About us
A small studio that only builds one kind of website — the kind that brings in work
We started WebCo after watching too many good Irish businesses pay four figures for a website that looked fine and did nothing. Every decision we make since comes back to one question: does this make the phone ring?
How we got here
The first site we ever built was for an electrician in Kildare who had paid €3,200 for a website he could not edit, could not find on Google, and could not get anyone on the phone about. He was three years into paying hosting fees to a company that no longer answered emails.
We rebuilt it in a fortnight, claimed his Google Business Profile, and wrote pages for the four jobs he actually wanted — rewires, EV chargers, fault-finding and certs. Within two months he was in the map pack. Within six, he had taken on an apprentice.
That is still the entire business model. We work with a small number of Irish trades, service and hospitality businesses at a time, we quote fixed prices, and we stay on the end of the phone afterwards. Most of our work now comes from the last client telling the next one.
Where we are today
- Irish businesses launched
- 120+
- Average lift in enquiries
- 2.1×
- Typical PageSpeed score
- 98/100
- Average time to launch
- 14 days
Figures cover projects we have launched to date. Enquiry lifts are measured against the client's own analytics for the six months before and after launch — we will show you the working on request.
How we work
Four rules we do not break
Most of what goes wrong on a web project is predictable. These four rules exist because we have watched each one go wrong at least once.
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Price it before you build it
Hourly billing rewards slow work. We quote a fixed figure from a written scope, and if we get the estimate wrong, that is our problem to absorb — not a revised invoice.
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Write it, do not request it
Asking a busy tradesperson to write website copy is how projects die at 60% complete. We research the trade, write everything, and hand you a draft to correct.
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Build it light
Every plugin is a future security patch and a slower page. We hand-code, which means fewer moving parts, lower hosting costs and pages that load on rural mobile data.
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Hand over the keys
Domains registered in your name and documented at launch, whichever plan you are on. Pay for the build outright and the source code is handed over too. We have rescued too many businesses locked out of their own domain by a developer who moved on.
Who we work with
Trades, home services, hospitality, health and professional practices — 20 industries in total, all with one thing in common: their customers are local, and they find them on Google.
We deliberately do not work with everyone. If you need a large e-commerce platform, a SaaS product or a national brand campaign, there are better-suited studios and we will happily point you toward one.
Why WebCo
Eight reasons Irish businesses stay with us
Most of our work comes from referrals, which only happens when the boring things are done properly.
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We write every word for you
The number one reason websites sit half-finished is that the business owner was handed a blank document. We research your trade, your county and your competitors, then write the whole site. You review it — you never have to start it.
100% of copy written in-house
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Built for enquiries, not for awards
Every layout decision answers one question: does this make someone more likely to ring you? Trust signals go above the fold, phone numbers stay in reach, and forms ask only for what you actually need to quote.
2.1× average lift in enquiries
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Fixed prices, quoted before we start
You get a written scope and a fixed figure before any work begins. If we underestimate something, that is our problem, not an extra line on your invoice. No hourly billing, no scope creep, no awkward conversations.
No project has ever exceeded its quote
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Genuinely fast, not "fast enough"
We hand-build sites rather than stacking plugins on a theme. The difference shows on a phone in a rural area with two bars of signal — the exact moment your customer decides whether to wait or go back to Google.
98/100 typical PageSpeed score
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SEO is built in, not sold on later
Site structure, page speed, schema markup and Google Business Profile setup are part of every build. You start with the technical foundations right, so any SEO work later compounds instead of fixing our mistakes.
Technical SEO included as standard
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Your domain, always yours
Your domain is registered in your business name and your content stays yours, on every plan. Buy the build outright and the source code is yours too, handed over in writing at launch. We have rescued too many businesses locked out of their own domain by a developer who moved on.
Domain in your name on every plan
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A real person answers the phone
No ticket queue, no account manager reading from a script. You deal with the people who designed and built your site, by phone or WhatsApp, for as long as you are a client.
Same-day response, Mon–Fri
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We only take on work we can do well
If your project needs something outside what we do, we will say so and point you somewhere better. We would rather lose a job than deliver something we cannot stand over.
Honest scoping from the first call
Say hello
Have a chat with the people who would build it
Ring 083 080 9852 or send a few lines about the business. Either way you get a straight answer, not a sales sequence.
- Reply within one working day
- Fixed price before we start
- No lock-in contracts