50+ delivered See the case studies
Web, e-commerce and marketing built to bring your Stoke-on-Trent business more enquiries
Websites, Google Business Profile and local marketing for clinics, trades and UK businesses — plus custom web, Shopify and SaaS builds. Then we measure what they actually bring in.
- Projects delivered
- 50+Projects delivered
- Trading since
- 2,024Trading since
- Countries shipped to
- 4Countries shipped to
Product data loads in
1.2s
Cornerstone Buildings rebuild
- Projects delivered
- 50+
- Years in business
- 5+
- Reply time
- 1 day
- Quotes, not estimates
- Fixed
Platforms we build and market on
- Angular
- React
- Node.js
- Laravel
- Shopify
- WooCommerce
- WordPress
- AWS
- Google Ads
- GA4
- Amazon Seller Central
- eBay
What we do
What we build and market
Practices live under Services: websites, stores, Google Business Profile, local SEO and ads. Who they are for lives under Industries. Each practice has its own page — not a recycled homepage.
Web Applications
We build fast, responsive and scalable web applications tailored to business needs.
Web ApplicationsWordPress Development
Design, rebuilds, speed optimisation and maintained care plans for WordPress.
WordPress DevelopmentShopify Development
Shopify store builds, migrations and speed work, including catalogues in the thousands of SKUs.
Shopify DevelopmentGoogle Business Profile
Google Business Profile setup, categories, photos, reviews and posts — always in your Google account.
Google Business ProfileLocal SEO
Local SEO for doctors, plumbers, renovation firms and tradespeople: on-page work, NAP consistency and landing pages — not directory spam.
Local SEOGoogle Ads Management
Google Ads and Meta Ads management with conversion tracking built on Consent Mode v2.
Google Ads ManagementThe point of all this
What you actually get out of it
100%
Of enquiries tracked
More enquiries, tracked to source.
Every form, call, WhatsApp tap and quote click is a defined GA4 event, so you can see which channel paid for itself.
2.5s
LCP budget
Pages that load before people leave.
We build to Core Web Vitals thresholds — LCP under 2.5 seconds, CLS under 0.1 — because slow pages lose sales before anyone reads the copy.
SSR
Rendered server-side
Sites search engines can read.
Server-rendered HTML, structured data and clean internal linking as standard, not as an upsell.
Yours
Code and accounts
Something you own.
Code, hosting, ad accounts and analytics stay in your name. If you leave, you take it with you.
Recent work
Projects with numbers attached
Outdoor structures retail Cornerstone Buildings 1.2s load - Problem
- Their 3D building configurator ran on legacy .NET Framework with full-page postbacks — slow to use and hard to extend across four regional storefronts.
- We built
- A ground-up rebuild of the 3D builder as a React app on top of their existing product API.
- Result
- Product data now loads in 1.2 seconds. Shipped over a 6-month migration across all four regions.
Education consultancy Horizon Education Consultants One portal - Problem
- Had no website — onboarding students, collecting documents and applying to universities all ran over phone calls and text messages with no central record.
- We built
- A website with a student application portal covering onboarding, document collection, university and course management, and application tracking.
- Result
- Students, documents and university applications now run through one portal instead of phone and message threads.
How we work
Six steps, no surprises
The same process whether you're buying a five-page site or a multi-tenant platform. You always know what happens next and what it costs.
- 1 30 minutes
Free consultation
30 minutes
We look at your current site, traffic and goals, and tell you whether we’re the right fit. No obligation.
- 2 2 to 3 working days
Proposal and fixed quote
2 to 3 working days
Scope, price, timeline and what’s excluded, in writing.
- 3 1 to 2 weeks
Discovery and design
1 to 2 weeks
Sitemap, wireframes and designs signed off before code starts.
- 4 2 to 8 weeks
Build
2 to 8 weeks
Weekly demos on a staging URL, shared Slack channel, one named engineer.
- 5 1 week
Launch
1 week
Testing, redirects, analytics, consent banner, Search Console and handover documentation.
- 6 Ongoing
Growth
Ongoing
SEO, ads or a care plan, reported monthly against enquiries.
See the process in detail
Typical build: 4 to 10 weeks start to launch.
Who it is for
Local businesses that live on Google
Services are what we do. Industries are who the three-part bundle is for: a website, a Google Business Profile in your account, and local ranking work. Not a marketplace. Not junk directories.
Doctors & clinics
A site patients can trust, a Maps listing they can find, and enquiries you can actually answer.
Doctors & clinicsPlumbers
Emergency calls, area pages and a Maps listing that matches the van — not a brochure that nobody rings.
PlumbersRenovations & builders
Project galleries that load, Google listings that match the yard, and pages for kitchens, lofts and extensions — not a one-page “we do everything”.
Renovations & buildersTradespeople
Electricians, roofers, carpenters, locksmiths, gardeners, cleaners and other local trades — one bundle: site, Maps, enquiries.
TradespeopleIn their words
What clients say when we're not in the room
“Our old .NET builder was the thing customers complained about most. The Octa Tech House team rebuilt it in React without us losing a day of trading in any region, and it's just fast now — 1.2 seconds and it's ready to go.”
Mark Doyle
Head of Digital, Cornerstone Buildings
“We went from chasing students by phone and text to running the whole application process through a portal. Documents, universities, courses, results — it's all in one place now, and we're turning applications around far quicker.”
Danyal Shah
Director, Horizon Education Consultants
“We didn't just want a website that looked good — we wanted one that brought in enquiries. Octa Tech House kept asking what we actually needed the site to do, not just what it should look like, and it shows in the results.”
Claire Whitfield
Owner, Whitfield Ceramics
Questions
The things people ask before signing
A WordPress brochure site typically starts around £1,200 + VAT, a Shopify store around £2,000 + VAT, and custom web applications from £8,000 + VAT. The number moves with page count, integrations and how much content you need written. Every proposal is a fixed quote rather than an hourly estimate.
Most brochure sites take four to six weeks from signed proposal to launch, e-commerce builds six to ten, and custom applications longer depending on scope. The biggest variable is content and feedback turnaround on your side. We give you a dated timeline in the proposal and demo progress weekly on a staging URL.
No. We are based on Kirby Street in Stoke-on-Trent and meet clients in person across Staffordshire and Cheshire, but most of our work is delivered remotely for clients across the UK.
Yes. Code, domain, hosting, Google Business Profile, Google Ads, Analytics and Search Console are all set up in your name or transferred to you at handover. There is no lock-in and no proprietary platform you can only maintain through us.
No — all published prices exclude VAT, which is added at the current UK rate. Ad spend, third-party licences, premium plugins and stock imagery are also excluded and billed at cost or paid directly by you.
Usually, yes. We start with a paid audit of the existing codebase, hosting and analytics so we know what we are inheriting, then quote for the fix or rebuild. If a rebuild costs less than untangling what is there, we will tell you that up front.
Yes. Those sit under Industries, not mixed into the same list as Shopify or SaaS. Each industry page is the three-part bundle: a website, a Google Business Profile in your Google account, and local ranking work. We are not a lead marketplace and we do not sell junk directory packages.
Next step
Tell us what you're trying to fix
Thirty minutes, no obligation, no sales script. Send us your website and what you want more of, and we'll tell you what we'd do first — even if that's nothing we'd charge for.
- A fixed quote in writing, not an hourly estimate.
- One named engineer on your build, reachable directly.
- Code, hosting and ad accounts stay in your name.
Octa Tech House
36 Kirby Street, Stoke-on-Trent, ST6 2HU, United Kingdom
Book a free consultation
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