Seaford, East Sussex → Brighton and Hove
AI, web and apps for Brighton businesses
Brighton has the North Laine, the Fringe every May and no shortage of people who can build you a website. We build what sits behind it.
Brighton and Hove
Brighton and Hove has been a city since 2001, but it still trades like a set of neighbourhoods. The North Laine is independents, cafés and theatres on mostly pedestrianised streets. The Lanes are jewellers and antiques down narrow alleys. Hove has George Street and Church Road. Around them sit the conference trade at the Brighton Centre, two universities, the language schools and a digital scene that’s been nicknamed Silicon Beach since the 1990s.
The owners we meet here are rarely short of ideas. They’re short of hours. A venue answering wedding enquiries after the last table has gone, a studio founder writing proposals at midnight, a language school chasing next summer’s students in January: the work behind the work is where the week goes, and it’s the part AI is good at.
In practice that means the enquiry answered the same day and chased until it books, the quote built from your own pricing rules and the week’s posts drafted by Monday, with a person in your business signing off each one before it reaches a customer.
A lot of Brighton firms sell to London as much as to the city itself. The fastest trains reach Victoria in about an hour and Gatwick is on the same line, so a London client can be in your studio by lunchtime, but they’ll have judged you on your website long before they buy the ticket.
What Brighton and Hove businesses bring us
What Brighton and Hove businesses bring us
Seaford seafront
05Our website looks tired.A fresh coat before the season starts.
In a city this full of designers, a site that looks five years old reads as a business that stopped trying, even when the opposite is true.
Beachy Head lighthouse
01We’re not getting enough leads.Be the light they steer by.
Brighton customers shop around, so the venue, clinic or studio that replies first, even at ten on a Friday night, tends to get the booking.
Seaford beach
03We need content. Constantly.Like the tide. Twice a day, every day.
Between the Fringe in May, Pride in the summer and the run-up to Christmas, a Brighton business is expected to have something new to say most weeks of the year.
Work near you
Work near you
Our nearest flagship to Brighton is in Bexhill-on-Sea, about an hour east along the A27: Game and Flames, the live-fire caterer that won at the Eat Game Awards in 2024 and 2025. It sells to the same people many Brighton venues do: couples planning weddings and companies booking events. Its site has an interactive wedding price calculator and takes payment for workshops and gift vouchers through Stripe, and its reporting shows which enquiries came from paid ads and which arrived organically.
Game & Flames · Live-fire catering, Bexhill-on-Sea
From lost emails to one sales pipeline.
A 15-page website and a private sales CRM in one codebase. Enquiries land in a pipeline, quotes run on the owner’s pricing rules, and AI drafts the follow-up after a call for a person to send.
69five-star reviews, finally on show
Services in Brighton and Hove
Services in Brighton and Hove
How we work
How we work with people in Brighton and Hove
We’re in Seaford, about 13 miles east along the A259 and on the direct train to Brighton, which takes around 35 minutes. That makes a meeting at your premises in the North Laine, Kemptown or Hove an easy morning for us, and a video call is fine if that suits you better.
Start with the free review. It takes 20 to 30 minutes, and by the end of the next working day you’ll have a short email listing the three things we’d fix first and roughly what each is worth.
Once we start, you get progress in writing every week, and everything we build, code and accounts included, is yours from the start. AI workshops for Brighton teams happen at your premises and use your own documents, not a hotel function room and someone else’s examples.
Email dan@danielnicholls.com. We reply within one working day.
Questions people ask
Questions people ask
We’re in Hove. Is this page for us?
Hove, actually, is exactly who it’s for. We work across the whole city, from Portslade to Rottingdean, and a meeting on George Street is as easy for us as one in the North Laine. Same team, same free review, same one-working-day reply.
Brighton has plenty of web designers. Why use you?
If a brochure site is all you need, a good local designer will do, and we’ll tell you so. We’re for when the website has to do more: take bookings, feed a CRM, build quotes, or answer enquiries out of hours with a person approving every reply. We build on a codebase you own, on hosting that costs next to nothing, and we build for speed: the homepage we built for Live Happy, a coaching business in Arizona, scores between 0.98 and 0.99 for performance on Lighthouse, Google’s own test.
Do you work with other agencies?
Yes. Agencies and founders who need a technical partner that ships are one of the three groups we work for. If your studio sells the brand and the site but stalls when a client asks for an app, an agent or a CRM, that’s the part we build.
Free business review
Tell us what’s slow. We’ll tell you what to fix first.
A call of 20 to 30 minutes. We find the gaps, the leaks and the quick wins, and what each one is worth to you. Fixed price after that, no hourly rates. No 200-page deck.
Or tell us what you want to achieve and Dan will come back to you within one working day. Email dan@danielnicholls.com.