Sound familiar?
The website headache, solved.
About a quarter of UK trade businesses have no website at all, and most of the rest are paying someone else for their own customers.
Brixels for tradesmen
Answer a few questions and Brixels does the research, the design and the words. You check it, approve it and run it from your phone: photos, enquiries, jobs and reviews in one place.
Sound familiar?
About a quarter of UK trade businesses have no website at all, and most of the rest are paying someone else for their own customers.
An out-of-date site loses jobs to the bloke down the road, and customers who Google you find nothing or something ancient.
Premium templates with your real reviews and credentials, pulled from verified sources, never made up.
Directories charge monthly plus per lead, the leads are shared, and the customer relationship belongs to them.
How it works
Your trade, your services, your areas. That's all the builder needs.
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Your trade, the jobs you want and where you work. The AI builder writes and designs the whole site.
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Compare honestly
Credit where it's due: every option below works for someone. Here's the honest picture for a busy tradesman.
| Brixels | Wix / Squarespace | Local web agency | Checkatrade / Bark | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who does the building | AI does the research, design and words. You check it and hit publish. | You do. Real users report 40 to 60 hours in year one. | The agency does, on their timeline. |
“Easiest and best AI website builder I’ve used.”
$25/month
Software only. Build, publish and run a website, cancel anytime. Everything included, nothing to bolt on.
$10/month
Zero risk
Build and preview your site free. Publish when you're happy: $25 a month, cancel anytime. Not happy with your first website inside 30 days? Cancel and get a full refund.
Your own site on your own domain. Enquiries come straight to you with no per-lead fee, and a jobs board follows them up by email.
DIY builders eat your evenings, and one wrong drag breaks the mobile layout.
The AI runs 20+ research steps before it writes a word. Afterwards you only ever touch words and photos, never a page builder.
See your finished site before you pay a penny, and share the preview link with anyone.
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Connect a domain, go live, and manage photos, enquiries and jobs from your phone.
| Nobody. You get a listing, not a website. |
| Year-one cost | $300: $25 a month, only while live. Build and preview free. | From about £9 a month, but real year-one costs commonly reach $550 to $1,000+ with add-ons. | £500 to £2,500 to build, then £40 to £100 a month upkeep. | Commonly £100+ a month in membership before a single lead, plus per-lead fees. |
| Who owns the site and enquiries | You. Your domain at the wholesale price, enquiries straight to you. | You own the site, but Wix has no site export: leaving means rebuilding. | Some agencies hold the keys, and the domain. Check your contract. | They own the customer relationship. Stop paying, leads stop. |
| Editing after launch | Change words and photos yourself. Swap the whole look without a rebuild. | Full control, but the editor is the time sink and mobile layouts break. | Email the agency and wait. Small changes can be billable. | You edit a profile, not a website. |
| Getting found on Google | Built from real search demand for your services and areas, with full schema and your own GA4 set up for you. | Possible, but it's all on you. | Good agencies do this well, at agency rates. | You rank under their brand, not yours. |
| Leads and jobs | Every enquiry lands in a built-in jobs board, with email follow-ups. | Form submissions in your inbox. Tracking is extra setup. | Usually not included. | Their app tracks the leads you paid for. |
| Lock-in | Cancel anytime. 30-day money-back guarantee on your first site. | No template switch on a live Wix site, no export. | Contracts vary. Ask who owns the code and domain. | Memberships and credits keep billing whether leads convert or not. |
| The honest credit | New, and the trades are all we do. | Genuinely simple to get online, and Squarespace looks clean. | A good local agency that answers the phone is worth real money. | Real jobs do come through them. Some trades do fine on it. |
Competitor prices and user-reported figures as of July 2026, from public pricing pages and named review platforms (Trustpilot, G2, community forums). We re-check before every update. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we'll fix it.
For portfolios. Your 10th site costs a tenner: from your 10th live website, every site is just $10 a month, automatically. Your first 9 stay $25 each.
Pricing
Build free. Pay when you publish.
Yes. Connect a domain you own or buy one through Brixels, and connect your Google Business Profile to show real reviews.
Yes. Change words, photos, pages, colours and your logo from your dashboard. Changes go live instantly.