Made Grand is a UK-based web design and development studio specialising in booking platforms, membership websites and scalable digital systems for small businesses, creatives and specialist professionals.
Built For How Your Business Actually Works
Booking platforms, membership systems and operational tools built to support real-world operations.
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When a website isn't really the problem
People usually come to us asking for a website, a platform or a new feature.
What they're often dealing with is something deeper.
Systems that work but not as well as they should
Manual effort creeping in where it shouldn't
Tools stitched together just enough to cope
Changing anything feels riskier than it needs to be
That's the problem we help untangle.
How we think
We don't start with technology or templates, we start with context.
01 — We Understand
- What you're trying to achieve.
- What's already in place.
- Where things feel stuck.
02 — We Decide
- What's worth building now.
- What can wait.
- What may not be needed at all.
03 — We Shape
- Something proportionate.
- Grounded.
- Easier to stand behind.
How we help
Clarity & direction
Making sense of what's worth building and what isn't.
MVPs & product builds
Building the right thing without overcommitting.
Platforms & systems
Digital tools that support real work.
Longer-term partnership
Improving and evolving things over time.
Much of our platform work involves bookings. If availability, capacity, payments and internal admin all need to work together, read more about how we build custom booking platforms.
Where WordPress needs to remain the content system behind a separate modern frontend, see our approach to headless WordPress development.
Selected work
A small selection of projects that show how we approach different problems. Each one began with uncertainty and moved forward through considered decisions.
Professional Services
Rachael Blackmore Counselling
A modern counselling website designed to create a calm, structured and trustworthy experience for individuals and couples seeking support.
Membership
VocabCartoons
A fun, story-led learning platform helping children aged 8–16 expand their vocabulary.
Booking
Bath Contemporary Artists’ Fair
A multi-vendor art fair platform that automates exhibition bookings and gives artists their own e-commerce stores.
"The updates to the website have been hugely transformational for BCAF. We've had more artists sign up than even before, and the application process is much simpler now which means I have more time to plan for the future. Simply amazing."
— A client who prefers clarity over complexity
Projects
Each project starts with a problem worth solving. It's then shaped into something useful, usable and built to grow.
Internal Project
Project Command Centre
An AI-connected project portfolio for organising active work, product ideas and future opportunities in one strategic view.
Personal App
Hara
A simple personal gut health diary for tracking meals, symptoms and daily context in one private place.
Internal Project
Clockified
A focused time tracking app for freelancers, consultants and small teams who need clearer visibility across billable project work.
Latest insights
Insights
Why we tested a headless WordPress rebuild on our own website
We rebuilt our established WordPress website using a Lovable frontend and WordPress as a headless CMS. It was a practical test of modernisation, server-side rendering and the SEO work needed when a legacy website evolves.
Case Study
What four product demos taught me about building useful MVPs
Four Made Grand product demos have taken four very different paths. This article looks at what Clockified, Hara, Palto and Project Command Centre taught me about building useful MVPs, deciding what deserves further development and recognising when a product is already doing enough.
Case Study
Project Command Centre: seeing the shape of everything at once
Project Command Centre began as a way to bring scattered projects and ideas into one place. It has since developed into an AI-connected system for seeing priorities, risks, opportunities and next actions across the whole business.
If you're wrestling with a digital idea, an existing platform or a system that's no longer doing its job, we're happy to talk it through.
You don't need a polished brief to get started.
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