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Case Studies

Real Cumbrian businesses, real Technophobia builds. Outdoor pursuits booking on Way Out West, direct-booking holiday lets at West Lakes Stays, 70-page local SEO for Total Access Scaffolding, AI chatbots at Block Moulds, an Event Management System for Lakeland Life Events, accessible council websites, Turkish delight ecommerce competing against Amazon — every project documented end to end. Pick a case study to see the build, the architecture, and what we delivered.

Bookings, ecommerce, custom builds

Plugin-powered and bespoke builds, live in the wild

Six case studies covering our productised plugins — Outdoor Pursuits Booking, Holiday Home Booking, Village Hall Booking, Motorhome Booking, the Build-A-Box ecommerce plugin behind Sultan Delights, and the bespoke Event Management System for Lakeland Life Events.

Way Out West Mountain Adventures

Outdoor pursuits booking with What3Words map, colour-coded calendar, Stripe at 1.4%, gift vouchers, and capacity tracking — Tier 2 build for Ros in the Western Lake District.

West Lakes Stays

Two holiday let sites, nine properties, iCal sync with Airbnb and Booking.com, deposits and balances handled automatically — direct bookings at 1.4% instead of 15-25% platform commission.

Kirksanton Village Hall

Three bookable spaces, tiered pricing by user type, colour-coded availability calendar, What’s On with online ticketing, deposit and insurance enforcement, Terms of Hire built into the flow.

Motorhome Booking

Motorhome and campervan hire platform with availability calendar, depot logic, deposits, and hire-period pricing — productised booking plugin live with rental operators in the Lakes.

Sultan Delights

Specialist Turkish delight ecommerce with a bespoke Build-A-Box plugin. Page 5 to page 2 against Amazon, M&S, Waitrose, and Fortnum & Mason through disciplined long-tail SEO.

Lakeland Life Events

Cumbria’s leading street food event organisers — 50+ vendors, 8 categories, full event management system. V1 in WordPress proved the model; V2 now rebuilding in React.

SEO, AI, accessibility, hospitality

Local SEO, AI assistants, councils, and hospitality

Six more case studies — multi-location SEO at scale for trades, accessibility-compliant council websites, AI chatbots and learner management, hospitality with on-site hardware installs, and food service plugins for cafés and food trucks.

Total Access Scaffolding

70+ pages across 12 service types and 22 Cumbrian locations, powered by our TP SEO Tool and TP PageForge. Local SEO at scale for a Millom-based scaffolding contractor.

Cumbrian Parish & Town Councils

Five councils across three commissions — Millom Without, Millom Town, Eskdale, Bootle, Whicham. WCAG 2.2 AA, Assertion 10 ready, .gov.uk registered, AI document workflow.

Block Moulds UK Ltd

WordPress site with an integrated AI chatbot — trained on the product range, handling enquiries with Twilio SMS fallback. Engineering meets AI for a real-world manufacturing client.

Learner Management System

Custom WordPress plugin for a training provider — four role dashboards, grant eligibility engine, ILR compliance fields, DocuSeal integration. Bespoke from the ground up.

Mawsons Ice Cream Parlour

Seascale hospitality with a live CCTV stream on the home page — backed by a dedicated on-site machine and a custom auto-start script so the feed survives reboots and power cuts.

TP Food

Food service ordering plugin for cafés, food trucks, and quick-service venues — menu management, ordering flow, payment integration, built around the way small food businesses actually run.

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What Cumbrian businesses say about working with us

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