The company / trading since December 2002

Twenty-three years of websites for small businesses

BSolve IT Limited is the company behind 365i, Press Forge, 365i Web Design, McNeece Web Design and AI Visibility. We build websites, host them, support them, and publish what happens next.

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The registration

What the company is

One company, incorporated once, trading continuously under the same number for over two decades.

BSolve IT Limited was incorporated in England and Wales on 3 December 2002, company number 04607330. It is a small company: the work is done by a handful of people, and the director answers the support tickets himself. It has never been venture funded, never been sold, and has traded continuously under the same registration for over two decades.

The clients are mostly British small businesses, which is what the five brands are built around and what almost every example on this site is. Not all of them, though. Over twenty-three years the work has also gone to Menorca, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Dubai, Jordan and the United States. There has never been an office anywhere but Northamptonshire, and there is no international division to speak of: a website does not much care where it is read from, and neither does a support ticket.

What it sells, it sells through five brands rather than under its own name. 365i sells hosting. Press Forge builds and rebuilds sites. 365i Web Design does design, SEO and AI visibility work. McNeece Web Design handles long-term care. AI Visibility publishes an open specification, a free checker and a free plugin, and sells the files as a job for anyone who wants them made rather than made themselves. This site, the company's own, sells nothing at all.

The history

The company since December 2002

This page is where three retired posts now land, so their moments are recorded here rather than in an archive that no longer exists.

The short version: the company started as a hosting business, added design, kept both, and split them into brands as each one grew a distinct customer base. The longer version is a series of dated moments.

BSolve IT Limited incorporated in England and Wales, company 04607330. 365i, the hosting brand, dates from the same year and still states 2002 on its own about page.
A full relaunch of the company's own website. That post used to live at /2015/12/relaunch-for-bsolve-it-limited/ and now redirects here.
Another redesign of the company site, announced at the time as going from meh to marvellous. It aged less well than the title suggested, which is part of why the site you are reading exists.
McNeece Web Design joined the published lineup of brands.
This rebuild. 475 URLs measured, 449 retired, the company repositioned from a sixth web design agency competing with its own subsidiaries into an entity hub showing the whole group's work. The work is published in one place.

One point of housekeeping, because this site asks to be trusted on figures. When this page was first written, two of the group's brands said 2001 on their own about pages, and one of them attributed that year to BSolve IT Limited itself. The public register says 3 December 2002. Trading may well predate incorporation, which is common and perfectly legitimate, but until that can be substantiated this site publishes the date on the register and nothing else. Both brand sites were corrected and every one of the five now states 2002, checked on . The point is left standing rather than quietly deleted: where a claim and a public record disagree, the record wins, and that is easier to say than to do to your own brands.

The structure

Why five brands and not one

The honest answer is that they grew that way rather than being designed that way.

A hosting customer and a design customer want different things, ask different questions and read different pages, and by about 2010 it was clear that one site trying to serve both was serving neither well. Five names is not five teams, though, and the difference matters enough to set out one point at a time.

Hosting really is a separate discipline

365i can write about TTFB and cache headers without losing a small business owner, and everything the other brands build ends up running on it. A build can be excellent and still lose to a slow server, so the platform is its own thing rather than a department.

Three of the five are one team behind three names

Press Forge, 365i Web Design and McNeece Web Design all build websites, and the same people do the work whichever one you approach. They are marketing routes with their own histories and their own audiences, not agencies competing on merit, and anyone deciding between them for a build is wasting their time.

Saying so costs nothing, because a visitor who picks the wrong door still reaches the right people, and it removes the most reasonable suspicion anyone can have about a company trading under five names.

A specification cannot live inside an agency

AI Visibility publishes an open specification that anyone is free to implement without buying anything from us, which it could not credibly do from inside a site that sells websites. A free plugin generates all ten files and a free checker grades any site, so that freedom is real rather than stated. The brand does sell the files as a job for people who would rather not do it themselves, which is a fee for the work and not for the standard.

And the cost of it is entity confusion

Five sites, one company, and until now nothing connecting them that a search engine or an AI assistant could read. That is what this site fixes. Every brand carries parentOrganization pointing here, and this site carries all five as subOrganization, so the group resolves as one graph rather than five strangers.

The output

What we publish, and why it lives here

No single brand has the portfolio, because no single brand did all of it.

One thing, and it is the structural point of the whole arrangement: this is the only place all of the group's work appears together. Press Forge owns the Brewood Removals case study, the Lincolnshire Chauffeur Services case study and the Lockerfella case study, and each of those is the definitive account of that project. But 365i cannot show you Press Forge's builds, and Press Forge cannot show you the standards work.

So the work page carries all of it, and every measured figure on it links down to the brand that did the job and the case study that published the number. Where a figure has not been measured, none is stated.

An earlier version of this site tried to be a research imprint instead, publishing URL disposition counts as its main output. It was accurate and nobody cared, including us. Showing the work is the more honest use of the same evidence.

The build standard sets out what every site in the group has to do before it ships, and what that standard does not cover.

The limits

What this company does not do

An honest about page says what a company is not. Here are five, and each one costs us something to say.

Registration

Registration and contact details

Five trading names is a structure that deserves scrutiny, so here is everything needed to check it independently.

Registered name
BSolve IT Limited
Company number
04607330
Incorporated
Jurisdiction
England & Wales
VAT number
GB 806 170 747
SIC code
63990
Registered office
5 Epping Close, Barton Seagrave, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN15 6TR
Director
Mark McNeece

Every one of those is checkable on the Companies House register. For anything else, the contact page explains which brand handles what.

Where to go next

This company does not take the work. One of the five does.

Which one depends on what you need doing, and for a website it genuinely does not matter which of the three you pick.

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