Autoeight is a web studio in Halifax, half an hour along the A646 from Todmorden. We build custom sites for shops, market traders, cafes, trades and small firms across the upper valley, with payments, bookings, CRM sync, automated emails and AI wired in from the start. One fixed quote, a site you own outright, and a builder close enough to see how your business actually runs.
Todmorden customers look online before they buy, and they buy from whoever makes it easiest. These are the six things we build to make sure that's you.
A custom site set up to win searches in Todmorden and over the county line too, then turn the visit into an order, a booking or a call.
Confirmations, review requests, quote chasing and enquiry replies that run themselves while you're serving customers or out on a job.
Website, inbox and CRM working as one system, so every lead is logged, chased and visible whether it arrived at 9am or 9pm.
Purpose-built LMS platforms for training firms, schools and growing teams. Branded to you, simple to update, owned outright.
We wire in confirmations, review requests and follow-up sequences, then let AI answer the support inbox. The admin carries on while you serve.
One dashboard covering sales and jobs together, showing where the margin really sits. No spreadsheet wrangling required.
Todmorden's trade centres on the indoor market and the shops around it, with customers coming in from Walsden and Cornholme on one side and Littleborough and Rochdale on the other. Incredible Edible put the town on the map for food, and the visitors it draws search online before they set off. We structure your site to catch those searches on both sides of the boundary, not just the Yorkshire half.
A template gets a page live quickly, then the limits show. Winning searches like "butcher Todmorden" or "cafe Todmorden" is harder on a platform whose page structure is identical for millions of sites. Speed suffers under features you never switched on, and everything genuinely useful, from deposits to stock control to proper booking, is a paid add-on with its own monthly charge.
The deeper issue is the rent. Subscription platforms cost you every month, good year or bad, and the moment you stop paying the site is gone. Monthly rent on a template that never quite fits is a poor place for a careful business to spend money. We charge once, then the site belongs to you.
Halifax to Todmorden is about eleven miles, half an hour by car or a direct train along the valley. So instead of a video call with an agency in another city, you get someone at your counter or in your workshop before a line of the site is written. Seeing the business in person changes what gets built. The stock system, the booking flow and the wording end up matching how you actually work.
It keeps the build honest too. Reviews happen in person when that's easier, decisions get made on the spot, and handover ends with you able to run the site yourself. The first conversation is free with no obligation on either side.
Builds start at £2,000 for a tight, focused site and go up with scope. Kickoff to launch runs 3 to 12 weeks. You get a single fixed quote before we start, and that's the number. No per-seat licences, no platform subscription, no hourly rate quietly stacking up. The free call puts a realistic figure on what you're after.
About eleven miles. We're based in Halifax at the other end of the Calder Valley, which works out at roughly half an hour by car along the A646, or a straight run on the train. Near enough that kickoff meetings, progress reviews and handover all happen face to face, at your premises or somewhere in the town centre.
Yes. Plenty of Todmorden businesses serve customers in Walsden and Cornholme on the Yorkshire side and over the border towards Littleborough and Rochdale. We set the site up to rank for searches on both sides of the boundary, so you're found by everyone within realistic travelling distance, not just one county.
Yes, and for most Todmorden businesses it's where the real savings are. Quote requests get an AI-drafted reply, confirmations and review requests go out on their own, and every enquiry syncs to a CRM so nothing gets forgotten on a busy day. The site is the shop front; the automation behind it does the graft.
It's the opposite. Small firms feel platform fees and missed enquiries hardest, so a site that works harder pays back quickest. Builds start from £2,000, you pay one fixed quote, and then the site is yours with no monthly platform rent. Compare that with years of subscriptions for a template that never quite fits.
Three current examples of the kind of work we take on.
A sales platform driven by AI, built for a firm that manufactures education equipment.
A made-to-measure online store with order emails that need no one to send them.
An estate agency system where each enquiry gets AI on it straight away.
Book a call. We'll go over your current setup, pick out the changes that would bring in the most trade, and put a fixed number on it.
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