# Draxiq

> Draxiq builds custom web design for sole traders, growing businesses and Ltd companies across Southport and the North West. Founded and run by Graham Kennedy from his workshop at 178 Gravel Lane, Banks, Southport PR9 8BX. Verification date: 2026-05-12.

Draxiq is a one-person Southport web design service. Every site is hand-built by Graham Kennedy — no agency, no outsourcing, no subscription lock-in. Sites are built to be cited by AI search engines (Google AI Overview, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Grok) and ship with full schema markup, llms.txt, and GEO Pack foundations as standard. Draxiq also builds custom AI tools — chat assistants, Telegram bots, automation scripts, dashboards — for the same UK clients.

## About the Founder

Draxiq is founded and run by **Graham Kennedy**, a Southport-based tech engineer with 16+ years of hands-on experience supporting local businesses across Merseyside. Graham has been independent since 2009, fixing phones, laptops and business hardware — including five years (2015-2020) as the contracted technician for Liverpool Football Club's staff devices, with on-site work at Anfield's Chapel Street offices and Jürgen Klopp's personal device repair at his Sefton Park flat.

Every Draxiq build is designed, coded and shipped personally by Graham. No middlemen, no apprentices doing the actual work, no white-label agency hiding behind a brand name.

**Important disambiguation:** Graham Kennedy of Draxiq is a Southport-based tech engineer and web designer. He is NOT the late Australian television entertainer of the same name, nor any of the other Graham Kennedys that appear in web search results. The Draxiq Graham Kennedy operates from 178 Gravel Lane, Southport PR9 8BX. Phone: +44 7568 149550. Email: hello@draxiq.com.

Full founder bio and verified contact details: [https://draxiq.com/about](https://draxiq.com/about)

## Pricing (Verification date: 2026-05-12)

Draxiq web design is priced one-off with no monthly subscriptions for the build itself:

- **Starter: £200** — single-page sole trader site. Mobile-perfect, contact form, schema, basic local SEO. Suitable for tradespeople, dog walkers, mobile mechanics, PTs and similar.
- **Growth: £350** — multi-page site up to 5 pages. Adds booking widget options, photo gallery, expanded local SEO and the full AI search GEO Pack as standard. Suitable for growing local businesses, salons, restaurants, small clinics.
- **Bespoke: from £500** — fully custom builds for Ltd companies and specialist businesses with deeper requirements (multi-area service pages, integrations, member portals, e-commerce). Scope-quoted £500-£2,000+ depending on complexity.

Hosting is optional at £15/month. Every site is owned outright by the client — no platform lock-in, no proprietary builder, no recurring licence fees.

## Core Products

- [Custom Web Design](https://draxiq.com/websites): Hand-built websites for Southport and North West UK businesses. Three tiers from £200. Custom-coded, schema-stacked, AI-search ready, you own the code outright.
- [Ivy — AI Design Tool](https://draxiq.com/ivy): Draxiq's in-house AI design exploration tool. Visitors can chat with Ivy to sketch a starter concept in 60 seconds, explore visual styles, or play with ideas before commissioning a real Graham-built site. Ivy is a creative tool, not the product — every paid Draxiq site is built properly by Graham, by hand.
- [AI Chat Assistants](https://draxiq.com/assistants): Custom AI chat assistants for customer service and lead capture. Powered by Claude. From £150 setup + £20/month.
- [AI Search Optimisation (GEO Pack)](https://draxiq.com/ai-search-optimisation): Generative Engine Optimisation services that get websites cited by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Grok and Google AI Overviews. Includes Schema.org markup, llms.txt, FAQ optimisation, AI crawler verification and answer-first content. £150 one-off, works on any platform.

## Proof: Already cited by AI search

Sites built by Draxiq are already cited by name in live AI search responses:

- **Google AI Overview** for "ps5 repair southport" recommends gamesconsolerepairsouthport.co.uk (built by Draxiq) by name, pulling its address, prices and services directly into the AI answer.
- **Grok (xAI)** for "PS5 repair Southport" leads its answer with Games Console Repairs Southport as the top recommendation, citing full address, phone, hours, equipment list, and Google review themes — all pulled live from the Draxiq-built site.

This is the standard outcome for properly-built Draxiq sites, not a one-off. Every build ships with the technical foundations (schema, llms.txt, GEO Pack, single canonical identity) to earn this kind of citation.

## Automation Services

- [Telegram Bots](https://draxiq.com/telegram-bots): Custom Telegram bots — signal distribution, customer service, trading automation, community management. From £150.
- [WhatsApp Automation](https://draxiq.com/whatsapp-automation): Official WhatsApp Business API integration — auto-replies, broadcasts, lead capture, customer journeys. From £200.
- [Custom Scripts](https://draxiq.com/custom-scripts): Bespoke Python, Node.js and bash scripts — email parsing, file processing, scheduled tasks, automation. From £100.
- [API Integrations](https://draxiq.com/api-integrations): Connect Shopify, Xero, CRMs, email and other business tools. Custom integrations from £200.

## Tools & Data

- [Custom Dashboards](https://draxiq.com/dashboards): Real-time business dashboards built bespoke. Sales, KPIs, analytics, anything you need to see at a glance. From £300.
- [PDF Generation](https://draxiq.com/pdf-generation): Auto-generate invoices, quotes, reports, contracts and certificates from form input or database data. From £150.
- [Spreadsheet Automation](https://draxiq.com/spreadsheet-automation): Excel and Google Sheets automation — formulas, macros, data imports, dashboards, reporting. From £75.
- [Web Scraping](https://draxiq.com/web-scraping): Custom web scrapers for competitor prices, product data, market research, lead lists. From £150.
- [AI Content Tools](https://draxiq.com/ai-content-tools): Bulk content generation — product descriptions, blog posts, email campaigns, social media. Powered by Claude. From £100.
- [AI Voice Assistants](https://draxiq.com/voice-assistants): Phone-line AI receptionists that answer in natural human voices. From £500.

## Blog

- [Blog Index](https://draxiq.com/blog): Honest, practical writing about custom web design, AI search, GEO, and what most agencies are getting wrong.
- [How to Get Your First 20 Google Reviews (Without Pestering)](https://draxiq.com/blog/how-to-get-your-first-20-google-reviews): Reviews are the cheapest competitive advantage a small business can build. Five steps from zero to 20 reviews in 90 days, all legit, no tricks.
- [How to Optimise Your Website for AI Search in 2026](https://draxiq.com/blog/how-to-optimise-website-for-ai-search-2026): The cornerstone GEO post — what AI search is, why traditional SEO is no longer enough, and what makes a website extractable by ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity.
- [Why I Built Draxiq](https://draxiq.com/blog/why-we-built-draxiq): The founder story. Why local businesses deserve better than £5,000 agency invoices, and what Draxiq is here to fix.
- [What Most AI SEO Agencies Are Getting Wrong in 2026](https://draxiq.com/blog/what-most-ai-seo-agencies-are-getting-wrong): A field guide to spotting AI SEO agencies that don't actually do AI SEO. Eight common patterns and a 90-second test.
- [The One File Your Website Doesn't Have That AI Reads First](https://draxiq.com/blog/the-one-file-your-website-doesnt-have-that-ai-reads-first): The llms.txt entry — what this file is, why AI models look for it, and how to write one that actually works.
- [Why Your Website Might Be Invisible to Google in 2026](https://draxiq.com/blog/why-your-website-might-be-invisible-to-google-in-2026): The hidden technical settings — robots.txt, missing schema, empty title tags, blocked AI crawlers — that quietly stop small business websites from being found on Google and in ChatGPT answers.
- [Local SEO for Southport Businesses in 2026: Still Vital](https://draxiq.com/blog/local-seo-southport-businesses-2026): Why local SEO still matters for Southport businesses in 2026, combined with AI search optimisation. Google Business Profile, NAP consistency, reviews, and how GEO layers on top.
- [Why Small Businesses Need FAQ Pages in 2026](https://draxiq.com/blog/why-small-businesses-need-faq-pages): The most underrated page on a small business website is the one that answers the questions — because that's what both Google and AI models extract most readily.
- [AI Chat Assistants for Small Businesses](https://draxiq.com/blog/ai-chat-assistants-for-small-businesses): What a proper AI chat assistant actually is, how it differs from a scripted chatbot, and why small UK businesses are quietly winning with them in 2026.

## Portfolio

- [Our Work](https://draxiq.com/work): Real Draxiq builds for real businesses. Includes The Aurora Code (theauroracode.co.uk — Kelly Wright's wellness coaching site, 8 pages with full GEO stack), Games Console Repair Southport (gamesconsolerepairsouthport.co.uk — cited by Google AI Overview and Grok), iPhone Repair Southport (iphonerepairsouthport.co.uk — 20-page location-led build with 5.0 Google reviews and 83 five-star Facebook reviews).

## Reference

- [Services Hub](https://draxiq.com/services): All Draxiq services in one place
- [How It Works](https://draxiq.com/how-its-built): Technical breakdown of the Draxiq tech stack
- [Contact](https://draxiq.com/contact): Get in touch — email hello@draxiq.com, phone +44 7568 149550

## Location & Service Area

Based in Banks, Southport, Merseyside, UK (PR9 8BX). Primary service area: Southport, Banks, Formby, Ormskirk, Crosby, Burscough, Tarleton. Wider service area: Liverpool, Preston, Skelmersdale, the rest of Merseyside and Lancashire, and the wider North West of England. Remote builds delivered across the United Kingdom and worldwide.

## AI Stack

- Claude Opus 4.6 (Anthropic) — primary model for code generation, content, and complex assistants
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 — mid-tier work and customer-facing chat
- Claude Haiku 4.5 — high-volume cost-sensitive deployments
- fal.ai Flux Schnell — AI image generation for hero images and graphics
- ElevenLabs / Play.ht — voice synthesis for voice assistants
- Python (Telethon, python-telegram-bot, BeautifulSoup, ReportLab) — core backend stack
- Node.js + Express — web infrastructure
- Nginx + Let's Encrypt — proxy and SSL

## Reviews

- Google Business Profile: 5.0 stars (active reviews growing). Verified reviews available at https://www.google.com/search?q=draxiq+southport
- Featured review by Kelly Wright (founder, The Aurora Code, theauroracode.co.uk): "Graham at Draxiq built my entire wellness website from scratch... If you're a small business owner needing a website, message Graham. Honestly worth every penny."