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Web, e-commerce and marketing built to bring your Stoke-on-Trent business more enquiries
We build and market websites, online stores and SaaS products for businesses across Staffordshire and the UK — then we measure what they actually bring in.
- Projects delivered
- 50+Projects delivered
- Years in business
- 5+Years in business
- Countries shipped to
- 4Countries shipped to
Product data loads in
1.2s
Cornerstone Buildings rebuild
- Projects delivered
- 50+
- Years in business
- 5+
- Reply time
- 1 day
- Quotes, not estimates
- Fixed
Platforms we build and market on
- Angular
- React
- Node.js
- Laravel
- Shopify
- WooCommerce
- WordPress
- AWS
- Google Ads
- GA4
- Amazon Seller Central
- eBay
What we do
Four things, and they connect
We build the site or the store, we make it fast, we get it found, and we run the ads and marketplaces that fill it. Most clients start with one and add the others once the numbers hold up.
Web and app development
Custom sites, web applications and internal tools in Angular, React, Node.js and Laravel. Built to render server-side so search engines can read them.
SaaS product development
MVPs and multi-tenant platforms, from first wireframe to AWS deployment, with a named engineer on the build.
E-commerce
Shopify and WooCommerce builds, migrations and speed work, including catalogues in the thousands of SKUs.
WordPress
Design, rebuilds, speed optimisation and maintained care plans — no page-builder bloat left behind.
SEO and digital marketing
Technical SEO, local SEO, content and link work, reported against enquiries rather than rankings alone.
Paid ads
Google Ads, Meta Ads and conversion tracking that survives UK consent rules, so your reporting matches your bank account.
Marketplaces
Amazon and eBay listing optimisation, PPC and account management for UK sellers.
UI/UX design
Interface design and prototypes for the builds above, tested before anything gets coded.
The point of all this
What you actually get out of it
100%
Of enquiries tracked
More enquiries, tracked to source.
Every form, call, WhatsApp tap and quote click is a defined GA4 event, so you can see which channel paid for itself.
2.5s
LCP budget
Pages that load before people leave.
We build to Core Web Vitals thresholds — LCP under 2.5 seconds, CLS under 0.1 — because slow pages lose sales before anyone reads the copy.
SSR
Rendered server-side
Sites search engines can read.
Server-rendered HTML, structured data and clean internal linking as standard, not as an upsell.
Yours
Code and accounts
Something you own.
Code, hosting, ad accounts and analytics stay in your name. If you leave, you take it with you.
Recent work
Projects with numbers attached
Outdoor structures retail Cornerstone Buildings 1.2s load - Problem
- Their 3D building configurator ran on legacy .NET Framework with full-page postbacks — slow to use and hard to extend across four regional storefronts.
- We built
- A ground-up rebuild of the 3D builder as a React app on top of their existing product API.
- Result
- Product data now loads in 1.2 seconds. Shipped over a 6-month migration across all four regions.
Education consultancy Horizon Education Consultants One portal - Problem
- Had no website — onboarding students, collecting documents and applying to universities all ran over phone calls and text messages with no central record.
- We built
- A website with a student application portal covering onboarding, document collection, university and course management, and application tracking.
- Result
- Students, documents and university applications now run through one portal instead of phone and message threads.
How we work
Six steps, no surprises
The same process whether you're buying a five-page site or a multi-tenant platform. You always know what happens next and what it costs.
- 1 30 minutes
Free consultation
30 minutes
We look at your current site, traffic and goals, and tell you whether we’re the right fit. No obligation.
- 2 2 to 3 working days
Proposal and fixed quote
2 to 3 working days
Scope, price, timeline and what’s excluded, in writing.
- 3 1 to 2 weeks
Discovery and design
1 to 2 weeks
Sitemap, wireframes and designs signed off before code starts.
- 4 2 to 8 weeks
Build
2 to 8 weeks
Weekly demos on a staging URL, shared Slack channel, one named engineer.
- 5 1 week
Launch
1 week
Testing, redirects, analytics, consent banner, Search Console and handover documentation.
- 6 Ongoing
Growth
Ongoing
SEO, ads or a care plan, reported monthly against enquiries.
See the process in detail
Typical build: 4 to 10 weeks start to launch.
Sectors we know
- Ceramics and manufacturing
- Logistics and distribution
- Hospitality
- Professional services
- E-commerce and retail
We're in Stoke-on-Trent, so a fair share of our work is with manufacturers and independent retailers who sell nationally but run lean teams locally. That shapes how we build: fewer moving parts, clear handover, nothing that needs an agency on retainer just to change a price.
In their words
What clients say when we're not in the room
“Our old .NET builder was the thing customers complained about most. The Octa Tech House team rebuilt it in React without us losing a day of trading in any region, and it's just fast now — 1.2 seconds and it's ready to go.”
Mark Doyle Head of Digital, Cornerstone Buildings“We went from chasing students by phone and text to running the whole application process through a portal. Documents, universities, courses, results — it's all in one place now, and we're turning applications around far quicker.”
Danyal Shah Director, Horizon Education Consultants“We didn't just want a website that looked good — we wanted one that brought in enquiries. Octa Tech House kept asking what we actually needed the site to do, not just what it should look like, and it shows in the results.”
Claire Whitfield Owner, Whitfield Ceramics
Questions
The things people ask before signing
A WordPress brochure site typically starts around £1,200 + VAT, a Shopify store around £2,000 + VAT, and custom web applications from £8,000 + VAT. The number moves with page count, integrations and how much content you need written. Our pricing page breaks down what each tier includes and excludes, and every proposal is a fixed quote rather than an hourly estimate.
Most brochure sites take four to six weeks from signed proposal to launch, e-commerce builds six to ten, and custom applications longer depending on scope. The biggest variable is content and feedback turnaround on your side. We give you a dated timeline in the proposal and demo progress weekly on a staging URL.
No. We're based on Kirby Street in Stoke-on-Trent and meet clients in person across Staffordshire and Cheshire, but most of our work is delivered remotely for clients across the UK. Video calls, a shared Slack channel and weekly demos mean location rarely matters once a project is running.
Yes. Code, domain, hosting, Google Ads, Analytics and Search Console are all set up in your name or transferred to you at handover. There's no lock-in and no proprietary platform you can only maintain through us. If you move to another agency, everything goes with you.
No — all published prices exclude VAT, which is added at the current UK rate. Ad spend, third-party licences, premium plugins and stock imagery are also excluded and billed at cost or paid directly by you. Every quote lists exclusions explicitly so there are no surprises at invoice.
Usually, yes. We start with a paid audit of the existing codebase, hosting and analytics so we know what we're inheriting, then quote for the fix or rebuild. If the honest answer is that a rebuild costs less than untangling what's there, we'll tell you that up front.
Next step
Tell us what you're trying to fix
Thirty minutes, no obligation, no sales script. Send us your website and what you want more of, and we'll tell you what we'd do first — even if that's nothing we'd charge for.
- A fixed quote in writing, not an hourly estimate.
- One named engineer on your build, reachable directly.
- Code, hosting and ad accounts stay in your name.
Octa Tech House
36 Kirby Street, Stoke-on-Trent, ST6 2HU, United Kingdom
Book a free consultation
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