Local Business Support is built on a simple idea: the best results come from combining real commercial experience with the right technology. We've spent three decades doing the first, and we now build the second.
Our background
Our experience spans the full range of business growth. We've led franchise recruitment and growth for national names, served as Managing Director of a £78M, 200-store retail brand — delivering an £11M improvement to the bottom line — and grown a brand from start-up to over 100 stores across the UK, USA, Portugal, Spain and Poland.
We've worked at executive level with Essar and The Co-op, and advised some of the UK's best-known hospitality and retail brands — including TGP International, Maguro Group and Bunsik, You Me Sushi, Cash Converters and CeX. We've also been invited as an expert adviser to the UK Parliamentary Select Committee on franchising.
That's a lot of hard-won judgement about what makes a business work — what to fix, what to build, and what to leave alone.
Alongside the commercial side, we build real AI-powered software — live platforms used by the public, like ShopWizard, MoveWizard, StoryWizard and Ask Tilly. That technical ability changes what's possible: the analysis, marketing systems and tools that once needed a big team and a big budget can now be built quickly and affordably.
Putting the two together — decades of business experience and modern AI development — is what lets us help a small or new business grow at a fraction of the usual cost. That's the whole point of Local Business Support.
What We Do
An honest look at where you are — market, competitors, pricing, where money leaks and where the growth is hiding.
Fast, modern sites that actually bring in enquiries — plus the follow-up systems that turn them into customers.
The done-for-you AI service: tools set up around your business, with plain-English training so you stay in control.
Review-gathering, email, social and content that run with little effort — the steady presence that wins trust.
Custom tools and automation that take the repetitive jobs off your plate — quotes, reports, admin, data.
Owner-to-owner guidance from someone who has grown and turned around real businesses, big and small.
The difference
Most consultants hand you a report and leave. Most web developers build what you ask for without understanding the business. We do both halves — work out what your business actually needs, then build it — which is why it's faster, cheaper and more likely to work.
It means a small or new business can get the kind of strategic thinking and technical firepower that normally costs a fortune, in one place, at a price that makes sense.
Start with a free AI healthcheck — answer a few questions and get an AI-assisted rough guide on where to focus first.