Useful AI, thoughtfully built.
AI assistants and websites that keep working after you've gone home.
We design and build AI chatbots, business assistants and the modern websites they live on. One friendly Surrey studio, looking after it all since 2010.
A scoped assistant: exactly the kind we build for clients.
- Quality-first
- WCAG AA · Lighthouse 95+
- One expert
- design, build & support
- Full stack
- WordPress, Next.js & AI
- Est. 2010
- Leatherhead, Surrey
What we make
Everything your web presence needs, under one roof.
Three services, one studio: the AI that does the work, the website it works from, and the support that keeps both running.
01 · AI Agents & Web Apps
Software that answers, qualifies and books — on its own.
Most enquiries arrive when you're busy or closed. We build scoped AI assistants, trained on your business and connected to your tools, that handle the routine, qualify real leads, and hand the rest to you. Honest by design: when it doesn't know, it says so.
[ scoped ]
Honest & on-topic
It only speaks about your business and won't invent answers. It offers to connect you instead.
[ connected ]
Wired to your tools
Calendars, CRMs, email and docs, connected through APIs so it can do things, not just chat.
[ safe ]
Rate-limited by default
Built behind a guarded API with sensible limits. The assistant in this page is a working example.
02 · Web Design & Development
Websites that load fast, read clearly, and stay yours.
Two ways to build, depending on what you need: a friendly CMS you can run yourself, or a fast bespoke build on a modern stack. We'll recommend the right fit, never the most expensive one.
ROUTE A
WordPress
A friendly CMS and a huge plugin ecosystem on customised templates. The cost-effective route, easy to update yourself.
cms · plugins · cost-effective
ROUTE B
Static & modern JS
Bespoke custom templates on a modern stack like Next.js, static-first for maximum speed, security and control.
next.js · bespoke · static-first
Lighthouse
100 / 100
03 · Support & Maintenance
We don't disappear after launch.
Updates, security and performance, plus hosting, business email and plain-English IT advice. One person who knows your setup, keeping it fast, safe and online.
Updates & security
Patches, backups and monitoring, handled before they become problems.
Hosting & email
Fast, reliable hosting and business email, sorted, secured and supported.
Advice on tap
IT consulting from someone who already knows your stack. No ticket queues.
Case study · this website
You're looking at our work right now.
This site is built the way we build for clients: fast static pages, accessible by default, with a scoped AI assistant doing real work behind a rate-limited API. Useful AI, thoughtfully built.
Meet the assistant behind it ↑How we work
A partner, not a vendor.
Building for the web from Leatherhead, Surrey since 2010, founded and run by Frank Barnhouse. Design and engineering under one roof, from one person you actually talk to.
- 01
Listen
We start with your business, not the tech. Plain English, no jargon.
- 02
Build
Design and engineering under one roof, from one person you actually talk to.
- 03
Support
We stay around after launch: updates, security, hosting and advice.
Let's build something that quietly works.
Tell us what you're trying to do. We'll tell you, in plain English, whether AI, a new website, or a bit of both is the right call. No obligation.
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