The web team your studio doesn't have to hire

No. The client relationship is yours and stays yours. We work to your brief and, if you'd rather, your clients never hear our name. We're a partner, not a competitor.

Yes. We can stay completely behind the scenes — your designs, your client-facing relationship, our build and support invisibly underneath. Or we can work in the open alongside your team. We'll match whatever you have promised the client.

Not at all — that's exactly what we're here for. You handle the design and the client; we handle everything technical. And if you do have a developer in-house, we're glad to work alongside them.

Yes. Mutual works as the development team for in-house design and brand teams that have the creative skills but no developers, or not enough of them. Your designers keep creative control: we build to their files, raise technical questions while the design is still moving rather than after it's signed off, and share working pages early, so the team sees the real thing weeks before launch.

Yes. Mutual regularly takes on Craft CMS sites that another studio or developer built, and extends them: new templates and sections, new integrations, or an upgrade to Craft 5. It starts with an audit of the version, plugins and custom code, with a cost against anything that needs fixing before you commit to the work. We build on the design system that's already there rather than starting again.

Yes. A Craft site built by Mutual gives the client's team flexible content management without giving them a way to break the design. Content is modelled around what the client actually publishes: structured fields for the things that repeat, like people, products and case studies, and a set of page blocks, designed by you, for the pages that need to vary. They get training videos and a handbook too, badged as yours if you'd like.

No — we build on Craft CMS, and only Craft. A decade on one platform is why the sites we hand back keep holding up years later, and it's what lets us quote a build confidently instead of guessing. If a client wants something bespoke that lasts, we'll show them why Craft is the right call.

Yes. We can move a client's existing site onto Craft from WordPress or another system, bringing the content, URLs and SEO across intact. We'll scope the migration up front, so you and the client know exactly what's involved before we start.

Less than you might expect. Once we've seen the brief or the designs, we can usually get a build under way within a few weeks, and we'll give you a firm timeline before anything is agreed. The earlier you loop us in — even at pitch stage — the more we can shape the technical side around what you have promised the client.

That's what the ongoing support is for. Send them our way or pass them through — either works. Fixes, tweaks, new pages and new campaigns all get picked up, usually within 30 minutes during working hours.

Three ways, depending on the work. New builds are quoted per project, against your designs and the client's brief. Smaller, ad-hoc development is charged simply, at £100 an hour. And ongoing care runs as a monthly retainer from £100 a month — starting with support and maintenance, then adding the Mutual One tools that suit each site.

You decide how to package and price any of it for your client.

The site is the client's, built on Craft — an open platform, not a proprietary box you're locked into. No hostage situations. If you ever move on, everything goes with you.