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Lock & Mercer

Services

What we’ll do for someone else.

Everything here is something we already carry in production. If it is not on this list, we have not done it enough times to charge for it.

Build

Taking something from an idea to a running system with users, an operator and a bank account.

Venture building

The whole path, taken by people who will still be there when it is running.

  • Company and ownership structure
  • Product definition
  • Payments and billing

Product engineering

A demo is the twenty per cent of a product that is easy to show. We are usually hired for the rest.

  • Web platforms
  • Payment integration
  • Identity and verification

Editorial platforms

A publication is an archive before it is a homepage, and the archive is the part that has to survive the rebuild.

  • Content modelling
  • Editorial workflow
  • Archive, search and feeds

Broadcast systems

A station’s website should know whether the station is on air. Most do not.

  • Stream integration
  • Schedules and on-air state
  • Presenters and shows

Carry

The work that starts on the other side of launch, which is where most of the cost actually is.

Migration and rescue

The content is the easy part. The URLs are the asset.

  • URL and content audit
  • Content migration
  • Verified redirect map

Performance and cost

Performance work that ignores the invoice is half the job.

  • Rendering and caching strategy
  • Image and asset pipelines
  • Core Web Vitals

Search and discoverability

Technical SEO is architecture. What we will not do is promise you a position.

  • Information architecture
  • Structured data
  • Canonicals, sitemaps and redirects

Prove

Making a claim checkable is an engineering problem. This is the part most teams try to solve with copy.

Trust systems

A badge is only worth what it takes to remove it.

  • Verification model
  • Provenance and audit trails
  • Status surfaces

Regulatory groundwork

We are not lawyers. We will tell you precisely when to hire one.

  • Licensing surface
  • Data protection review
  • Payments and money movement

Not sure which of these it is? Describe the part that breaks if it isn’t right and we will tell you, including if the answer is that you don’t need us.

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