Most businesses end up juggling a web developer, a marketing agency and now an “AI person”, none of whom talk to each other. I’m one person who does all three. Set up by me, run by me, accountable to you.
What I do
No handoffs, no account managers. The person who builds your site is the same one who answers the phone when something breaks, and the same one running your AI.
The essentials · doing this since 1999
Sites and platforms built well and looked after properly, from WordPress to modern stacks like Next.js and headless CMS. Updates, backups, uptime, fixes: the unglamorous work that keeps your business online.
A straight answer from someone who’s seen 26 years of digital fads come and go. What to build, what to buy, what to ignore, and honest advice when the fashionable option isn’t the right one.
Online stores launched and grown for furniture, food and events, with the search, email and paid-media work that keeps orders coming in.
The AI layer · where it gets interesting
A catalogue of tools I’ve built and own: review management, customer-service agents, content and video generators, booking systems. I set them up for your business and operate them as a service.
Systems that find your ideal customers, research them, and open the conversation: personalised pitch videos, intelligent prospecting, voice and email agents.
When your problem doesn’t fit an off-the-shelf tool: custom AI woven into the site or systems you already have, from guest-facing assistants to internal automations.
The catalogue
Every one of these exists because a real client needed it. Each is delivered as a managed service: my software, my upkeep, your results.
AI drafts on-brand replies to every Google review across all your locations, and politely asks happy customers to leave one. Negative reviews get flagged to a human first.
An email agent that answers routine customer enquiries in your tone of voice, around the clock, and hands anything sensitive straight to you.
Turns property listings or product photos into polished marketing videos with voiceover and music, in minutes rather than days.
Social posts and SEO articles written and scheduled for your business, with images generated to match, for consistent output without the weekly scramble.
An embeddable booking system with deposits and payments built in. Powers real venues taking real money today.
An AI site builder that produces a bespoke, on-brand website from your existing presence, so a redesign takes days rather than months.
Give it a prospect’s website; it returns a personalised 30-second narrated video pitch. Cold outreach that doesn’t feel cold.
Finds and qualifies companies that match your ideal customer, with AI-written research on why each one is worth your time.
Automated penetration testing of your website and systems, four times a year, with a plain-English report of what to fix.
How it works
The model is deliberately old-fashioned, even if the technology isn’t.
You tell me what’s eating your time or holding back growth. I tell you honestly whether AI helps, and say so plainly when it doesn’t.
I configure the right product for your business: your tone, your rules, your approvals. Nothing goes out under your name that you haven’t sanctioned.
A monthly retainer covers operation, monitoring and improvements, the same way I’ve looked after clients’ websites for years. When you ring, it’s me who answers, not an account manager or a junior.
Clients
“Dave has been our trusted digital partner for years. He treats our business like his own.”
David Jenkinson · CEO, C21 Media
About
The name isn’t an accident. Good judgement, like good brandy, takes years, and mine has been maturing since the late nineties: agencies, media companies, ecommerce, startups. The websites, the maintenance, the consultancy: that work carries on exactly as it always has, and it’s still the backbone of what I do.
What AI changed is the ceiling. The constraint was always hours: how much careful work one person could do for you. AI lifted that, without removing the need for judgement: someone who knows your business, checks the output, and takes responsibility when it matters. That combination, machines that scale and a person who cares, is the whole idea behind Brandy.
If you want a label: part fractional CTO, part hands-on builder. I set the strategy like the former, then actually do the work, which is where the former usually stops.
I work with a small number of retained clients so each one gets genuine attention. Most are owner-managers, directors and CEOs, and the conversations start with the business, not the technology. If we work together, you deal with me.
Let’s talk
A conversation costs nothing and I won’t chase you afterwards. If AI can genuinely help your business, I’ll show you exactly how, with something real rather than a slide deck.