Independent web studio · West Midlands

Websites that don't just look the part — they bring in the work.

Anyone can make a site look nice. We hand-build fast, cinematic sites and the systems behind them — the tools that find your customers and automate the busywork. Delivered as one clean file you own outright, no lock-in.

What you get
Sub-second loadsLead-gen & automationYou own everythingFixed price, no lock-inConcept before you pay
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Fixed quote before we startThe price we agree is the price you pay. No surprise invoices.
Concept first, commitment afterYou see a working design of your site before you pay anything.
Everything handed overFiles, domain, hosting access — all in your name, not ours.
One person, direct lineYou talk to the person building your site. Nothing lost in handoff.
What we build

Three ways to start, one standard of finish.

Every build — from a single page to a full store — is fast, cinematic, and engineered around what your customers actually need to do. And every one can grow into the lead-gen and automation systems below.

01

Launch

A striking one-page site that makes a small business look established — hero, services, proof, and a contact route customers actually use. The fastest way to look serious online.

FROM£650
What's included →

Launch includes

  • Single-page cinematic design
  • Hero, services & proof sections
  • Contact route customers actually use
  • Sub-second load, mobile-first
  • Delivered as one file you own
Start with Launch →
03

Store

A full storefront wired to the commerce platform you already use — your products presented like a premium brand, without replatforming. Built to sell, not just to browse.

FROM£2,400
What's included →

Store includes

  • Everything in Professional
  • Full storefront experience
  • Wired to your commerce platform
  • Premium product presentation
  • No replatforming, no lock-in
Start with Store →
Beyond the build

We engineer business solutions, not just good looks.

Anyone can build you a website. We build the systems behind it — the tools that find your customers, automate the busywork, and turn a nice-looking site into an operational asset that actually earns. This is where a studio stops being a decorator and starts being an unfair advantage.

Engine Replacement

Love your current design but losing customers to slow load times and bloated WordPress? We benchmark your site, strip out the heavy CMS, and port your exact visual design onto the Noir-Code stack. Same chassis, a far faster engine — no rebrand, just speed.

FROM£900

Forensic Audit

The free 30-second scan finds the obvious. This is the manual teardown: we map your entire user journey, pinpoint exactly where visitors bounce, and hand you an architectural blueprint to fix it. Hire us for the build and the fee comes off your invoice.

FIXED£250

Priority Care

A monthly retainer for clients who want a name to call. Next-business-day response on support requests, priority in the queue, and regular checks on your booking and contact systems so small issues get caught early. Defined support hours, set out in writing — no vague promises.

FROM£120/mo

The Sharpening

Priority Care keeps the site safe. This keeps it earning. Every month we read the words people actually typed to find you, the questions they actually asked your concierge, and what actually turned into a booking — then we make one considered change and measure it against enquiries. What we won’t do is A/B testing: at local traffic a split test needs years to mean anything, so anyone selling you one is selling coin flips. This is real evidence, read honestly, one improvement at a time — and it compounds.

FROM£180/mo

Custom Calculators & Tools

A bespoke interactive tool that qualifies leads before they call — a treatment-cost estimator for a clinic, a rental-yield calculator for a property host, a quote builder for a trade, or a secure client portal. Fast-loading, on-brand, built to your exact logic.

FROM£250

CRM & Lead Routing

Stop copying enquiries into a spreadsheet by hand. We wire your website forms directly into the sales software you already use — every lead lands in your CRM the moment it's submitted, tagged and ready to work.

FROM£150

Lead Generation Systems

Most studios build you a website and wish you luck. We build the system that finds the customers — a tool that scans your area for businesses who need what you offer, ranks them by opportunity, and hands you a prioritised list with the openings already mapped. You still make the call; we build the machine that tells you exactly who to call and why. The unfair advantage most small businesses never get.

FROM£1,200

Business Automation

The repetitive work that quietly eats your week — chasing quotes, sorting enquiries, sending follow-ups, moving data between tools that don't talk to each other. We map the tasks you do by hand and build systems that do them for you, running in the background whether you're at your desk or not. Less admin, fewer things slipping through, more hours back. Scoped to your exact workflow, priced to what it saves you.

FROM£600

Multi-Language Version

Reach a wider market with a full second-language version of your site — same design, same speed, translated throughout. Ideal for clinics serving a specific community or hosts catering to international guests. Clinical or legal copy gets a native-speaker proof before launch.

FROM£300

Accessibility Tune-up

Bring your site into strong WCAG alignment: screen-reader labelling, proper alt text, keyboard navigation, and contrast fixes — better for every visitor, and a genuine risk-reducer for professional businesses. Aligned to the standard; we're honest that formal certification needs a specialist audit.

FROM£180

AI Concierge

The assistant you're talking to on this page — built for your business. A trained, always-on agent that answers your customers' questions and qualifies leads before they ever reach you. We write its knowledge from your services, prices, and policies, and wire it into your site.

FROM£450

Compliance Readiness Check

A structured review of the technical basics that keep a site out of trouble: cookie & consent setup, privacy-policy presence, HTTPS, data-handling, and WCAG accessibility alignment. You get a plain-English report of what's solid and what needs attention. We check what's checkable and are honest about the rest — this isn't legal advice, and anything beyond the technical layer should be confirmed with a solicitor for your sector. Fee comes off your invoice if you hire us to fix what it finds.

FIXED£200

Response times and monitoring are what we guarantee — uptime of third-party platforms (hosting, booking, payment providers) sits with those providers, and we'll always tell you exactly where a dependency lives.

Engineered Systems

More than a brochure. We build operational assets.

These aren't screenshots — every panel below is a live prototype you can touch. Each one ships as a system inside a client build.

The Performance Gap Engine

Drag it

Most local businesses live on the left. Drag right — this is the gap we close.

Your customers never read your prices first — they feel your load time. This is the three seconds that decide whether they stay.

The Smart Treatment Menu

Tap a category

A glass treatment menu with frictionless booking, built for clinics, salons and studios. "Book" here opens our real calendar — that's the point.

The Review Triage Funnel

Rate it

How was your experience with us today?

Feedback received — thank you. (Demo)

Every customer gets the same two doors — the public review and the private line — which keeps it inside Google’s review policies. More reviews, and problems reach you in writing first.

The Social Hub

Linktree, retired
@thenoir

Cinematic websites for independent businesses.
West Midlands → everywhere.

See the work WhatsApp the founder
Powered by The Noir

A bio-link hub on your own domain, in your own brand — not a template with your logo squeezed into it. Every button above is live.

The Cancellation Filler

Tap it
Thursday · your diary
10:00Aisha K. · Cut & colour
12:30Marcus T. · Beard trim
14:00Chloe R. · Balayage
16:00Priya S. · Blow dry
WAITLIST · notified automatically
Jas M.
Leah B.
Nadia H.
Refilled from the waitlistNo gap in the day. You never touched your phone.

The Lapsed Client Radar

Tap it
CLIENTS · last seen
Aisha K.2 weeks
Marcus T.4 weeks
Chloe R.9 weeks
Priya S.3 weeks
“Hi Chloe — your colour’s about due. Thursday 10am just came free, want it?”
Rebooked · Thursday 10:00She hadn’t gone elsewhere. She’d just forgotten.
The unfair advantage

An AI receptionist that never sleeps, never misses a call, never takes a day off.

Most small businesses lose work the moment they can't pick up. We build you an AI receptionist that answers every enquiry instantly — day or night — books appointments straight into your calendar, answers your customers' questions, and captures every lead before it goes cold.

  • Answers in seconds, 24/7

    Every missed call is a missed sale. Your receptionist replies instantly at 2pm or 2am — no voicemail, no waiting.

  • Books straight into your calendar

    It checks your availability and locks in appointments while you work — no back-and-forth, no double-bookings.

  • Knows your business inside out

    Trained on your services, prices, hours and policies — it answers the questions you'd answer, in your voice.

  • Captures every lead

    Names, numbers, what they need — logged and sent to you, so nothing slips through the cracks.

Reception · The Noir● Online now
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WebsiteWhatsAppSMSPhone
24/7Always answering
<5sAverage reply time
100%Enquiries captured
0Missed calls
Why it matters

Your website is the first employee customers ever meet.

Before anyone calls, visits, or books, they look you up. What they find either builds the case for you — or quietly closes it.

01 FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Judged before you say a word

Visitors size a business up in the first moments on a page — design, speed, and clarity signal your standard of work before a single sentence is read. A considered site says: this is how we do everything.

02 ALWAYS ON

Selling while you sleep

You close at six. Your website doesn't. It answers questions, shows prices, and takes bookings at midnight, on holidays, and while you're busy with another customer — the one member of staff who never clocks off.

03 SPEED & TRUST

Every second is a decision

Slow, cluttered pages send people back to the search results — straight to a competitor. Fast, calm pages hold attention and make choosing you feel easy. Speed isn't a tech metric; it's manners.

04 AN ASSET YOU OWN

Rented land vs. owned ground

Social profiles live on rented land — one algorithm change and your reach is gone. A website you own compounds: every review, every visit, every ranking signal builds equity no platform can take away.

Wondering where yours stands? Run the free diagnostic →

Why "The Noir"

Most small-business websites whisper. Yours shouldn't.

Your customers judge you in about three seconds — before they read a word. A template site with stock photos and a cookie banner tells them you're one of many. A site with real atmosphere tells them you're the one.

We build the second kind. Dark, deliberate, cinematic — designed around the exact moment a customer decides to book, order, or call. Not decoration. Direction.

And because every site ships as one clean, self-contained file, it's fast on a phone, cheap to host, and completely yours.

How it works

From first call to live site, without the agency circus.

Research

We study your business first

Your prices, your customers, your competitors, what's broken on your current site. Design decisions come from this, not from taste alone.

Concept

You see it before you commit

A working concept of your actual site — real pages, real motion, on a real link you can open on your phone. Then we talk.

Build

We refine it together

Your feedback goes straight into the build. Revisions are included until the agreed scope is right — no change-request bureaucracy.

Launch

Live, handed over, yours

We connect your domain, wire your booking or ordering system, and hand over everything. You're never locked in to us.

The Audit Philosophy

We don't just build sites; we dismantle failing systems.

Our founder's background in forensic auditing—including navigating global supply chain disputes—informs every line of code we write. We apply the same level of rigorous, objective analysis to your conversion funnel that we apply to high-stakes legal and technical disputes.

PATH 01 · DIAGNOSE

Existing Systems

We dismantle failing systems. We run a diagnostic on your current traffic flow, identify the 'Anomaly' in your conversion path, and architect a cinematic replacement.

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PATH 02 · ORIGINATE

Blank Slate

No system? No problem. We start at 'Blueprint.' We architect your business identity from the ground up, avoiding the bloat of template-based builds. You get a cinematic, single-file asset from day one.

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Instant estimate

Know your number before you talk to anyone.

Answer three things and see a realistic price range immediately. No email required to look — send it to us only if you want to.

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Your estimate
£950 – £1,250
A realistic range for the scope you've described. The exact fixed quote comes after a 15-minute call.
Green mobile speed score at launch You own every file outright Noir-Code lifetime scope warranty Concept before any deposit

Estimates are indicative, not a contract. Complex requirements can move the number in either direction — we'll always tell you before anything is agreed.

Estimate ref NR-0000 · quote it on your call

Our guarantees

No testimonials wall. Promises we can be held to instead.

We're a young studio and we won't fake social proof to look bigger. What we will do is put our standards in writing.

See it before you spend it

You get a working concept of your site before any money changes hands. If it doesn't excite you, walk away — no fee, no hard feelings.

The quote is the price

Fixed quotes, agreed in writing before work starts. If we misjudged the effort, that's our cost to absorb — never yours.

Fast or fixed free

Your site will score green on Google's mobile speed checks at launch. If it doesn't, we optimise it until it does at no charge.

Leave whenever you like

Domain, hosting and files all live in accounts you own. If you ever want to move on from us, you can — everything comes with you.

Free Diagnostic

Is your current site bleeding traffic?

Run your URL through Google's PageSpeed engine live, right here. Real scores, no sign-up. (Or view a clearly-labelled example to see the format first.)

Noir / Diagnostic

Live analysis via Google PageSpeed Insights (mobile). Your URL is sent to Google to run the test; nothing is stored on our end.

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