What happens if you miss day 7?

Full refund within 48 hours. The deadline is the product. If I miss it, you do not owe anything. No kill fee, no partial, no debate.

What is included in the £1,000?

Brief, bespoke design, Next.js build, QA, and launch on your domain. Domain and hosting costs are paid directly to the providers. No retainers, no upsells.

How many revisions do I get?

One round, same week. Built into the schedule. Scope changes that break the seven-day window roll into a second sprint at a fresh quote.

Who owns the code when it is done?

You do. Fully. The repository transfers to your GitHub, the Vercel project to your account, and the domain stays on your registrar. No lock-in.

What kind of sites is this not right for?

Multi-thousand-page catalogues, heavy e-commerce with bespoke checkout, or anything blocked by someone else's integration roadmap. Flagged on the discovery call — no obligation if it's not a fit.

How much does a website cost in the UK in 2026?

A UK small-business website costs £0 for DIY Squarespace or Wix, £1,000 to £3,000 for a bespoke flat-fee build from a solo studio or freelancer, £3,000 to £8,000 at a small design studio, and £8,000 to £25,000 at a mid-sized agency. 1 Week Sites charges £1,000 flat for a bespoke Next.js site delivered in seven days.

What is a bespoke website?

A bespoke website is designed from scratch for one business, hand-coded in a real framework rather than assembled from a template or drag-and-drop builder, and owned outright by the buyer. The design is original, the code is standard and portable, and there is no platform lock-in.

Should I choose Squarespace, Wix, or a bespoke website?

Choose Squarespace for design-led small businesses that want a polished site without a developer. Choose Wix for flexibility and extension-heavy sites on a budget. Choose a bespoke site when speed, distinctiveness, or code ownership matter commercially — the five-year total cost flips in favour of bespoke at around 40 months against a £25-per-month plan.

Where are you based and do you work remotely?

1 Week Sites is UK-based and remote-first. Clients across Great Britain work with me over email, a shared brief document, and one short call on Monday. No mandatory in-person meetings or workshop days.

How do I pay and is it safe to pay upfront?

Payment is by bank transfer or Stripe invoice, in full, before work starts. The refund guarantee is the safety mechanism — if the site is not live on day seven, 100% is refunded within 48 hours. No deposits, no milestone gating.

Do you offer ongoing support or retainers after launch?

No. No retainers, no monthly fees. The site is transferred to the client in full. Later changes can be booked as a second sprint at a fresh quote, or handed to any developer — the code is standard Next.js and React, documented for handover.

Do you provide copywriting and photography?

Copy polishing is included — clients provide the substance and I tighten the wording. Photography is not included. Clients bring real photos or commission them separately. Stock imagery is never used on a bespoke 1 Week Sites build.

Will my site pass Core Web Vitals and WCAG accessibility?

Yes. Every site ships with a Lighthouse score of 95 or higher across all four categories on mobile, LCP under 2.5 seconds, INP under 200 milliseconds, CLS under 0.1, and WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility. These are non-negotiable, part of the pre-launch checklist.

Can I edit the site myself after it launches?

Yes for copy — a simple config file or Markdown is set up so wording can be changed without touching code. No for structural changes like new pages or layout rethinks — those need a developer, which can be me or anyone else.

Bespoke websites for coaches — £1,000, live in 7 days

1 Week Sites builds bespoke Next.js websites for UK life, executive, and business coaches — one client per week, £1,000 flat, paid upfront, with a full refund within 48 hours if the site is not live by day seven. Most coaches I meet started on Squarespace or Kajabi, then outgrew them the moment their positioning sharpened. A bespoke site ships in seven days, loads in under a second, reads like one person wrote it, and lives on hosting you own — no more Kajabi monthly fee, no more Squarespace template you share with ten thousand other coaches. Over five years the total sits around £1,300: £1,000 build plus roughly £60 a year for domain and email. You own the GitHub repo, the Vercel project, and the domain from day one. Seven days from brief to live, one revision round included, no retainer.

What a coaching-site visitor actually wants

Someone landing on a coaching site in 2026 is rarely browsing. They have a specific pain, a manager who wants them to get help, or a half-written email they stopped drafting because their existing coach retired. They want three things in the first fifteen seconds: proof you are a real person, clarity on whether you work with people like them, and a way to book a call without signing up for a newsletter. They do not want a carousel of stock photography, a quote from Brené Brown, or a thirty-slide explanation of your certification. Pricing transparency helps — even a 'from £X' — because it filters out people you would otherwise waste a discovery call on. The best coach sites I see are quiet: a first-person photo, a one-line promise, three case vignettes, a calendar link. That is the whole shape.

What most coaching sites get wrong

Leading with a long 'my story' page instead of what you change for the client.
Stock 'diverse meeting' photography — every visitor recognises it immediately.
Hiding the booking link behind a contact form nobody fills in.
A wall of certification logos instead of one line of named proof.
No pricing band, not even 'from £X' — the serious buyers leave.

What a good coaching brief includes

Three things locked before Monday save the week. First, a single sentence on who you work with and what changes for them — not your niche label, the actual shift. Second, three case vignettes, anonymised if needed, covering the client type, the engagement shape, and the outcome. Third, an honest pricing decision: public rate, 'from £X', or a discovery call only. Anything else — bio length, testimonials, blog posts, programme pages — is downstream of those three. The one-page brief template I share on Monday forces the first three answers in plain English; once they are written, the rest of the week builds itself around them.

The seven-day week

Same week, same shape, whoever you are. Brief Monday, design Tuesday, build Wednesday to Friday, revisions Saturday, launch Sunday. One site a week, one client at a time.

Monday — sixty-minute video-call brief, scope and copy locked.
Tuesday — design in Figma, one route shown to sign-off.
Wednesday–Friday — build in Next.js, Tailwind, TypeScript.
Saturday — one round of revisions, real copy and imagery.
Sunday — launch to your Vercel, DNS on your registrar, full handover.

Coaches-specific questions

Can you set up booking and a calendar?

Yes — Calendly, Cal.com, SavvyCal, or a custom form. I embed whichever tool you already pay for. If you do not have one, Cal.com is free for a single calendar and works on day one.

Do I need a blog or podcast feed to rank?

No. Most coaches over-invest in content. One sharp case page and a clear offer outperforms twelve blog posts for discovery-call bookings. If you already have a podcast, I wire a section; if not, skip it and ship.

Can you integrate my email list (ConvertKit, Beehiiv, MailerLite)?

Yes. A form that feeds your provider with double opt-in, on your own URL — not a shared lead-magnet landing page. Takes ten minutes during the Wednesday build.

Common questions

Is £1,000 really all-in, or do I pay extra later?

£1,000 is all-in for a five-to-seven-page bespoke marketing site: brief, design, build, one revision round, launch. No monthly fee, no retainer, no kill fee. You pay for your own domain (≈£12/year) and email hosting (≈£4/month). Nothing goes through me.

What happens if you miss day seven?

Full refund within 48 hours, no arguments. I take the loss — that's what keeps the deadline real. It has not happened yet and the guarantee is what stops it happening.

Who owns the finished site?

You do, fully. The code lives in a GitHub repo transferred to your account. The Vercel hosting project is on your Vercel account. The domain is on your registrar. You can hire any Next.js developer to take it forward — nothing is locked to me.

— From the studio

Bespoke, live in seven days.

£1,000 flat. Paid upfront. Full refund if I miss day seven. Code, hosting, and domain all in your name — whether you are a coach in Liverpool or London.

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