James Ansell
Founder & Director
James founded Code23 in 2005 and has led it since, building marketplaces, SaaS products and websites for UK businesses.
Articles by James Ansell
158 published articles on the Code23 blog.
The Death of the Agency Hourly Rate: UK Development Costs in 2026
Why hourly billing can shift project risk to the buyer, what published UK pricing data shows, and how Code23 prices fixed-scope work in 2026.
Read article →AI-Accelerated Delivery: How We Measure Build Time - and What Actually Gets Faster
How Code23 measures build time on agent-assisted projects: which phases compress most, what barely moves, and how we keep claims auditable without decorative week-count tables.
Read article →How Do You Get Recommended by ChatGPT and Claude?
How AI assistants pick the brands they recommend, and what actually moves the answer: entity consistency, earned mentions, and the AEO work on our own site.
Read article →How Much Does It Cost to Develop a Website in the UK?
What a website really costs to build in the UK: honest price ranges from an agency established in 2005, what moves the number, and how AI-accelerated delivery changes it.
Read article →How Much Does Website Maintenance Cost in the UK?
UK website maintenance costs explained with real figures: our £495 (Cyber Shield), £1,850 (Unlimited Growth) and £3,450 (Pro Pod / Scale) monthly tiers, what each includes, and when you can safely pay far less.
Read article →How We Build With AI Agents: A Real Build Log
A real build log from an agent-assisted project: what the humans did, what the agents did, where it went wrong, and the diffs and reviews that shipped it.
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