A small business SEO consultant, not an agency
Sometimes you do not need a retainer. You need someone experienced to look at the site, tell you what is actually wrong, and give you a list you can work through — with or without us.
No retainer required — ad-hoc from £35 an hour, or monthly from £199
Consultancy is advice you own
An agency relationship is ongoing delivery — we do the work, you get the results, and it continues monthly. Consultancy is different: you get the thinking, and what you do with it is your business.
Plenty of small businesses have someone perfectly capable of implementing changes. A developer, a marketing person, or the owner on a wet Sunday. What they lack is someone to tell them which changes are worth making.
What consultancy covers
A site review
Technical health, speed, indexing, on-page signals, duplicate content and structure — explained in terms you can act on rather than a list of warnings.
Search intent alignment
Which topics, services and questions your customers actually search for, and whether your pages answer them. This is where most sites lose without realising.
Local visibility
Google Business Profile, citations and trust signals for stronger map pack and service-area rankings.
A prioritised plan
What to fix first, what to improve next, and what to leave alone. Effort against impact, so you can decide what is worth your time.
A second opinion
On a rebuild you are planning, a proposal you have been sent, or work an existing provider is doing. Independent, and we will say if it looks fine.
Someone to ask
Ad-hoc questions when you hit something you are unsure about. Charged by the hour, not by a monthly fee whether you use it or not.
When consultancy is the right call
- You have someone who can implementA developer, an in-house person, or the willingness to do it yourself. You need direction, not delivery.
- You want a plan you can act on at your own paceSome businesses would rather work through it over six months than pay monthly for someone else to.
- You are planning a rebuildAn independent view before you commit, when the cost of getting the structure wrong is highest.
- Someone has quoted youA second opinion on what they are proposing. Our free proposal checker does the first pass in two minutes.
- You have been burned beforeAnd want to understand what happened before spending again.
What you are actually buying
Senior-level attention without agency layers. There is no account manager relaying your questions to whoever is doing the thinking, because the person doing the thinking is the person you are talking to.
That is the whole model. We are two people, we take on a limited number of clients, and the trade-off is that we cannot scale. Which is fine — you are not buying scale.
Pricing
- Free audit firstBefore any paid work. It tells us what your site needs and tells you whether we are worth paying — no obligation either way.
- Ad-hoc consultancy from £35 an hourFor specific questions, reviews or second opinions. No minimum, no retainer.
- Monthly support from £199If it turns out you want delivery rather than advice. Cancel any month.
- No UK VATOn your invoice. If you are not VAT registered, that is 20% you never pay.
Full breakdown on the pricing page — packages, one-off rates and what is included in each.
Start with the audit
It tells us what your site actually needs, and tells you whether we know what we are talking about. Free, no obligation, no follow-up calls unless you want them.