UK product studio
Digital tools to make your business work.
Websites, software and internal tools that lower your costs, speed up your work and bring in more business. Built to fit how you already operate.
- Fixed scope
- Fixed price
- A named launch date
Built by an operator
Built and sold
Pocketgroup, acquired by WIN plc
Operated in
Asset finance, energy trading, manufacturing, professional services
Every project
Fixed scope, fixed price
Founding clients
Ten places, until 30 November
Where does it hurt
Two problems. Pick yours.
Almost every business we talk to has one of these, not both. The answer is different for each, so tell us which one you are and we will show you only the relevant half.
This is you if:
- Your site was built three years ago and nobody has touched it since
- You do not know how many enquiries it produced last month
- You come up for your own company name and nothing else
- Someone asked ChatGPT about your sector and you were not in the answer
- Your Google Business Profile has not been updated since it was created
- The site loads slowly on a phone, which is where most people see it
What we build
Get found. Technical foundations that work: speed, structure, schema, sitemap, Google Business Profile. The unglamorous layer that decides whether you appear at all.
Get quoted by AI. More buyers ask an AI before they ask Google. We build the entity data and quotable content that make you a source rather than a skipped result.
Get chosen. A site that says why you, in the first eleven seconds, and asks for the enquiry.
Keep going. Search is not a project. It is a monthly rhythm of fixes, content and reporting against a frozen baseline.
How it works
Start here: the Launch Sprint. £3,000, ten working days. A fast, findable seven-page site. Written and built for you. Founding-client pricing until 30 November.
Then: the Growth Retainer. From £950 a month. The monthly work that moves the line. Baseline frozen on launch day and shown back to you every month, so you can see it move or see that it has not. First invoice the month after go-live.
Not sure yet? Get a free five-minute audit of your current site. We will tell you what is costing you enquiries. No call, no sequence.
This is you if:
- A quote takes three days, and only one person can price it properly
- The same information gets typed into three different systems
- Something important lives in a spreadsheet six people edit
- A key person is leaving and the process is in their head
- You cannot take on more work without hiring, and hiring is the whole margin
- A client asked for an audit trail and you had to go and build one
What we build
Find where it leaks. Two weeks inside the process with the people who actually run it, and a number for what the friction costs you.
Build the one thing that fixes it. Not a roadmap. One tool, fixed scope, fixed price, a date in the contract.
Make it get used. Adoption is in the scope and never an upsell. A tool nobody opens is a cost with a nice interface.
Keep improving it. Every live tool generates a list of improvements within a fortnight of launch.
Why this is possible now
Bespoke software used to cost £250,000 and take nine months. For a business your size with one awkward, valuable process, the maths never worked. So you made do.
A small senior team now builds in weeks what used to take quarters. We use AI heavily to get there, which is why we are fast and why the price works. It is how we build. It is not what we sell.
How it works
Start here: the Pilot. £7,500, two weeks. You come out owning a map of your own operation: how the work moves today with the leak points marked, what the friction costs in your numbers, a prioritised build list, a costed recommendation with a fixed price and a date, and a working clickable prototype of the most valuable screen.
You keep all of it whether or not you build with us. The £7,500 comes off the build in full if you start within 60 days.
Then: the Build. From £45,000, six to twelve weeks. Then Run, monthly.
The honest bit: builds start at £45,000. Below that, the work of understanding your operation costs more than the tool is worth, and we will tell you to spend the money elsewhere.
Not sure which you are? Take two minutes.
Four questions. We will tell you what we would do first, what it costs and whether it is worth doing at all. You will see the answer before we ask for anything.
Track record
We have run businesses, not just served them.
Oliver Pitt has built and sold technology businesses, including Pocketgroup, acquired by WIN plc. He has run commercial operations in asset finance, energy trading, manufacturing and professional services.
You are not briefing an agency that has read about your problem. You are talking to someone who has had it.
The honest bit: Helves is new as a studio. The first builds are shipping now, and the clients who go first get founding-client pricing in exchange for letting us tell the story. Client results appear here when they are signed off. Not before.
Fixed
Every project is fixed scope and fixed price
Tell us what is slowing you down.
Fifteen minutes on a call. We will tell you what we would build first, and whether it is worth building at all. Sometimes the honest answer is to buy something off the shelf. We will say so.