Autoeight builds custom websites for York independents, from the shops and cafes around the Shambles to the firms out at Clifton Moor and Monks Cross. CRM sync, automated emails, AI on the inbox and proper local SEO from day one. We're a Yorkshire studio about an hour away in Halifax, remote by default and over in York when it helps.
Whether your trade comes from footfall or from the phone ringing, it starts with a search. These are the six things we build for York businesses, each with its own page if you want the detail.
Fast, hand-built pages structured around the searches York customers actually type, then designed to turn that visit into a booking or an enquiry rather than a bounce.
AI-drafted replies, confirmations and review requests that send themselves, so a busy York weekend doesn't bury your inbox on Monday.
Forms, payments and messages feeding HubSpot, Pipedrive or a CRM we build into the site itself, so contacts get filed and chased instead of lost in email.
Custom learning platforms for training providers, schools and teams that onboard staff. Your branding, your content, no per-seat fees.
Automated confirmations and review requests, follow-up sequences that keep quotes warm, and AI answering the support inbox through your busiest weekends.
Sales and jobs on one dashboard, with reports that produce themselves, so you can see which parts of the business actually pay their way.
York's trade splits in two: the visitor economy around the Shambles, Fossgate and the racecourse, and the everyday one covering Acomb, Huntington, Haxby and the business parks at Clifton Moor and Monks Cross. Both get found the same way, on a phone through Google, so we structure your pages around the searches your side of the city actually runs.
Templates get you online in a weekend, and in York that's exactly the problem, because everyone else did the same thing. When a dozen tearooms near the Minster sit on near-identical Squarespace themes, nobody stands out and nobody ranks well. The page structure is generic, load speed is whatever the platform decides, and every useful integration hides behind another monthly app fee.
You also never own what you've built. The subscription keeps running whether it's race week or a wet Tuesday in January, and when you outgrow the platform your content doesn't come with you cleanly. For a York business that trades hard in season and plans past next year, renting the shopfront forever is the wrong deal.
Custom builds start from £2,000 for a focused setup, and most projects land between 3 and 12 weeks from kickoff to launch. You get a fixed quote for the whole project. No per-seat licences, no monthly platform fees, no hourly billing surprises. Book the free call and you'll come away with a rough budget for yours.
We'll be straight about geography. Autoeight is based in Halifax, about an hour from York by road. Day to day we work remotely, with video calls, a shared project board and quick turnaround on messages, and we come to you for kickoff, workshops and launch when being in the room helps. Plenty of clients never need us on site at all. Whether you're inside the walls, out at Clifton Moor or Monks Cross, or in the villages around the city, distance won't be what slows the project down.
Yes. We're a Halifax studio, about an hour from York by road. Day to day we work remotely, with video calls and a shared project board, and we drive over for kickoff and key meetings when being in the room helps. We won't pretend to be a York agency. We're a Yorkshire one that covers the city properly.
Automation is the bigger half of what we do. AI-drafted replies to enquiries, booking confirmations and review requests that send themselves, and a CRM that stays up to date without anyone typing. The site is what your customers see; the automation behind it is what gives you your evenings back.
Because you'd be renting, not owning. With a custom build the code is yours, integrations run server-side instead of through a paid app store, pages load fast, and the SEO is set up for York searches specifically. When the business grows, the site grows with it rather than hitting a platform ceiling.
Rather see the work than read about it? These three projects are out in the wild.
An AI-driven sales platform we built for a manufacturer of education equipment.
A ground-up e-commerce site where every order email is sent automatically.
A property platform for an estate agency, with AI on each incoming enquiry.
A joinery company website tuned for local search with quoting built in.
Book a call. We'll go through your current site, point out what's costing you bookings or enquiries, and give you a straight quote.
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