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Design, development, AI, and dependable operations. Bring us in for one part or the whole journey.

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  • AI Solutions

    Ten working AI systems for conversations, documents, voice, and automation. Adapt a product to your business or build something custom.

    Explore service See the ten systems

    What you get

    • Multilingual chatbots, over your own documents rather than the open internet
    • AI phone agents that answer, call out, book and write the call up
    • A knowledge assistant that cites the document behind every answer
    • Document reading — printed and handwritten — into structured data
    • Automated reports, on a schedule, in your own template
    • Voice cloning and video dubbing with matched lip movement
    • Deployed in your infrastructure, with access set by role and every read logged

    Tools & capabilities

    • Generative AI
    • Retrieval-augmented generation
    • AI agents
    • Speech AI
    • Computer vision
    • OCR
    • Private and on-premise deployment

  • Product Planning

    Before anything gets built, we work out exactly what you need, what it will cost and how long it will take — so there are no surprises halfway through.

    Explore service Scope a product

    What you get

    • A written list of what is being built, and what is not
    • A diagram showing how the pieces fit together
    • A plan for what information you keep and which other systems it connects to
    • A delivery plan broken into stages
    • A written list of the risks and the assumptions we made
    • An estimate of the effort and the running costs

    Tools & capabilities

    • System design
    • Scoping workshops
    • How your systems connect
    • Estimation
    • Risk assessment

  • UI/UX Design

    We design what your site or app looks like and how people move through it, so visitors find what they came for instead of giving up.

    Explore service Design an experience

    What you get

    • Step-by-step user journeys and a clear page structure
    • Screen layouts, and a note on how each part behaves
    • Finished designs for every screen
    • A reusable kit of buttons, forms and other common parts
    • Layouts that work on a phone, a tablet and a desktop
    • Notes that make the design usable for people with disabilities (WCAG 2.2 AA)

    Tools & capabilities

    • Figma
    • Reusable screen parts
    • Shared colour and text styles
    • Clickable mock-ups
    • Accessibility check

  • Web Development

    We build the website or web app itself, and make sure it loads quickly on a phone, on an old laptop and on a weak connection.

    Explore service Build a web product

    What you get

    • Marketing websites and web applications
    • Each page loaded in the way that suits it best
    • The design built as reusable parts
    • Speed limits checked automatically on every change
    • Search setup, so Google shows your pages properly
    • Visitor analytics, with proper cookie consent

    Tools & capabilities

    • React
    • Next.js
    • TypeScript
    • Tailwind CSS
    • HTML
    • CSS
    • JavaScript

  • Mobile Applications

    We build apps for iPhone and Android and handle the releases afterwards. Store submission is part of the job; store approval is Apple’s and Google’s decision, and anyone who promises you a date for it is guessing.

    Explore service Build a mobile app

    What you get

    • Apps for iPhone and Android
    • Keeps working without a signal, then catches up when it returns
    • Push notifications, and links that open the right screen in the app
    • An automated release process
    • Store submission, and release to a small group first
    • Crash reports, and a check on how each release is doing

    Tools & capabilities

    • React Native
    • TypeScript
    • REST & GraphQL APIs
    • Fastlane
    • App Store & Play Console

  • Backend & APIs

    This is the engine room your customers never see — where your information is kept, who is allowed to see it, and how your systems pass information to each other safely.

    Explore service Build a backend

    What you get

    • A safe way for other systems to connect to yours
    • Login, and permissions so each person sees only their part
    • A clear structure for the information you keep
    • Scheduled and background work, such as nightly reports
    • Faster repeat requests, and limits that stop misuse
    • Written instructions for anyone connecting to you, kept versioned

    Tools & capabilities

    • Node.js
    • Express.js
    • NestJS
    • Python
    • Java
    • PostgreSQL
    • MongoDB
    • MySQL
    • Redis

  • Cloud & DevOps

    We set up and run the servers your product lives on, so a new version can go live safely — and be undone in minutes if something goes wrong.

    Explore service Design infrastructure

    What you get

    • Server setup written down, so the test and live copies match
    • Builds packaged the same way every time, and locked down
    • Containers, orchestrated where the traffic justifies it — and a straight answer when it does not
    • An automated release process, with a check at each step
    • Releases driven from one recorded source, never from a laptop
    • Safekeeping of passwords and keys, backups, and a recovery plan

    Tools & capabilities

    • Docker
    • Kubernetes
    • Argo CD
    • Jenkins
    • Ansible
    • Automated releases
    • Backup and recovery
    • Cloud hosting

  • Testing & QA

    We try to break it before your customers do: on real phones, real browsers, and under the kind of traffic a busy day brings.

    Explore service Harden a release

    What you get

    • Automatic checks on each piece, and on the pieces working together
    • Checks that connected systems still agree on what they send
    • Full run-throughs of the journeys that matter most
    • Verified on real browsers and real devices
    • Where there is a busy day to plan for, traffic simulated before it arrives
    • Every past bug added to the checks, so it cannot return

    Tools & capabilities

    • Automated checks
    • Manual testing
    • Full journey run-throughs
    • Browser and device testing
    • Load testing
    • Bug tracking

  • Monitoring & Alerts

    We watch your live product day and night, so we know something has broken — and have started fixing it — before your customers ring you about it.

    Explore service Get visibility

    What you get

    • Numbers, records and error trails, all in one place
    • A single screen showing whether everything is healthy
    • Alerts for the problems a customer would notice
    • Automated checks running continuously that the site is up and working
    • Error reports, linked to the release that caused them
    • Written steps for handling a failure, and who to call

    Tools & capabilities

    • Health dashboards
    • Log collection
    • Alerts
    • Speed tracking
    • Incident response

  • Maintenance & Support

    After launch we keep it running — helping your team when they get stuck, fixing the small things inside the working day, applying security updates, and adding new features as your business changes.

    Explore service Keep a product running

    What you get

    • Day-to-day help for your team
    • An agreed time to respond, and an agreed time to fix
    • Problems sorted by urgency, then fixed
    • Security updates, and upgrades to the parts we build on
    • Server upkeep, and renewal of security certificates
    • New features as the business needs them
    • Written documentation kept up to date

    Tools & capabilities

    • Incident response
    • Security updates
    • Upgrades
    • Speed tuning
    • Documentation

Tell us what you need your business to do better. We’ll work out the design, software, and infrastructure to get you there.

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