Nottingham punches well above its postcode. It's got a proper tech scene thanks to Experian, HMRC, Capital One and a cluster of start-ups that spun out of two very good universities. It's got the Lace Market, Sneinton, the Meadows and West Bridgford — each one a different flavour of small-business opportunity. And it's two hours down the M1 from Ramsbottom, which frankly is less time than it takes to park in Nottingham city centre.
I'm based in Ramsbottom, Greater Manchester, and I've spent 20+ years in IT — from frontline support through to board-level service leadership across 170+ countries. What I bring to Nottingham isn't geography, it's being the person who actually does the work. Not an account manager. Not a sales engineer. The person writing the code and answering the phone.
A Nottingham agency will happily charge £4,000 for the same static five-page site I'll hand-code for £499. I don't use WordPress themes, Wix templates or Squarespace blocks. Every line of HTML and CSS is written for your site specifically. That means it loads in under a second, ranks properly on Google, and doesn't break when a plugin updates at 3am. Fully managed from £30/month, hosting and email forwarder included.
Whether you're a barber in Hockley, a takeaway in Beeston, a plumber in Mapperley, or a consultancy tucked above a shop in the Lace Market, the playbook is the same. A fast, mobile-friendly site that answers three questions in three seconds — who you are, what you do, how to get hold of you. That's 80% of what a small-business website needs to do. I'll get yours doing it.
Web design, Microsoft 365 email, remote IT support, AI chatbots that handle customer enquiries 24/7, AI visibility audits (so your business shows up when people ask ChatGPT or Claude for a recommendation), and IT policies for anyone trying to tick a compliance box.
Remote first. Email, phone, video, Teams. I build it, you review it, we iterate. Fixed prices, no hourly surprises. If it ever needed doing in person, the M1 goes both ways — two hours, a coffee, sorted.