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Volume ready websites for Manchester editing studios and imaging teams.

Codeeo provides AI photo editing website development Manchester studios rely on when their clients send thousands of images a week. We build sites that explain your pipeline, publish the specifications buyers need, take style guides and test sets through structured intake, and give returning clients a web area to check job status and approve proofs. The audience is fashion retailers, sports and media producers around Salford Quays and the agencies of the Northern Quarter, so the site is built for people who judge suppliers on throughput and consistency.

We work with Manchester clients remotely. Our 80+ people are based in Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, and discovery, reviews and training all run by video call. The code, CMS and client data belong to your business from day one.

Built for
High volume editing studios, AI imaging services and in house content teams in Manchester and Salford that sell editing to retailers, media and agencies.
Typical timeline
Worked out in discovery from the number of templates, the client area scope and your integrations, then fixed in a plan you approve.
What you own
Domain, repository, CMS, client area data, specifications library and all lead and job records, registered to your company.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

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Website features

Built around how volume clients choose and stay with a studio.

A buyer at an online fashion retailer does not pick an editing partner from a gallery alone. They want to know your output specification, how you keep skin tones and garment colour consistent across a drop, how files arrive and leave, and how they will know where a job stands at eleven at night before a launch. A media producer at MediaCity wants rights and caption handling explained before sending a single frame. Most Manchester studio websites leave all of that to sales calls. We put the answers on the site: a specifications library, a structured intake for style guides, clear process pages, and a client area for returning accounts. The public pages are written to rank for the problems buyers search, and everything is editable in a CMS your coordinators can run without a developer. The result is a site that does part of the selling and part of the account management, so your team spends more of the day editing and less of it answering the same questions.

Explain your project
  • Specifications library

    Public pages for each output you deliver, such as marketplace main images, on model crops, ghost mannequin, flat lay and editorial, listing dimensions, background values, file formats and naming rules. Buyers can share a link internally instead of forwarding a PDF that goes out of date.

    Fewer questions before a first order and fewer rejected files after.

  • Style guide intake

    A guided form where a new client uploads their style guide, reference images, colour targets and crop rules, then answers questions about retouching limits. The submission becomes a structured brief your team can turn into AI presets and human review checklists.

    Onboarding starts with complete information rather than a chain of emails.

  • Client area for job status and proofs

    A login for returning clients showing each batch, its stage, the expected return and any images flagged for a decision. Proofs open in the browser with approve, reject and comment actions, and every decision is recorded against the job.

    Clients stop phoning for updates, and approvals have a clear record.

  • Consistency showcase

    Instead of a few heroic edits, a grid of dozens of frames from one set showing matched colour, crop and background across a whole range. For Manchester retailers who run frequent drops, that is the proof that matters most.

    Buyers see evidence that quality holds at volume.

  • Media and rights pages

    For producers and broadcasters around Salford Quays, a section explaining how you handle frame grabs, caption and rights metadata, restricted material and deletion after delivery. It gives commissioning teams the answers their compliance colleagues will ask for.

    Media buyers can approve you as a supplier faster.

  • Developer and integration pages

    If clients can send images through an interface or a watched folder, a documentation section explains authentication, request formats, callbacks and limits. It sits on the marketing site so technical buyers can judge fit before a call.

    Technical evaluation happens on the site, not in meetings.

  • Guides that rank on problems

    A content hub for articles answering the questions retail and media teams search, such as consistent white backgrounds or colour matching garments to swatches. Each article links to the relevant service and specification pages.

    Steady organic visitors who already have the problem you solve.

  • Accessible, fast public pages

    Templates tested against WCAG 2.2 for keyboard use, contrast and focus order, which also supports duties under the Equality Act. Images are served in modern formats through a content delivery network so heavy pages stay quick on mobile.

    A site everyone can use that search engines treat well.

  • Rush and launch day enquiries

    A short route for clients with a deadline, asking for the drop date, image count and output set, and flagging the request to a coordinator straight away. It sits on every service page so a Manchester buyer facing a late shoot can reach you in a few taps rather than hunting for a phone number.

    Urgent work reaches you while it is still winnable.

  • Lead routing and reporting

    New enquiries are tagged by sector and volume, sent to the right account manager in your CRM and acknowledged automatically. Analytics only fires after consent under PECR, and reports show which pages and campaigns produce accounts that stay.

    The best leads reach the right person first.

Who it suits

Manchester teams that edit at scale.

Manchester has a strong base of online retail, a large media cluster at MediaCity in Salford and a busy agency scene, and editing studios here tend to serve one of those worlds more than the others. The website changes with them. A studio feeding retail drops needs specifications and a client area. A team serving broadcasters needs rights and security pages. We help you decide which audience leads, and the AI photo editing website design Manchester buyers respond to follows from that choice rather than from a template. Where a studio genuinely serves two audiences, we give each one its own entry point from the home page so neither is buried.

01

A studio supplying online fashion retailers

Your clients run weekly or even daily drops, and AI now handles cut outs, colour matching and cropping while your team checks quality. The site needs to show throughput and consistency, publish exact specifications for each marketplace and give buyers a client area for status and proofs. We lead with the consistency showcase and make the specification pages easy to share with a buying team.

Specifications sell volume work better than adjectives.

02

An imaging team serving media and sport

You enhance frame grabs, prepare thumbnails and clean up event photography for production companies and clubs. Buyers ask about rights, confidential material and speed on match days or broadcast nights. The site explains your security and deletion rules, shows how captions and metadata are kept, and offers a quick enquiry route for producers with a deadline that evening.

Compliance answers on the page shorten supplier approval.

03

An agency with an in house AI editing unit

A Northern Quarter agency that built an editing capability for its own clients now wants to sell it separately. You need a distinct site or section with its own positioning, pages and enquiry route, so it does not confuse existing clients. We build it to share your brand cues while standing on its own in search.

A separate offer deserves its own pages and its own leads.

04

A graduate founded editing service

Founders from Manchester's universities often start with a clever AI workflow and a handful of retail clients. The website has to make a small team look organised and reliable: clear specifications, real examples, a simple intake and quick replies. We keep the first version tight and plan the client area for a later phase once volume justifies it.

Start focused and add the client area when volume arrives.

Our build process

  1. 01Pipeline walkthroughBy video call, your team shows us how a batch moves from client upload to final delivery, which questions buyers ask most and where jobs stall. The page list and client area scope come from that walkthrough.
  2. 02Information architectureSectors, services, specifications, guides and the client area are organised into a sitemap with page templates and content fields agreed with you in writing.
  3. 03Interface designDesigns for public pages, intake forms and the proof approval screens, tested on phone and desktop with your coordinators so the client area matches real daily use.
  4. 04Development and connectionsThe CMS, intake, storage, CRM and any job system links are built on staging, with sample batches run through the client area before anyone outside your team sees it.
  5. 05Content and testingSpecifications, examples and guides are loaded, accessibility and speed checked, consent tested on every tag and redirects from your old site mapped page by page.
  6. 06Go live and supportWe launch, monitor forms, search and the client area closely, train your coordinators by video call and agree an ongoing plan for updates and fixes.

Technology

What we build this with.

Public pages typically run on a headless CMS with a Next.js front end, and the client area is a secure web application connected to your storage and job data. Smaller studios may be well served by WordPress with a lighter client area. Hosting is chosen with UK GDPR in mind.

01Web

  • React
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Laravel
  • WordPress

02Commerce

  • Shopify Plus
  • WooCommerce
  • BigCommerce
  • Headless storefronts

03Data and cloud

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Docker

04Marketing and tracking

  • GA4
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Search Console
  • Meta Pixel
  • Looker Studio

Common questions from Manchester studios

With your pipeline and your best clients, not with the home page.

We begin by walking through how a batch moves through your studio and which clients you want more of. That tells us whether the site needs a specifications library, a client area, media and rights pages or developer documentation, and in what order. The home page is designed last, once we know what it needs to point people towards. This keeps the first release focused on what actually wins and keeps accounts, and it stops budget going on pages that look impressive but do little for the buyers you need.

Tell us what the business needs. We will tell you what to build first.

Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.

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PROVEN RESULTS

4.7 / 5from 23 Google reviews