Not sure what is wrong?
Site Audit: a structured review of your existing site.
A senior outside opinion on why the right enquiries are not arriving, and what to change first. Useful whether or not we are ever involved in fixing it.
€1,500, fixed.
Boutique web studio · Lisbon
Your website should be working as hard as you do.
We build websites for professional services that earn trust before the first conversation, and we keep them earning it long after launch.
See what may be holding the site backThe Problem
Most professional services websites describe the practice. Very few make hiring it feel obvious.
A prospective client does not arrive at your site looking for a list of facts. They arrive with a commercial question: is this who we should speak to. If the site only explains what you do, who you are, and how long you have been doing it, it may be accurate. Accuracy is not persuasion.
The cost is quiet but real. The right clients hesitate, compare, delay, or choose the competitor whose website made the decision easier. Referrers send people to a site that does not quite make the case. The first call spends its first half explaining the basics.
You have done nothing wrong. The site has simply fallen behind the business. The useful question is what kind of gap you are dealing with. This opinion explains why hiring should feel obvious, and the next section lays out three ways to start fixing it.
The Path
Three ways to start, depending on where you are.
The practice has moved on?
Repositioning Project: a full-service website rebuild.
We work out what you now need to be known for, then build the site that makes it obvious. Strategy first, then design, build, and launch.
Eight to twelve weeks. Quoted after a scoping call.
The site is right. Keep it that way.
Maintenance Plan: ongoing care and improvement.
Fast, secure, current, and looked after by one accountable pair of hands, so you never have to think about it.
From €69 per month. No minimum term.
How we work
Senior judgement, direct collaboration, and no methodology theatre.
You work with Patrick.
The person who diagnoses the problem handles the strategy, structure, design decisions, build, and launch. No account manager, no translation layer.
Your time is spent deciding, not managing.
Recommendations come with the reasoning attached, so you can approve or push back. A short Friday note covers what was done, what is next, and any decision needed.
Strategy comes before design.
Positioning, audience, and site architecture are agreed first. Design then has a clear job, to make the case visible and usable.
Launch is not the finish line.
The site is kept fast, secure, current, and commercially useful after it goes live. One accountable person operates what they build.
"Patrick was more than a web consultant. His dual focus on visual appeal and business functionality ensured that the site not only looked great, but also performed effectively and had room to improve and scale in the future. A true creative partner."
Selected work
Thomas Gaultier
Mediation for the extractive industry. A site that makes a rare, high-stakes specialism legible to the few clients who need exactly it, and now does the explaining the first call used to.
Lisbon Particulier
Independent real-estate adviser, Lisbon. Positioned for discerning buyers who want one trusted person, not a portal.
Espace Proactif
Subscription investment writing for private individuals, in French. Built so the writing earns the subscription: clear, credible, and easy to commit to.
A useful first reply
Start with an honest read, not a pitch.
Tell us about the practice and the site. Patrick replies within one business day with a straight answer: whether we can help, and what we would do first.