Rapid prototyping
See your website before anyone commits to building it.
Tell us what your business does. We build a working prototype of your site — designed, tested and online — from that alone. No meetings, no sign-off, no invoice.
How it works
Five steps, one pass. We come back to you once, to check we have understood, and after that the point is to show you something rather than ask you things.
You answer twelve questions
About ten minutes. Most of them optional. Blank answers are fine — they tell us as much as full ones.
We check we have understood
One email from a person, not a form. If what you need is not something we can do well, this is where we say so rather than build you something mediocre.
We fill the gaps, and say so
Name, colours, pages, wording. Every field is marked as something you supplied, something we derived, or something we invented.
We build and test it
The same test suite our paying clients get: accessibility, performance, cross-browser, links, security headers.
You get a URL
A real site you can open on your phone and send to a colleague. Not a picture of one. It stays up for a week, because a demonstration is built to be thrown away — say the word and we will put it back any time.
What a prototype is not
Worth being blunt about, because the whole value of a prototype is that it looks real.
- Not a live website. It says so on every page, in plain English, where anyone can see it.
- Not findable. Unindexable in three independent ways, so an invented business can never turn up in a search result as though it were trading.
- Not signed off, and not warranted. There are no approval gates during the build and nothing to revise against, which is what makes it fast. The one email beforehand is the only step.
- Never about a real business, including yours. The demonstration always trades under a name we make up and search first, so nothing on it can be read as a claim about anyone real. Nothing identifies a real person or company either — no testimonials, no named staff, no client lists, no credentials. Where a real site would carry those, you see a visible placeholder.
Then what?
Most people use it to find out whether they like the direction, or to show a partner something concrete. If you want it built properly — owned by you, with sign-off gates, test evidence and manuals — that is WebSandpit, and the prototype is a good starting point for it.