How it works
Four stages. The first three are free, and you make every decision only after you've seen the result.
The audit
We look at everything you've got online:
- Your website — how fast it loads, how it works on a phone, whether your phone number and opening hours are actually findable, whether it's set up for Google
- Your Google Business profile — your rating, your reviews, your photos, whether your hours and categories are right (this is what people see when they search "plumber near me")
- Your socials — are they current, do they match your site, do they point to it
You get: a short, plain-English report — scores, the top five findings with the business impact, and three quick wins you could do yourself this week.
The conversation
Twenty minutes, your way — in person, on the phone, or a few emails. What you do, what you charge, your hours, your photos, what you'd hate to be asked again. We write it all down properly, so you only have to explain your business once.
Your preview goes live
We build your new site — your name, your services, your prices, your phone number — and put it live at yourname.preview.silamite.co.uk. It's a real website: open it on your phone, send it to a friend. The first question we ask is the whole deal: what would you change?
The deal
Two honest options, and both are permanent choices you can revisit. Most businesses choose the retainer: the site stays hosted, and any change — a new price, new hours, new photos — is a message away. Some prefer the one-off and the files. Either way, the site is plain files you own.
Two ways to keep it
No setup fees, no surprise line items. Prices are starting points — the first real quote will name a number for your site.
Retainer
- Hosting included, on a silamite.co.uk subdomain (free)
- Updates whenever needed — copy, prices, hours, photos
- Simple analytics, so you know who's coming
- Your own domain later, if you want it (~£10/yr, paid by you)
- Cancel any time — the files are handed over
One-off build
- The same build, sized to your site
- Everything in a zip — plain files, no platform, no lock-in
- Deploys on any host you choose
- We'll still point you at a good host if you want
The ones everyone asks
Do I need my own domain?
No. You can start on a free subdomain like yourbusiness.silamite.co.uk, and if you later want yourbusiness.co.uk (about £10 a year, paid by you), we point it at the same site in a morning. Nothing gets rebuilt.
What if I want to leave?
You take a zip file. The site is plain, standard files with no platform behind them — any host, any developer, or yourself. That's a feature, not a concession: lock-in is how small businesses get burned, and we'd rather earn the retainer every month.
Who writes the content?
We do — from the conversation and from what's already online — and you approve every word before anything goes live. Your words from the interview end up in your own pages, which is why the conversation matters.
What about photos?
Send us five to ten — the team, the work, the premises, the products. Until then we use clean placeholders, so the preview is never blocked waiting on a camera.
Do you use AI?
Yes — the audit and the first draft of your copy run on AI, and by default on our own machines, so your business details aren't sent anywhere. If anything is ever processed on a third-party service, you'll be told in one line first.
How long does it take?
The audit lands within a few days of your message. The preview is live about a week after the conversation, once we have your details. The retainer starts whenever you're happy with it — not before.
Will it work on phones?
Every site is built mobile-first — the phone is where "plumber near me" gets searched, so the phone version is the one we sweat over first.
The audit is the easy part.
Send us what you've got — or just your name — and see what a working preview of your site looks like.