A one-person web design studio in Dublin. I design, write and build websites that are fast, loud where they should be, and impossible to mistake for a template.
● The short version
Spire is a one-person website studio in Dublin. Every site is drawn, written and built by the same pair of hands, from the first call to the day it goes live. It's the website arm of SoftWrites, so when a site needs real software behind it, that gets built here too.
What I do
Agency-grade design and build from one person, without the agency invoice. A fixed price where the job is known, a scope where it isn't, and someone to look after it once it's live.
Up to seven pages, designed from a blank page, written with you, animated where it earns it, and live in four weeks. Yours outright, down to the login.
The site plus the machine behind it: how enquiries land, get answered, booked and followed up. When that needs real software, SoftWrites builds it, in the same scope.
Hosting looked after, edits within two working days, monitoring and backups, and one considered improvement every quarter.
How it works
You show up to one call and one review. That's the whole ask.
Twenty minutes. I ask about your customers, not your competitors. You tell me what the site has to do, and what it must never look like.
Page structure, copy outline and a moodboard for the look. You approve it before anything is designed.
The homepage, designed and written. This is the guarantee checkpoint: if the direction isn't right, every cent comes back.
One focused round. You send everything at once, I apply it in one pass, and nothing drags on for a month.
Pages built, booking wired in, page titles and search basics, tested on real phones.
On your domain, in your account. A short video on how to edit your own text, and thirty days of fixes.
Small businesses, studios, shops, practices and founders in Ireland who want a site that looks like nobody else's and works harder than the one they have.
Custom. Every site starts from a blank page and is designed around your practice. Templates are what the pay-monthly builders sell; you will not look like anyone down the road.
Spire is the website arm of SoftWrites, the software company I run, so there is a company and a contract behind your project rather than a freelancer and an invoice. And you are never locked to me: the site is yours from day one, on your own domain with the login in your name, so you can hand it to anyone.
If you do not like the design direction at First Look, everything you paid comes back. No questions, no hard feelings. Taking the refund ends the project there: the design, the words and the files stay with me, so you are back where you started, minus nothing. After you approve First Look, the project continues to launch.
The site is built to be found: proper page titles, fast pages, your services and your area in the words people actually search, and your Google Business listing claimed and linked. For most practices that is enough to show up for their own name and their area. Ongoing SEO — monthly content, link building, rank tracking — is a different job and I do not sell it. If you need that, I will tell you what to ask for.
You need nothing to start. I write the copy from our call and an intake form; you confirm facts and fees. For photos I use what you have, direct a shoot if you want one, or choose stock carefully until you do.
After First Look you have three working days to send all your feedback at once. I apply it in one pass. It keeps a four-week project at four weeks.
You do, from day one. It sits on your own domain with the login in your name. Hosting runs about €10 a month, or Care covers it along with edits and monitoring.
There is none to add. I am not VAT-registered, so the price on the page is the price you pay. It matters most if your own services are VAT-exempt (medical, dental, some training and financial work): you could never reclaim the 23% a VAT-registered studio would add to its quote.
€2,950 is the Website plan as listed on the page: up to seven pages. If your project needs more than that covers — extra pages, or the workflow behind the site — I say so on the call and quote the exact number in writing before you pay anything. Once agreed, the price does not move.
Thirty days of fixes are included. Then you edit your own text, or Care handles hosting, edits, monitoring and one improvement each quarter for €120 a month, twelve months minimum.
● Start a project
Send me your current site, or the name of the business if there isn't one. I reply within two working days with what I'd change, whether or not you hire me.
Dublin, Ireland · A SoftWrites company
