Web design in Birmingham, with every price published
Swick Labs Ltd is registered in the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham. That is the company's legal address, not a walk-in studio: every project, from a five-page starter site to a bespoke platform, is scoped, built and supported remotely, by email, shared documents and staging links, in exactly the way it would be for a client anywhere else in the UK.
What differs by city is what a website needs to do for the businesses in it. Birmingham is large and varied enough to contain several quite different answers: a maker in the Jewellery Quarter needs a shop that photographs a product well and copes with small batches; a professional-services firm in the city centre needs a site that reads as credible to someone who has never met the team; a restaurant needs its hours and booking route to be obvious on a phone held at arm's length outside the door.
The pages below set out, honestly, who each service tends to suit and why — with the published price attached, so the first real conversation can be about the work rather than about what anything costs.
What we build, and what it costs
AI Business Website
A ten to fifteen page site for an established business that needs to convert.
£2,950
4–6 weeks
AI e-Shop
An online shop built to sell, with payments, shipping and stock wired in properly.
£4,950
6–10 weeks
AI Chatbot & Site Assistant
An assistant that answers from your own content, and says so when it does not know.
from £2,450 + £149/mo
3–5 weeks
AI Search Optimisation (GEO)
Getting cited in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and AI Overviews.
£1,950 + £995/mo
Setup 3–4 weeks, then ongoing
Every one of our 18 services is priced the same way for Birmingham as everywhere else. See the full breakdown on the pricing page, or read what a website actually costs in the UK.
Who this suits in Birmingham
Independent jewellers and makers
A shop that photographs the product properly, handles small or one-off batches without fighting a template built for mass retail, and lets a small team update stock themselves.
See the service and its priceCity-centre professional services and legal firms
A site that reads as credible to a prospective client who has never met the firm — a clear service structure, proper technical foundations, and copy that states what is actually offered rather than generic reassurance.
See the service and its priceIndependent restaurants, cafés and hospitality businesses
Someone — or something — answering the phone for bookings outside service hours, and a page that gets opening times and the booking route in front of a customer standing outside on their phone.
See the service and its priceUniversity spinouts and research-led startups
A credible presence built quickly on a stack that will not need to be thrown away once the business has moved past its first version.
See the service and its priceB2B consultancies and considered-purchase service businesses
Visibility in the AI assistants buyers now research through before ever enquiring, which depends on how clearly a site states facts and how well it is structured for a machine to read.
See the service and its priceRetailers and consumer brands with repeat questions
An assistant that answers the same handful of questions — sizing, stock, delivery, returns — from the business's own content, instead of a team retyping the same reply by email every day.
See the service and its priceWhat trading online from Birmingham actually involves
Jewellery Quarter makers and independent retailers
The Jewellery Quarter's concentration of independent makers and jewellers means a lot of what is sold here is physical, often bespoke, and sold in small runs. For a website that means the product photography and the shop's ability to handle limited stock and made-to-order items matter more than a huge catalogue would.
A city-centre professional-services and legal sector
Birmingham has a substantial professional-services and legal presence in and around the city centre. Firms in that world are judged on a site before anyone picks up the phone, so a clear, specific description of what is actually offered — and proper technical foundations — does more for credibility than a polished but generic homepage.
A strong independent food and hospitality scene
Birmingham has a genuinely strong independent food and hospitality scene. For those businesses, the website's job is narrow and unglamorous: get opening hours and the booking route in front of someone on a phone, and pick up the calls that come in when nobody is free to answer.
The city's universities
Birmingham's universities sit alongside a lot of early-stage businesses. A new business tends to need a credible site fast, on infrastructure that will not need replacing the moment the business grows past its first version — which is the whole premise of building every site on the same stack regardless of size.
How working with us works from Birmingham
There is no office visit at any stage. A project starts with a call to scope what you need, moves through design and build over shared documents and a staging link you can review at any time, and finishes with a handover of the finished site and its access. It is the same process, and the same published prices, whether you are around the corner from the Jewellery Quarter or the other end of the country — read the full process.
Questions about Birmingham
Do you have an office in Birmingham I can visit?
Swick Labs Ltd's registered office is in the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham, and that is where the business is legally based. There is no walk-in studio: the work is carried out remotely, by email, shared documents and staging links, the same way it is for every client wherever they are.
Is a Birmingham business actually cheaper to work with, or slower to reach?
Neither. Being based here does not change the price or the response time — every service is priced the same regardless of location, and the process is remote by design rather than as a substitute for something in person.
How much will a website actually cost?
Every service has a published starting price on its own page and on the pricing page — nothing is quoted only after a call. Where a price is shown as a starting figure, the exact number for your project is confirmed in writing before any work begins.
Do you only work with Birmingham businesses?
No. Birmingham is where the company is registered, but the same services, at the same published prices, are delivered remotely anywhere in the UK.
Who owns the website once it's built?
You do. The code and content are yours, and access — repository and hosting included — is handed over at the end of the project rather than held on a proprietary platform.
Do your prices include VAT?
No. All prices are quoted in GBP and exclude VAT, which is charged where applicable, exactly as stated on every service page.
Ready to talk about Birmingham?
Tell us what the business does and we will point you at the right service and its published price. If you are not sure where to start, a free check of your current site is a good first step.