Based in Braintree, Essex

Plans from 20 hours a month

Get people talking about your business

I’m David, your part-time internet, AI and IT person. Every month I keep your website up to date, win you new customers, follow up every lead and use AI to cut the admin. I keep your IT running too.

30 years building online. 17 years in IT at Ford. 22 years running Rabbit Rabbit full time. You only ever deal with me.

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David Hayden

Hello, I’m David

An Essex local who has been building online for 30 years

I’m David Hayden. I’ve lived in Braintree for over two years, after 25 years in Chelmsford, and I run Rabbit Rabbit Ltd, the company I set up in 2002 and have run full time since 2004.

Before that I spent 17 years in IT at Ford Credit/Ford Motor Company. Today I use AI tools to build working business software, and I want to put all of it to work for the businesses on my own doorstep.

Away from work, I’m a football fan (a lapsed QPR season ticket holder), I love cooking and a round of golf, and I’m a big cat lover.

Who does the work

You deal with me, not an agency

With most agencies, the person who sells you the work isn’t the person who does it.

A typical agency

  1. You
  2. The salesperson
  3. An account manager
  4. A junior, or a team offshore
  • You meet the owner or a salesperson, who sells you the service.
  • The work goes to someone in their team, often junior, who may not have the same experience.
  • Or it's sent offshore, and you explain your business all over again.
  • An account manager sits in the middle, and you pay for everyone's time.

Working with me

  1. You
  2. David
  • The person you meet is the person who does the work, every time.
  • 30 years of experience on every job, not handed down to a junior.
  • Nothing sent offshore, and nobody in the middle.
  • You talk to me directly, by phone, WhatsApp or email.

My promise: you’ll only ever deal with me.

All the know-how of a digital and IT hire, without the hire

Plans start at 20 hours of my time a month, about five hours a week, focused on whatever matters most to your business. I work as an independent contractor through my own limited company, month by month: no PAYE, no desk to find, and no holiday or sick pay to cover.

It’s a set number of hours, not an open line. At the start of each month we agree where they’ll go, so they’re spent on the work that moves your business forward. Calls and emails come out of the same hours, and when a bigger job comes up you can add more.

Working with businesses in Braintree, Chelmsford and the surrounding areas.

Who it suits

  • Owner-run businesses around Braintree and Chelmsford
  • You know the online side needs attention, but nobody has the time
  • You'd rather have one person to call than several agencies

Who it doesn’t suit

  • You need someone in the office full time. That's an employee, not me
  • You want a one-off website and nothing after it

What I can help with

One person for the online side of your business

Not all at once. We pick what matters most and work through it month by month.

  • Save time with AI

    I find the repetitive admin and automate it, set up AI tools your team will actually use, add AI voice agents that answer and make calls, and build custom tools around the way you work.

    The jobs it usually starts with are just below.

  • Software made for your business

    Paying a few hundred pounds a month for software that never quite fits the way you work? I can build your own version, made around your business, with no subscription to keep paying.

  • A website that's up to date

    A fresh design that brings your website up to today's standard, works properly on a phone and turns visitors into enquiries. I can take over your hosting too, which may save you money.

  • Win more customers

    A complete Google listing with a steady flow of reviews, SEO, social media, promo videos and ads.

  • Follow up every enquiry

    Quick replies to every enquiry, a CRM that tracks every lead and quote, automatic follow-ups, and campaigns that bring past customers back.

  • Keep your IT running

    Microsoft 365 and email, your web address, help when something stops working, and advice on choosing the right software.

  • Someone to call

    A sounding board for tech, AI and supplier decisions, so you don't pay for the wrong thing.

Where the time goes

The jobs that quietly eat your team’s week

Not AI for the sake of it. I look for the repetitive work that costs you hours every week, and take it away.

Quotes that never get chased

Quotes go out and then nothing happens. I set up polite, automatic follow-ups so no quote is forgotten.

Typing the same thing twice

Orders, enquiries and timesheets copied from one system into another by hand. I connect them so it happens once.

Chasing invoices and paperwork

Reminders for unpaid invoices, missing documents and signatures go out on time, every time, without anyone remembering to send them.

Reports built by hand every week

Someone spends Monday morning pulling figures together. I build the report so it is ready when you arrive.

Enquiries sitting in an inbox

New enquiries are logged, answered and passed to the right person straight away, so a lead never goes cold.

Social posts that never happen

Everyone means to post, nobody has the time. I plan a month of posts and short videos from the work you already do.

How it works

Month by month, starting with a coffee

  1. 1

    A chat at your place

    I come to you and look at how things run and what's worth doing first. No hard sell, and if there's nothing worth fixing, I'll say so.

  2. 2

    We agree the priorities

    At the start of each month we agree the two or three things that matter most, and how your hours are best spent.

  3. 3

    I get on with it

    I do the work in your accounts and in your name, and keep you posted as I go.

  4. 4

    You see what got done

    A short summary at the end of the month, then we pick the next priorities.

Value for money

Less than a minimum-wage hire

What the alternatives cost a business like yours in 2026.

A full-time employee on the minimum wage

About £2,100 to £2,400 a month

£12.71 an hour for 37.5 hours a week, plus employer National Insurance and a workplace pension. That's before a desk, a laptop, holidays and sick days, and they're learning on the job.

A digital marketing manager

About £3,300 a month

Around £39,400 a year on average, before National Insurance, pension and everything else that comes with an employee.

A web or marketing agency

£50 to £200 an hour

Monthly retainers are often £1,250 to £3,500 for a single job, such as SEO or social media.

An AI consultant

£70 to £200 an hour

Or £500 to £1,200 a day for a freelance consultant.

Me

From £1,500 a month

At least 20 hours of my time every month on your website, winning new customers, following up leads, AI and IT, with 30 years of experience behind it. No PAYE, no desk, month by month.

And instead of someone learning on the job, you get someone who has done all of this before.

Figures checked October 2026. Agency and consultant rates are from published UK price guides and vary by firm. Sources: GOV.UK: National Minimum Wage rates; GOV.UK: rates and thresholds for employers 2026 to 2027; PayScale: digital marketing manager salary; Witscode: web design agency pricing; Whito: UK marketing retainers; AI consultant rates in the UK.

How I got here

From the help desk to building with AI

Long before AI, the job was the same: work out what a business needs, then build the thing that does it.

  1. 1987

    Joined Ford Credit/Ford Motor Company on the IT help desk and moved into systems analysis: 17 years learning how a big business really runs, and where the work gets stuck.

  2. 1996

    Built my first website.

  3. 2002

    Set up Rabbit Rabbit Ltd.

  4. 2004

    Went full time at Rabbit Rabbit: hundreds of websites, SEO, lead generation, affiliate sites and ecommerce, and a large online dating content site that I built, grew and sold.

  5. 2023

    Started building with AI: lead reactivation, AI voice agents, prospect data and sales intelligence.

  6. Now

    Building complete business systems with AI showed me how much repetitive work inside a business can now be cut right down. Now I'm offering part of my time to a few local businesses, month by month.

Experience

(Some of) the Things I’ve Built

From hand-coded websites in 1996 to AI-built software this month.

Drag, swipe or use the arrows. 18 builds.

Signals found this weekNew finance directorCompany records92Planning approvedPlanning88Moving to bigger officesNews81No activity for two yearsCompany records14Filtered outWeekly briefingWho to call this weekNew finance directorPlanning approvedMoving to bigger officesSent every Monday

A weekly sales-signal briefing

Watches UK company records, planning applications and the news for buying signals, like a new director or an office move, then emails sales teams a weekly list of who to call.

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What I work with

The tools behind the work, from the latest AI to the everyday software your business already runs on.

  • Claude
  • Claude Code
  • ChatGPT
  • Gemini
  • n8n
  • NotebookLM
  • AI agents
  • AI voice agents
  • AI image and video
  • AI avatars
  • Prompt engineering
  • Next.js
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • WordPress
  • Supabase
  • Stripe
  • Vercel
  • GitHub
  • SEO and local SEO
  • Google Ads
  • Facebook Ads
  • YouTube Ads
  • Landing pages and funnels
  • GoHighLevel
  • Instantly
  • WhatsApp Business
  • LinkedIn
  • CapCut
  • Photoshop
  • TikTok
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
  • Pinterest
  • Microsoft 365
  • Google Workspace
  • Domains and DNS

Let’s have a chat

Tell me a little about your business and I’ll come and see you. I work with businesses in Braintree, Chelmsford and the surrounding areas.

WhatsApp me: 07733 260092

Or call 07733 260092 or email david@rabbitrabbit.com

No hard sell. If there’s nothing worth fixing, I’ll say so.

Rabbit Rabbit Ltd. Registered in England and Wales, company number 04524080. Registered office: 46 Hullbridge Road, South Woodham Ferrers, Chelmsford, Essex CM3 5NG.

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