Web design and branding in Manchester
Manchester has no shortage of agencies, which is the honest starting point for this page. What it has less of is one team that will do the identity, the build and the search work without subcontracting two of the three.
The city's design bar is high and its buyers know it. That suits us - the work we are proudest of is the work where somebody wanted something that would actually get looked at, and had the budget to mean it.
What we do in Manchester
Brand, website and the search work behind it
Four pillars, one team: branding, digital, marketing and automation. Most businesses buy two of them from people who have never spoken to each other.
Work that stands up in a crowded market
Custom-coded, art-directed builds - real-time 3D and motion where they earn their place, not because a template offered them. AURA is the clearest thing we can point at.
Software, not just sites
Apps, portals, platforms and custom integrations. Most design studios stop at the website and hand you to a developer they have never met. We do not.
The search work behind it
Technical SEO built into the architecture rather than sold as a follow-up retainer once the site is already wrong.
Concept · Studio
AURA
A fictional drinks brand, given a real identity and a custom-coded site with real-time 3D. This is the Studio tier with nothing held back - the clearest answer we have to what our flagship work looks like.
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Packages
How we work with Manchester businesses
Every package pairs a one-off Launch build with a monthly Grow retainer, and every client gets a live portal showing the work. Pick the depth that fits.
Foundation - Get found.
£749 + £249/mo- Website - 10 to 50 pages, mobile-responsive, contact form
- Domain + DNS setup - connected, SSL secured, records configured
- Business email setup - [email protected] with SPF/DKIM/DMARC for deliverability
- Click-to-call & WhatsApp buttons + Google Maps embed
- On-page SEO basics - titles, meta, headings, alt text
Site, profile and the search basics - set up once, kept active monthly.
Growth - Own your market.
£1,500 + £449/mo- Custom-designed website - 50 to 100 pages, bespoke copy, lead forms, speed-optimised
- Lumeops CMS embedded - you own the site. We keep it on the retainer; you can edit a page yourself if you want
- Schema markup (LocalBusiness, services, reviews)
- Image optimisation - WebP, compression, lazy-load
- Logo refresh + core brand kit - colour, type and usage basics
Our most popular package for businesses serious about their market.
Studio - Our flagship.
Custom quote- Brand strategy - positioning, naming and tone of voice
- Full identity system - logo, wordmark, colour and type, usage rules
- Motion identity - animated logo and a motion system for the brand
- 3D & rendered visuals - bespoke Blender-rendered product and brand imagery
- Flagship website - custom-coded and cinematic, with real-time 3D/WebGL where it earns its place
Our flagship design-and-build tier - brand, site and the search work behind it.
Partner - Your full digital team.
Custom quote- Mobile / web app or custom software build (scoped per engagement)
- Bespoke platform & systems architecture - multi-site or at scale
- Customer portal or membership area with real user accounts
- Lumeops CMS embedded - you own the site. We keep it on the retainer; you can edit a page yourself if you want
- Brand identity for the product - naming, identity and UI design system
A full product team - apps, platforms and custom software, quoted per engagement.
Who we work with
Sectors we take on in Manchester
We are not sector-specific and we would be suspicious of a studio that claimed to be. What matters more is whether there is something worth looking at and a business willing to invest in how it is presented.
We are not a Manchester studio and will not pretend otherwise. We are forty minutes away in Blackburn, which in practice means we turn up when it matters and do not bill you for a Northern Quarter office the rest of the time.
How it works
From a conversation to a live build
No lengthy onboarding, no discovery fee, no twelve-month lock-in. Cancel anytime.
A conversation
What the business does, who it sells to, and what the current site is failing to say. No deck, no discovery fee.
A scope you can read
What we would build, what it costs, and what it does not include. Written plainly enough that you can compare it with someone else's quote.
We build it
Brand, site and the technical search work, made by the same team. You watch it happen in the portal rather than waiting for a monthly update.
It keeps working
Content, search and automation on a monthly retainer, or a clean handover if you would rather run it yourself. Cancel anytime.
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Tell us what you are trying to build
A short conversation, a scope you can actually read, and an honest answer about whether we are the right studio for it. If we are not, we will say so.