Web development in Cambridge, from a studio you can drive to.

Where we actually are

Unit 4b, 4c and 4d Dales Manor Business Park, Grove Road, Sawston, Cambridge CB22 3TJ. That is a real registered office about seven miles south of the city, not a virtual address rented to look local.

The company behind the studio is TOTAL TOOLS LTD, company number 08355850, filing accounts since January 2013. You can check that on Companies House in about thirty seconds, and we would rather you did.

We are happy to meet in person anywhere between Sawston, Cambridge and the surrounding villages. Most of the work happens remotely because that is what suits people, but a first conversation over a coffee is often quicker than three emails.

Who we tend to work with here

South Cambridgeshire is an unusual local market. Roughly a fifth of companies in the district are in professional, scientific and technical activities, and another tenth are in information and communication. That means a lot of clients here can read a technical claim properly, and a lot of them handle data that carries obligations.

So the work that fits best locally is the work where those two things matter: clinics and practices holding patient enquiries, accountants and solicitors holding client records, and research or technical firms who get asked to evidence how a supplier handles data.

If you are a Cambridge business whose website is a brochure that will not change and takes no personal data, we are probably more than you need, and we will say so on a call rather than after an invoice.

What is different about how we build

Sites are built from scratch, without a CMS admin panel or a plugin library. That is an architectural decision rather than a preference: most website compromises begin in third-party plugins, and a site that has none cannot inherit their vulnerabilities.

Security patching, TLS, hosting, backups and monitoring are inside the monthly fee and are never billed separately. If something breaks or is attacked, fixing it is our problem, not a line on your next invoice.

Where you handle personal data we will sign a Data Processing Agreement and give you a written data protection and security statement for your own records. When we surveyed twelve UK pay monthly website providers in July 2026, three mentioned a Data Processing Agreement anywhere on their public site.

What it costs

Prices are published before you contact us, along with what it costs to leave. Essential is £99 a month plus a £595 build fee. Practice, which adds the compliance work above, is £199 a month plus £795. Both run twelve months and then roll monthly, and you can leave with thirty days' notice.

If you would rather not have a monthly plan at all, we will build you a site once and hand it over. A straightforward website starts at £995, and you own the code and the design outright, host it wherever you like, and have nothing to cancel. We do not price it by the page, because pages are not the work: one cinematic page with video and custom graphics can take longer than five plain ones, and any per-page figure would be a number we could not hold.

What moves the price is the design work, whether you need video, motion or custom graphics, and anything that has to be built rather than laid out. Tell us what you have in mind on a short call and you get a fixed price in writing before you commit to anything. If it is going to cost more than £995 we will say so on that call, not after you have started.

Be clear about what you are taking on with that option, because it is the honest part most people skip. Once it is yours, the hosting, the domain renewals, the TLS certificate and the security patching are yours too. Around thirty-six new vulnerabilities are published against common website software every day, and roughly ninety percent of compromised sites were running something the owner did not know needed updating. If your site is a few pages that will not change and takes no personal data, buying once is genuinely the better deal and we will tell you so. If it takes enquiries or holds customer records, the monthly plan exists because somebody has to be watching.

Local agencies here are established and good, and several have been trading since 2014. Most of them quote on request. We would rather you knew the number before you spent an hour of your day on a meeting.

What we do not do

We do not run pay-per-click campaigns, we do not do social media management, and we do not build on WordPress. If those are what you need, a Cambridge agency will serve you better than we will.

We also do not have a portfolio of local client logos, because we do not have permission to publish any yet and we will not invent them. What we can show you is the reference architecture we build from, this website, and a real audit of your current site before you commit to anything.