Web developer, UK

Websites and web apps that stay fast.

I build in Laravel and WordPress, and add AI where it actually earns its place. One developer from the first call to handover. No account managers, no junior hand-offs, and nothing locked to me when it is done.

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What I build

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Where most work starts Laravel development Web applications, admin panels and APIs built in Laravel, with tests from day one, so the tenth change is as easy as the first. A written scope, so we both know what done looks like Automated tests, because you will want to change it Fast by design: caching, queues and sensible database work Find out more WordPress development Custom WordPress themes and plugins, speed and security work, and rescues for sites that have become slow or fragile. Find out more AI implementation One manual process, turned into an AI-assisted one. Built into your systems, tested on your real data, and handed over with the documentation. Find out more Software development Internal tools, integrations and the unglamorous systems a business actually runs on, built in Laravel, PHP and TypeScript. Find out more Website building Fast, accessible websites you can edit yourself. No page-builder bloat, and no monthly platform fee to keep it online. Find out more

Featured work

Kritano, a website auditing platform

A SaaS I founded, built and run. It audits a website across SEO, accessibility, security, performance, content quality and structured data in under two minutes.

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More than 500 checks in under two minutes, across SEO, accessibility, security and performance.

More of my work

Laravel, Postgres, Inertia, React, TypeScript, Tailwind, nginx cg-cms, a lightweight CMS for Laravel A Laravel CMS I designed and built to run this site. Content in Postgres, HTML rendered on save and served from disk by nginx, with an admin built in Inertia and React. Laravel, Postgres, cg-cms, Tailwind, nginx chrisgarlick.com, rebuilt on Laravel This site, moved from Astro and a Bun CMS to Laravel and cg-cms, with every URL kept, faster pages and lead capture built in.

From the articles

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AI implementation AI client intake for law firms: from enquiry to matter open How law firms automate client intake with AI, from the first enquiry to an open matter, with a fee-earner approving every step that matters. 9 October 2026 AI implementation AI vs Hiring: The Real Cost for UK Accountancy Firms AI vs hiring for UK accountancy firms: a real cost comparison. What a new hire actually costs, what automation costs, and which one to pick. 25 June 2026 AI implementation AI Client Onboarding Automation for UK Accountancy Firms Manual client onboarding eats 110 minutes per client. How UK accountancy firms automate it with AI, and what still needs a human. 19 June 2026

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