Senior UX Strategy & Growth Operations

Build a better platform. Grow a better business.

We’re a UK husband-and-wife digital partnership. Darren builds high-performance WordPress platforms. Kirsty runs your marketing engine. No juniors. No account managers. Just us.

Trusted by

The People’s Pension

Fund Boards Council

WPS Advisory

The Pension Calendar

Build

Platform & UX

WordPress builds, UX audits, VIP Day sprints, and managed hosting. Built to enterprise standards.
WordPress

UX audit

VIP day

Hosting

Grow

Marketing & SEO

Local SEO, fractional marketing ops, content systems, and rank tracking. Consistent, every week.

Local SEO

Growth Ops

Rank Map

Content

Where do you need help?

What's your biggest bottleneck right now?

Most businesses have one of two problems. Sometimes both. We fix both – and we’re built to run them simultaneously.

My platform is broken

Your site is slow, doesn’t convert, is difficult to update, or you’ve outgrown it entirely. It’s costing you business every day you leave it.

WordPress build

UX audit

VIP day sprint

Hosting & care

My marketing is silent

You know you should be posting, emailing your list, and ranking on Google – but client work always takes priority. Your competitors are getting the calls.

Local SEO

Growth Ops

Rank Map

Content

All services

Choose a sprint or a system.

One-off projects to fix specific problems. Retainers to keep the engine running. Everything built to the same senior standard.

Build

WordPress design & development

Custom, high-performance platforms built for speed, scale, and conversions. No bloated templates.

From £1,500 + VAT

Strategy

UX & accessibility audit

A forensic review of your user experience. We find the friction points killing your conversions in 48 hours.

£749 + VAT one-off

POPULAR
Rapid build

The VIP day

Custom, high-performance platforms built for speed, scale, and conversions. No bloated templates.

From £1,500 + VAT

Local SEO

Google Maps Dominance

Get into the Google Map Pack. Profile optimisation, citations, and weekly review management.

From £350 + VAT/month

Growth Ops

Fractional Marketing Team

Done-for-you marketing. You give us one hour a month. We turn it into consistent weekly output.

From £750 + VAT/month

Hosting & care

Managed WordPress Hosting

Secure managed hosting including £60+/month of plugin licences (Elementor, ACF, and more).

From £85 + VAT/month

Digitopia Labs

New products. Fixed price. No meetings.

Self-serve digital products you can buy right now.

Rank Map - new

See exactly where you rank on Google Maps.

A 7×7 grid heatmap showing your visibility across 49 points in your service area. Branded PDF in 24 hours.

£97 + VAT one off

Virtual headshots - beta

5 professional headshots. No studio. 48 hours.

Upload your photos. AI generates. A designer checks every output before it reaches you.

£49 + VAT one off

No juniors. No account managers.

Just us. Every time.

When you hire Digitopia, you get Darren and Kirsty Wells — not an agency hierarchy that routes your project to the most junior available person.

Most agencies are good at either building or marketing. We do both simultaneously.

Design & Strategy Director

Darren Wells

Former UX Manager at The People’s Pension. 20+ years building high-compliance, high-performance digital platforms. Builds every site personally.

Operations & Growth Director

Kirsty Wells

15+ years in digital growth. Specialises in turning inconsistent marketing into reliable monthly lead flow. Runs every campaign personally.

20+

Years combined senior experience

100%

Senior execution on every project

30-day

Rolling contracts on all retainers

48hr

Response to all enquiries

“Most agencies are great at building or marketing. We built Digitopia to do both simultaneously — so your platform and growth strategy are always working together, never in separate silos.”

— Darren Wells, Co-Founder

Ready to fix your digital ecosystem?

Book a free 15-minute triage call. No pitch, no hard sell — just an honest conversation about where you are and whether we're the right fit.

Common questions

Things people usually ask.

Why a VIP Day instead of a normal project?

Normal projects suffer from scope creep and slow feedback loops. By time-boxing work to 8 hours, we focus entirely on high-impact tasks. You get a finished result in one day, not six weeks.

Do I have to sign a long-term contract?

For Growth Ops and Local SEO retainers — no. We work on 30-day rolling terms. For audits and project work it’s a one-off fee. No lock-ins.

I'm not in financial services. Can you help?

Absolutely. While Darren has deep regulated-sector experience, our systems work for any service business — trades, clinics, consultants, agencies, coaches, and local businesses.

Can you run build and marketing simultaneously?

Yes — this is our strongest proposition. Darren builds your platform while Kirsty runs your marketing. You don’t pause one to do the other.

Do you write content for us?

For Growth Ops, we repurpose your expertise — not invent it. You give us a video or voice note. We turn it into polished posts, emails, and articles. It sounds like you, just better.

What's the difference between the agency and Labs?

digitopia.design is the agency — bespoke project and retainer work. Digitopia Labs is our product engine — fixed-price products you can buy without a call.

Senior UX Strategy and Growth Operations for UK service businesses. We build your platform and run your marketing engine. No juniors. No account managers.

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