A website designer for Cambridge buyers.
For Cambridge science-park spin-outs, deep-tech companies and the city’s SMB community — an architect-grade operator who turns up in person, ships fast and writes the code you can read. £999 to build, £99 a month to look after.
One-off, all-in. Brief, design, build, copy assist, deploy. No discovery fee, no design-phase upcharge, no surprise add-on.
Hosting, monitoring, security, backups and every small content / copy / image change. No hourly billing on changes.
Lighthouse 90+ on mobile, WCAG-AA accessibility, code in a git repo you own from day one. The defaults a Cambridge buyer would ask for anyway.
Brief usCambridge buyers read the code before they read the brochure.
Cambridge is one of the few UK cities where the buyer of a £999 website is often a more capable engineer than the person trying to sell them one. PhD founders, ex-DeepMind, biotech CTOs, quants who took a job at a hedge fund and then took a job at their own. They’ll open the network tab, they’ll Lighthouse the page, they’ll read the response headers. The wrong pitch in that room sounds like marketing slop being aimed at a microscope.
Moonlabs pitches Cambridge the way Cambridge pitches: an architect-grade operator across the table, engineering-bar defaults, code in a git repo you own. Louis is a co-founder and the technical architecture lead at Moonlabs — the architect behind Homemove, home.co.uk and homedata.co.uk. He drives down from Norwich (an hour up the A11), runs the brief, ships the build. Same Cambridge-grade engineering, a tenth of a Science Park studio bill.
Six things a Cambridge brief gets you.
Louis at the table
A Moonlabs co-founder and the group’s technical architecture lead, in your office. He’ll handle the load-bearing technical decisions and let your team own the science / product content where it matters.
Science-park covered
Cambridge Science Park, St John’s Innovation Centre, Babraham Research Campus, Granta Park, Hauser Forum, Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge Innovation Centre — all reachable on a single day from Norwich.
Engineer-grade defaults
Lighthouse 90+ on mobile by default, WCAG-AA accessibility, semantic HTML, image and font budgets sized for Core Web Vitals. The starting point a Cambridge buyer would otherwise have to pay an agency to argue for.
Investor-ready, if needed
Shivam (ex-Deutsche Bank, 99th-percentile modeller, owns Investment at the Academy) is on the ground in London and can sense-check investor-facing pages and framing for spin-outs heading into seed / Series A.
Local SEO baked in
LocalBusiness structured data, Google Business Profile pass, per-area landing pages where the buyer journey calls for them ("[service] Cambridge", "[service] Science Park"). The foundation, done from day one.
Code that stays yours
Laravel + Tailwind in a git repository handed over from day one. Your CTO can read it; your next developer can take it over. No exit fee, no lock-in, no proprietary platform — particularly useful for companies that may scale beyond a £99 / month retainer in time.
Seven things a sceptical engineer checks before signing the £999 SOW.
The questions a Cambridge engineer asks about a £999 site — what the answer should be, and how you can verify it without taking our word for it.
Every row is something a Cambridge buyer can verify themselves. We’d rather invite that scrutiny than dodge it; the £999 + £99 / mo proposition only works if the engineering bar is real.
Brief on Monday in Cambridge. Live by the end of the week.
Brief
Louis drives down from Norwich for a half-hour at your office, your science-park building, or anywhere walkable in Cambridge. Architecture-grade conversation about the business and the site. One-page spec back the same day for sense-check.
Build
Design, copy, build, deploy across one working week. Staging URL by mid-week for a 15-minute review — Lighthouse and accessibility checks included. One operator end-to-end.
Run
£99 / month from launch. Performance and accessibility checks stay green; new content, new team members, new product pages — email or WhatsApp it, we ship it. No hourly billing on edits.
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.
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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.
The Cambridge buyer’s questions.
Who from Moonlabs covers Cambridge?
Louis. He’s a Moonlabs co-founder, the technical architecture lead, and lives in Norwich — about an hour up the A11. He runs the brief in person at your Cambridge office, your science park building or anywhere walkable. Phil from Nottingham can also reach Cambridge in about 2 hours by car or train; for some buyers we’ll send whoever’s closer to your specific area (Phil tends to handle anything west of Cambridge city, Louis everything east).
We’re at the Science Park / Babraham / Granta Park / Trumpington — does that work?
Yes. The Cambridge cluster is small geographically and well-served from Norwich. Louis can do Science Park / St John’s Innovation Centre / Babraham Research Campus / Granta Park / Hauser Forum / Wellcome Genome Campus all on the same trip if your stakeholders sit across multiple sites. Trumpington and Cambourne are also same-day. We confirm on the first call who’s coming and where the meeting works best.
Most Cambridge web studios quote £5,000–£10,000. How does Moonlabs do £999?
We removed the studio overhead, kept the senior operator, and let AI tooling do the rest. The £999 is the entire build — brief, design, copy, deploy — not a deposit before the "real" quote arrives. The £99 / month covers what most Cambridge studios bill as a "care plan" or hourly call-off. The compromise is that we’re not a Cambridge office relationship; we’re a regional operator (Louis from Norwich) who drives down for the brief and runs the project on the same stack we use on Homemove and home.co.uk.
We’re a deep-tech / biotech / fintech / quantum-something spin-out. Can you handle technical positioning?
Yes — with the obvious caveat that we won’t out-write your CSO on the technical content itself. What we bring is the operator stack: Louis runs technical architecture across our group; he’ll work with you on the load-bearing decisions (data shape, integrations, performance budget) and let your PhDs own the science explainer. For investor-facing pages, Shivam (our Investment lead, ex-Deutsche Bank) is on the ground in London and can sense-check the framing.
Can you ship Lighthouse 95+ and WCAG-compliant sites by default?
On a £999 marketing site, yes — the defaults are designed around it. Image and font budgets sized for Lighthouse mobile 90+; semantic HTML and labelled forms for WCAG AA; no script-heavy widgets that fight against either; Core Web Vitals in the green at launch. We can’t promise 100 / 100 on every page in every browser forever — nobody honest can — but the starting point is good and the £99 / month is what keeps it good.
What if I want to take the site somewhere else later?
You can, any time. The code lives in a git repository that is yours from day one. Cancel the £99 / month with one month’s notice and we hand over the codebase and deployment instructions; another developer (in Cambridge or anywhere else) can take over from there. No exit fee, no stranded content, no platform you cannot leave.
A Cambridge brief, the engineer-bar build.
Tell us about the company and where in Cambridge you are. Louis will come back inside 24 hours with a meeting slot at your office.
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