1 Week Sites builds bespoke Next.js websites for UK independent consultants, fractional executives, and small advisory firms — £1,000 flat, paid upfront, live in seven days, with a full refund within 48 hours if I miss day seven. Most consultants I meet have one of two problems: a Squarespace site that looks like a life-coach landing page, or no site at all because word-of-mouth has carried them for years and is now starting to dry up. A bespoke build gives you a focused, professional site that says exactly what you do, who you do it for, how engagements are shaped, and what it costs to start — so the only enquiries landing are pre-qualified. Over five years the total sits around £1,300 — £1,000 build plus roughly £60 a year for domain and email. Seven days from brief to live, no retainer.
What a consulting-site visitor actually wants
The visitor has almost always been referred, googled your name, and is now checking whether you are real, credible, and the right fit before replying to the intro email. They want four things in twenty seconds: a one-line statement of what you do (not 'I help leaders grow'), the company size or context you work with, the shape of an engagement (fixed-fee project, fractional day rate, retainer), and the rough day rate or starting fee. They do not want a generic 'transformation' hero, a stock handshake photo, or a six-paragraph LinkedIn-flavoured bio. The best consulting sites I see are short, sharp, and slightly uncomfortable — they say 'I work with $5m-$50m B2B SaaS CFOs, day rate from £2,200' and let the wrong fit self-select out.
What most consulting sites get wrong
- Vague positioning ('I help leaders scale') that describes half the consulting world.
- No day rate or starting fee — invites the junior budget client who wastes a call.
- Stock handshake, boardroom, or lightbulb photography — signals template site.
- LinkedIn-flavoured bio instead of three crisp case studies.
- Contact form with no qualifying fields — phone booking with no context wastes thirty minutes.
- Services page listing twenty generic offerings instead of two sharp packages.
What a good consulting brief includes
Four things locked on Monday ship the week. One, a specific ICP — sector, company size, role, and the problem you solve. 'Series-A-B SaaS CEOs, post-product-market-fit pre-scale GTM' beats 'founders'. Two, engagement shapes — fixed-fee project, fractional day rate, advisory retainer, or a combination. Three, rate guidance — day rate, project band, or a minimum engagement fee. Four, three real case studies with consent to publish. The brief template covers the rest.
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.
Consultants-specific questions
Should I publish my day rate or hide it?
Publish. Hiding filters out nobody — it just wastes your discovery-call time. A day rate (or starting project fee) self-qualifies in the visitor's head before they reply, and people who object to the rate never email in the first place. That is the filter working.
Can you add a pre-qualification form that saves call time?
Yes — a short form with four to six qualifying questions (sector, size, problem, timeline, budget band) routed to your email. Calls after that form are materially better, and the form takes ten minutes to build into the Wednesday pass.
Do I need testimonials or can case studies carry the site?
Case studies carry more weight for consulting than testimonials — 'here is the client, here is the engagement, here is what changed' is more credible than 'great to work with'. Three good ones beat ten thin ones.
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.
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 consultant in Liverpool or London.