1 Week Sites builds bespoke Next.js websites for Birmingham founders, SMEs, and service businesses — one site a week, £1,000 flat, paid upfront, with a full refund within 48 hours if the site is not live by day seven. I am not a Birmingham agency with a Jewellery Quarter office; I am a UK solo studio that works with Birmingham clients remotely, with a video-call brief on Monday and a live site by Sunday. Over five years the cost typically lands around £1,300 — £1,000 for the build plus roughly £60 a year for domain and email on providers you control. That sits well below £5,000–£18,000 plus retainer for a Birmingham agency, and alongside £1,500–£4,500 for most Birmingham freelancers. You own the code, the GitHub repo, the Vercel hosting account, and the domain from day one. Seven days from brief to live.
Birmingham, specifically
Birmingham is second only to London by sheer number of SMEs — accountants, solicitors, trades, wholesalers, clinics, and independent consultancies. Most of those businesses either use Facebook as their website or paid a small agency a long time ago for a WordPress site that nobody has looked at since. The Birmingham clients I work with fall into two groups: established service businesses ready to replace a stale site with something fast and Lighthouse-green, and newer founders — often from the Digbeth or Jewellery Quarter creative clusters — who want a bespoke site without the £10,000 agency quote. Both groups get the same seven-day week, the same flat fee, and the same refund guarantee. Birmingham is also close enough to the northern hubs that an in-person kickoff is realistic without burning a travel day.
How remote works for Birmingham
The seven-day week is the same shape from New Street as it is from anywhere else in the UK. Monday video-call brief, Tuesday design, Wednesday to Friday build, Saturday revisions, Sunday launch. Birmingham New Street to London Euston is around 1h20, to Manchester Piccadilly is 1h30, to Leeds is about 2h — a day-trip kickoff in any of those directions is realistic for a larger brief. For the standard sprint, remote is faster — the travel day simply eats build time that would have been better spent on copy, design, or speed. I work UK hours only; messages come back during the day, not at midnight, and there is no offshored team behind me.
What Birmingham websites typically cost
| Option | Typical cost | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Birmingham agency | £5,000–£18,000 | Usually plus £300–£1,000/mo retainer |
| Birmingham freelancer | £1,500–£4,500 | Timeline typically 4–10 weeks |
| 1 Week Sites | £1,000 flat | Seven days, one revision round, full refund if missed |
The seven-day week
Same week, same shape, wherever you are in the UK. 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.
Birmingham-specific questions
Do you work on-site in Birmingham?
Not as part of the standard sprint — remote runs faster. For larger briefs or a kickoff workshop I will come to Birmingham or meet in the Midlands. Travel is on me; the £1,000 flat fee does not change.
Can you invoice a Birmingham Ltd company or VAT-registered business?
Yes. UK sole trader invoice — VAT not currently charged. Bank transfer on the day the brief is signed off. No procurement forms.
Have you built sites for Birmingham service businesses — accountants, solicitors, trades?
Happy to do the first one under the same terms. The seven-day week, £1,000 flat fee, and refund guarantee apply to any professional service site. If you need a particular feature — booking, payments, case-study CMS — it fits inside the £1,000 if it is specified in the Monday brief.
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. You pay for your own domain (≈£12/year) and email hosting (≈£4/month).
What happens if you miss day seven?
Full refund within 48 hours, no arguments.
Who owns the finished site?
You do — code in your GitHub, hosting on your Vercel, domain on your registrar. Any Next.js developer can take it forward.
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 — in Birmingham or anywhere else in the UK.