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For in-house marketing teams

Launch day is fixed. Your developers aren't.

Web app, mobile app and interactive platform studio: web apps, iOS and Android apps, interactive maps, and community platforms with courses, memberships and events.

Digital Mycelium. A senior design and engineering team your marketing department can rely on. Landing pages, microsites, CMS builds and conversion work, shipped on the date you promised the business.

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Stuck in the IT queue.

Your campaign waits behind a platform migration nobody asked marketing about.

The agency takes a fortnight to change a headline.

Every small change is a ticket, a quote and a wait.

Launched, then broken.

The form stops sending, the page breaks on one browser, and nobody notices until the campaign money is spent.

Marketing should own its speed.

The fastest marketing teams can launch a page in an afternoon and a microsite in weeks. Not because they cut corners, but because someone built them the right system once, and a senior team they trust is there for the hard parts.

We are the creatives that have crafted some of the world's best technologies, and now you have direct access to us, without the middle man. We've removed the middle men, expensive offices, and countless project managers to give you access to some of the world's most talented professionals at a fraction of the cost of big agencies. We craft high quality solutions that are smart, secure, fit for purpose and delivered on time.

Alchemy Rewire·Wellness · Community platform

3 surfaces web, iOS and Android, one platform

Unite·Social · Maps · Events

1 live map every happening near you, as it happens

The Zen Samurai·Education · Community platform

2,000+ members across continents

Unilever·Enterprise · Intranet

Built by our founder as tech lead at SapientNitro, before the studio

400+ brands, talking for the first time

BlackBerry·Enterprise · Platform

Built by our founder as one of two developers at Razorfish, before the studio

Millions of users, at once

Siemens·Industrial · Publishing

Built by our founder at LBi London, before the studio

1 blog for an industrial giant

The Royal Bank of Scotland·Finance · Infrastructure

Built by our founder at LBi London, before the studio

Every employee, one private search

Corbis·Media · Platform

Built by our founder as tech lead with BMB Agency, before the studio

Web · iOS · iPad a stock library as a magazine

Unify·Campaigns · Interactive maps

70,000+ places on one map

Seeds·Blockchain · Product

End to end design, code, security

Why us

Why marketing teams stay with us

  1. Four hundred brands, one platform.

    Our founder was tech lead at SapientNitro on Unilever's platform connecting more than four hundred brands. We know how marketing works at scale.

  2. Senior people only.

    The person who scopes your project is the person who builds it. No account managers relaying messages, no juniors learning on your budget.

  3. Tested, and under warranty.

    Every build is tested rigorously before it reaches you, on real phones and real browsers. We deliver it bug-free and back that with a warranty: if a bug turns up, we fix it at our cost.

  4. You own all of it.

    The code, the accounts, the data and the domain are yours from day one. Stay with us for years or take it in-house. Both are fine.

How it goes

  1. A conversation

    You tell us what you need to happen. We ask about the business, the audience and the deadline, and give you an honest view on fit.

  2. A plan and a price

    A written plan of what we will build, in what order, for how much. No surprises later.

  3. The build

    You see working progress throughout, tested as we go on real phones and browsers. Decisions are made with you, not for you.

  4. Launch, then on call

    We launch it, measure how people really use it, and keep improving what matters.

Our commitment

We give 5% of all profits to protecting the ocean

This is why we commit 5% of all profits towards cleaning and protecting the ocean and the life below water.

of profits committed
5%
of the world's oxygen
85%
of projects carbon-assessed
100%
“You gotta hire these guys, they are awesome!”

The site speaks for itself, but what speaks even louder was the ease of the creation process. What's key is the site's responsiveness to all devices and the clean, professional feel. They have a team of digital wizards and if you're lucky enough to hire them to build your site, you're going to be as honoured as I am.

Rieki Cordon — Founder of Seeds & Hypha DAO

Where we come from

Founded by Vishal Modha, who led engineering on work for Unilever, BlackBerry, RBS and Siemens at Publicis Sapient, Razorfish and LBi London.

  • Unilever
  • Siemens
  • BlackBerry
  • Tata
  • Unify
  • Peroni
  • Grolsch
  • E.ON Energy
  • Smart IOT
  • Department of Health
  • East Midlands Trains (Stagecoach)
  • Corbis
  • British Chamber of Commerce
  • BMB Agency
  • Digitas LBi
  • Publicis Sapient
  • Sapient Razorfish
  • Seeds

Next step

Ready when you are.

Every enquiry is read by the founder. Nothing is shared, and there is no sales sequence.

Read how we work first

Questions people ask first

What happens if something breaks after launch?

We fix it. Everything we build is tested rigorously before it goes live and comes with a warranty, so if a bug turns up, putting it right is our cost, not yours.

Can you work within our brand guidelines and tech stack?

Yes. We fit into what you have, and we will tell you honestly if something in the stack is costing you more than it should.

Do you work on retainer?

Many marketing teams keep us on a monthly arrangement after the first project. It starts with one project, so you can judge us on the work.

Will our team be able to edit things themselves?

That is the point. We build it so your team publishes without us, and we train them on it.

What does it cost?

First projects typically start around £10,000. We give you a fixed price before any work starts.

Your pipeline

What is waiting to launch?

Tell us what is stuck, what is coming, and the date the business is expecting it.

What do you need?

Pick as many as apply.

Rough budget?

Optional, but it helps us scope properly.

Talk to us about your pipeline