Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.

Starting a project with Simplepage involves three steps: a short scoping call, a fixed-price proposal, and a signed agreement. Work usually begins within two weeks of that signature, and smaller pieces often start inside 10 working days. The scoping call pins down what you actually need, the proposal fixes the price and the deliverables before anything is built, and because nothing is billed by the hour there is no open-ended discovery phase to pay for. Data from our project history shows the pace once we begin: Sumlo, a timesheet-to-report SaaS, shipped in three days, and Patch went from brief to live product in three weeks. If your deadline is genuinely tight, whether a launch date, a contract renewal, or an end-of-support cliff, say so on the first call and we will tell you plainly whether it is achievable and what would have to be cut to hit it.

Yes, and most of our work starts inside somebody else's codebase rather than on a blank slate. We take on .NET and Umbraco projects of any vintage, plus bespoke stacks, and we begin every inherited codebase with a short audit so you get an honest written view of its state before committing to anything larger. If we are the wrong fit we will say so at that point and the audit is still yours to keep. New builds run on .NET 10 and Umbraco 17, and older sites can be brought up to that platform as a fixed-price upgrade. According to Umbraco's long-term support policy, Umbraco 13 loses security support on 14 December 2026, which is why a large share of the existing-codebase work we take on right now is upgrade and migration work booked ahead of that date rather than left to the last minute.

An engagement with Simplepage is one of three shapes: a single day for small fixes, a fixed-price project, or a monthly retainer. Day engagements suit isolated problems such as a broken deployment, a performance issue, or a security patch that cannot wait. Fixed-price projects cover the bulk of what we do: rapid development, upgrades and migrations, automations, AI integration, and SEO and GEO work, all scoped and priced before anything starts so the number you sign is the number you pay. Our Umbraco 13 to 17 upgrade, for example, is a fixed £8,999 plus VAT. Retainers pair managed hosting with iterative development, so the same people who run your infrastructure also ship your changes. Every shape ends the same way: you own the full source code, there is no vendor lock-in, and you can walk away with everything we built at any point.

A retainer is one to five reserved days a month, and most of our clients take two. Those days cover whatever moves your site forward: new features, content changes, performance work, and the steady upkeep that stops small problems becoming rebuilds. According to Umbraco's release calendar, a new major version ships every six months, so retainer time is often spent keeping sites patched, current, and off the end-of-support treadmill rather than firefighting after the fact. Unused days do not silently vanish into an invoice; we agree the priorities with you at the start of each month, and if there is genuinely nothing to do we say so.

Simplepage is based in Douglas, Isle of Man. We work remote-first with clients across the UK and beyond, and on-site visits are available for the Isle of Man and North Wales.