About
A serious UK engineering studio building considered web platforms for ambitious brands.
Manifesto
The web has never been more crowded, more competitive, or more important to your business. We started RS Web Services because too much of it felt template-shaped, soulless, plugin-glued and slow. We make the opposite of that — custom-coded websites that look like they were made by people who care, because they were.
We're a senior team of designers, engineers and strategists working out of Manchester. Every project is led by a senior. Every line of code is written by us — never assembled from WordPress plugins. And every brief gets the same answer: does it earn its keep?
Values
Four things we hold to.
- 01
Craft over churn
We'd rather ship one considered project than a dozen forgettable ones. The work has to be good.
- 02
Commerce literate
Design that doesn't drive a number is just decoration. We obsess over the metric you actually care about.
- 03
Plain English
No jargon, no theatre. Clear briefs, honest timelines, weekly demos you can actually understand.
- 04
Built to last
Type-safe code, accessible by default, performant on day one and in year three. Boringly reliable.
Team
A senior team. On every project.
M. Shahzaib
Founder · Custom Code Strategy
Imogen Hart
Design Director · UI/UX
Theo Mensah
Lead Full-Stack Engineer
Nadia Khan
Growth · SEO & Performance
How we're different
Custom code. Senior-led. Performance-first.
- Every site engineered in custom code — no WordPress, no plugin sprawl
- Senior designers and engineers on every project, end to end
- Performance budgets enforced from day one (Core Web Vitals, p75)
- Security-first: tiny attack surface, audited dependencies
- WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility commitment
- UK English copy & UK working hours