diff --git a/Gruntfile.js b/Gruntfile.js
index 3ee80b2..ecadc79 100644
--- a/Gruntfile.js
+++ b/Gruntfile.js
@@ -16,14 +16,27 @@ module.exports = function (grunt) {
 				node: true,
 				quotmark: 'single'
 			}
+		},
+
+		less: {
+			all: {
+				options: {
+					cleancss: true
+				},
+				files: {
+					'public/css/main.css': 'public/less/main.less'
+				}
+			}
 		}
 
 	});
 
 	grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-jshint');
+	grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-less');
 
 	grunt.registerTask('lint', ['jshint']);
-	grunt.registerTask('default', ['lint']);
-	grunt.registerTask('ci', ['lint']);
+	grunt.registerTask('compile', ['less']);
+	grunt.registerTask('default', ['compile', 'lint']);
+	grunt.registerTask('ci', ['compile', 'lint']);
 
 };
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2d4b97f..a9caa31 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -32,6 +32,12 @@ $ cp config/production.sample.json config/production.json
 
 Each of these files defines configurations for a different environment. If you're just running the application locally, then you should be OK with just development configurations. The [available configurations are documented here](#configurations).
 
+You'll need [Grunt][grunt] to be installed globally in order to compile front-end assets. Run `npm install -g grunt-cli` to install grunt if you haven't already, then to compile assets:
+
+```
+$ grunt compile
+```
+
 Now that you've got your application configured, you can run in each mode with the following commands:
 
 ```sh
@@ -63,6 +69,7 @@ pa11y-dashboard is licensed under the [GNU General Public License 3.0][gpl].
 
 
 [gpl]: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
+[grunt]: http://gruntjs.com/
 [node]: http://nodejs.org/
 [pa11y]: https://github.com/nature/pa11y
 [pa11y-webservice]: https://github.com/nature/pa11y-webservice
diff --git a/app.js b/app.js
index 43f6b5d..71983b4 100644
--- a/app.js
+++ b/app.js
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ var EventEmitter = require('events').EventEmitter;
 var express = require('express');
 var hbs = require('express-hbs');
 var http = require('http');
-var lessMiddleware = require('less-middleware');
 var pkg = require('./package.json');
 
 module.exports = initApp;
@@ -20,12 +19,6 @@ function initApp (config, callback) {
 	app.webservice = createClient(config.webservice);
 
 	// Public files
-	app.express.use(lessMiddleware({
-		src: __dirname + '/public/less',
-		dest: __dirname + '/public/css',
-		prefix: '/css',
-		yuicompress: true
-	}));
 	app.express.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public', {
 		maxAge: (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production' ? 604800 : 0)
 	}));
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index e6fbf16..f1a94ba 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@
 		"chalk": "~0.2",
 		"express": "~3.4",
 		"express-hbs": "~0.2",
-		"less-middleware": "~0.1",
 		"moment": "~2.2",
 		"pa11y-webservice-client-node": "git+ssh://git@github.com:nature/pa11y-webservice-client-node.git#1.0.0-beta.5",
 		"underscore": "~1.5"
@@ -34,6 +33,7 @@
 	"devDependencies": {
 		"grunt": "~0.4",
 		"grunt-contrib-jshint": "~0.7",
+		"grunt-contrib-less": "~0.8",
 		"supervisor": "~0.5"
 	},