Guildford has a lot of software, games and research businesses, and they ask harder questions than most. That suits us: our work is more engineering than brochure.
Guildford 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.
What we do
Working UK-wide and internationally — directly with businesses, and white label behind design and marketing agencies.
Discuss a projectWe 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.
The list above is what comes up most in Guildford. It is not the whole offer — these are the other things we are asked for.
Design built around the business, not a theme.
Custom checkout, trade pricing, subscriptions.
Bespoke CRMs, intranets and member portals.
Moving platform without losing content or rankings.
CMS development, themes and editor blocks.
Retained development hours with a named developer.
UK managed hosting, backups and monitoring.
Mobile and cross-platform application work.
We take on work across Surrey, UK-wide and internationally. 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.