Custom websites,
apps, and senior
product hands.
L.I.S.Trade designs, builds and looks after digital things for UK businesses. Custom websites with hosting and care. Bespoke apps shipped end-to-end. Senior Product Owner & Business Analyst contracts, direct from the founder. Three services, one umbrella, prices on the page.
Plumbing & heating, done right.
Family-run, Gas Safe registered, serving your area since the day we said we would.
Live
Three services.
All hands-on.
L.I.S.Trade is a small UK studio that designs, builds, hosts and maintains digital things for small businesses — plus senior product / BA contract work direct from the founder. Trades is our first focus for websites, but every offering is open to any UK business with a real problem to solve.
Custom websites
We design, build, host and maintain your site — end to end. £1,295 setup, £79/mo optional care plan (hosting, security, edits, basic SEO). For trades we even build a working demo from your public info before you commit a penny. Open to small businesses outside the trades too — ask.
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Custom apps
Bespoke web and mobile apps for small businesses. React, TypeScript, Supabase, Anthropic AI integration, mobile-first PWA delivery. Production-grade. Two weeks for a working prototype, not two quarters. TasteReel below is the proof.
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Senior PO / BA contracts
22+ years inside large UK regulated businesses. Available on contract through L.I.S.Trade Ltd as Senior Business Analyst, Agile Product Owner, or Product Manager. Embedded in your team for a sprint, a project, or a longer engagement. Day-rate or fixed-scope.
Read the background →TasteReel — AI movie & TV recs that actually learn.
A consumer product we built end-to-end. Rate films 1–10, the app infers a 10-dimensional taste profile, then surfaces watches with witty, specific reasons. Free to try, no account needed, live at tastereelapp.com. If you want an app like this, you're in the right place.
Meet the builder.
Every quote, every line of code, every email comes back to one person. That's the point of the umbrella — clean invoicing, one point of contact, no account managers.
Ian Stephenson — Senior BA & Agile Product Owner, available for contract.
22+ years across UK regulated financial services — most recently a senior BA role inside a large operations function. Hands-on through every kind of organisational change: platform migrations, ownership transitions, regulatory programmes, business-configurable system rollouts. Typically the person translating between business stakeholders, product, and engineering.
Comfortable owning end-to-end delivery of new platforms, regulatory implementation programmes, RFP and tender management, UAT and benefits realisation. Now using all of that to run L.I.S.Trade — and available for contract through the umbrella as an embedded Senior BA, Product Owner or Product Manager. Day-rate or fixed-scope, your call.
Websites, apps, contract product hands. Each one priced on the page. Each one delivered by the same person who quoted it.
No account managers. No offshore handoff. No "I'll have to check with the team." You speak to the builder. Always.
Own what you pay for. Care plan is opt-in. Cancel anytime. The site, app, or work product stays yours, full stop.
Most businesses are under-served by the people meant to be helping them."
Whether it's a website, a custom app, or a contract product hire, the pattern is the same. Smaller buyers get pushed toward expensive bespoke work they don't need; larger ones get sold cheap subscription products that own them more than they own the product, or contract hires routed through three layers of agency.
L.I.S.Trade exists to be the middle path. Premium quality. Fair price. Total ownership. Whatever we build — a site for a sole trader, an app for a small team, or a sprint embedded in your product organisation — the same rules apply: priced on the page, owned by the customer, delivered hands-on.
One service at a time. One customer at a time. Every offering under the umbrella has to earn its place — and earn its customer's trust — before we move on to the next.
Four principles.
No exceptions.
These aren't slogans. They're the rules we ship by. Every venture passes through them. If something we build can't sit comfortably with all four, we don't ship it.
Show the work first
Demos, prototypes, working drafts. Anyone we ask for money sees what they're buying before a penny moves.
Customers own what they pay for
No subscription locks where the customer disappears the day they stop paying. Cancellable doesn't mean rentable.
Small, fast, finished
We ship narrow products well rather than wide products half-built. Each venture stays focused on its sharpest problem.
Honest about price
Pricing on the website. Pricing in the pitch. No "request a quote" theatre. Customers deserve to know before they call.
Four ways to reach us.
Pick whichever suits. All four arrive in the same inbox. We read every message and reply within two working days.