Work with me

GOT SOMETHING
YOU'RE TRYING
TO FIGURE OUT?

Ideas, businesses, products and technology can all get tangled. The useful work is finding the right shape, then doing something about it.

In practice that means four things: digital strategy, website design and development, AI and automation, and ongoing support. I work from Newquay, Cornwall, mostly online, with clients across the UK.

  • Newquay, Cornwall
  • UK-wide
  • You deal directly with me
  • Free 20-minute call
Tim Lord in a white shirt beside a surfboard on the coast
Illustrated Tim pulls back a paper doorway to reveal new possibilities beyond a workbench.
Editorial illustration.
Three ways in

FIRST,
THE RIGHT SHAPE.

Most work arrives as a symptom: a website that is not pulling its weight, a decision that will not settle, a process that eats afternoons. The first job is working out which of the three routes below it actually belongs to.

FIGURE
SOMETHING OUT

Make sense of the problem, the opportunity and what is actually worth doing next.

What usually arrives this way

  • An idea that has been going round for a while without getting sharper
  • A business doing plenty of things, none of which clearly move it forward
  • A product decision nobody can settle because the question is the wrong shape
  • A pile of tools and processes that were each sensible on their own

You leave knowing what to do first, what to stop, and what to safely ignore.

MAKE
SOMETHING

Turn the useful idea into a working product, website, system or practical piece of communication.

What usually arrives this way

  • A website that looks fine and does not bring the right work in
  • A product that exists as a description and needs to become a real thing
  • Repetitive work that should be a system rather than somebody's afternoon
  • A brand and a presence that need to say the same thing as each other

You get the actual artefact, built and working, not a specification for one.

WORK
TOGETHER

Stay involved where a longer collaboration is the best way to make progress.

What usually arrives this way

  • Ongoing decisions that benefit from someone who already has the context
  • A small team that needs focused delivery without agency overhead
  • A founder who wants momentum to become normal rather than occasional

Progress keeps happening between the big moments, not only during them.

Fixed price, fixed time

WEBSITE BUILDS

The one thing here with a price on it. Each build is done by me, start to finish, and the clock starts when I have what I need from you. Larger sites are quoted individually; the website design page has the detail and the portfolio.

ONE-PAGE SITE

£350

A single well-made page that says what you do and gets people in touch.

Delivered in 48 hours

Start with this

FIVE-PAGE SITE

£750

A proper small site: home, about, what you offer, proof, and a way to reach you.

Delivered in one week

Start with this

FIVE PAGES
PLUS ARTWORK

£1,200

The five-page site with original artwork made for it, so it looks like nobody else's.

Delivered in ten working days

Start with this

After a short call you'll get a proposal and contract by email. A deposit gets it started.

What it is actually like

YOU GET ME.
NOT A PROCESS.

Tim listens across a table with his hands resting beside a red notebook.
Illustration: The listening comes before the recommendation.

You are talking to the person doing the work. There is no account manager in the middle and nothing gets handed to somebody junior once the interesting part is over.

Expect direct answers, including when the honest answer is that the thing you asked for is not the thing that will help. That is usually the most valuable part of the first conversation.

Scope is agreed in plain language before anything starts, and it is allowed to change when the work teaches us something. A small number of clients at a time is the point, not a limitation.

My own experiments, too

REAL THINGS

All things
A plain pass casts shadows of an event crowd, a glass and a festival tent.
making

Why I Built Music Kite Connect

A pass is only useful when it connects identity, place and permission without turning the whole product into a ticketing system.

An inky speech bubble hangs above letters in a washtub.
made

The Jargon Laundry

Paste your website copy and it marks every phrase you share with ten thousand other websites, then scores how dirty the wash was.

A red-lit pub hidden among layered streets and torn gig posters.
making

The Gig Is Everywhere and Nowhere

A live event can exist on six platforms and still be hard to find. Music Kite is an attempt to make the scattered fragments agree.

Already published, still true

WHAT CLIENTS SAID

We've won a significant amount of new business as a direct result of the work. Tim has been amazing — we've been working together for over six months and the results have been impressive.

Miriam PollitBusiness Owner, UKWeb & Strategy

What surprised me most was Tim's ability to quickly articulate ideas I'd had bouncing around in my head for years. His insight and advice still surface in my thinking every day.

Sharon WilliamsBusiness Owner, UKClarity & Direction
Start with the thing itself

TELL ME
ABOUT IT.

A fixed-price build or something that needs figuring out first, either works. Say what you are trying to do and what is currently in the way, and I will reply by email.

hello@timlord.co.uk

Rather talk first? Book a free 20-minute call and I will ring you.

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