Autoeight is a Halifax-based web studio. We build custom websites for Calderdale trades, indie cafes, salons and small retailers with sales dashboards, CRM sync, automated emails and AI baked in from day one. Not a template you rent forever, a site you own that does real work for you. And unlike a Manchester or Leeds agency, we can meet in person.
Halifax is where Autoeight lives, so every service we offer starts here, usually with a face-to-face kickoff near the Piece Hall. These are the six things we do.
Custom sites set up to rank across Halifax and Calderdale, then turn those visits into enquiries. Fast pages, proper structure, no rented template.
AI that drafts replies, chases reviews and handles the repetitive admin, so a small Halifax team can get on with the actual work.
We connect your site to a CRM like HubSpot or Pipedrive so leads are logged, followed up and visible, not buried in an inbox.
Custom LMS builds for training providers, schools and growing teams. Your branding, your content, and no licence meter running.
Booking confirmations, review requests and follow-up sequences that go out without anyone pressing send, plus an AI that answers the support inbox.
Dashboards that pull sales and jobs into a single view, so you know which work pays and which just keeps you busy. The reports build themselves.
Halifax is a town of independents: cafes and bakeries around the Piece Hall, trades working out of Sowerby Bridge and Brighouse, salons in Northowram and King Cross, shops and studios stretching through Calderdale to Hebden Bridge. Most of them earn through word of mouth and Google, in roughly that order. We build sites tuned to exactly those local searches, because we're ten minutes from all of it.
Templates are fine for getting online quickly. They fall short the moment your business does anything specific. Page speed is mediocre because the platform loads code you'll never use. Local SEO for "joiner Halifax" or "cafe Sowerby Bridge" is harder to win because the on-page structure is built for everyone, not for you. Real integrations are bolt-on apps that cost extra each month.
You also never own the site. The monthly fee keeps going whether the business is having a good year or a bad one, and if you cancel you walk away with nothing. For a Calderdale independent that wants to grow rather than tread water, that's the wrong shape of cost.
Halifax is where we're based, and the one place we prefer to do kickoffs in person. It matters. You'll spend the first meeting explaining your business to whoever is building the site, and that goes faster over a table than over Zoom. It also means faster tweaks in-flight and quicker decisions when we hit a snag.
Somewhere near the Piece Hall usually works, or your premises if that's easier. Free call, and if we're not the right fit we'll say so before we quote.
Custom builds from £2,000 for a focused setup. 3 to 12 weeks from kickoff to your site going live. Fixed quote per project, no per-seat licences, no monthly platform fees, no surprise hourly billing. The free call gives you a rough budget.
Yes, and we'd prefer to. Halifax is our base, so kickoffs, mid-build reviews and handover can all happen at your premises or somewhere near the Piece Hall. That's the biggest difference between us and a Leeds or Manchester agency taking on a Halifax client.
Yes, that's half the job. We wire in things like AI-drafted enquiry replies, automatic review requests, booking confirmations and CRM updates that happen without anyone touching a keyboard. The design gets you found; the automation makes the site earn its keep.
Sales dashboards, CRM sync with HubSpot or Pipedrive, Stripe payments, automated order confirmation and review request emails, AI-drafted enquiry replies, booking systems, stock and inventory tools, customer portals, lead scoring, and live chat. Anything that touches a form, an order, or a customer can be wired up.
Templates can only take you so far. You own a custom Halifax site we build, you don't pay forever to rent a template. Real integrations run server-side, pages load faster, local SEO is set up properly, and the admin area is built for your actual workflow rather than a generic dashboard.
Three recent projects, all built at the same Halifax desk that would build yours.
A custom e-commerce store where every order triggers its own automated emails.
An estate agency platform with AI working on every enquiry that comes in.
A joinery firm's site built to bring in quote requests without chasing.
Book a call. We'll review your current site, map the integrations that would make the biggest difference, and quote on the spot.
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