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Web studio · Newcastle upon Tyne

Somebody should have told you about your website.

We read sites the way your next customer does — slowly, on a phone, looking for a reason to leave. Then we build the replacement: fast, static, and cheap to keep online.

One of us looks at it by hand and writes back within two working days — with or without a pitch. It costs nothing and there's no follow-up sequence.

example-company.co.uk

Three things a visitor sees before they see your work

  1. 01 Footer copyright reads 2012.
  2. 02 Covid banner, still live in 2026.
  3. 03 Stat counters that animate up to zero.

Field notes

We hand-checked just over 50 North East websites. Roughly a third had something genuinely wrong with them.

Not taste, not opinions about the colour scheme — things any visitor could spot and any owner would want to know about. These are the ones that keep coming up:

  • 01

    A copyright year stuck several years in the past.

  • 02

    Two founding dates that don't agree with each other.

  • 03

    Placeholder text the template shipped with, never replaced.

  • 04

    Pandemic notices still sitting at the top of the page.

  • 05

    A headline that gets cut off on a phone.

  • 06

    The website builder's own branding, still on show.

  • 07

    Template code showing through on a live page.

  • 08

    A contact address that quietly bounces.

  • 09

    A service area that changes from one page to the next.

  • 10

    The same section, pasted in twice.

  • 11

    Testimonials that don't match the business they sit on.

  • 12

    Social links that go nowhere, and no phone number at all.

The other two-thirds were fine, so we said nothing to them. There was nothing to say.

What we build

Three things, done properly.

Scheme launch microsites

One development, one address, live before the boards go up. House types, plot availability, the brochure, and an enquiry form that lands straight in your sales inbox.

  • Live in about a week from sign-off
  • Plot status you can update yourself
  • Comes down cleanly when the scheme sells out

Company sites

The main one. Who you are, what you've built, how to reach you — structured so adding the next project is a five-minute job for your team, not a change request to us.

  • Content in plain files you own
  • Built to be found: schema, sitemap, real page titles
  • Readable on a phone in a car park, which is where it'll be read

Overflow for agencies

White-label build capacity. You keep the client and the design; we take the front-end and the deploy. Your repo or ours, your name on all of it.

  • Figma or PDF in, production site out
  • Fixed price per build, quoted before we start
  • We never contact your client

How it's built

Static files on a CDN. Nothing to patch, nothing to renew.

Most small-firm websites are a content management system doing the work of a folder of HTML — and charging a monthly fee plus a security patch every fortnight for the privilege. We generate the pages once, at build time, and serve them as files. That decision is why the sites are quick, why they don't break at 2am, and why they cost almost nothing to run.

You own the domain, the repository and the content. If you ever want to move on from us, you can — that's rather the point.

Load budget
Under a second to first paint on a mid-range phone. We hold the build to it.
Hosting
Global CDN, free tier for most sites. Typically £0–15 a month, paid by you, direct.
Attack surface
No database, no admin login, no plugins. There is nothing there to compromise.
Handover
Repo, domain, content files and a short written guide. All yours from day one.

The studio

AM1 is two people in Newcastle.

Oliver Plunkett and Wilf Snashall. There is no account manager, no discovery workshop and no deck. You speak to whoever is building your site, because that's both of us.

We work with residential developers, estate and marketing agents, and small firms across the North East — plus a handful of agencies who use us as extra pairs of hands.

Portfolio, references and pricing on request.

Start here

Send us the address. We'll tell you what we find.

Haven't got a site yet? Say so in the message — that's an easier brief, not a harder one.

Or write to us directly: oliver.plunkett@am1.studio