No plugin pile-up
A WordPress site is forty plugins from forty authors, and your security is only as good as the laziest one. Craft ships the things a site actually needs, and we write the rest.
The Craft CMS agency for ambitious brands
- Axter
- TT Group
- Lands Improvement
We've designed, developed, and maintained some of the biggest Craft CMS sites in the world for brands like Apple, Transparency International, Kerrang!, and Arts University Bournemouth.
What we build on Craft
Marketing websites
The site the business runs on. Designed around your content and your sales case, and modelled so your team ships a new page without booking time with us.
Platforms and portals
Client areas, product finders, quote tools, member systems — joined up to the CRM, the finance system and the spreadsheets you actually run on.
Publishing at scale
Editorial sites with real traffic and real deadlines. Multiple titles on shared infrastructure, so the second one costs a fraction of the first.
WordPress migrations
Off the plugin pile and onto something you own. Content, URLs, redirects and rankings move across; the maintenance bill and the security worry don't.
Multi-site and multi-language
One CMS behind several brands, regions or languages, with the translation workflow built in rather than bolted on afterwards.
Integrations
The systems that already hold your data — CRM, ERP, ticketing, payments, whatever the finance team refuses to give up — talking to the site properly.
From brief to launch, in four stages
The first stage ends with a fixed price and a firm timeline, so you decide whether to carry on knowing exactly what you're committing to. Nothing after it should be a surprise.
From there you see working pages as they're built rather than one reveal at the end — and the people who scoped the work are the people who do it.
Stage 1
Scope
Before anything is agreed we work out what the site actually has to do — the content, the structure, the systems it plugs into, the decisions that are cheapest to make early. You get a fixed price and a firm timeline out of it, not a range.
Stage 2
Design
Your design, or ours. If you already have a brand, a design partner or a finished Figma file, we build to it. If you don't, our own designers pick it up from what discovery found.
Stage 3
Build
Craft CMS, modelled on how your team works rather than how the database does. Pages go up on a staging site as they're finished, and every line of code is reviewed by an experienced developer before it ships.
Stage 4
Launch
Redirects mapped, analytics wired up, your team trained on the CMS while it's still fresh. Then the site goes live and the relationship carries on, rather than ending on an invoice.
We build on Craft, and only Craft
Ten years of specialising in one platform buys you something a generalist can't sell: we already know what breaks, and we've already built the thing you're asking for.
No template ceiling
The site gets built to the design, instead of the design bending to fit whatever the platform allows. That's the difference between a brand and a theme.
A CMS people use
Content modelled around your team's actual job, with roles, drafts and previews that work. The measure of a build is whether marketing still logs in a year later.
Craft CMS projects
We get results
Transparency International
500,000+
pageviews in 24 hours, at the Corruption Perceptions Index launch.
Axter
550%
increase in engagement rate after discovery, re-design and re-development.
Arts University Bournemouth
#1
UK university for accessibility.
Questions we get asked
- How long has Mutual worked with Craft CMS?
Mutual has built on Craft for ten years, and our directors have worked with it since its public beta in 2012, under its original name of Blocks. We have built through every major version from Craft 1 to Craft 5, and Craft is the only CMS we build on.
- Are you an official Craft CMS Partner?
Yes. Mutual is listed in the official Craft CMS partner directory at craftcms.com.
- How much does a Craft CMS website cost?
Most builds land between £25,000 and £80,000, depending on how many templates, integrations and languages are involved. We charge £100 an hour or £800 a day, and we quote a fixed price off a discovery phase rather than a guess — so the number you get before the build starts is the number you pay.
- Can you migrate our site from WordPress to Craft CMS?
Yes. A migration is mostly two problems: modelling content that has been living inside page-builder blocks or Advanced Custom Fields so it becomes structured data, and carrying every URL across so the rankings survive. We map redirects before anything moves, and we rebuild the SEO configuration rather than leaving it behind with the plugin it lived in.
- Will you take over a Craft CMS site somebody else built?
Regularly, and it starts with an audit. That sits with our Craft CMS support, which covers taking on sites other people built.
- Do you work with other agencies?
Yes, as the development team behind brand and design studios. You keep the client, the creative and the credit, and we build and look after the site — declared as your technical partner or entirely white-label, whichever the relationship needs. See agency partnerships.
- Can Craft CMS handle multiple languages and multiple sites?
It is one of the reasons we use it. Craft handles multi-site and multi-language natively rather than through a plugin, so regional sites share one codebase and one control panel while keeping separate content. Mixmag runs more than nine regional editions this way; Brave Movement runs in English, French and Spanish; MEDITE SMARTPLY runs a four-language product catalogue.
- How long does a Craft CMS build take?
Three to six months from the start of discovery for most projects. A single-brand marketing site sits at the shorter end, a multi-site build with several integrations at the longer one. You get a firm date alongside the fixed price, before the build starts.
- What happens after the site launches?
We keep looking after it, through our Craft CMS support and the Mutual One marketing platform. Some of the sites we built have been with us ten years.
Mutual One takes over the day it launches.
A build that nobody looks after starts ageing the week it goes live. The Mutual One marketing platform offers managed Craft support, hosting and retainer hours alongside our own SEO, analytics, content and governance tools, built into your CMS. One team, one bill, and a site that gets better every month rather than older.
Let's get your site
where it should be
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