Autoeight is a Halifax-based studio working with Leeds independents from Headingley to Roundhay. We build custom websites with sales dashboards, CRM sync, automated emails and AI baked in from day one. A real site you own, not another template you rent forever.
Leeds is Yorkshire's busiest small-business city. Independent gyms and clinics around Chapel Allerton. Restaurants, bars and creative studios across the city centre. Family trades and home services running out of Horsforth and Kirkstall. Coffee shops, salons and boutiques sat right across Headingley and Roundhay. A lot of money moves through these patches every week, and most of it starts with a Google search.
A lot of Leeds businesses still rely on a Wix or Squarespace site that does barely anything. It looks alright on a phone, and that's about where the value stops. Enquiries get missed in a shared inbox, follow-ups are an afterthought, payments live on a separate platform, and the owner never sees a single useful number about how the site is performing.
A properly built site can do far more than that. Quote requests routed by service, payments and bookings handled on the spot, customer details landing in a CRM, review requests going out automatically. That's the gap we close for Leeds clients.
Templates are fine for a soft launch. They start to creak the moment Leeds competition heats up. Page speed sags because the platform ships code you'll never use. Ranking for "personal trainer Headingley" or "barber Chapel Allerton" gets harder because the on-page structure is generic. Integrations sit behind paid app stores that quietly stack monthly costs.
You also never own what you've built. The monthly fee runs whether the business is booming or slow, and a year of redesign work doesn't migrate cleanly when you outgrow the platform. For a Leeds business that wants to keep growing past the next twelve months, that's the wrong shape of cost.
No template starter, no drag-and-drop builder. We design the site around your offer, the way Leeds customers find you, and the journey from search result to booking or sale.
Enquiry replies drafted automatically, lead scoring on incoming forms, AI summaries of customer messages so you know which to answer first. Hours saved a week without learning a new tool.
A custom admin showing enquiries, quotes, orders and revenue in one screen. The same kind of dashboard we built for The Dice Tavern: orders, stock, automated emails and reporting all in one place.
Every form, payment and chat connects to the CRM you already use. Or we build a lightweight custom CRM if HubSpot is overkill. Contacts flow in, tags get set, sequences fire automatically.
Order receipts, dispatch updates, review requests and lapsed-customer nudges. All wired so the right email goes at the right time without anyone in the office having to remember.
Structured data, schema markup, location pages, fast Core Web Vitals and content tuned for the searches your Leeds customers actually run. Same SEO scaffolding we built for TM Joinery across six regions.
Custom builds from £2,000 for a focused setup. 3 to 12 weeks from kickoff to your branded version 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.
We're based in Halifax, half an hour from Leeds city centre. That makes in-person kickoff easy for clients in Headingley, Roundhay, Chapel Allerton, Kirkstall and Horsforth, and out into the wider commuter belt toward Wakefield and Bradford. Remote works just as well for clients further afield.
Yes. We're a Halifax-based studio half an hour from Leeds city centre, and we work with independents and small teams right across Headingley, Roundhay, Chapel Allerton, Kirkstall and Horsforth. Kickoff can be in person at your office, over coffee in town, or remote if that's easier.
Sales dashboards, CRM sync with HubSpot or Pipedrive, Stripe payments, automated order confirmation and review request emails, AI-drafted enquiry replies, booking systems, stock 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 the custom Leeds site we build, you don't pay forever to rent a template. Integrations run server-side, pages load fast, local SEO is set up properly, and the admin area is built for your workflow rather than a generic dashboard.
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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