Websites for small businesses, worldwide
We build your new homepage before you hire us.
Most web studios ask you to imagine what they'd do. We'd rather show you. We study your business, design the site we think it deserves, and send you the link — before there's any question of a fee.
What we do
A website that earns its keep, not one that merely exists.
Most small-business websites are slow, hard to read on a phone, and quiet about the one thing that makes the business worth choosing. That is rarely the owner's fault. It is what happens when a site is assembled from a template by someone who never asked what the business actually does well.
Mantle & Co works the other way round. We start by reading your business the way a customer does — what you offer, what you charge, what people say about you, what your competitors look like beside you. Then we build a site around the answer.
Every site is written and built by hand. No page builders, no plugin sprawl, nothing you will need to pay someone to untangle in two years.
How it works
Four steps, and the first one is free.
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We look, properly
We go through your existing site and your public presence in detail — speed, mobile behaviour, what search engines see, what your reviews actually say. You get the findings whether or not you work with us.
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We build the homepage
Not a mockup or a slide deck. A real, working page at a real address, using your own photography and your own words, that you can open on your phone and send to your business partner.
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You decide
If it is not right, you have lost nothing and you keep the findings. If it is, we agree a scope and a fixed price before any work continues. No retainers, no lock-in.
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We finish and hand it over
The full site, your images optimised properly, your contact routes working, and the whole thing yours — hosted wherever you like, with nothing holding it hostage.
What you get
Built to be fast, plainly.
Fast by construction
Hand-written pages that load in a handful of requests rather than a couple of hundred. Speed is not a plugin you install afterwards.
Right on a phone
Checked at real phone widths, not shrunk down and hoped for. Most of your customers will never see the desktop version.
Readable by everyone
Colour contrast and focus states measured against accessibility standards, not eyeballed. Text your customers can actually read.
Yours outright
You own the files, the domain and the hosting account. Nothing is rented back to you, and leaving costs you nothing.
The first step, in practice
What we found on real client sites last month.
These came from the free first step, on live sites belonging to established businesses. Every one was invisible to the owner.
- 18links to overseas gambling and car-dealer sites, injected at the foot of an interior design firm's homepage — fully visible, in the company's own brand colour.
- 6 MBon a renovation company's homepage, across 217 requests and 140 images, on a site whose customers research almost entirely from their phones.
- 57×the same phrase repeated in a review widget, with several reviews openly crediting a different company — on a homepage meant to win renovation work.
Work
A page you can open right now.
Kallang Aircon Care
A demonstration build for a small servicing company: a single page that leads with the promise, prices the work openly, and puts the phone number within reach at every scroll position.
Kallang Aircon Care is a fictional business, used so the build can be shown publicly without putting a client's name on display.
Open the demoClient work is shown privately. The businesses we build for are small enough that their site is a competitive matter, and several came to us with problems on their existing site that are nobody else's business.
On a call we will walk you through recent builds, what changed, and what it cost — and if your trade overlaps with one of them, we will tell you that too.
Book a call and we will show you the rest.
How we work
We would rather show you the work and let you decide than talk you into it.
That is the whole idea. It is also why the first step costs nothing: if we cannot find something genuinely worth fixing on your site, we have no business asking you for money.
Get started
Send us your website.
Thirty minutes, no charge, no obligation. We will have looked at your site before we speak, and you will leave the call knowing what is wrong with it whether you hire us or not.
linus@mantleandco.net