Who we are

About us.

amillionmonkeys is Brighton's smallest web agency. Most of the time, there's one of us and we're proud of that fact. We've tried to be bigger and it just doesn't work for us. We like to keep things simple, personal and honest. We work with a small number of clients at a time, so we can give each project the attention it deserves.

The difference

Why work with us.

When you work with amillionmonkeys, you're not dealing with a large studio or a project manager — you're working directly with the person who writes the code, Phil Smith.

You Talk to the Person Who Writes the Code

No project managers, no account handlers, no game of telephone. When you email us, Phil replies. When you have a question about the build, the person who actually built it explains. It's simpler and things get lost less.

No Surprises on the Invoice

We're not the cheapest, and if you want a twenty-page proposal and to be taken for lunch, you're going to be disappointed. But you'll always know what things cost before we start, and we'll tell you honestly if something's going to take longer than expected.

BBC, Bupa, Airbnb — and Your Project Gets the Same Attention

We've built things for some genuinely big names, but we're not coasting on logos. Every project — whether it's a startup MVP or a campaign for a household brand — gets the same level of care. We don't have a B-team because there's only the one team.

Do we use AI?

Hell yeah.

We'd be daft not to.

Since summer 2025 we've been using AI tools — Claude, Copilot, Cursor — as part of how we build things. Not as a gimmick, not to cut corners, but because it genuinely makes the work better and faster. The boring, repetitive stuff that used to eat up hours? Writing boilerplate, scaffolding components, generating test data, wiring up standard API integrations — AI handles that now, and honestly it's better at it than we are.

That frees us up to focus on the bits that actually matter: the architecture decisions, the user experience, the weird edge cases that only a human spots. Every line of AI-generated code gets reviewed, tested, and held to the same standard as anything we write by hand. If it's not good enough, it gets rewritten. The AI doesn't ship code — we do.

* You won't be surprised to hear AI made the illustrations on this site. Thankfully, ensured the early attempts didn't make it to production.

Faster Delivery

Projects that would have taken twelve weeks now take eight. The time we save on scaffolding and boilerplate goes straight back into polish, testing, and getting the details right.

Lower Costs

Less time means lower bills. Since adopting AI tooling, average project costs have dropped by roughly 30% while the scope of what we deliver has actually increased. You get more for less — that's not marketing speak, it's just maths.

Same Quality, More Output

We're shipping more code, more features, and more thorough test coverage than we were a year ago — with the same one-person team. The quality bar hasn't moved. If anything, it's higher, because we've got more time to spend on the things that matter.