We speak human
If we can’t explain it in a sentence you’d understand at the pub, we shouldn’t be doing it. No 60-page decks — a phone call and a number.
ABOUT · EST. 2014
Built by an engineer.
Built from scratch by a Cisco-certified network engineer who got tired of watching tradespeople get fleeced by agencies who didn’t understand their business. Ten years on, we look after 30+ trades and home-services businesses across Yorkshire.
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OUR STORY
Our story.
I started PhD Networks because I’d watched too many trades businesses pay agencies a fortune for marketing they didn’t understand — and that wasn’t bringing them work. I knew there was a better way.
When I started in 2014, the pitch was IT support and websites for local Leeds businesses. Then clients kept asking the same thing: “Can you also get my phone to ring?” So I learned it properly — Google Ads, SEO, paid social, conversion tracking, attribution — the same systems-thinking I’d used on networks, applied to winning work.
Over the last two years we’ve quietly built something most agencies our size don’t have: specialist AI agents working alongside the human team, 24/7 — monitoring accounts, crunching data, spotting opportunities. So when we pick up the phone to talk strategy, we’re already three steps ahead. The quality of a 30-person agency, without the 30-person price tag.
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HOW WE WORK · WHAT WE BELIEVE
What we believe.
We show you the data
Leads, cost per lead, what’s working and where the money went. The real numbers, not vanity metrics.
No lock-in
A three-month minimum so the work can compound, then rolling monthly — long enough to matter, short enough that we have to keep earning it.
An engineer’s mindset
Built by a Cisco-certified network engineer — the same systems-thinking that runs networks, pointed at winning you work.
AI team, human judgement
Specialist AI agents watch every account around the clock and turn raw numbers into next moves; our people make the calls.
Enterprise quality, local price
Enterprise-grade systems and standards, sized and priced for a trades business — not a national brand.
WORK WITH US · 48-HOUR TURNAROUND
Let’s build your pipeline.
Tell us about your business and we’ll show you exactly where the leads are leaking — and what we’d do about it. No pitch, no pressure, no jargon.