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Twenty-two years building websites for small businesses.

I started building websites in 2004, hand-coding layouts before content management systems were common. Through custom web development work, and co-leading an international distributed team of 26 at Mediamint for AdRoll, a world leading performance marketing platform, one thing stayed constant: a website is a business tool. It works or it doesn't. Design matters, build quality matters, and somebody has to care enough to get both right.

Ratiom is a new business. The experience behind it isn't. Today I work as a small business web designer for businesses in East London and across the UK. After years across web design, web development, digital project management and working daily with advertising performance data and landing pages, one gap was clear: most small businesses don't need a complicated website. They need a well-built, properly designed one. Ratiom exists to provide exactly that, at a fixed price that makes sense.

Gary O’Toole, founder and web designer at Ratiom
Gary O’Toole, founder.
Kraków — for UK clients.

The short version of how I got here.

2004

Started in web design

Hand-coding business websites and learning how the web actually works underneath it all.

Your site is built with a proper understanding of web design — not assembled from a generic template without real thought behind it.

2010

Custom web development

Building custom websites and content tools for businesses that needed sites they could manage.

You get web development experience built up over many years — not something picked up recently and still being worked out.

2015

Director of Digital Development, BM Soho

Leading a digital team on web, ecommerce and digital marketing for clients who tracked results closely.

Websites had to justify their existence as business tools, not just design pieces. Process and delivery matter.

2020

AdRoll, via MediaMint

Working in advertising technology, spending time daily with websites, landing pages, and campaign performance data.

Reviewing websites and digital campaigns daily, at scale, builds grounded judgement about what works and what doesn't.

2026

Ratiom

Custom websites for small businesses in East London and across the UK, fixed at £997 — one focused product.

Everything above goes into a single product: custom small business web design, delivered personally and priced to make sense.

Three things I don’t compromise on.

01

One price, quoted upfront

No hidden fees, no surprise retainers. You know exactly what you'll pay before we start.

02

Plain language, always

No jargon. We talk about your services and your customers, not the technology underneath.

03

I put my name on the work.

Your website is designed, built, and delivered by me — not passed to someone else.

Ready to get a properly built website?

Fixed £997. Custom site. Built by me for you.

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