Made Grand is a UK-based web design and development studio specialising in booking platforms, membership websites and scalable digital systems for small businesses, creatives and specialist professionals.
Built For How Your Business Actually Works
Booking platforms, membership systems and operational tools built to support real-world operations.
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When a website isn't really the problem
People usually come to us asking for a website, a platform or a new feature.
What they're often dealing with is something deeper.
Systems that work but not as well as they should
Manual effort creeping in where it shouldn't
Tools stitched together just enough to cope
Changing anything feels riskier than it needs to be
That's the problem we help untangle.
How we think
We don't start with technology or templates, we start with context.
01 — We Understand
- What you're trying to achieve.
- What's already in place.
- Where things feel stuck.
02 — We Decide
- What's worth building now.
- What can wait.
- What may not be needed at all.
03 — We Shape
- Something proportionate.
- Grounded.
- Easier to stand behind.
Selected work
A small selection of projects that show how we approach different problems. Each one began with uncertainty and moved forward through considered decisions.
Booking
Rachael Blackmore Counselling
A modern counselling website designed to create a calm, structured and trustworthy experience for individuals and couples seeking support.
Membership
VocabCartoons
A fun, story-led learning platform helping children aged 8–16 expand their vocabulary.
Booking
Bath Contemporary Artists’ Fair
A multi-vendor art fair platform that automates exhibition bookings and gives artists their own e-commerce stores.
"The updates to the website have been hugely transformational for BCAF. We've had more artists sign up than even before, and the application process is much simpler now which means I have more time to plan for the future. Simply amazing."
— A client who prefers clarity over complexity
Projects
Each project starts with a problem worth solving. It's then shaped into something useful, usable and built to grow.
Personal App
Hara
A simple personal gut health diary for tracking meals, symptoms and daily context in one private place.
Internal Project
Clockified
A focused time tracking app for freelancers, consultants and small teams who need clearer visibility across billable project work.
B2C App
Palto
Palto helps candidates track applications, capture outcomes and surface insight, turning silence and rejection into something measurable and useful.
Latest insights
Case Study
Project Command Centre: seeing the shape of everything at once
Project Command Centre began as a way to bring scattered projects and ideas into one place. It has since developed into an AI-connected system for seeing priorities, risks, opportunities and next actions across the whole business.
Case Study
Palto: what if recruitment was just a bit more honest about what’s actually happening?
Palto explores whether recruitment could be made more transparent by giving applicants a clearer view of what is actually happening. It is a working Made Grand product experiment built around a familiar problem: too little visibility, too much guesswork and very little trust in the process.
Guide
How I Connected a Lovable App to ChatGPT Using MCP
I connected my Clockified time-tracking app directly to ChatGPT using MCP. The first connection failed, which turned out to be useful because it exposed the parts that still need proper technical review, including OAuth, tool schemas and security.
If you're wrestling with a digital idea, an existing platform or a system that's no longer doing its job, we're happy to talk it through.
You don't need a polished brief to get started.
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