1 Week Sites builds bespoke Next.js websites for Leeds founders, studios, and professional-service SMEs — 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 Leeds agency with a Duke Studios desk; I am a UK solo studio that works with Leeds 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 compares to £4,000–£18,000 plus retainer for a Leeds agency, or £1,500–£4,500 for a Leeds freelancer. You own the code, the GitHub repo, the Vercel hosting account, and the domain from day one. Seven days from brief to live.
Leeds, specifically
Leeds is Yorkshire's professional-services capital — accountants, solicitors, recruitment consultancies, a strong fintech cluster, and a growing independent creative scene around Mabgate and Holbeck. A lot of Leeds SMEs are still running WordPress sites built three to five years ago by a local agency, and the retainer stopped earning its keep the moment the core services stabilised. The Leeds clients I tend to work with are mid-career founders of service businesses — they want a fast, accessible, Lighthouse-green site, they do not need brand strategy, and they would rather pay £1,000 once than £500 a month forever. Leeds is also well-connected enough — London, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield all under two hours by rail — that a kickoff day-trip is realistic without burning a build day, and many Leeds founders already operate hybrid with teams split across the North.
How remote works for Leeds
Same seven-day week, same shape, wherever you are in the UK. Monday video-call brief, Tuesday design, Wednesday to Friday build, Saturday revisions, Sunday launch. Leeds to London is around 2h15 direct, to Manchester is 55 minutes, to York is 25 minutes — a kickoff workshop in Leeds or a day on-site is realistic for a larger brief. For the standard sprint, remote is faster and the deliverable is identical. Messages come back during UK working hours, daily progress updates by email, and the repo is visible to you on GitHub from the first commit onwards rather than handed over at the end.
What Leeds websites typically cost
| Option | Typical cost | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Leeds agency | £4,000–£18,000 | Usually plus £300–£1,000/mo retainer |
| Leeds 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.
Leeds-specific questions
Do you work on-site in Leeds?
Not as part of the standard sprint — remote runs faster. For a larger brief or a kickoff workshop I will come to Leeds. Travel is on me; the £1,000 flat fee and seven-day guarantee do not change.
Can you invoice a Leeds Ltd company or VAT-registered business?
Yes. UK sole trader invoice — VAT not currently charged. Bank transfer, signed-off brief. Filing works the same way as any other B2B supplier.
Have you shipped sites for Leeds accountants, solicitors, or recruiters?
Happy to do the first one under the same terms. Professional-service sites fit the seven-day sprint well because the brief is usually tight: services, sectors, team, FAQs, contact. Case studies and intake forms bolt on inside the £1,000 if they are specified on Monday.
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 retainer, no monthly fee. 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.
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 Leeds or anywhere else in the UK.