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Freelance Development

Fixed-budget projects. Flexible day-rate support.

Two ways to work together

Your priorities.
The right way to deliver.

Websites, apps, and practical engineering help. Choose the certainty of an agreed scope, or the flexibility of booking development time.

Fixed-budget projects

Your budget. An agreed scope.

Tell us what you need to achieve and what you can invest. We shape a deliverable that fits, then agree the scope and total before starting.

  • A written brief, clear deliverables, and acceptance criteria.
  • Payment milestones agreed up front.
  • A smaller first release or phased delivery when that makes more sense.
Talk about your project

Day-rate development

Pricing agreed together

Bring in experienced development support for your team, an evolving product, or a focused piece of work. Agree the time and priorities together.

  • Book a focused day or a longer engagement.
  • Review progress and adjust priorities as you learn.
  • Agree a spending limit and review point before extending the booking.
Talk about your project

Remote-first delivery. Outside IR35 engagements available. Scope, availability, and terms agreed before work begins.

Good work, for the public good.

Reduced rates are available for selected work that serves the public good. Tell us who your project helps, the impact you want to make, and your budget. Eligibility and any discount are agreed individually before work begins.

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Scope & commercials

Choose time or a deliverable

Remote-first. Outside IR35 engagements available. A day booking buys development time; a fixed quote buys the written scope. Availability and dates are agreed before booking.

Discuss freelance development

What the engagement covers

  • Book a focused day with clear priorities.
  • Book a longer engagement, with priorities and budget agreed up front.
  • Fixed-price options for an agreed website, feature, or integration.

Separately agreed

  • On-call cover or guaranteed response times.
  • Additional scope or ongoing support beyond the agreed booking.

Illustrative project / website delivery

What could your
budget deliver?

An independent service business needs a website that explains its offer, shows its work, and turns enquiries into conversations. The team wants to update the content itself.

The 10-page website

Quoted against your brief

Planning allowance: 8–12 development days including design, build, testing, and handover. This is an illustrative brief; we confirm a fixed quote after reviewing your content, design needs, and features.

Your project may need less, more, or a different approach. Bring your budget to the conversation and we will work through the useful options.

Discuss a budget that works for you

Inside this example brief

  1. 01Content editing for all 10 pages.
  2. 021 contact form with up to 6 fields and spam protection.
  3. 031 image gallery with up to 20 supplied images.
  4. 041 location map and business contact links.
  5. 05Search setup: page titles, descriptions, sitemap, and social previews.
Design, revisions & handover
  • Up to 10 content pages in one language, including any legal pages.
  • A bespoke visual direction, responsive across mobile, tablet, and desktop.
  • 2 consolidated revision rounds within the agreed brief.
  • Launch to one hosting environment and a 1-hour handover.
  • 30 days of bug fixes for the delivered scope after launch.
What you supply & separately priced work
  • You supply final copy, branding, images, and legal text.
  • Hosting, domain names, paid licences, and third-party fees are separate.
  • Ecommerce, payments, bookings, user accounts, and custom integrations are quoted separately.
  • Extra pages, new features, copywriting, and ongoing maintenance need a separate quote.

There is more than one way to start.

A lean first launch

A focused scope and an agreed quote

An illustrative 3–5 day brief: 3–5 essential pages, supplied branding and content, and a contact form. Agree a focused design and feature list to match the budget.

Build in phases

Agree each phase separately

Launch the essentials first, then add pages, content, or integrations when you need them. Each phase has its own scope and quote; phasing spreads the investment.

Flexible development time

Pricing agreed together

Keep an evolving backlog and book the time you need. Prioritise the most valuable work and review progress against the agreed spending limit.

Estimates include the work described above. Hosting, domains, paid services, and additional functionality are separate. We confirm the total, VAT, deliverables, and payment milestones in writing. Scope changes are discussed and priced before they are added.

Summary

What freelance development helps with

Experienced development for businesses, agencies, and product teams. Agree a scope within your budget, or book development time with clear priorities and spending limits.

Technical detail

What sits underneath freelance development

Website builds, feature delivery, bug fixes, integrations, and codebase improvements within your existing stack and review process.

Good fit when

  • An agency needs a developer to deliver an agreed brief.
  • Your team needs a feature, fix, or integration shipped.
  • You want a complete business website at an agreed fixed price.

What we do

  • Agree the task, access requirements, and definition of done.
  • Work directly with you or your team.
  • Deliver reviewable changes, relevant tests, and a concise handover.

Typical outputs

  • The agreed feature, fix, website, or investigation.
  • Source code and relevant tests.
  • A clear record of what changed and what remains.

How it works

How freelance development usually works.

Clear scope where possible, short discovery where the answer is uncertain, and direct communication throughout.

1

Clarify the decision, risk, or outcome that matters.

2

Do the smallest useful piece of work that moves it forward.

3

Leave evidence, recommendations, and working software where appropriate.

Technical detail

Deeper freelance development detail.

Work follows your existing repository, tooling, and code review conventions.

Day-rate work is time-boxed; the amount delivered depends on complexity and the starting point.

Fixed-price work needs an agreed scope, dependencies, and acceptance criteria before it begins.

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