Most agencies want thousands before they start. I don’t. A hand-coded website, written, built, hosted and looked after, for one monthly fee you can cancel any month.
A 30-second showreel. Simple websites, to seriously complex software. Booking systems. In-house software. Apps, as a service. One monthly fee, from £149 a month: nothing upfront, no contract, cancel anytime. Hatchback price, supercar build. Ten years of code, AI since GPT-2. Agents write the code; we do the driving. Websites, systems, apps, at 1273.co.uk.
Hand-coded, written for your customers, and built so the people who find it get in touch.
Orders and bookings taken on your own site, with no commission and no per-booking fee to anyone.
Payments, customer apps, dashboards and internal tools, from someone who has built them for banks. Quoted per project.
Receptionists that answer every call, agents that take on the admin, help with apps built with AI, and straight advice on where it fits.
Built properly.
Software built to the standard banks ask for, for the businesses on your high street. See what that looks like.
The same care as the websites, applied to AI: set up on your accounts, tested on real cases, and looked after once it’s running.
Design, build, hosting, changes and support in one price. You pay when your site goes live, not before.
£149/month
A custom-coded site that loads in under a second and says the right things.
£299/month
Everything in Website, plus the software that runs the business behind it.
Quoted
Custom software for when a website isn’t enough, built with the same standards as banking apps.
No contract. Cancel any month. You stay because the site is working, not because you’re locked in.
You pay nothing while the site is being built. The first payment is on the day it goes live, and each payment covers the month ahead, the same way Netflix or Spotify bills you.
After twelve months, the site is yours to take anywhere. Your words, photos and customers’ details are yours from day one.
Which plan is yours depends on whether the site needs to do something (take an order, hold a booking, take a payment) or simply explain what you do and bring in enquiries. If you’re not sure, that’s the first thing we’ll talk about.
| Wix, Squarespace | An agency | 1273 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upfront | Nothing | Thousands, before they start | Nothing |
| Each month | A subscription, plus your time | Hosting, on top | £149 or £299, everything in |
| Who builds it | You, from a template | A team you’re handed to | Me, from scratch |
| Who writes the words | You | Usually you | Me |
| Who fixes it on a Friday night | You | A ticket queue | Me |
If you’d rather not be the person fixing the website at seven on a Friday while the place is full, that’s what the monthly fee is for.
Real businesses: what each one needed, what I built, and what it does for them.
Knifemaker, PetworthLaunching soon
Property photography & video, for estate agents
Kitchens & bathrooms, Worthing
Shows the work properly and keeps itself current, with Matt and Alex adding new projects themselves.
Tree surgeons, Brighton & Hove
Brings quote requests in with photos of the job, and handles hiring on the site.
Tattoo & aesthetics studio, Brighton
Feels like walking into the studio, and turns that feeling into bookings.
Remote coaching for no-gi grapplers
Sells the coaching, collects the footage and delivers the plan, all in one place.
Personal trainer, Chelsea & Mayfair
Takes a new client from first visit to booked session to recurring payment, without a DM or an invoice.
Chocolate shop, LondonConcept
Makes the site feel like walking into the shop.
A 10-minute call about what your business actually needs the site to do. No brief forms, no account manager.
You see it as it comes together, on a real link you can open on your phone and show to anyone.
Hosted, looked after and kept working. When something changes, you message me and it changes.
The person who picks up the phone is the person who builds your site.
I’ve been building software since 2018, starting in fintech. If you’ve ever paid for something at a festival by tapping your wristband, there’s a good chance you’ve used something I built.
Since then I’ve spent four years building banking, savings and credit apps for banks: software where a mistake costs someone real money, so it has to be built properly.
1273 is that same care, applied to small businesses. Nothing is relayed or handed to someone you’ve never met: I design, write and hand-code every site, from Brighton. When your business needs more than a brochure (booking, ordering, taking payments) you’re working with someone who has built that kind of software for banks.
Outside client work I make small Mac and iPhone utilities for fun: Timeout, Rember, Swipey and Superclip.
Alongside client work I build products of my own. Avec Maya and Yes Chef are the two I’m putting the most into.
Coming soon to the App Store
A brand-new picture-book story every night, starring your child and read aloud in your own voice. For ages 3 to 8.
Live for a limited number of restaurants
Run your restaurant by asking. Rota, sales, checks and costs in one app, and a chat that answers from your own restaurant’s data.
An app blocker for iPhone. Pick the apps, set a window, and they’re gone. Scheduled blocks that run even when the app is closed, a focus timer with a no-exit Deep mode, and Safari site blocking. No ads, no account.
See Timeout
Talk to your Mac and watch it type. Dictation into any app from a global shortcut, speech recognition that runs on the machine in eight languages, and formatting modes for notes, formal writing and call notes.
See Rember
How golden is your face? It photographs you, maps 133 facial landmarks on the device, measures eleven proportions against the golden ratio, and turns them into a score, a grade and a list of ways to close the gap.
Try Phi Scanner
A live global intelligence map in the browser. Conflicts, sanctions, outages, weather and natural events on one map, fed by live earthquake and disaster data, with an instability index for every country. Click a country and every feed filters to it.
Open Riskmap
Every real thing to do in Brighton, from sea saunas to drag bingo to free gigs, with who’s going and the prices venues don’t put on the door. A native iPhone app with maps, live RSVPs and bookings.
See Unbored
Management software for tanning salons: bookings, clients, staff, equipment, products and reports. It never launched. If you’d like to pick it up, get in touch.
Ask about SundeskWebsites are £149 a month. Websites with booking, ordering or payments are £299 a month. That covers the build, hosting, security, changes and support. There are no setup fees or surprise invoices. Apps are quoted per project.
Send me your business name or current website and I’ll rebuild your homepage as a real page on a link you can open on your phone, within two working days. No cost, no obligation to go ahead.
When your site goes live. You pay nothing while it’s being designed and built, so if you don’t like what you see, you walk away owing nothing.
No. It’s month to month and you can cancel anytime. The idea is simple: if the site isn’t earning its keep, you shouldn’t be stuck paying for it.
Your content (words, photos, logo, domain) is yours from day one. After 12 months of subscription, the design and code are yours outright too.
Before 12 months, you keep your content and domain, and I’ll hand everything over in a format you can take anywhere. After 12 months, you get the full site as well, code included.
You’ll see a working link early and watch it come together. Simple sites often go live within a week or two; booking and ordering systems take longer depending on what they need to do.
Email or message me what you need. Small changes are usually done the same day. The Website plan includes up to 10 changes a month; Website + Systems is unlimited.
Usually a rebuild is faster and cheaper than patching a template site, but I’ll tell you honestly on the call. Either way, I’ll move your existing content across.
You can, but you’ll be writing the copy, fighting the template and fixing it yourself. Here, it’s hand-coded, loads in under a second, and you have one person who builds it, runs it and picks up the phone.
A 10-minute call about your business, plus any photos and logos you have. I write the copy, so you don’t need to.
It comes to me, not to a team. I read every message and reply within a working day.
