Services
Express service · most sites live within a week
Most sites are assembled. Yours will be built.
While others drag blocks into a template, I write your site from the first line — secure by construction, finished to perfection, and tailored to exactly what you need. Nothing borrowed, nothing bloated, and because every build is lean and bespoke, most go live within a week.
Pricing
Pick where you start.
Clear prices, no surprises. Every plan is hand-built from scratch, live within a week, and entirely yours to keep.
Business Card
A polished one-page presence that does the basics beautifully.
from£499+ £50/mo upkeep
- One-page business card site
- Built-in contact form
- Calendar bookings
- Professional SEO & analytics setup
- Google Workspace setup
- Your own personal domain
- Most popular
Business Plus
Everything above, with a back office to run on.
from£1,299+ £99/mo upkeep
- Everything in Business Card
- Built-in CRM to collect client details
- Move clients through your pipeline
- Message clients from the platform
- — or an online restaurant menu
- …with online ordering
Custom System
A bespoke platform designed from the ground up around you.
CustomTailored upkeep
- Fully custom functionality
- Designed entirely to your requirements
- Integrations with anything you use
- Secure, built to last, and yours alone
- Scoped and priced to your project
All prices in GBP. Upkeep covers hosting, monitoring and continuous security updates.
The difference is in what you don't see.
The usual way
- A template bought and lightly reskinned
- Dozens of plugins you will never use — each one a liability
- Generic code shared by thousands of other sites
- Security left to whatever the theme happened to ship with
The Rook Labs way
- Written from scratch for your business, line by line
- Only the functionality you actually need — nothing more
- Code that is yours alone: lean, readable, understandable
- Security designed in from the very first commit
How every build is judged
Perfection and security, by default.
And fast does not mean rushed. Most builds are delivered within a week without cutting a single one of these corners.
From scratch, every time
No themes, no page-builders. I start from an empty file and build exactly what your business needs — nothing in the way, nothing slowing it down.
Only the functionality you need
We choose each feature together. Selected, deliberate, and free of the dead weight that bloats and breaks ordinary sites.
Secure by construction
Security is a design decision made on day one, not a plugin bolted on at the end. Data, access and trust boundaries live in the foundation.
Finished to perfection
Fast, accessible, pixel-precise and tested. The gap between a site that merely works and one that feels effortless is all in the details.
How we work
From first message to a site that runs itself.
Start to finish in about a week — here is exactly how the days break down.
- 01
First contact & requirements
Day 1We talk through your business, your goals and exactly what the site needs to do. I leave with a clear, written picture of the work ahead.
- 02
First visual template & review
Day 2I design an initial visual template and send it over for an early review — so we shape the direction together before a line of production code is written.
- 03
Additional fixes & refinement
Days 3–4Your feedback drives a round of fixes and adjustments. We refine until the design feels right and nothing is left to chance.
- 04
Services setup & deployment
Day 5I wire up every service the site relies on — hosting, database, email, integrations — and deploy the application to a fast, secure environment.
- 05
Delivery, upkeep & monitoring
Live in a weekThe finished site is handed over, then kept healthy: ongoing maintenance, uptime monitoring and security updates so it keeps running long after launch.
For the curious & the technical
Under the hood.
If you like to know exactly what you are getting: your site runs on a deliberately boring, deeply proven stack — the kind of technologies that will still be running, and still being patched, years from now.
- Runtime & backend
Node.js
A battle-tested JavaScript runtime powering the server side — fast, event-driven, and backed by the largest ecosystem in software.
- User interface
React
Component-driven interfaces that stay fast and predictable as they grow. The same library behind the apps you use every day.
- Database
PostgreSQL
A rock-solid, open-source relational database trusted with critical data for decades. Strong guarantees, no surprises — your data kept safe and consistent.
- TypeScript, Next.js & more
Modern tooling
Type-safe code, server-rendered pages and a modern build pipeline — chosen because they are proven, well-maintained, and here to stay.
Built to run today — and stay safe tomorrow.
Software is never finished. Dependencies are kept current, security advisories are watched, and updates are applied continuously — so your site keeps running and keeps meeting the latest security standards, without you ever having to think about it.
- Continuous dependency updates
- Latest security patches
- Uptime & error monitoring
Tell me what you need built.
Every project starts with a conversation about your business — not a price list. Get in touch today and your site can be live within a week.