day-rate consultancy, or an ongoing care plan for websites I look after. The best next step is a quick chat so I can point you in the right direction.

GEO is about being found in AI answers, the same way SEO is about being found in Google. When someone asks ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google’s AI for a recommendation, GEO (Generative Engine Optimisation) is the work that makes your business one of the ones it mentions. It’s still early, which is exactly why it’s worth doing now, while most of your competitors haven’t caught on. Whether you need it depends on your market, and I’ll tell you honestly if I don’t think it’s worth your money yet.

Yes, and it’s more common than you’d think. Sometimes that means taking over the work, but not always. If you’re not sure whether the problem is the agency or the strategy, I offer a paid appraisal: I’ll review what they’re doing, tell you honestly whether it’s good work, and can even sit in on a meeting with them if it helps. From there you’ll know where you stand, whether that’s sticking, switching or just asking better questions. And if moving to me makes sense, I’ll make the handover painless.

Happily. If you already have a designer, a copywriter or someone in-house who knows your business, I’d rather work with them than replace them. I’m just as comfortable being the one senior pair of hands on a project as I am slotting into a team you already trust. Tell me who does what, and I’ll fit around it.

Very little to begin with. A short conversation about your business and what you’re trying to achieve is enough for me to tell you whether I can help and what it might involve. From there I’ll do the heavy lifting: scoping the work, planning it out, and telling you exactly what I need from you and when. You won’t have to know the technical answers, just your own business.

The web’s changing.
Let’s talk about what that means for you.

A short conversation is the easiest place to start.

Tell me where your business is heading, and I’ll tell you what’s worth doing.

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