Websites + AI front desk for UK trades

Stop losing work to whoever picked up first.

It answers. It quotes. It books.

You're on the tools; your phone's going. Kerbsmith builds you a proper website — custom built for your trade and your patch, not a template with your name dropped in — and then keeps it current. Message me on WhatsApp and the change goes live, same day on Growth and up. No setup fee.

You get me, not a call centre. I answer WhatsApp myself.

No setup fee Four-month minimum Your domain from month four

Missed call · 09:12

07700 900446 — while you were under a kitchen floor.

Missed call · 09:16

Same customer, trying again. Third ring and they're on to the next name.

Your AI front desk · 09:17

“Booked — boiler service, Thursday 8:30. It's in your calendar.”

What the top plan does while you work

What every plan handles

Everything a trade's website needs. Done for you.

You send photos and prices over WhatsApp. We do the rest — and everything stays in your name.

A site built to win local work

Five pages, written and designed around your trade — your jobs, your patch, your prices. Fast enough to rank, clear enough to get the phone ringing.

Edits over WhatsApp

“Call-out's £95 from Monday” — message us and it's done. Same day on Growth and up, within 48 hours on Starter.

Your domain, yours to keep

We buy it and we pay for it. From month four it is yours on request — transferred free, whether you stay or go.

Local SEO that compounds

Google Business Profile, citations, location pages. The boring work that puts you above the directories.

Hosting & security handled

SSL, backups, updates — on the same infrastructure the big agencies charge four figures for.

The AI Front Desk — on the top plan

While you're on a job it answers your WhatsApp, quotes your call-out fee and books work into your calendar. Missed calls get a text back before the customer dials the next name.

See it answer a customer ↓

Same-day edits

A message is all it takes.

No portal, no ticket number, no “we'll get to it next week”. This is a real price change, from your first message to live on the site.

  1. 09:04

    You send us the change

    Anything on the site: prices, photos, a new service area.

    Morning. The call-out fee is going up to £95 from Monday. Could you update it? 09:04
  2. 11:38

    We make the edit

    We make the change and send a preview link, so you see it before anyone else does.

    All done. Here's a preview before it goes live: 11:38
  3. 11:52

    You approve it

    A quick reply signs it off. No forms, no approval portal to log into.

    That's perfect, thanks. Happy for it to go live. 11:52
  4. 11:55

    It's live

    Same day on Growth and AI Front Desk. Within 48 hours on Starter.

    jd-heating.co.uk updated

The same number handles changes, questions and “can you just…” requests. You talk to the person who built your site, every time.

AI Front Desk · the top plan

It answers. It quotes. It books. You keep working.

Your customers already live on WhatsApp. Now your business answers it in seconds — even at 7pm on a Tuesday, when you're elbow-deep in a combi.

  • Your prices, not its guesses It quotes from the price list you approve — call-out fee, hourly rate, boiler service. Anything else is a clearly labelled estimate.

  • Real bookings, straight into your calendar It offers slots you're actually free for and writes the job in. You confirm the final price before any work — always.

  • Knows when to get a human Gas smell, flooding, CO alarm — it stops quoting, points the customer to the emergency line and alerts you at once. Never books an emergency as a Tuesday job.

Get the AI Front Desk — £219/mo

Included in the top plan. No per-minute fees — one flat monthly price.

Demo — what your customer sees

JD Heating & Gas online

Today

Every reply comes from the price list and rules you set — it holds your rates, labels estimates as estimates, and flags the tricky ones to you.

The going rate

You already pay for marketing. It's just not yours.

£50–£120 a month — before a single lead fee.

Featured tiers run £199–£399. Then it's £5–£40 per lead, and the same lead is sold to up to four other trades. You're paying to race your competitors.

Published membership rates & terms, July 2026

“From £499” to build — and the site is never yours.

Twelve-month contracts as standard, and if you cancel, the website stays with them. You're renting your own shopfront.

Published pricing & contract terms, July 2026

Six-month minimums, setup fees, and the AI sold as an extra.

Even the agencies built for trades tie you in for months, charge to get started, and price the receptionist bot as a bolt-on.

Published pricing of UK trade-website specialists, July 2026

For less than that, you could keep your domain, keep every lead, and never sign a contract.

Who you're dealing with

One person. Your person.

Kerbsmith is a one-person studio. The person who builds your site is the person who answers your WhatsApp — no account manager, no ticket queue, no “I'll pass that to the team”. That's why edits move fast: there's no one to pass them to.

You get a hand-built site on the same modern infrastructure the four-figure agencies use, a real human on the end of the number, and an AI that only ever says what you'd say yourself.

Built in the UK, for plumbers, heating engineers and electricians first — because those are the phones that ring while you're on the tools.

// THE PERSON

Michael — founder, Kerbsmith

I build websites for people who work with their hands. No agency, no account managers, no call centre — you deal with me. I started Kerbsmith because I kept seeing good tradesmen lose work to worse ones with better websites, and that shouldn't cost four figures to fix.

No forms. No callbacks. No “discovery call”.

Send one message. That's the whole sales process.

Tell us your trade and your town. You get me, not a call centre — I answer WhatsApp myself, usually the same day, with what I'd build and exactly what it costs.

And if you don't reply, we don't chase. One message means one message.