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New £999 + £99/mo · custom sites in days.

Website design, at the price honest business runs at.

Real custom websites for UK businesses, built by operators using AI tooling and shipped in days. £999 one-off, £99 per month — including hosting, monitoring, security and small changes every month.

Built by the operators behind
Build
£999

One-off build fee. Scope, design, build and deploy of your site on a stack you own. Most sites land inside a week.

Run
£99 / mo

Hosting, monitoring, security, backups and small content / copy changes every month. Cancel any time. Code stays yours.

All-in
£999 + £99/mo

No surprise add-ons, no “design phase” before code is written, no agency margin on third-party hosting.

Brief us
Why this shape

Web design has been overpriced for a decade.

A real custom-designed website used to cost five figures in the UK because the only people who could build it ran studios in London. That is no longer true. Operators with the right AI tooling can build the same site in days, end-to-end, while still owning the design taste and the deploy.

We use the same stack we run our own businesses on — Homemove, home.co.uk and homedata.co.uk. Laravel, Tailwind, Postgres, modern deploys. Real, readable code your team or your future agency can own.

What we build

A site that does its job.

Most UK businesses do not need a custom design system. They need a site that loads fast, ranks well, books appointments and looks credible at first glance.

Local business sites

Tradespeople, clinics, salons, restaurants, accountants, solicitors. Fast, mobile-first, easy to find on Google, easy to phone or book from.

Estate agency websites

Listings, valuations, vendor onboarding. Optionally powered by home.co.uk, Homemove and homedata.co.uk for the same flat £99/month.

Professional services sites

Boutique consultancies, advisory firms, recruiters, agencies. Clean positioning, a clear offer, a route to a first call.

Founder / startup sites

The first credible window into your company while you are still pitching the round. Plays well with the Moonlabs Incubator if you are early-stage.

Product and brochure sites

Single-product sites, brochure sites, microsites for a campaign or launch. Sometimes a one-pager is the right answer; we will say so on the first call.

Re-platforms

Existing sites stuck on Wix, Squarespace or a half-finished WordPress build. We rebuild on a stack you actually own and migrate the content for you.

Vs traditional UK web design

Where the £4,000 difference comes from.

A typical UK SMB website project quote sits between £5,000 and £15,000 once you add discovery, design, build, copy, and the first year of hosting. Here is what the gap is.

Cost line
Traditional agency
Moonlabs
Discovery / scoping phase
£800–£2,000
Included — half-hour call
Design mockups
£1,200–£3,000
Built into the £999 build
Build / front-end
£2,000–£5,000
Built into the £999 build
Copywriting
£500–£2,000
Included — drafted with you
First year of hosting
£300–£1,000
Covered by £99/mo
Maintenance & content edits
£80–£150/hr
Covered by £99/mo

We are not faster because we cut corners — we use the same Laravel + Tailwind + Postgres stack that powers Homemove, home.co.uk and homedata.co.uk. We are faster because a senior operator with AI tooling can do in two days what a junior in a studio takes two weeks to do, and we do not have a London lease or an account-management layer to pay for.

How it works

Brief on Monday. Live by the end of the week.

01

Brief

Half-hour call to understand the business, the audience, the brand and the must-haves. We send back a one-page spec inside 24 hours.

02

Build

We design and build the site on a stack you own. AI-assisted, custom code. You see it on a real URL inside a few days for review.

03

Run

Site goes live. £99 a month covers hosting, monitoring, security, and small copy / content changes whenever you need them.

Hundreds of unique website designs floating against a moonlit night sky — every one designed to its own brand, none templated.
Designed to spec

A million ways this could look. None of them templates.

Every site we build is designed to spec, branded for one client. No shared theme between brands. No component kit we recycle. Your site won’t look like anyone else’s because nobody else got your brief.

  • Designed to spec. Every page laid out fresh against your brief — not a pre-made template with your logo dropped in.
  • Branded to you. Typography, palette, motion language and component shape all chosen for this brand, not a previous client’s.
  • Yours forever. Code lives in a git repo that is yours from day one. No platform lock-in, no proprietary CMS, no exit fee.
FAQ

Common questions.

What does "website design UK" actually cover for you?

Design, build and deployment of a real, custom site for a UK business — not a template, not a no-code drag-and-drop, not a Mayfair design studio price tag. The deliverable is live code on a real domain, in a stack you own.

What is included in the £999 build fee?

A custom-designed site of roughly five to seven pages, enquiry / contact forms, basic SEO, analytics, a real domain on your own hosting. Most projects land inside that scope; we will tell you on the first call if yours genuinely needs more.

What does the £99 / month cover?

Hosting on infrastructure we look after, monitoring and uptime alerting, security updates, a backup schedule, and small content / copy / image changes every month. It does not cover major new features — we quote those separately on a small build fee.

Why is this cheaper than a traditional UK web design agency?

Because we are operators using AI tooling, not a studio paying for a city-centre office and an account-management layer. The AI writes a lot of the keyboard work; we own the design taste, the architecture and the deploy. The saving goes to you, not into our overhead.

Do I own the code and the design?

Yes. The site, the code, the designs and the content all belong to you. If you ever want to move on we hand over the repository and the deployment instructions. There is no lock-in.

How fast can you start?

Brief on Monday, live by the end of the week is the standard. We send a one-page spec back inside 24 hours of the first call; you see the site on a real URL inside a few days for review.

A website live this week.

Tell us about the business and the audience. If we’re a fit, we’ll come back inside 24 hours with a one-page spec.