A Squarespace alternative that comes with a real team
A hand-built alternative to Squarespace for UK small businesses that want a site without the template ceiling.
01 / When the template stops fitting
Squarespace is beautiful right up until it is not
Squarespace is the website builder that looks the best out of the box, and that is exactly why it is so popular with small businesses, designers and creatives. The trouble is that the templates put a ceiling on what your site can look like, and the editor puts a ceiling on what you can build inside them. Once you hit either ceiling, the only way up is to rebuild.
Most owners who search for a Squarespace alternative are not chasing a different price. They are chasing a different model. They want a designer to make decisions, a developer to ship the build, and a person to message when they need a change, instead of a template to choose and an editor to wrestle.
We are that alternative. We hand-build the site, migrate everything off Squarespace cleanly, host it on modern infrastructure, and look after it monthly so the template ceiling stops being a thing.
02 / How the model differs
Six things that change after the move
Honest comparison. Squarespace is genuinely strong on visual polish. We do something different.
Designed around you, not picked from a list
Squarespace is template-driven by design. The templates are beautiful, but they are also being used by thousands of other small businesses. Our sites start blank so yours never turns up looking like a yoga studio in another city.
Real human support, included
Squarespace support is via help articles and email forms. With us, you message a person in UK hours via your customer portal. You ask for the change, they make it, that is the whole interaction.
Custom layouts that fit the offer
On Squarespace, what you can build is what the template lets you build. We design the layout around the offer first and then build it, so the page does what you need rather than what the template assumed you needed.
One bill, no plan ladder
Squarespace tiers run roughly £14 to £44 a month, and most of the useful features sit in the higher tiers. Our standard plan is a flat £79/month and there is no upgrade nag for features that should have been included from the start.
Migration done for you
We pull the content out of Squarespace, redesign the site from scratch, set up 301 redirects from the old URLs, and move your domain and email forwarding. You sign off and we cut over with no downtime.
Honest about Squarespace
Squarespace is genuinely strong on aesthetics and works well for designers, photographers and creatives who enjoy building their own site. If that is not you, the work is not the point, the site is, and an alternative makes sense.
03 / Switching from Squarespace
Migration in four steps
Talk
We get the brief, the offer and what is currently not working on the Squarespace site. No template browsing required.
Design
A clickable preview, hand-designed for your business. You see real fonts, real photos, real copy before any production work begins.
Migrate
We move the content across, set up redirects, and stand the new site up on a staging URL while your Squarespace site stays live.
Launch and update
Cutover with no downtime, then ongoing changes via the portal. No editor, no upgrade nag, no template ceiling.
FAQ
Common questions
Why move off Squarespace?
The two most common reasons we hear: the template ceiling started to feel limiting, or the cost of the editor plus the time spent in it added up to more than what a hand-built site would cost. Neither of those is a complaint about Squarespace itself. They are just signs that the tool has stopped fitting the business.
Can you migrate my Squarespace site?
Yes. We pull the content out, redesign it from scratch around your offer, set up 301 redirects from every old Squarespace URL to the new equivalent, and migrate the domain and email. Search rankings carry across and most clients see them recover within weeks.
Will the new site look as good as Squarespace?
Squarespace is hard to beat on out-of-the-box visual polish, which is precisely what attracts people to it. Hand-built design is a different proposition: no template ceiling, layouts that fit the offer, and a designer making decisions instead of a theme. Different shape, equal or better visual standard.
What about the Squarespace blog?
We migrate the posts, the categories and the URLs. Your existing readers and search traffic land on the same content at the same paths. From then on, blogging happens via the portal: send us the post, we publish it, no CMS to log into.
What does it cost compared to Squarespace?
Squarespace business plans land roughly £20 to £44 a month depending on tier. Our standard plan is £79 a month. The headline is higher but the work that previously sat with you, like editing the site, fixing layouts and figuring out plugins, is now ours.
Do I lose my Squarespace email forwarding?
No. We set up email forwarding on the new hosting before the cutover so business email keeps working through the migration. If you use Squarespace Email Campaigns, we recommend moving to a dedicated tool and we help with that too.
Ready to leave the template behind?
Start free. We will redesign your Squarespace site from a blank canvas and migrate everything across.