Graduate · for new businesses
Graduates
We’re graduates too. We know the first year is expensive, we know every client finds you online before they find you anywhere else, and we know what it’s like to price a website against rent. So we made the start free.
The graduate deal
A real build, not a demo of one.
Graduates who choose to build with us get a Presence or Portfolio website free, with hosting at £10 a month for 2 years. Same build quality as any paying client, same Pantheon access to edit your own content, same handover checklist. Nothing junior about it except the price.
What the free build doesn’t cover is graphic design. Emily’s time is charged by the day, £160, same as it is for anyone. Most graduates skip it and we build against the logo and photographs they already have; if you want her, she tells you how many days first.
It carries the same one-year warranty as any paid build, which is the part people assume a free build won’t have.
It’s for people within two years of finishing a degree, and the 2 years of £10 hosting run from the day your site goes live, not from the day you graduated. We take your word for both and sort out the details when we speak.
Just graduated and building something? Apply below and tell us about it. We’ll take it from there.
The trap we want you to skip
Because proper websites are expensive, graduates are the most likely to end up renting one from Wix, Squarespace or Cargo.
How renting a website plays out over three stages, from the sign-up to the day you try to leave.
The sign-up
A small monthly fee
When builds cost thousands, a subscription looks like the sensible choice. For the first year, it even is one.
The years pass
You’re paying rent
The platform holds your site; you hold a subscription. The fee creeps, the templates pinch, and the site never becomes yours.
The day you leave
Nothing comes with you
No code to take to a developer. There was never a site to own, only an account, and accounts don’t transfer.
The price of leaving is starting again from nothing, which is exactly why the monthly fee never has to stay small.
A product, not a service
A website we build is a product you own. The code sits in a repository registered to you, forever.
Four ways this could go wrong, and what happens to your website in each one.
- Stop hosting with usthe site is still yours
- Fall out with us entirelythe site is still yours
- Take it to another developerthe site is still yours
- We vanish tomorrowthe site is still yours
The builders can’t offer that, structurally: their business is the subscription, so the site has to stay theirs. Ours is the build, so the site gets to be yours. Start with the free one, grow it into whatever the business needs, and never owe anyone your own website.
Apply
Tell us what you’re building, shape the deal, send it over. That’s the whole application.