WordPress
Shopify
BigCommerce
Cloudflare
Google Workspace
Microsoft 365
Elementor
Stripe01
You sign up
One retained plan covers your hosting, domains, email and platforms. No projects to scope and no quotes to chase.
Platforms we build and manage on
Sound familiar?
Your site is your first impression. It is important to look good, but also to stay secure and up to date. Chasing hosting renewals and waiting a week for someone to change a paragraph is frustrating. We simply handle it all for you.
Our servicesWe get it, you're busy. You need a website, but you don't need the hassle!
We Manage
Hosting, domains and email under one roof. Content changes made for you. Updates, backups and security watched continuously, not remembered occasionally.
We Build
Websites on WordPress or Astro, shops on Shopify, BigCommerce or Woo, and bespoke applications when a website isn't the answer.
You Grow
Automation that gives you hours back, marketing that works harder, and help deploying AI with a human overseeing it.
We really are a different kind of web agency and that is exactly what you need today
We're proud of that
With the invention of AI, every aspect of your web and digital presence is about to change. We recognised that long before the hype. We're here to support your business during this transitional phase.
Learn howRichard Bland has designed, built and managed websites and e-commerce stores for over 28 years - he knows a few things about a few things [;-p] But where he comes alive is in his ability to support your business online.
Around him: a small team of specialists, each brought in for what they do best. David on AI automation and business auditing. Jet on branding and communications. Michal on videography. Sam on web design and SEO. Sophia on storytelling and photography. And Serene, our very own AI, leading the future of development.
We don't buy off the shelf. Cloudflare for hosting, green where it's available, a strict plugin stack on WordPress, and the AI and marketing platforms we'd choose for ourselves. Nothing gets in because it was cheap.
There are no account managers and no juniors learning on your budget. Every conversation is with the people doing the work, so nothing gets lost in translation on the way. And our AI watches over your project 24/7 and never clocks off.
This is the future of web agencies. Nimble, fast, AI-native. We're embracing the new world, training Serene to work with our clients' businesses, to learn and provide the very best support possible. We are AI future focused.
How it works
Our Blueprint
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We take it over
We migrate, secure and back up everything you already run. Renewals are watched, so nothing ever quietly lapses.
03
You send requests
A page change, a campaign landing page, a new email template. You email us what you need, and that is it.
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We get it done
Richard and Serene handle the day-to-day work between them. Specialists come in for video and photography.*
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It stays running
Monitoring, updates and patching happen without you ever hearing about them. One monthly fee and no surprises.
* Specialists are optional extras, quoted and charged separately from your plan.
Who you work with
No account managers, only the people doing the work
Everything from the domain name to the AI on top
Our Services
Management
One retained plan. We run the platforms, apply the updates, watch the renewals and do the requests, so you stop thinking about it.
Hosting
Fast, secure hosting on Cloudflare, with domains and business email on Google Workspace or Microsoft 365. Renewals watched, nothing lapses.
Websites
Brochure, booking and membership sites. WordPress when you want to edit it yourself, Astro when you want it fast and light.
E-commerce
Shopify, BigCommerce and WooCommerce stores, wired to the payments, stock and till systems you already run every day.
Applications
For when a website isn't the answer. Portals, dashboards and internal tools built around the way you actually work.
AI
Automations that hand the repetitive jobs to software, and AI put in where it genuinely helps, with a human watching it.
Transparent pricing, nothing hidden
We’re always the first to say we may not be the cheapest. But we’re also not handing you a $69 theme and calling it yours: that’s our arch-nemesis.
Not sure which fits? Start with a conversation.
Talk it throughMarbl Sites
Your website, done for you: designed, built, hosted and managed by us, with your requests handled through our support channels by Serene [AI] and reviewed by a human. Ideal for startups and small businesses.
from£200/month
Start with Sites
Nothing to pay upfront. 12-month minimum, then month to month.
What’s included
- Single website
- Choice of Astro or WordPress
- Domain, hosting and mailbox
- Designed, built and managed
- Security, backups, live monitoring
- Weekly change request
- Access to Serene [AI]
- Site is yours after the minimum term
Marbl Studio
Everything in Sites, plus ongoing support across your web and digital presence: hosting, design, build and management of your website or online store, and general help with the digital side of your business.
£800/month
Talk about Studio
12-month minimum, then month to month.
What’s included
- Everything in Marbl Sites
- Website or online store
- Design and build as you grow
- Content and campaign pages
- Ongoing digital support
- Priority change requests
- Monthly plan and report
- Richard and Serene [AI] on hand
Marbl Stewardship
We’re your web, AI and digital partner. Everything in Studio, with the scope for additional development across your digital presence within our fair-use policy.
£1,600/month
Talk about Stewardship
12-month minimum, then month to month.
What’s included
- Everything in Marbl Studio
- Additional sites and builds
- AI, automation and integrations
- Strategy, reviewed with you
- Your digital partner, not a supplier
- Answered the same working day
- Direct line to Richard
- Room to grow within fair use
Individual services
Every build is bespoke, on WordPress or Astro, whatever the size. One thing, one price, for when you don’t want a plan. Hosting is always its own line.
- Hosting, domains and emailfrom £40/month
- Marbl Sitesfrom £200/month
- Bespoke WordPressfrom £4,000
- Bespoke Astrofrom £4,000
- E-commerce theme buildsfrom £8,000
- Bespoke e-commerce buildsfrom £16,000
- Web applicationsfrom £8,000
- Email marketingQuoted
- Digital platform supportQuoted
- Website maintenancefrom £80/month
- Website managementfrom £160/month
- WordPress
- Astro
- WooCommerce
- Stripe payments
- Booking systems
- Member areas
- Point of sale
- Landing pages
- Copywriting
- SEO and search
- Structured data
- Google Business Profile
- Analytics
- Site migrations
- Cloudflare hosting
- Domains and DNS
- Email on your domain
- Email deliverability
- Accessibility audits
- Performance tuning
- Security hardening
- Backups and monitoring
- AI automation
- AI workshops
- Branding
- Video
- Photography
- Training
Ask for a quote
Ad-hoc work is billed at our agency rate, £80 an hour. Everything agreed in writing before we start.
All prices plus VAT. Plans run for a minimum of 12 months, then month to month. Beyond Stewardship, we price on application. Third-party platform costs, advertising spend and AI usage are not included; specialists (video, photography) are quoted separately.
Every story here leads to the work behind it
What clients say
Fitness
“Within the first month alone, I’ve received five separate enquiries through it. To put that into perspective, previously it would have taken me around six months to receive that many enquiries.”
Dan Fitzsimons
Owner, Dan Fitzsimons Fitness
Home improvement
“He sorts out any issues we run into promptly and efficiently, often before we’ve even had a chance to chase them up! His proactive approach makes a real difference.”
Annabel Murphy
Marketing and Sales Assistant, Park Lane Windows
Industrial
A used-machinery dealer’s stock, new-machine agencies and enquiries on one site that a trade buyer can search.
STV Machinery
Used and new plastics machinery, Northamptonshire
Education
A four-hundred-page independent school site, built bespoke in WordPress and Elementor, with custom post types and a hand-coded navigation.
Wellingborough School
Independent day school, founded 1595
Retail
“We worked with Richard to specify a new bespoke POS for the site. That has now been implemented and is a massive improvement on the old plug-in based system.”
Battlefield Hobbies
Wargames store and gaming venue, Daventry
You’ve got questions and we’ve got the answers
One website, on Astro or WordPress, designed, built, hosted and managed by us. The domain, hosting and a mailbox on your domain are in the price, so are security, backups and monitoring. There is nothing to pay upfront.
Yes, 12 months, then it continues month to month and either of us can end it with 30 days’ notice. If you leave during the first year the remaining months stay payable, billed monthly as they would have been, and the site is handed over with the last payment. There is no separate exit charge.
You do. The design, the copy, the images and an export of the site are yours, and the handover is included. We keep the licence to our own plugins and tooling, which is the normal arrangement, and we will say which pieces those are before you sign.
On Marbl Sites you send a request through our support channels, Serene [AI] plans and does the work, and a human reviews it before it goes live. Requests are handled one at a time, in order. Marbl Studio and Marbl Stewardship move you ahead of that queue and add a monthly plan, so the work is agreed before the month starts rather than asked for piecemeal.
Marbl Studio is everything in Marbl Sites plus ongoing support across your web and digital presence: your website or online store hosted and managed, design and build as the site grows, and general help with the digital side of your business. Marbl Stewardship is everything in Studio with us as your web, AI and digital partner: AI, automation and integrations, a strategy we review with you, and room for additional development within our fair-use policy.
Moving up is a conversation, any time. If your requests regularly go beyond the plan you are on, we tell you in writing before we do the work and you choose: reschedule it, have it quoted separately, or move to the next plan. We never add charges you have not agreed to.
Plans are built around one website. Marbl Stewardship has room for additional developments, agreed with you as part of the monthly plan rather than as separate projects. If you run several sites, that is the conversation to have.
Third-party platform and licence costs, for example an e-commerce platform plan or a premium plugin, advertising spend, and third-party AI usage. Where we arrange them for you we pass them through at cost plus a 10% management fee, shown separately and agreed first. Specialist work such as video and photography is quoted separately.
Yes. Website maintenance starts at £80 a month and content management at £160 a month, with hosting as its own line from £40 a month. If what you need regularly goes beyond that, we will talk to you about a plan rather than adding charges.
We acknowledge every request the same working day. Routine changes are turned around within two working days, and anything bigger gets a date agreed with you before we start.
Your website, handled
No obligation, no jargon, no pressure
Tell us what you’re trying to do. We’ll tell you where to start.
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