How it works
Every step, including the money
Including the parts most firms leave off their website: when money changes hands, how many rounds of changes you get, who owns what, and what happens if things stall. The same steps apply to websites, booking systems and custom software.
At a glance
- Before you commit
- Your homepage design, free, and changes to it, free
- To start
- Your first monthly payment, when you sign. No deposit
- Your time
- A 20-minute call, a 45-minute call, then checking what we make
- Launch
- 3 weeks; Grow 4 to 5; Grow Plus 5 to 6, from content received
- You own
- Your domain from day one; the code once it’s paid for
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Two minutes · free
Your free design
Answer six questions in the free site builder and watch your homepage build itself, or tell us about your business on the form and we’ll make one for you. Either way, you see your site before any money changes hands. Not quite right? Tell us what to change, and we change it, free.
Something specific in mind? Tell us your vision on the design brief and we design your own concept, free, and show it to you on a call within three working days.
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Within one working day
A 20-minute call
Every enquiry is read by the person who would build your site. We reply within one working day by email, then call you at a time that suits you. On the call we ask what happens today when a customer finds you, what a customer is worth to you, and what would be different in six months if the site worked. If we’re not the right fit for the job, we say so on that call and point you somewhere better.
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Within 24 hours of the call
A proposal, with a fixed price
One page. Your situation in your own words, the one thing the site exists to produce, three options with the recommended one in the middle, what we need from you and by when, and the timeline in calendar weeks. Valid for 14 days. The contract comes with it, for signature.
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When you say go
The first payment, then the brief
Your first monthly payment is due when you sign: twelve equal payments by Direct Debit, with no deposit, no interest and no fees. Or pay the year up front and get a month free. Nothing starts until that first payment is in: that rule exists because the projects that go wrong are the ones that started on goodwill. Custom builds are paid per stage, or monthly the same way.
Then we hold a 45-minute call with you and write it up as a brief. What you sign off is the scope. If you’d rather type than talk, we’ll send the written version instead.
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Weeks one to five
The build, on a link you can watch
You get a staging link in the first week and it updates as we go. Feedback comes back as one written document per round, not a stream of messages: that’s in the contract, and it’s what keeps a three-week build to three weeks. Launch includes two rounds of changes, Grow and Grow Plus three. Further rounds are £60 an hour, agreed first.
If your content is outstanding for more than 21 days the project pauses and re-enters the schedule at the next free slot. That protects your place in the queue as much as ours.
How it can be this quick, at this price: the build is AI-assisted, as most software work now is. A person still writes your brief, decides every word that goes on your site, checks every page, and is answerable for it.
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Launch day, and every month after
Launch, and then looked after
Your monthly payments carry on as agreed; if you paid the year up front, there is nothing more to pay. A custom build paid by stage has its final stage paid on your approval, before the domain moves. We never point a domain at a site against an overdue payment, and we never withhold a finished site either: it works both ways.
You get a one-page handover, a five-minute recorded walkthrough, and your own support link. Care starts on launch day, not on signing; on Launch and custom software, its first year is already in the price.
Who owns what
The part worth reading twice
Nothing your business depends on is registered in our name. If you ever want to walk away, you can, and you take everything with you.
| Thing | Owner |
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| Your domain | You, in your own registrar account. We manage the DNS. |
| Your business email | You. We don’t hold it. |
| The site code and content | You, once it’s paid for: on the last monthly payment, or straight away if you paid up front. |
| Google Business Profile, Search Console, analytics | You. We have manager access. |
| The enquiry form account | You, registered to your own email. |
| Hosting and backups | TNM Solutions, under your care plan. |
Start with the free design
It takes about two minutes, with no payment details and no obligation. Or get in touch if you’d rather talk it through first.