For scale-ups and established teamsNot you?
Enterprise engineering, without the enterprise invoice.
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. Platforms, integrations, search and internal tools, built by a senior team that learned its craft on some of the biggest names in the UK. The standard of a global agency, without the layers.
The big agency's team is mostly juniors.
You pay for the senior people in the pitch and get the graduates in the build.
Your own team is full.
The roadmap is committed and the important project has no one to own it.
Systems that don't talk.
Customer data in four places, spreadsheets holding the business together, and a search box nobody trusts.
Seniority is the cheapest thing you can buy.
One senior engineer who has solved your problem before is worth several who are learning on it. They make fewer wrong turns, write less code that has to be thrown away, and see the expensive mistake before it is made.
Selected work
Alchemy Rewire·Wellness · Community platform
3 surfaces web, iOS and Android, one platform
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
What we make
What we build for growing companies
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Customer platforms, portals and self-service tools
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Internal tools and dashboards that replace the spreadsheets
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Integrations between CRMs, payments, data and legacy systems
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Search across your own content, products and documents
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Mobile apps for customers and for teams in the field
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Architecture reviews and a second opinion before big decisions
What needs building?
That is what we offer: a small team of senior people, working directly with you, with no account layer, no pyramid of juniors and no hand-offs.
Why us
Why established teams bring us in
Enterprise-tested.
Our founder built RBS's private employee search on the Google Search Appliance and led engineering on Unilever's platform for four hundred brands. We know what enterprise-grade means.
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.
Works alongside your team.
We fit into your process, your repositories and your reviews, and leave your people stronger than we found them.
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.
How it goes
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.
A plan and a price
A written plan of what we will build, in what order, for how much. No surprises later.
The build
You see working progress throughout, tested as we go on real phones and browsers. Decisions are made with you, not for you.
Launch, and handover
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.
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. Confidential by default, and we are happy to sign an NDA first.
Read how we work firstQuestions 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 inside our existing codebase and processes?
Yes. We are used to pull requests, code review, security requirements and procurement. Tell us how you work and we will fit in.
What about security and compliance?
Security is designed in from the start: access control, data handling and audit. We will work to your requirements and tell you where they need strengthening.
Do you sign NDAs and supplier agreements?
Yes.
What does a project cost?
Platform projects typically start around £15,000. We give you a fixed price for a defined scope.
Your project
What needs building?
The problem, the systems involved, and the date that matters. We will reply with how we would approach it and who would do the work.