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Websites for small business

A proper website. Not a forever bill.

We build small businesses a real, custom website — the kind an agency would charge thousands for — for a fraction of the price, and a fraction of the monthly fee mainstream website builders charge you forever.

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Small business websites

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Barbers, cafés, studios, trades, makers & more
The problem

Two bad options. We built a third.

Option one

Pay an agency

£1,000s upfront — for a website that's still just a template underneath.

Option two

Build it yourself

Cheap to start, then a subscription forever — even once it's paid for itself.

A real site. Built by a person. Priced for a small business, not a chain.

How we're different

Same job, three very different bills.

Here's honestly how the three routes compare — click into the Studio by TC column to run your own savings numbers.

Big agencies

  • £1,000s upfront, before you've sold a thing
  • Still a template underneath — just an expensive one
  • Every small change gets invoiced separately
  • Built for brands with a marketing budget, not you

Mainstream builders

  • Low or no upfront cost, looks appealing at first
  • ~£25/month, forever, whether you sell anything or not
  • You're the one building and fixing it yourself
  • You never actually own it — cancel, and it's gone
Best for small business

Studio by TC

  • £100 to build, that's the whole upfront cost
  • £10/month after — under half what platforms charge
  • We build it, tailor it, and keep it running for you
  • Own it outright whenever you're ready — details below
What you're actually getting

Real ownership, not just a fast build.

"Template" gets a bad name because most template sites stay templates. Ours don't — the template is just the starting point that keeps the price down. Here's exactly what that turns into for you:

How that stays affordable
01 — the base

A proven starting point

We start from a solid, fast, mobile-friendly structure that already works — so you're not paying for hours spent reinventing a booking page or a contact form from scratch. That's how the price stays low.

02 — the tailoring

Then it's built around you

Your colours, your photos, your services or menu, your prices, your booking or ordering flow — hand-fitted to how your business actually runs, not squeezed into a generic layout you have to work around.

How we work

You see it before you pay for it.

No deposit to get started. You only pay once you've seen the actual site and you're happy with it.

Phase 01

Tell us about your business

A couple of minutes on the form below — what you do, what you'd want on the site. No cost, no commitment.

Phase 02

We build you a free mock-up

A real, working preview of your actual site, with your business in it — not a generic template screenshot. You still haven't paid anything.

Phase 03

Like it? Then it goes live

Happy with the mock-up? Pay the £100 build fee and we launch it. Not happy? No hard feelings, no charge either way.

Rent it, or own it

Your call — and it can change later.

Most platforms only offer one option: rent forever. We think you should get to choose.

Keep it simple — £10/month

Why so low? Because you've already paid for the build — that's the expensive part, and it's yours outright. £10/month just covers hosting, keeping the site running, and small tweaks as you go. Something bigger, like a redesign or a new page? Just message us and we'll quote it separately — never a surprise buried in your monthly fee.

Buy it outright

Want to stop paying monthly? We hand over the actual code and set it up under your own hosting and domain, no strings attached. It's your business — you should always be able to walk away owning what you paid for.

Our work

A real example, not a demo.

We've kept the business anonymous here, but this is a live site we built and still run — same approach we'd use for yours.

Live storefront
Case study — Handmade Goods Studio

A one-person maker business, run alongside a full-time job.

She makes and sells handmade candles in her spare time — no time to manage a store platform on top of everything else. We built her a fully custom site: real online ordering, product bundles with their own automatic pricing rules, and a soft-launch pricing system she can update herself for sales — the kind of custom logic an agency would usually charge thousands for.

29
pages, fully custom-built
4
bundle deals, auto-priced
0
monthly platform fees

Identifying details withheld at the owner's request — happy to walk through it live on a call.

Pricing

No surprises. That's the whole point.

Two numbers, and that's genuinely the whole bill — no setup fees, no per-page charges, no "premium tier" surprise later.

Everything, for
£100
to build
£10
per month after

Paid only once you've approved the free mock-up. Hosting, upkeep, and small tweaks included — cancel or buy the code outright, whenever you're ready.

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