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Launch by Distinctive // AI-led websites, agency managed

Stop prompting your way to a website. Get professional lift-off.

Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Codex can write a decent web page. Then come the hours of prompting, the deployment, the hosting, the email and the missing features. Launch is an AI-led WordPress website, built and fully managed by an agency with 15+ years' experience.

£250 setup £24.99/month Built on WordPress 15+ years' experience
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The DIY orbit trap

AI gets you a web page. It doesn't get you into orbit.

AI assistants do a good job of the first draft. Here's what nobody mentions in the prompt.

Building with Claude ChatGPT Gemini Codex …and the rest
TRAP 01 ALERT

The prompt loop.

"One more prompt" turns into 20+ hours of fixing mobile layouts, broken forms and AI hallucinations instead of running your business.

TRAP 02 ALERT

The deployment wall.

The code lives in a chat window. Getting it live means hosting, domains, DNS, SSL and a deployment setup you now have to maintain.

TRAP 03 ALERT

The subscription stack.

An AI plan, hosting, a form handler, an email provider, domain markups. "Free" becomes a stack of monthly bills before the site has earned a penny.

TRAP 04 ALERT

The missing features.

No business email (you@yourdomain.co.uk), no spam protection, no security updates, no easy way to edit content, and nobody to call when it breaks.

Cost analysis

Calculate your true launch cost.

Add up the hours, the stress, the extra subscriptions and the missing features of finishing an AI-built site yourself. Then compare it with a fully managed Distinctive build.

Time Stress Subscriptions Missing features
Module // Cost comparison Ready
Project scope
Site scale
What the site needs
Complex requirements
£50/hr
£25/hr£150/hr
Year one telemetry
The DIY / AI stack ALERT
Hours burned–
Your time, at your rate–
Subscriptions and tools–
Real year one cost –
Distinctive Launch ALL CLEAR
One-off setup£250
12 months of hosting, email and support£299.88
Your timeA short brief
Year one, all in £549.88

How we work this out

Side by side

Same website. Very different mission.

What you take on when you finish an AI-built site yourself, against what Launch takes off your hands.

DIY with AI
Distinctive Launch
Getting it live
You work out deployment
Deployed for you
Website hosting and SSL
Another subscription
Included
Business email
DNS, SPF and DKIM are on you
Configured for you
Spam-protected forms
Another tool to bolt on
Included
Security and core updates
Your job, every month
Handled by us, monthly
Editing content
Back to the chat window
WordPress
Human support
None
A real team in Taunton
Your time
20+ hours, then upkeep
A short brief
Cost
A stack of monthly bills
£250, then £24.99/month
Flight specs // Cargo manifest

What's in the cargo hold.

£250 setup · then £24.99/month
Manifest LCH-01 6 crates // Hold: Launch All cargo loaded
Crate 01 / 06 Loaded

3–5 page AI-led build.

Home, About, Services, Contact, Legal. Built fast with AI, finished by our designers and developers.

Crate 02 / 06 Loaded

UK high-speed managed cloud hosting & SSL.

Provisioned, monitored, and renewed by us.

Crate 03 / 06 Loaded

Fully configured business email.

you@yourdomain.co.uk, with DNS, SPF and DKIM set correctly.

Crate 04 / 06 Loaded

Spam-protected lead capture forms.

Enquiries land in your inbox, not a spam folder.

Crate 05 / 06 Loaded

Managed monthly core/security audits & human support.

A real team in Taunton with 15+ years' experience, not a chatbot queue.

Crate 06 / 06 Loaded

Built on WordPress.

Open-source and manageable, with an easy upgrade path to bespoke builds later. No lock-in.

Mission budget

One price to launch. One to stay in orbit.

No tiers, no add-on maze. Here's exactly what each figure covers.

One-off setup

£250

  • Your website, builtA 3–5 page AI-led WordPress site, finished by our designers and developers.
  • Email and forms configuredBusiness mailbox, DNS, SPF, DKIM and spam-protected lead forms.
  • Launched for youDomain connected, SSL in place, site live.
Managed monthly

£24.99 /month

  • Website hostingUK high-speed managed cloud hosting and SSL.
  • EmailYour professional business mailbox, kept running.
  • SupportA real team in Taunton, plus monthly core and security audits.

Quoted separately, always up front: content updates made by our team, extra pages, and anything in the Bespoke Agency Tier.

Scope & safety boundaries

Launch is not an e-commerce site.

Launch covers high-converting brochure sites. Need online booking, user memberships, or e-commerce? Those require Distinctive's Bespoke Agency Tier.

Starting on Launch? Every Launch site is built on WordPress, so you can upgrade to a bespoke build later without starting again.

Bespoke Agency Tier

Need more thrust? Go Bespoke.

  • → Online booking Appointments, scheduling and calendars.
  • → User memberships Logins, gated content and member areas.
  • → E-commerce Product catalogues, checkout and payments.
Enquire about Bespoke → Scoped and quoted per project.
Mission briefing

The questions we get asked first.

File LCH-FAQ5 entriesCleared for release
Comms channel open

Still unsure? Ask us directly.

No jargon, no fluff. A real team in Taunton answers.

Ask a question →

AI tools do a good job of a first draft. What they don't do is deploy it, host it, secure it, set up your email or fix it when it breaks. Launch hands you a finished WordPress site built by a team with 15+ years' experience, with hosting, business email, security and support in one monthly figure.

Yes. Launch covers 3–5 pages. Extra pages are quoted individually, and because the site is built on WordPress you can upgrade to a bespoke Distinctive build without starting again.

Yes. Your site runs on WordPress, so content stays easy to manage rather than locked inside a chat window. Need changes made? Our team handles content updates at an additional cost, quoted up front.

No. The £250 setup is one-off and the £24.99 monthly management fee runs month to month. Cancel and the site and domain remain yours.

Those sit outside Launch, which covers high-converting brochure sites. They need Distinctive's Bespoke Agency Tier, scoped and quoted per project. Tell us what you need in the enquiry form and we'll point you the right way.

Flight log

Brands already in orbit.

15+ years of agency experience

We have used Sam and his team since we set up as Townsend Lettings 10 years ago this year. They are patient and professional, thank you for our fabulous new website, it is exactly what we wanted.

Jane Townsend Townsend Lettings 5-star Google review
Flight plan

From brief to orbit in four steps.

  1. Step 01

    Brief.

    Tell us about your business and what the site needs to do. One short brief, no jargon.

  2. Step 02

    Build.

    We build your AI-led WordPress site and share it with you for review.

  3. Step 03

    Launch.

    We connect your domain, set up hosting, SSL and business email, and take it live.

  4. Step 04

    Orbit.

    Hosting, email and support carry on every month for £24.99. You get on with the business.

Countdown open

Ready for lift-off?

Close the chat window. Get a professional web presence for £250, built by an agency with 15+ years' experience.

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