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A slow site that loses enquiries. Quotes nobody has time to chase. Admin that swallows the week. Every service below exists to fix a problem that's quietly costing you money, starting with the ones you've learnt to live with.
What we do
Bespoke, hand-built websites with no page-builder bloat. Every site we ship scores 90–100 on Google PageSpeed, is structured around winning enquiries, and comes with the technical SEO foundation already in place.
A visual language that matches the standard of your work, from the logo system to the guidelines your team and suppliers actually use. Built to look right on a website, a vehicle, and a quote document alike.
Getting the right buyers to the site and turning more of them into enquiries. Local and technical SEO, content that ranks for what your customers search, and conversion work driven by data rather than opinion.
Taking the repetitive admin that eats your week, from enquiry handling and quote chasing to report writing and document filing, and making it run on its own. Built from the tools you already use, with AI stitched in where it genuinely earns its keep.
Interfaces designed around how people actually think and move, for web apps, customer portals, and product dashboards. Every screen and interaction is intentional, tested, and built to be used daily.
Website copy, case studies, and articles written in your voice: plain, credible English that explains what you do and why it matters, without the marketing waffle your buyers see straight through.
Online shops built to sell: clear product presentation, seamless checkout, and the speed that stops mobile buyers abandoning. From trade counters going online to full consumer stores.
Care plans that keep your site fast, secure, and up to date: updates, backups, uptime and security monitoring, and Core Web Vitals held above 90 month after month, so the site never quietly becomes a liability.
The social proof that closes clients before you’ve said a word. Automated review requests at the right moment, a Google Business Profile that works for you, and a steady stream of genuine five-star feedback.
Not sure which service you need?
Tell us what's slowing you down and we'll tell you what we'd do about it, and what we wouldn't.
Workbench, now in closed beta
A new offer, new prices, a new lead time. On most websites each one means an email to whoever built it, and then a wait. Workbench is our own website editor, now in closed beta on the sites we build. Click the words on your page and type over them, or tell WK AI what you want changed in plain English. Hit publish and it’s live in seconds.
Filmed in Workbench on a demonstration site. The business shown is fictional.
How long does one small change to your website take?
[Three messages to whoever updates the website: Monday “Can you update the lead times on the site?”, Wednesday “Any news on the website change?”, Friday “Just chasing this one…”. Someone starts typing a reply, then stops.] Chasing a one-line change all week.
“Waiting a week to update your website?” is rewritten as “Update your website in minutes.”
Introducing Workbench by WK Designs. Edit your own website.
Edit in place. Click any text to change it. [On a demonstration site, the headline “Subsea repairs, mobilised in 10 days.” is clicked and the 10 changed to 5.] No code. No tickets. No waiting.
Ask WK AI. Or just ask in plain English. [Typed into the chat: “Change ‘Request a quote’ to ‘Get a quote today’”.]
Safe to change. Change anything. The design holds. [Workbench finds the two quote buttons, confirms only content changed, that no code was added and the layout survives, and stages two changes.]
One request. “Request a quote” becomes “Get a quote today”, on both buttons.
Publish. One click. Live in seconds.
Version history. Every publish is saved. Restore any version.
Live on your site. Your customers see it straight away. [The updated site on a phone; a customer taps “Get a quote today”.]
Edit your own text, images, pages, SEO: your website. Swap any image. Add new pages. SEO titles and descriptions. Form enquiries in one inbox. Phone, tablet and desktop previews. Optional sign-off from WK Designs.
Workbench by WK Designs. Your website, updated in minutes. Now in closed beta on the sites we build. wkdesigns.co.uk
Why automate
None of this shows up on a report. There is no line in the accounts for the job you did not quote in time, or the invoice that sat a week waiting on a delivery note. It shows up later, as a thin quarter and a week nobody can account for.
Which one is costing you most?
Point at the one that stings and we’ll work out what it takes off you in a year, before you spend anything with us.
Put a number on itThe enquiry that lands at six on a Friday gets answered on Tuesday. By then someone else has quoted it, and on price-comparable work the first credible response usually takes the job. That is not a service problem. It is a Friday evening when nobody was in.
Quotes go out and nobody has time to follow them up. You have already paid for the estimating hours, so the job you lose this way is one you spent money winning and then let go to whoever rang back first.
Ten minutes, several times a day, every day, is the best part of a day a week. Priced at what you charge that engineer out for, you are paying a skilled wage to retype the same details into three systems.
The job is finished, but it cannot be despatched or invoiced until the certs are compiled and the delivery note turns up. Every day it sits, the money is yours on paper and nobody’s in the bank. On a tight month that is the overdraft doing work your invoices should be doing.
The buyer sent a revised drawing and the quote went out against the old one. Now you either honour a price that no longer covers the work, or go back and ask, which costs you either way. Nobody logs that as a loss, but it comes straight off the job.
It does, right up until two people have it open, or the one who built it is off. Then you are quoting from a copy somebody saved to their desktop in March, at March’s material prices, and the first thing that tells you is the margin on a job you have already won.
The estimator prices by feel and one supervisor knows which drawing is current. That holds until somebody takes a fortnight off, and then the work either waits or the next person guesses. A guess on a price is a guess on the margin, and you find it at job costing rather than at quote.
You know at the end, once the costing is done and the invoice has gone out. The jobs that quietly run over are the ones nobody flagged in week two, because nobody was looking until the month closed. By then the hours are spent and all you can do is carry it.
Another pair of hands is the most expensive way to fix a process, and it is permanent. The admin that justified the hire is still there in three years, only now it has a salary against it and nobody questions it, because it is somebody’s job.
None of this is about being modern. It’s about not losing work to the firm that answered first.
Automation & AI
Chasing quotes sent a fortnight ago. Retyping the same details into three systems. Writing up reports at nine at night. Most of it doesn't need a human at all. The examples below are just that: examples, there to get you thinking about your own week. If a job is repetitive and predictable, it can run itself, built from the tools you already use. No rip-and-replace, no new system to learn.
Between an RFQ landing and the invoice being paid sits a week of unbillable admin, and it’s quietly eating the margin.
Everything we do for this sector“The RFQ landed at 6pm on Friday. It got a reply on Tuesday.”
An RFQ email arrives with drawings attached. AI reads the spec, logs part, quantity, and material into your CRM, sends the buyer an acknowledgement, and flags it to your estimator.
Quote requests that never sit idle
Buyers get a same-hour response, even when the email lands at 6pm.
“Quotes go out, then nobody has time to chase them.”
Every quote you send is followed up automatically at day 3, 7, and 14 until it gets an answer, and the outcome is logged against the customer.
Quotes that chase themselves
No job lost because nobody remembered to chase.
“Half the calls into the office are the same question: where’s my order?”
Customers get an automatic email as their order hits each stage (confirmed, in production, ready for despatch), pulled straight from how you already track jobs.
Order updates without the phone ringing
"Where’s my order?" calls all but stop.
“The job’s finished, but the paperwork is holding up despatch.”
Material certs and certificates of conformity are collected against the works order as the job runs, then bundled with the despatch paperwork automatically.
Cert packs compiled automatically
Nothing stuck at a customer’s goods-in for missing paperwork.
“The buyer sent a revised drawing. The quote went out priced on the old one.”
Each drawing that arrives is compared against the revision you already quoted, and any change to dimensions, material, tolerance or finish is listed for your estimator before a price is sent.
Revisions checked before the quote goes
Nothing quoted from a drawing that has already moved on.
These are starting points, not a menu. Tell us where the hours actually go in your business and we'll tell you honestly which processes are worth automating and which aren't.
Tell us what you're building. We reply within a day.
