AI-Powered. Human-Checked.

Bottled Fresh.
Delivered by Hand.

We're a small AI-powered digital agency built for the long haul: your budget goes further with us than it ever has.

  • Design, build and run: six services under one roof
  • AI does the heavy lifting; a human checks everything that ships
  • Seven years with our first client, and counting
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What We Actually Do.

Six services, one small in-house team: design, development, AI and the unglamorous work that keeps everything running. Every one of them is backed by a named client story.

Web Design & Build

Websites designed and built in-house: WordPress, Elementor and bespoke front-ends. Fast, accessible and easy for your team to edit.

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E-Commerce

WooCommerce and Shopify stores, complex shipping, quotes and payments. Full platform migrations without losing sales or SEO.

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Bespoke Platforms & Tools

Referral systems, back-office software, custom admin tools and integrations. When off-the-shelf won't cut it, we build exactly what you need.

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Branding & Design

Logos, brand guidelines, design systems and the templates to roll them out. Design and development under one roof.

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AI Development & Automation

AI-powered development, chatbots, content pipelines and workflow automation. The same tools we use on ourselves, applied to your business.

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Hosting, Care & SEO

Managed hosting with staging and backups, uptime and error monitoring, security hardening and SEO that compounds month after month.

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How This Thing Actually Works.

No jargon, no bloated timelines: how a project runs at Gold Top, from first conversation to years down the line.

1

Start with a Free Workshop

Thirty minutes on a video call. We dig into what your business needs, point out the quick wins, and tell you honestly if we're not the right fit.

2

Design & Plan

We scope the work properly: design, content and a plan you can hold us to. You'll know exactly what's being built and why before anything gets built.

3

Build: AI on the Tools, Humans in Charge

AI drafts, codes and does the production-line work; a real person designs, reviews and tests every feature before it ships. It's how your budget buys more.

4

Run It for the Long Haul

Hosting, monitoring, security and SEO, plus a steady queue of improvements. Most of our clients have been with us for five years or more.

How We're Not Like Other Agencies.

We built Gold Top because we were tired of how agencies usually work. Here's what's different.

01

AI on the Tools, Humans in Charge

AI writes first drafts, spots patterns, and does the production-line work. But a human makes every key decision, reviews every feature, and owns every deploy.

02

Built for the Long Haul

Our first client is still with us seven years on, and most have stayed five or more. We'd rather grow with a business than churn through projects.

03

Honest Advice, Even When It Costs Us

If the right answer is "don't rebuild yet", that's what we'll tell you. We've talked clients out of work they didn't need, and they've stayed for years because of it.

04

Everything Under One Roof

Design, development, content, hosting and AI, all from one small team. No handoffs between departments, no message lost in the chain.

05

No Mysterious Black Box

You get a shared board, weekly updates, and staging previews. You'll always know what we're building, why, and when it's landing.

06

Zero Bugs Policy

We squash every bug we find. Even if a third-party plugin has one, we'll patch it ourselves while we wait for them to catch up.

Your Site Has a Support Crew.

Behind every site we build is a set of tools working quietly in the background - monitoring uptime, catching errors, managing updates, and keeping things running smoothly so you don't have to.

ClickUp
ClickUp Project management - track features, bugs, and priorities in one place
Sentry
Sentry Error tracking - we know about bugs before your users do
Sematext
Sematext Uptime monitoring - instant alerts if your site goes down
Wordfence
Wordfence Security scanning - firewall, malware detection, and login protection
Cloudways
Cloudways Managed hosting - fast, scalable cloud servers without the complexity
Railway
Railway App deployment - instant deploys, auto-scaling, and zero-downtime updates
Cloudflare
Cloudflare CDN and security - faster page loads and DDoS protection worldwide
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...plus 'Goldie', our very own AI powered mastermind!

Lean into AI for Your Site.

We got good at AI by running our own business on it. Here's what else we can build with it for yours.

AI Chatbots & Assistants

Trained on your business, answering customer questions 24/7. Reduces support load and makes your site feel alive.

Smart Search & Discovery

Natural language search that understands intent, not just keywords. Your visitors find what they need faster.

Content & Copy Generation

AI tools to draft product descriptions, blog posts, and marketing copy. Stays on-brand, saves you hours.

Personalisation & Recommendations

Show the right content to the right visitors. AI-driven recommendations that learn from behaviour.

Workflow Automation

Automate form processing, email triage, and data entry. Let AI handle the boring stuff so you can focus on growth.

Analytics & Insights

AI that analyses your site data and surfaces actionable insights. Understand visitors and make smarter decisions.

Trusted By.

We're proud to work with organisations of all sizes, from startups to established enterprises.

Long Relationships. Real Results.

Most of our clients have been with us for five years or more. AI handles the heavy lifting; a developer with 25+ years' experience designs every feature and tests every release. Here are the stories.

Furniture Manufacturing

First They Asked Us to Build. Then They Asked Us to Design.

A global furniture manufacturer arrived with someone else's designs and a brief to build them well. Five years and five websites later, we do the lot.

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Healthcare

The Clinical Platform That Ships Like a Startup.

Locala deliver NHS community healthcare. We built the bespoke platform that handles their clinical referrals, and we ship around 15 features a month on a two-day retainer.

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E-Commerce

Client Number One. Seven Years and Counting.

A children's toy brand with beautiful products and real operational complexity. They were our first ever client. They're still here, seven years later.

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Social Care

From One Workshop to the Whole Web Estate.

What began as a single strategy workshop is now a seven-year partnership covering everything Be Caring do online, across three live sites.

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E-Commerce

1,000 Products, Quotes, Card Payments and eBay. Sorted.

Lab equipment isn't a normal basket purchase. Quotes and card payments side by side, pallet shipping and eBay sync for a 1,000+ product catalogue.

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Property

A Rebrand and a Rebuild. Enterprise-Grade From Day One.

A full rebrand, a 36-page rebuild, an interactive coverage map and an independent penetration test passed with zero high or critical findings.

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Construction

Five Years of Steady Hosting. Then a Site Worth Showing Off.

We kept their old site solid for years, then built them one that matches the quality of their work. Honest advice, perfectly timed.

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Industrial Hygiene

Six Years of Quiet Reliability. Then the Rebuild.

Rescued in 2020, quietly maintained for years, then rebuilt so their own team could run it. Six years of reliability and counting.

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Frequently Asked.

The stuff people usually want to know before jumping in.

Small businesses, funded startups and established organisations: anyone who needs a website or product that keeps getting better without hiring a full-time team. Our client stories cover manufacturing, healthcare, e-commerce, social care, property and more.
WordPress, Shopify, custom-built sites, React apps: if it runs on the web, we can almost certainly work with it. We'll confirm the details in your free workshop.
AI does the production-line work: drafting code, generating content, running analysis. Every decision, review, and deployment is handled by a real person. Think of it as a developer with superpowers, not a robot left unsupervised.
Yes, and we often do. Several of our longest client relationships began with us rescuing or quietly maintaining a site we didn't build. We audit what's there, stabilise it, then improve it at whatever pace suits you.
Thirty minutes on a video call, completely free. We look at your site or product, show you where AI-powered development could take it, and you walk away with a practical action plan. No hard sell, no follow-up emails you didn't ask for.
100%. Everything we build is yours. Code, designs, documentation - all of it. You're never locked in to us. If you want to take it to another developer, crack on.

Let's Start with a Conversation.
Free. No hard sell. Promise.

Book a free workshop: thirty minutes on a video call, an honest look at what AI-powered development could do for your business, and a practical action plan you keep either way. If we're not the right fit, we'll say so.

No commitment
Honest advice
You own everything