Big Thinking
for Small Businesses
Human-centred websites, coaching, and consultancy / propel your vision like a person
Based in Greenwich, London, 51.48º N, -0.00º E
Big Thinking
for Small Businesses
Human-centred websites, coaching, and consultancy / propel your vision like a person
Based in Greenwich, London, 51.48º N, -0.00º E
Big
Thinking
for
Small
Businesses
Human-centred websites,
coaching, and consultancy
Based in Greenwich, London
YOUR VISION /
We deliver all-in-one website packages of exceptional quality – from genesis to deployment – paired with the kind of attentive, dedicated business consultancy and coaching that can only come from having worked with small, independent enterprises for more than a decade.
We simply adore what we do. And we want to empower you to do what you do best.
65
Customers Served
72
Websites Built
11
Years of expertise
-0.00° E
Based in Greenwich
01 / FROM DREAM TO DEPLOYMENT
You’re here because you have an idea, and you need professional, expert help and support to realise and implement that idea – from inception, through deployment, and beyond.
We begin by getting to know you. Not just your business, but you, yourself, as a human being.
We want to know what’s brought you to this point in your journey, what your mechanisms and doubts might be, and what your dreams and your visions for the future are.
Supporting and nurturing the big ideas of any small business is an exercise in collaboration, and collaboration starts (and continues) with open and honest communication.
Your business is as unique and as individual as you are. And only by fully understanding you, can we truly understand your business.
02 / CONSULTANCY AND COACHING
Designing a website is often seen by our clients as the beginning of our work together. But our work really begins the moment we open up those aforementioned lines of communication.
Many of our clients come first to us for a website, but ultimately find that the most useful aspects of our working relationship are actually the pep talks and pathfinding, coaching and consultancy we provide – drawing on our many years working both as a successful small business and with a great many others.
We don’t simply build what you ask for, no questions asked. We question all day – make sure you’re sure – and we offer our perspective not only when it’s explicitly asked for, but if and when we feel you really need it.
We know how to make a business work – both on the web and off it. You’re ultimately in the driver’s seat, but if we sense a mistake in the making, we’re proactive about piping up.
03 / BIG WEBSITES FOR SMALL BUSINESSES
Designing, building and maintaining high quality websites is how we began. Our consultancy and coaching elements came later, after years of working in-depth with small businesses and fledgling startups.
Websites remain our bread and butter. And with us, you’ll encounter an attentive, thorough, and utterly dedicated approach to creating a beautiful yet satisfyingly form following function representation of your business that’ll propel you confidently forward.
William Morris once declared: “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful”.
We very firmly believe that any website worth its salt should absolutely be both.
04 / EVERYTHING’S INCLUDED
What’s included? Well, with the exception of any costs incurred by external systems like payment processors and booking schedulers, in short – everything.
We provide quite literally everything you need to not only get off the ground, but to stay in the air – from the initial design and build, to hosting and site security; from those all-important early-days pathfinding chats, to ongoing pep talks and coaching discussions; and from the editing and creation of your website’s pages and structure, to complete redesigns and full rebrands as your needs and wants change to meet your evolving vision.
We’re with you every step of the way, backing you up and supporting you, both directly and behind the scenes. And, as your business grows and develops with time, your website – and your business – will never be anything but bang up to date.
05 / BRING BUSINESS TO YOU
The entire purpose of a website is to generate interest in your business, and to bring clients to you. It’s that simple. If people can’t find you, then your website isn’t going to work for you.
That’s why we’ve included search engine optimisation and search engine visibility as standard. When we said “we included everything”, we meant it.
We offer two levels of SEO/SEV: a baseline level to help get you off the ground, and a more comprehensive level that involves a deeper layer of SEO/SEV – along with more advanced tools and features such as Google Analytics, Search Console, and Business Profile.
And we’ll liaise with your digital marketer, when the time comes, to more actively push your business online via an effective advertising and campaigning strategy.
06 / SAY THE WORD
Need something done? Want to brainstorm some ideas? Have an issue that needs fixing?
We don’t use a convoluted ticketing system, nor do we have an AI assistant getting in the way and making it difficult for you to connect with us. Call us old school if you like, but we prefer to offer a refreshingly familiar yet increasingly rare approach to supporting our clients.
It’s called “picking up the phone”.
Just give us a call, send us an email, or leave us a WhatsApp message or a voice note, and we’ll be there, ready to jump into action.
And, if you’re based in London, we can schedule an in-person coffee for some of those longer, more coaching- and consultancy-based sessions.
07 / MANAGEABLE MONTHLY PRICING
Our pricing structure is completely transparent: a single, easily digestible monthly fee, covering absolutely everything you need to get going and make your online presence felt.
We offer two pricing tiers – one for clients with very basic needs, and another for clients with more comprehensive requirements – and the details of what’s included in both are below.
Our Essentials tier offers the basics for designing and building, launching and maintaining a website. If you need something very simple and light on maintenance, this is the tier for you.
Our Comprehensive tier is the tier most of our clients opt for. It’s for clients who need a greater degree of help and support, and require much more of our dedicated time each month.
01 / FROM DREAM TO DEPLOYMENT
You’re here because you have an idea, and you need professional, expert help and support to realise and implement that idea – from inception through deployment and beyond.
We begin by getting to know you. Not just your business, but you yourself, as a human being.
We want to know what’s brought you to this point in your journey, what your mechanisms and doubts might be, and what your dreams and your visions for the future are.
Supporting and nurturing the big ideas of any small business is an exercise in collaboration, and collaboration starts (and continues) with open and honest communication.
Your business is as unique and as individual as you are. And only by fully understanding you, can we truly understand your business.
02 / CONSULTANCY AND COACHING
Designing and building a website is often seen by our clients as the beginning of our work together. But really, our work begins the moment we open up those aforementioned lines of communication.
Many of our clients come to us for a website, and find that the most useful aspect of our working relationship is the pep talks, pathfinding and consultancy we provide, drawing on our many years working both as a successful small business and with a great many others.
We don’t simply build what you ask for, no questions asked. We question all day – make sure you’re sure – and we offer our perspective not only when it’s explicitly asked for, but if and when we feel you really need it.
We know how to make a business work – both on the web and off it. You’re ultimately in the driver’s seat, but if we sense a mistake in the making, we’re proactive about piping up.
03 / BIG WEBSITES FOR SMALL BUSINESSES
Designing, building and maintaining high quality websites is how we began. Our consultancy and coaching elements came later, after years of working in-depth with small businesses and fledgling startups.
Websites remain our more visible and quantifiable service. And with us, you’ll encounter an attentive, thorough, and utterly dedicated approach to creating a beautiful yet satisfyingly form following function representation of your business that’ll propel you confidently forward.
William Morris once declared: “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful”.
We very firmly believe that any website worth its salt should absolutely be both.
04 / EVERYTHING’S INCLUDED
What’s included? Well, with the exception of any costs incurred by external systems like payment processors and booking schedulers, in short – everything.
We provide quite literally everything you need to not only get off the ground, but to stay in the air – from the initial design and build, to hosting and site security; from those all-important early-days pathfinding chats, to ongoing pep talks and coaching discussions; and from the editing and creation of your website’s pages and structure, to complete redesigns and full rebrands as your needs and wants change to meet an evolving vision.
We’re with you every step of the way, backing you up and supporting you, both directly and behind the scenes. And, as your business grows and develops with time, your website – and your business – will never be anything but bang up to date.
05 / BRING BUSINESS TO YOU
The entire purpose of a website is to generate interest in your business, and to bring clients to you. It’s that simple. If people can’t find you, then your website isn’t going to work for you.
That’s why we’ve included search engine optimisation and search engine visibility as standard. When we said “we included everything”, we meant it.
We offer two levels of SEO/SEV: a baseline level to help get you off the ground, and a more comprehensive level that involves a deeper layer of SEO/SEV – along with more advanced tools and features such as Google Analytics, Search Console, and Business Profile.
And we’ll liaise with your digital marketer, when the time comes, to more actively push your business online via an effective advertising and campaigning strategy.
06 / Say the word
Need something done? Want to brainstorm some ideas? Have an issue that needs fixing?
We don’t use a convoluted ticketing system, nor do we have an AI assistant getting in the way and making it difficult for you to connect with us. Call us old school if you like, but we prefer to offer a refreshingly familiar yet increasingly rare approach to supporting our clients.
It’s called “picking up the phone”.
Just give us a call, send us an email, or leave us a WhatsApp message or a voice note, and we’ll be there, ready to jump into action.
And, if you’re based in London, we can schedule an in-person coffee for some of those longer, more coaching- and consultancy-based sessions.
07 / MANAGEABLE MONTHLY PRICING
Our pricing structure is completely transparent: a single, easily digestible monthly fee, covering absolutely everything you need to get going and make your online presence felt.
We offer two pricing tiers – one for clients with very basic needs, and another for clients with more comprehensive requirements – and the details of what’s included in both are below.
Our Essentials tier offers the basics for designing and building, launching and maintaining a website. If you need something very simple and light on maintenance, this is the tier for you.
Our Comprehensive tier is the tier most of our clients opt for. It’s for clients who need a greater degree of help and support, and require much more of our dedicated time each month.
£100 / per calendar month
Our Essentials plan provides all of the following features and services as standard:
Responsive Design
A fluid website layout that adapts to the dimensions of whichever display or device is being used to view it.
Media Optimisation
Images and graphics optimised for online viewing. YouTube embedding or self-hosted streaming as standard.
Backups and Security
SSL certification, secure protection from server attacks, along with daily backups of your website.
Baseline SEO
Baseline search engine optimisation (SEO) makes it easier for customers to find you and your business online.
Website Evolution
As your business develops, so will your website. Design and structure edits developed on demand.
Social Media Integration
Feed your Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and other social media accounts seamlessly into your website.
Branded Email Setup
The creation and setup of your email accounts, each branded with your own company domain.**
SSD Hosting
Super-fast, UK-based servers with a guaranteed uptime of 99.9% keep your website responsive and reliable.
Edits and Additions
Have your text copy edited or new images optimised whenever you need to, simply by getting in touch.
Subscription Forms
Pop-up, in-line, slide-out, or built-in; custom newsletter opt-in and Subscribe to Access forms come as standard.*
Domain Registration
Registration of a new domain, or the transfer of an existing domain. Includes .com, .co.uk, and others.
Tech Support
UK-based, in-house tech support, provided by the very same team who actually build and maintain your website.
* Requires a MailChimp (or similar) account.
** Because the number of required email accounts can vary wildly from business to business, the cost of hosting email is a service we cannot include in our fixed monthly fee. However, we do provide the creation and setup of your branded email as standard, at no additional cost.
We recommend Google Workspace – it’s what we use ourselves.
£200 / per calendar month
Our Comprehensive plan includes everything in our Essentials plan as standard, plus the following additional services:
Consultancy
We don’t merely do what our clients tell us to do. We bounce ideas around, discuss emerging technologies, and go out of our way to provide real advice and direction.
Advanced SEO
Meticulously tailored, deeper, and more comprehensive SEO makes it much easier for your customers to find your business through a variety of search terms.
External Systems
Setup, integration, advice and technical support regarding third-party online stores, plugins, schedulers, booking systems, newsletter mailers and more.
Coaching
Understanding you and your business on a deeper level allows us to provide you with the pep talks and motivational chats every small business owner needs.
Digital Marketing
While we're not a digital marketing company, we'll work closely with your digital marketer to ensure your website works with your marketing strategy.
Technical Tutoring
Whether in-person* or online, we'll teach you how to use your external systems, how to set up and use your new devices, and how to manage your cloud/sync services.
Pathfinding
Intentional direction setting to help you find your path, with a successful business owner who's worked with dozens of enterprises over more than a decade.
Social Marketing
Likewise with your digital marketer, we'll work closely with your social media marketer to ensure your website works with your social media strategy.
Custom Web Apps
No matter how niche, we can either build a custom web app for your business needs ourselves, or help to source a talented specialist from our network who can.
* If you're based in London
£100 / per calendar month
Our Essentials plan provides all of the following features and services as standard:
Responsive Design
A fluid website layout that adapts to the dimensions of whichever display or device is being used to view it.
Media Optimisation
Images and graphics optimised for online viewing. YouTube embedding or self-hosted streaming as standard.
Backups and Security
SSL certification, secure protection from server attacks, along with full, daily backups of your whole website.
Baseline SEO
Baseline search engine optimisation makes it easier for your customers to find you online.
Website Evolution
As your business develops, so will your website. Design and structure edits developed for you on demand.
Social Media Integration
Feed your Facebook, Twitter, and other social media accounts directly into your website.
Branded Email Setup
The creation and setup of your email accounts, each branded with your own company domain.**
SSD Hosting
Super-fast, UK-based servers with a guaranteed uptime of 99.9% keep your website responsive and reliable.
Edits and Additions
Have your text copy edited or new images optimised whenever you need to, simply by getting in touch.
Subscription Forms
Pop-up, slide-out, or built-in; custom newsletter opt-in and Subscribe to Access forms come as standard.*
Domain Registration
Registration of a new domain, or the transfer of your existing domain. Includes .com and .co.uk.
Technical Support
UK-based, in-house tech support, provided by the very same team who actually build and maintain your website.
* Requires a MailChimp (or similar) account.
** Because the number of required email accounts can vary wildly from business to business, the cost of hosting email is a service we cannot include in our fixed monthly fee. However, we do provide the creation and setup of your branded email as standard, at no additional cost.
We recommend Google Workspace – it’s what we use ourselves.
£200 / per calendar month
Our Comprehensive plan includes everything in our Essentials plan as standard, plus the following additional services:
Business Consultancy
We don’t merely do what our clients tell us to do. We bounce ideas around, discuss emerging technologies, and go out of our way to provide real advice and direction.
Business Coaching
Understanding you and your business on a deeper level allows us to provide you with the pep talks and motivational chats every small business owner needs.
Pathfinding
Intentional direction setting to help you find your path, with a successful small business owner who's worked with dozens of enterprises over more than a decade.
Advanced SEO
Meticulously tailored, deeper, and more comprehensive SEO makes it much easier for your customers to find your business through a variety of search terms.
Digital Marketing
While we're not a digital marketing company, we'll work closely with your digital marketer to ensure your website works with your marketing strategy.
Social Media Marketing
Likewise with your digital marketer, we'll work closely with your social media marketer to ensure your website works with your social media strategy.
External Systems
Setup, integration, advice and technical support regarding third-party online stores, plugins, schedulers, booking systems, newsletter mailers and more.
Technical Tutoring
Whether in-person* or online, we'll teach you how to use your external systems, how to set up and use your new devices, and how to manage your cloud/sync services.
Custom Web Apps
No matter how niche, we can either build a custom web app for your business needs ourselves, or help to source a talented specialist from our network who can.
* If you're based in London
Clients / Testimonials
From the moment we first spoke on the phone, and met for coffee, I was amazed at how completely dedicated David is to his clients.
He’s done so much more for our business than just designing our website – which we are really happy with. He’s also spent hours attending tirelessly to all of our social media, branding, logo design and content development.
It’s been like having an extra person working in our own team. Always helpful, always attentive, superbly patient and highly responsive, he makes us feel like we are his only client.
Chris Abay
Working with David over the last few months has been a delight.
He is quick and efficient, extremely knowledgeable and wonderfully creative. David is very patient and always takes the time to explain clearly some of the more technical aspects of web design, which may bamboozle the less experienced of us!
I have already recommended David’s services to friends and family members and I would highly recommend David to anyone who needs solid advice and technical support in parallel with creative vision and a sensitive working style.
Katherine Cox
David is absolutely amazing at what he does, but what makes him stand out even more is his ability to communicate clearly, in a language I understand which makes it’s a pleasure to work with and he doesn’t seem to ever get annoyed with my updates and tweaks!
His pricing structure is also very appealing and simple, with no hidden costs. I highly recommend David for his skills, communication, speed and well awesomeness. David is very easy to work with and extremely patient.
Kay Wettasinghe
With David’s calm, step by step approach, developing a website together became manageable and fun! David is an excellent communicator, who is clearly very experienced in website design and had a very quick and intuitive understanding of what I was looking for. He has both an incredibly good eye for design and the technical know how to develop a site that works.
The website he developed for me is clean and stylish, and easy to navigate despite its complexity. Very happy with the result. Thank you David!!
Anja Trenkle
Clients / Testimonials
From the moment we first spoke on the phone, and met for coffee, I was amazed at how completely dedicated David is to his clients.
He’s done so much more for our business than just designing our website – which we are really happy with. He’s also spent hours attending tirelessly to all of our social media, branding, logo design and content development.
It’s been like having an extra person working in our own team. Always helpful, always attentive, superbly patient and highly responsive, he makes us feel like we are his only client.
Chris Abay
Working with David over the last few months has been a delight.
He is quick and efficient, extremely knowledgeable and wonderfully creative. David is very patient and always takes the time to explain clearly some of the more technical aspects of web design, which may bamboozle the less experienced of us!
I have already recommended David’s services to friends and family members and I would highly recommend David to anyone who needs solid advice and technical support in parallel with creative vision and a sensitive working style.
Katherine Cox
David is absolutely amazing at what he does, but what makes him stand out even more is his ability to communicate clearly, in a language I understand which makes it’s a pleasure to work with and he doesn’t seem to ever get annoyed with my updates and tweaks!
His pricing structure is also very appealing and simple, with no hidden costs. I highly recommend David for his skills, communication, speed and well awesomeness. David is very easy to work with and extremely patient.
Kay Wettasinghe
With David’s calm, step by step approach, developing a website together became manageable and fun! David is an excellent communicator, who is clearly very experienced in website design and had a very quick and intuitive understanding of what I was looking for. He has both an incredibly good eye for design and the technical know how to develop a site that works.
The website he developed for me is clean and stylish, and easy to navigate despite its complexity. Very happy with the result. Thank you David!!
Anja Trenkle
Clients / Testimonials
From the moment we first spoke on the phone, and met for coffee, I was amazed at how completely dedicated David is to his clients.
He’s done so much more for our business than just designing our website – which we are really happy with. He’s also spent hours attending tirelessly to all of our social media, branding, logo design and content development.
It’s been like having an extra person working in our own team. Always helpful, always attentive, superbly patient and highly responsive, he makes us feel like we are his only client.
Chris Abay
Working with David over the last few months has been a delight.
He is quick and efficient, extremely knowledgeable and wonderfully creative. David is very patient and always takes the time to explain clearly some of the more technical aspects of web design, which may bamboozle the less experienced of us!
I have already recommended David’s services to friends and family members and I would highly recommend David to anyone who needs solid advice and technical support in parallel with creative vision and a sensitive working style.
Katherine Cox
David is absolutely amazing at what he does, but what makes him stand out even more is his ability to communicate clearly, in a language I understand which makes it’s a pleasure to work with and he doesn’t seem to ever get annoyed with my updates and tweaks!
His pricing structure is also very appealing and simple, with no hidden costs. I highly recommend David for his skills, communication, speed and well awesomeness. David is very easy to work with and extremely patient.
Kay Wettasinghe
With David’s calm, step by step approach, developing a website together became manageable and fun! David is an excellent communicator, who is clearly very experienced in website design and had a very quick and intuitive understanding of what I was looking for. He has both an incredibly good eye for design and the technical know how to develop a site that works.
The website he developed for me is clean and stylish, and easy to navigate despite its complexity. Very happy with the result. Thank you David!!
Anja Trenkle
About / Us
Nice as Pi is primarily the working title of Greenwich-based web designer and developer, David Bullivant – however David does from time to time work with trusted connections for particularly niche auxiliary requirements (hence the “we” and the “us”).
David adores design. He has a talent for creating websites hallmarked with a sense of cleanness, clarity, and slick functionality. He studied Web Design and Development at London’s SAE university, along with Human-Computer Interaction. He knows how to not only make a website look good, but also to make it function in a satisfyingly logical fashion.
After finishing university, David spent a number of years working in the world of corporate training for a major multinational telecommunications corporation. But he ultimately decided to leave – despite a being offered a number of high-value promotions – to embark upon a venture infinitely more exciting, and fundamentally more suited, to the way he likes to live.
A very natural self-starter, David has since been running a successful business for more than a decade. His preference in clients has always been those who’ve also chosen a more independent, self-employed lifestyle – and it’s the years of working with such clients that have grown and deepened his skill for helping others flesh out and realise their own visions.
David is in a loving relationship with a wonderful woman who, like him, works in computer tech, adores techno music, delights in deep listening meditations, and craves the sauna. The two met at the London techno club, Fold, through mutual friends, and they regularly attend events including Essen’s Stone Techno, and visit venues such as Berlin’s Berghain.
David Bullivant
About / Us
Nice as Pi is primarily the working title of Greenwich-based web designer and developer, David Bullivant – however David does from time to time work with trusted connections for particularly niche auxiliary requirements (hence the “we” and the “us”).
David adores design. He has a talent for creating websites hallmarked with a sense of cleanness, clarity, and slick functionality. He studied Web Design and Development at London’s SAE university, along with Human-Computer Interaction. He knows how to not only make a website look good, but also to make it function in a satisfyingly logical fashion.
After finishing university, David spent a number of years working in the world of corporate training for a major multinational telecommunications corporation. But he ultimately decided to leave – despite a being offered a number of high-value promotions – to embark upon a venture infinitely more exciting, and fundamentally more suited, to the way he likes to live.
A very natural self-starter, David has since been running a successful business for more than a decade. His preference in clients has always been those who’ve also chosen a more independent, self-employed lifestyle – and it’s the years of working with such clients that have grown and deepened his skill for helping others flesh out and realise their own visions.
David is in a loving relationship with a wonderful woman who, like him, works in computer tech, adores techno music, delights in deep listening meditations, and craves the sauna. The two met at the London techno club, Fold, through mutual friends, and they regularly attend events including Essen’s Stone Techno, and visit venues such as Berlin’s Berghain.
David Bullivant
Let’s / Get Started
Questions? Queries? Or are you simply raring to get going?
Reach out to us for a no-pressure, no-cost consultation, and find out how we can help you and your business.
Let’s / Get Started
Questions? Queries? Or are you simply raring to get going?
Reach out to us for a no-pressure, no-cost consultation, and find out how we can help you and your business.