Who we are

We have spent time on site. It shows in the work.

Hardhat Webdesign is a small studio that builds for trade businesses exclusively. We know what a quote looks like, how a job gets won, and why a slow website quietly costs you both.

A full site crew lined up outside a half-finished building, with a hand-drawn yellow arrow labelled "This guy" pointing out our founder among them
Our story

It started with one badly built website.

Our founder spent six years estimating for a groundworks contractor before ever touching a line of code. The firm paid five figures for a website that took eleven seconds to load and never once appeared in a search result.

That was the whole lesson. Trade businesses were being sold websites by people who had never stood on a site, never priced a job, and never had to explain to a client why the phone stopped ringing.

So we built the studio we wished that company had hired — one that treats a website as a piece of work with a scope, a programme and a handover, not a creative exercise.

  • We only take on trade and construction clients
  • Every quote is fixed before a single file is created
  • You get the keys: domain, hosting, source, all of it
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How we got here

Three years, one trade.

We have deliberately stayed small and stayed specialised. Here is roughly how the studio grew.

  1. 2023

    Off the tools, onto the keyboard

    The switch from the trades to web development, with years of hands-on site work already behind it. The industry knowledge came first; the code came second.

  2. 2025

    Hardhat Webdesign full time

    The side work became the only work. No other industries, no other kind of client — just trade businesses that needed a site worth having.

  3. 2026

    First ten sites live

    Ten trade businesses launched and running, every one of them still ours to support.

The crew

Two people you will actually speak to.

No account managers and no handoffs. The people who scope your project are the people who build it and the people who answer the phone afterwards.

Ilya Pavlovski, Founder & Lead Build

Ilya Pavlovski

Founder & Lead Build

Six months in a blue hard hat doing commercial construction, then two years on residential sites with no hard hat at all. Now he enjoys putting it on and taking it off, whichever the day calls for.

Andreas Costille, Engineering & Delivery

Andreas Costille

Engineering & Delivery

Six years in a white hard hat, but never more than a week a year — that is how often field duty as a telecom engineer actually put him on site. A white hard hat guy without giving off the white hard hat vibes.

Want to see what we would do with yours?

Send us the address of your current site. We will come back with an honest assessment of what is holding it back — no charge, no obligation.