Guildford has a real concentration of software, games and research businesses, and they ask harder questions than most. That suits us — our work leans engineering rather than brochure.
Guildford is around twenty miles from our Tolworth office — a straight run down the A3, but still a journey rather than a drop-in. We will come out for a kick-off and for the milestones that warrant it, and we are not going to pretend we will appear on a Tuesday afternoon. You should be sceptical of anyone who does.
In practice it changes very little. Our Guildford projects are the most technical work we do, and technical work is reviewed on a staging environment and in a repository, not across a table. What matters more than distance is whether the person you speak to understands what you are asking for.
What we do
Working UK-wide — directly with businesses, and white label behind design and marketing agencies.
Discuss a projectGuildford is not simply a larger Epsom. Surrey Research Park, the University and the town's long-standing games development cluster mean a meaningful share of local businesses are technical ones — software firms, studios, research-led companies and B2B suppliers selling to other businesses rather than to the public. Those briefs rarely stop at a website. They involve a product to document, a customer portal, data arriving from somewhere, or a system that needs an interface that an internal team never got round to building.
The other half is the town's professional and legal sector, which is sizeable, and the retail and hospitality along the High Street. That work is more conventional, though professional firms here tend to want something custom rather than a template, and are usually willing to pay for the difference.
One pattern worth naming: technical companies are often the worst served by their own websites, because the engineering attention goes into the product and the site is left to whoever had time. We are comfortable being told what the product does in detail, which is not the experience most of them have had with a design agency.
We do the same work wherever the client is — these are simply the parts that come up most often here.
Portals, dashboards and internal tools that never got built.
APIs, data feeds and connecting systems that were not designed to talk.
A separate front end for content, when the stack calls for it.
Bespoke builds where a template is genuinely the wrong tool.
Much of our work is delivered white label or under agreement, so these describe the problem and the approach rather than naming the client.
An industrial-scale ordering portal migrated off a legacy platform, with client authentication, advanced search and form-to-CRM integration.
Migration · DevelopmentFive separate legacy CMS sites, five databases and five themes, consolidated into a single multilingual multisite CMS platform.
Web application · SubscriptionA subscription research platform serving over 3,000 subscribers across 160+ countries, with daily content and recurring monthly payments.
We take on work across Surrey and UK-wide. Around Guildford that regularly includes Woking, Godalming, Farnham, Cranleigh, Aldershot and Camberley.
Not just what it should look like. We will tell you what it would take, what it would cost, and when something cheaper would get you most of the way — before you have committed to anything.