Mavie Starter · for small local businesses

A starter website
for your local business.

For plumbers, dentists, solicitors and the long tail of small local businesses. Hand-finished, fixed quote from £499, ready in three weeks, no contract you can't leave.

Free · No email needed for the basic report · See what we do →
Quick check

Is your website quietly costing you customers?

Five things every modern local-business site has — and a surprising number of small UK and Irish sites still don't.

If you ticked any one of these, your site is probably the reason a customer chose someone else this week.

  • 01
    Slow on a phone If your homepage takes more than 3 seconds on mobile, half your visitors leave before the first picture loads.
  • 02
    "Not Secure" warning in the address bar No HTTPS in 2026 means Chrome and Safari actively warn visitors to leave. It also tanks your Google ranking.
  • 03
    Last meaningful update before 2020 If the copyright year says "© 2018", that's the kindest hint Google has that you might be out of business.
  • 04
    Wrong opening hours, wrong phone, wrong address Half of bad website calls are not about looks — they're about a stale detail that's quietly losing you bookings.
  • 05
    Hidden behind a Facebook page If your "website" is actually a Facebook URL, you're invisible to anyone who doesn't already know your name.
What we do

A small set of things, done properly.

No agency-speak, no upsell ladder, no "starter package" that turns out to need three add-ons. Five plain services. The first one is the heart of it.

Care plan

Hosting, SSL, security updates, daily backups, small content tweaks, and a check-in every month. Cancel any time, no notice period.

£29 – £99 / month

WordPress rescue

Site broken, slow, or hacked? We untangle it. Plugin conflicts, theme migrations, security clean-ups, performance overhauls. Hourly or fixed-fee.

From £180 / job

Local SEO + Google Business

We set up your Google Business Profile properly, add the schema markup that gets you into the map pack, fix wrong info across directories, and write the first batch of content.

From £290 one-off

Email & domain hosting

Keep your domain, your business email, and your website all in one place. Migration is included free with any rebuild — we'll move you across without losing a single message.

From £6 / mailbox / month
How we work

Four steps, two to three weeks, fixed quote.

No drawn-out discovery phase. No surprise costs. The same four steps for every project, big or small.

Free audit

You send us your current website URL. Within 24 hours, you get a one-page report showing the three biggest things hurting you and a sketch of what a rebuild would look like.

24 hours · No obligation

Fixed quote

If the audit makes sense, we send a fixed quote based on the size of the job. The number on the quote is the number on the invoice. No hourly fishing expeditions.

No surprise costs

Build & review

We build your site, then send you a private link to review. One round of edits is included — change anything you want. We move things around until you're happy.

Typically 2–3 weeks

Launch + 60 days

We push it live, redirect your old URLs so you don't lose Google rankings, and stay on for 60 days of free small tweaks. After that, you can move to a Care Plan or just leave it running.

Tweaks free for 60 days
Sample design directions

Three rebuilds, drawn for real local businesses.

Every demo we send to a prospect is generated specifically for their business — never a template, never a swap of someone else's site. Below: three design directions we'd propose for these segments. Each is what we'd ship to a prospect in those categories — anonymised here, generated fresh per business in production.

[ Solicitor · Manchester direction ]
Solicitor · Sample direction

Conservative legal palette · case-type intake

Editorial layout with a dedicated case-type intake form on the homepage. Replaces the typical "Contact" page with a guided 3-question form that pre-qualifies enquiries.

Single-style block, system fonts, zero JavaScript. Built to be readable on a 4G phone with no warm-up.
[ Plumber · UK direction ]
Plumber · Sample direction

Single-page · emergency-vs-scheduled toggle

One mobile-first page with a clear emergency / scheduled split, prominent tel: link, and pricing transparency. The opposite of the 12-page WordPress sites typical for this category.

All copy and pricing on one screen-length. The phone-call CTA is one tap from anywhere on the page.
[ HVAC · US direction ]
HVAC · Sample direction

Trust-first · numeric review block

For businesses with strong existing Google reviews. Surfaces the review count and rating prominently as a numeric trust block — links to the live Google profile rather than fabricating quotes.

Existing Google reviews surfaced as a numeric block — count, rating, deep link. No fabricated quotes.

These are sample directions, not testimonials from named clients. We won't show your competitors' rebranded sites or invent quotes — when we have client testimonials to share, they'll be from clients who agreed to be named.

Honest pricing

No "contact us for a quote." Here's what it costs.

Three tiers, fixed prices. Pay half upfront, half at launch. We'll never sneak in a "discovery phase" or "strategy retainer."

Starter

Brochure site for a one-location local business.
£499once · €549
  • Up to 5 pages
  • Mobile-first responsive design
  • Contact form to your email
  • Google Maps embed + opening hours
  • SSL, redirects, basic SEO
  • 1 round of edits + 60-day care
Start with a free audit

Premium

For businesses with bookings, integrations, or multi-location.
£1,999once · €2,199
  • Everything in Professional
  • Unlimited pages
  • Online booking or quote system
  • Custom integrations (Stripe, Calendly, etc.)
  • Speed-optimised images & CDN
  • Unlimited edits + 6 months care
Start with a free audit

Care Plan — keep it running, keep it fresh

After your 60-day window ends, you can keep us on for ongoing care. We host the site, keep it patched and backed up, and make small tweaks each month so it doesn't drift back into being out of date. Cancel any time, no notice.

Light£29 / mo
Standard£59 / mo
Premium£99 / mo
Who you'll work with

A real person, not an account manager.

Mavie is built and run by Ana, based in Leeds. Every project goes through one pair of hands, from the first audit to the final launch. No layers of project managers, no offshore handoffs, no team chat where your message gets lost.

That means a small number of clients each year — and a quality of attention you usually only get from a freelancer who happens to also know how to make a website that doesn't break in two years.

— Ana, founder

Looking for our premium configured-site service for hospitality, hotels and professional firms? Visit the Mavie Studio site →

Common questions

The questions every potential client asks.

If yours isn't here, the audit form below is the fastest way to ask it — we reply to every enquiry, usually the same day.

Do I keep my own domain?
Yes. Your domain stays in your name and your account, always. We set up records to point it to your new site, but you control the domain itself. If you ever leave us, you keep everything.
What if I don't like the first design?
Every plan includes at least one full round of edits. If after the first version we're not on the same page, we'll talk it through, take your notes, and revise — that's the point of the review step. We've never had a project where this didn't get to a yes.
Can you fix what I have, instead of starting over?
Sometimes, yes. If your current site has good bones and just needs cleaning up, we'll quote a WordPress Rescue rather than a full rebuild. The free audit will tell you which makes more sense for your situation — we won't push a rebuild if it isn't needed.
Do I need to write all the copy?
No. Most clients send us a few notes about the business and a list of services. We draft the page copy from that, plus what we can see on your existing site and Google profile. You review and tell us what to change.
What about my email — does it get affected?
Not unless you want it to. Email and website are separate things on the same domain. If you want us to take over your business email too, we'll migrate it for free with any rebuild — no messages lost. If you'd rather keep your current email setup, we just won't touch it.
How does payment work?
50% upfront once you accept the quote, 50% on launch day. UK clients pay by bank transfer or card. EU clients can pay in EUR via Stripe. We invoice from a UK Ltd company; receipts are HMRC-compliant.
What if I want changes after the 60 days are up?
You have two options: pay-as-you-go (we charge by the half-hour for one-off changes), or move to a Care Plan starting at £29/month, which includes a small budget of changes each month plus hosting and security. Most clients who want regular updates pick a plan; clients who only need an occasional tweak pay as they go.
Can I cancel a Care Plan?
Any time, no notice. The site stays yours; you can move it to another host or developer with no friction. We don't lock anyone in — if a Care Plan stops feeling like good value, you should be able to leave on the same day you decide.
Free site audit

A one-page report on your current site. No sales pitch.

Send us your website URL. Within 24 hours you'll get a PDF that walks through what's working, what isn't, and roughly what we'd do differently. No call needed, no obligation, no follow-ups if you don't ask for one.

  • Performance score from a real Lighthouse run
  • The three biggest things hurting your visibility
  • A side-by-side with a competitor doing it well
  • A rough sketch of what your site could look like
  • An honest fixed quote, only if you ask for one

Get your free audit

Takes 30 seconds. Reply usually arrives within a working day.

If you don't have one yet, write "none" — we'll work from your Google profile.
If provided, you'll get an instant WhatsApp acknowledgement and we can chat there if it's faster.

We use your email only to send the audit and answer your questions. No newsletters, no list-sharing, no follow-up sequences.

Audit on its way.

We'll have your one-page report in your inbox within 24 hours. Reply to that email if you want to take it further.