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Marrow
Natural wine bar — Margate harbour-front room with a reservations system.
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Enough with template sites
Your website can do more.
For UK businesses that want to look as good online as they do in person. Designed and built end-to-end by one person — properly, the first time.
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Fiveconcepts,shippedend-to-end.Live and clickable.
Every project below is a real, working site. Click any to open the case study.
- foundrynights.co.ukFoundry Nights
- bramblecoffee.co.ukBramble Coffee Roasters
- marrow.barMarrow
- penmarkroofing.co.ukPenmark Roofing
- monolithgym.co.ukMONOLITH
Client stories join this page as projects launch. Until then — the work is public, judge it yourself.
Selected work
Twodeep-divebuilds,andthreemoreconceptsshippedend-to-end.
Each of these is a self-set brief taken from blank page to live, working site — the same process every client project gets.
Featured · Deep dive
Bramble Coffee Roasters
“Build a site that handles all three — subscription, single bags, journal — without any of them feeling bolted on.”
Speciality roaster — subscription storefront and journal.
- E-commerce
- Editorial
- Next.js
Featured · Deep dive
Foundry Nights
“One page. Next show on top. A wedding enquiry should land in the same inbox without anyone changing tone.”
East London live-music promoter — gigs, electronic nights, jazz Sundays, and private hire.
- Events
- Ticketing
- Next.js
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The person behind the design
Meetthepersonbehind the design.
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George Barnes
Essex, England
Hi — I’m George. Solo designer and developer running Geo Studio out of a small office in Essex, England.
I work with UK small businesses and personal brands on custom-built websites — one project at a time, two to four weeks per build, direct handoff. No agency layer, no juniors, no templates in disguise. The brief you agree at the first call is the site you get at launch.
Every site is coded from scratch in Next.js and TypeScript, designed in the browser, and shipped on Vercel. You own the code, the domain, and the accounts from day one.
What I build
Fourwaystoputyourbusinessonline—properly.
01Most asked for
Marketing Sites
Fast, conversion-focused sites built to win new customers. The bread-and-butter of the studio — a custom home for a business that's outgrown a template but doesn't want an agency layer between them and the work.
- Best for
- Small UK businesses with one product or service to sell
- Starts from
- £400 · Starter package
02
Portfolio & Personal Brand
A home online that reflects who you actually are.
Independent makers, writers, founders
03
E-commerce Storefronts
Shopify or custom — built for browsing and buying.
Independent brands selling direct to consumers
04
Landing Pages
Single-purpose pages that turn visitors into leads.
Product launches, campaign work, paid traffic
How it works
Discoveryfirst.Then two weeks of build.
01The lead
Discovery
The first conversation does most of the work. We talk about your business, your audience, and what a good site would actually change for you. By the end of it I know whether I'm the right fit — and you have a fixed-price proposal in your inbox within two working days.
- A 60-min call about goals, audience, and what success looks like
- An honest read on whether I'm the right fit for the brief
- A fixed-price proposal, written in plain English, within two working days
02Then
Design & Build
I design in the browser, sharing progress as we go. No long mockup reviews, no surprises at launch.
03Then
Launch & Hand-off
Your site goes live. You get the code, the docs, the keys, and 30 days of post-launch support.
Investment
Honestpricing.Noretainers,nolock-in.
2 intro spots open · Spring 2026Starter Site
£400£500+ VAT
First 2 clients · 20% off
Delivered in 2 weeks
For the business that needs a real online presence — built once, properly, in under a fortnight.
What's included
- Up to 5 pages, custom-designed
- Mobile-first, accessibility-checked
- SEO basics (meta, sitemap, robots, schema)
- Contact form wired to your email
- Hosted on Vercel — free tier covers most traffic
- 30 days of post-launch support
Growth Site
£780£975+ VAT
First 2 clients · 20% off
Delivered in 4 weeks
For the business with something to sell, somewhere to scale, and content that needs editing without a developer.
What's included
- Up to 12 pages, custom-designed
- CMS integration (Sanity or Payload) — edit content yourself
- Analytics + conversion tracking set up
- Conversion-rate optimisation pass before launch
- Performance budget — Lighthouse 95+ on every page
- 60 days of post-launch support
Every project is scoped individually — these are starting points, not rigid boxes. If you're between them, we'll find the right shape together.
06Contact
Let'sbuildsomethingworth visiting.
I work with a small number of clients at a time, so every project gets full attention from first call to launch day. Drop a line and I'll come back within one working day.
hello@geo-studio.ukOr DM @bygeostudio on Instagram
Essex, England — UK clients only
Common questions
Thethingsyou'daskon a first call.
It's real work — five full sites I briefed, designed, built and shipped end-to-end, exactly the way a client project runs. What it isn't yet is paying-client work: Geo Studio is new, and I'd rather show you five complete builds than a wall of logos you can't check. That's also why the first two engagements get 20% off either package (Starter £400 instead of £500, Growth £780 instead of £975) — you get a full site at near-cost, I get a case study with a real business behind it.
Week 1: brief, content, sitemap, design directions. Weeks 2–3 (Growth): build, content load, accessibility and performance passes. Week 4 (Growth): client review, fixes, launch. Starter compresses this into two weeks by sticking tightly to scope. Both timelines assume you can get content to me on time — late content is the single biggest cause of slipped launches.
Add-ons are quoted per piece of work — never as a retainer or surprise invoice. Most existing clients come back for one or two small bits a year (a new landing page, a campaign microsite, a price update). If you don't, that's fine too.
You do, from day one. The domain is registered in your name. The Vercel, Sanity, and Resend accounts are opened in your name. The code lives in a Git repo in your name. If I disappeared tomorrow, you'd lose nothing and could keep editing the site.
Not as a separate service. If you arrive with brand and copy already in good shape, we ship faster and cheaper. If you don't, I'll point you at people I trust — usually a writer and a brand designer who I've worked alongside before — and we'll run the projects in parallel.
Right now, no. UK only. The bookkeeping and timezones for international work eat into the time I'd rather spend designing. I may open this up later.
50% on signed brief, 50% on launch. Both invoices payable in 14 days. I take bank transfer or Stripe. No project starts until the first invoice clears.
Real photography or video shoots (I can recommend photographers). Ongoing copywriting or marketing. SEO link-building campaigns. Paid ads. Hosting beyond what Vercel's free tier covers. Anything heavily custom — bespoke admin panels, multi-tenant logic, native apps — is a different conversation, scoped separately.