My brother is an electrician. He needed a website. He'd been quoted £3,000 by an agency for something that wouldn't even rank, and £150 by a "web designer" who'd disappear after the build. Neither of those is a real answer. So I built him one. Then his mate asked. Then his mate's mate. That's Zenlio.
Daniel Plume · Founder
When my brother went looking for a website, he hit two walls. The agencies were charging £3,000-£10,000 for the same templated thing, with months of process and a salesperson who didn't understand his trade. The freelancers were charging £150, and either disappearing or building something that wouldn't get found.
There wasn't a serious option for someone running a one-person trade business who needed a website that actually generated work. Not a brochure. Not a Wix page. A real, properly-built, SEO-optimised site that would put him on Google's first page for "electrician [his town]."
So I built him one. I'd spent twenty years doing exactly this kind of thing for big companies, Joblogic, Dropbox, Oracle, ServiceNow. Same principles. Smaller scale. And it worked. Within six weeks he was getting enquiries direct from Google, no Checkatrade fee, no shared leads, no aggregator clipping his margin.
The companies who could build proper websites weren't pricing for sole traders. The companies pricing for sole traders weren't building proper websites. Zenlio sits in the middle: proper craft, smart pricing, done-for-you delivery, and a transparent monthly fee that includes everything you need to keep the site working.
That's Zenlio Local. Then a few months in, the calls started coming from a different direction, old colleagues, people I'd worked with at bigger companies, asking if I could do the same kind of work for their teams. CMOs needing a landing page shipped fast. Marketing leads stuck on rigid CMSs. People who didn't want an agency, but did need a senior pair of hands.
That became Zenlio Studio. Same principles. Different scale. Same person doing the work.
The pattern repeated on the Local side too. A site would go live, start working, and a few months in the same conversation would happen: the site's bringing people in, can you also sort the reviews, can you also sort the socials. Not a new business. The same one, one paragraph further on. That's Zenlio Momentum: doing on purpose what clients kept asking for by accident.
Studio works because the same person who scopes the work has built marketing systems for some of the biggest names in B2B software. Local works because that person also built a website for his electrician brother, and watched it work.
Field service management software for trade businesses. Building the content engine that gets Joblogic found in Google and AI search by the trade businesses who need it.
Worked across content strategy and brand storytelling at one of the most distinctively-voiced brands in software. A masterclass in saying difficult things simply.
Enterprise B2B in a very big organisation. Demand generation, content programs, and the kind of cross-functional work that teaches you how big organisations actually move marketing forward.
Brand work for one of the fastest-growing enterprise software companies in the world. Lessons in positioning, voice, and the discipline of saying the same thing in many different ways.
Same belief about how websites should work, get found, win work, don't get in the way. Different audiences, different prices, different cadence.
Done-for-you websites for tradespeople, hospitality businesses, and health & wellness practitioners. Built fast, properly priced, includes everything you need to win local work.
Strategic web work for in-house marketing teams. Sprint landing pages, CMS replatforming, full audit-to-build engagements. One senior pair of hands, no agency layers.
The brand's only as good as what it actually does. These are non-negotiables.
The person who scopes your work is the person who builds it and the person who's on the call when something needs fixing. No account managers, no junior handovers, no padded retainers.
Every price on this site is real. Every plan tells you what's included. No discovery calls before we'll quote. No "starting from" with the real number a different conversation away. We've written about why →
No fabricated quotes. No invented case study numbers. If a metric appears on this site, it came from a real client. If a testimonial appears, the person said it. We'll wait for the real proof rather than make it up.
"Synergy", "leverage", "digital transformation", "holistic": they don't appear on this site, and they won't appear in your project. If something can be said in plain English, that's how I'll say it.
Your site is yours. If you want to leave, we hand over the files and wave you off. Local clients get a 3-month minimum, then cancel any time. No hostage situations, no "click to renew" surprises.
Not every business needs what we sell. If you're better served by a different approach, or a different person, I'd rather tell you that on the first call than take your money and disappoint you in month three.
Three ways in. Pick whichever feels right, they all reach me.
Rated 5.0 from 6 reviews on Google. Read them all →
“I can’t thank Dan enough for the website he created for my business! His skill, attention to detail, and approach to every stage of the build were outstanding. No question or concern was ever too much trouble... His web design and IT expertise are second to none. If you’re looking for a truly professional website, I highly recommend [Zenlio]!”
“From the very beginning, he was professional, easy to communicate with, and really took the time to understand what I wanted... I’m delighted with the finished website and wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Dan to anyone looking for a talented, reliable, and knowledgeable web designer.”
“Dan’s attention to detail was excellent! He’d thought of everything - from colours and typeface to user experience. Dan has built a site that looks good and works well... This is exactly the boost that my business needed - thank you!”