Template builders
Wix, Squarespace and templated Webflow churn out the same five layouts in different colours. Recognisable from a mile away. Slow on mobile. Optimised for the builder's growth, not yours.
Web · SEO · Google Ads
Most new websites are template slop and AI-generated copy. We build the opposite — sites that win in AI search, load faster than 98% of the web, and never lock you in.
In summary
Not vanity stats. Real properties of every site we ship.
Every site, enforced in CI before deploy.
Brochure site, brief to launch.
Cloudflare's global edge, free tier.
Your repo, your accounts, your data.
The state of the web
Three reasons the web got worse, not better.
Wix, Squarespace and templated Webflow churn out the same five layouts in different colours. Recognisable from a mile away. Slow on mobile. Optimised for the builder's growth, not yours.
Most new marketing copy in 2025 was written by ChatGPT and shipped untouched. Generic, hollow, indistinguishable. Google's Helpful Content updates and AI Overviews filter most of it out.
50 plugins, monthly security patches, licence renewals, Lighthouse in the 60s. The total cost — your time plus hosting plus your patience — quietly exceeds the cost of building something better.
How we stack up
Same job, three radically different outcomes. We do the third one.
| Criterion | Wix / Squarespace | WordPress agency | Dezzi Digital |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lighthouse mobile (typical) | 50–70 | 60–85 | 95+, enforced |
| Time to launch | DIY weeks | 4–8 weeks | 3–5 days |
| Monthly hosting | £14–39 + plan | £30–100 | £0 |
| Plugin / licence cost | Templates + add-ons | £300–600 / year | £0 |
| Security patching | Their problem | Monthly | Static — none needed |
| Optimised for AI search | No | Plugin-dependent | Built in |
| Walk-away ownership | Trapped | Painful migration | Repo + accounts in your name |
Why we're different
Strategy first. Craft over scale. AI used as leverage, not a substitute.
Before we touch design, we work out who your customers are, what they search, and what AI engines say about you when asked. The site follows the strategy.
Every site we ship hits 95+ Lighthouse on mobile, served from Cloudflare's global edge. Faster than 98% of the web.
We use AI to move faster — research, structured data, sitemap planning. We don't use it to write your About page.
Schema markup, structured content, citation-friendly writing. When ChatGPT or Perplexity gets asked about your category, your business is what they reference.
Code in your GitHub. Content in your hands. Hosting in your name. You can fire us tomorrow and the site keeps running for free.
What we do
Pick one, all three, or start with the website and add the rest when you're ready. Every engagement starts with a free strategy call.
Custom sites built on our open-source framework. Fast by default, owned by you, hosted free on Cloudflare. Typical turnaround: 3 to 5 days. From £900.
Technical SEO done properly plus content structured for ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. Most SEO agencies are still optimising for 2020. From £600 / mo.
Performance ads that complement your organic strategy. We run the campaign, the landing page and the analytics — what works gets reinforced, what doesn't gets killed. From £500 / mo + ad spend.
What you actually get
Most agencies charge £3,000+ for the same bundle, then nickel-and-dime you for the rest. We don't.
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| № | Description | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Custom design, themed to your brand Not a template. Your colours, your fonts, your photography. | £1,200 |
| 02 | Up to 5 pages of bespoke copywriting Strategy-led — not a ChatGPT dump. Human-written, conversion-aware. | £600 |
| 03 | Technical SEO foundations Schema markup, sitemap, robots.txt, meta tags, Open Graph — done before launch. | £400 |
| 04 | Contact form + spam protection + email delivery Real backend (D1 + Resend), not a third-party Google Form embed. | £300 |
| 05 | Cloudflare deployment + your own domain Set up under your account from day one. No tenant lock-in. | £200 |
| 06 | Free strategy call + one-page brief 30 minutes, no sales script. Brief delivered within 48 hours. | £250 |
| 07 | Lighthouse audit + a11y compliance Performance + accessibility checked in CI before every deploy. | £250 |
| 08 | Handover packet — repo, accounts, docs Everything transfers to your name. ARCHITECTURE.md included. | £200 |
| Subtotal value | £3,400 | |
| Anti-slop discount | (applied) | |
| What you pay today | £900 |
How we work
Four steps. No long proposals. No drip-fed weekly check-ins. No surprise invoices.
30 minutes on a video call. We figure out if we're the right fit, what you actually need, and roughly what it would cost. No deck, no sales script, no follow-up chasing.
We turn the conversation into a one-page brief — goals, scope, price, timeline. You sign it. We start work that week.
A brochure site ships in 3 to 5 days. You see daily progress in a shared staging URL, not weekly status emails. Changes happen in real time.
We deploy to your Cloudflare account on your domain. If you've added SEO or Google Ads, we keep going. If not, you walk away owning every line of code and every account.
What people say
I've used Dezzi Digital a number of times for help with social media management, website development and paid ads. Highly recommend!
Three promises
Schedule of Guarantees
Ref. DD/G/2026
In consideration of engaging Dezzi Digital, the following guarantees shall apply to every project, irrevocably, in writing, without exception or fine print.
Your site doesn't hit 95+ on Performance, Accessibility, and SEO on mobile at launch? We don't bill you for the build. Full stop. We have never failed this — but it's in writing anyway.
From signed brief to live on your domain in 5 working days for a brochure site. If we miss our agreed launch date, you get 20% off the invoice for every business day we're late.
Your GitHub repo, your Cloudflare account, your domain, your email service. If you ever fire us, you keep everything and the site keeps running. Free hosting, no lock-in, no captive data.
We will never ship your site with AI-generated copy passed off as ours, template designs sold as bespoke, or hidden monthly fees. If we ever do, you're owed the project back at no charge.
Honest answers
The things people ask on the first call. If yours isn't here, ask it directly.
Yes — because we built the framework that powers it. The blocks, the design tokens, the deploy pipeline and the SEO basics are all done before you arrive. We spend the time on what's specific to you (positioning, copy, your brand) rather than rebuilding the wheel.
A 30-minute video call, the basics of your business (services, area, audience, current site if any), and brand assets if you have them. We turn that into a one-page brief and quote within 48 hours.
50% on signed brief, 50% on launch. No subscriptions, no ongoing fees on the build itself. SEO and Google Ads are billed monthly in arrears.
Depends on the tier. Lite-tier clients get a brochure site with managed updates (we handle changes, no monthly fee). Standard-tier clients get a built-in admin so they can edit text, swap images, and add new pages themselves.
You walk away with everything. Repo transfers to your GitHub. Cloudflare account is already in your name. Domain is already in your name. Site keeps running, you owe us nothing.
Most SEO agencies are still optimising for blue-link Google. We optimise for that plus the AI search engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews) that increasingly cite specific businesses by name.
Google Ads is a paid distribution channel — we use it where it's the right tool. The slop we object to is AI-written copy passed off as human content, template designs sold as bespoke, and dashboards that hide whether the spend is working.
Fixed monthly for SEO and Ads. Hourly for ad-hoc website changes outside any plan you're on, billed in 15-minute increments. No hidden minimums.
If your current site loads slowly, reads like ChatGPT wrote it, or you can't even edit your own phone number — there's a better way. Free strategy call. 30 minutes. Zero pressure.
Get in touch
The more specific, the better. We respond within one working day with either a strategy-call slot or a straight no.