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How the work gets made.

One team of 25+ engineers, designers and product people, working from one office. Watch a project move from the first workshop to launch, or ask Sammy anything along the way.

Sammy, the studio's AI guide

Sammy, AI guide

Hi, I'm Sammy, the studio's AI guide. Here is how the team works.

The process

From listening to staying.

Every project moves through the same stages with the same people. Scroll through them, or watch the film above.

  1. Notes and sketches from a discovery workshop

    Listen

    Discovery and strategy

    Before anything is designed, the team learns the business: who it serves, what has to be true for it to work, and what could stop it.

    • Stakeholder workshops
    • User research and interviews
    • Competitive analysis
    • Technical feasibility check
    • A roadmap you agree to
  2. Wireframes turning into a finished interface

    Shape

    Design and architecture

    Ideas become screens and systems you can react to, long before code makes them expensive to change.

    • Wireframes and clickable prototypes
    • High-fidelity design
    • A design system built to grow
    • Database schema and API design
    • Infrastructure architecture
  3. Code and a growing product build

    Build

    Development

    The product is built in short sprints with a demo at the end of each, so you see progress instead of hearing about it.

    • Sprints with regular demos
    • Frontend and backend together
    • Third-party integrations
    • Every change code reviewed
    • Documentation written as it goes
  4. A release passing its checks

    Prove

    Quality assurance

    Every release passes the same gate, so quality is a habit rather than a scramble in the final week.

    • Automated unit and integration tests
    • Manual QA on real devices
    • Performance and load testing
    • Security review
    • Cross-browser checks
  5. A product going live with monitoring in place

    Launch

    Release and deployment

    Launch day is planned, rehearsed and watched, so it is the quietest day of the project.

    • Production infrastructure
    • CI/CD pipelines
    • Data migration
    • SSL, CDN and hardening
    • Monitoring and alerting
  6. The team continuing to improve a live product

    Stay

    Support and evolution

    After launch the same people stay with the product, improving it as real users teach everyone something new.

    • Monitoring and incident response
    • Performance tuning
    • Iterations from real usage
    • Upgrades and maintenance
    • Ongoing product advice

You always know where things stand.

No status reports to chase. You work alongside the team in the open.

  1. Every day

    A shared Slack channel with the people building your product, not an account manager relaying messages.

  2. Every week

    A sync call to review progress, unblock decisions and agree what comes next.

  3. Always on

    A live project board, so you can check where things stand without having to ask.

  4. Every other week

    A demo day where you use the latest build and steer what happens next.

How we hold ourselves

What stays the same on every project.

  • No templates, no shortcuts

    Every product is architected for its own requirements and goals, not adapted from the last one.

  • Senior-led

    Senior engineers and architects lead every project. Nothing is handed down and forgotten.

  • Honest timelines

    Realistic estimates, clear milestones, and an early word when something changes.

  • Built to last

    The team optimises for the product you will still be running years from now, not a rushed launch.

  • Knowledge stays with you

    Documentation and walkthroughs, so your own people understand every part of the codebase.

  • In it for the long run

    Support, scaling and the next version, from the people who built the first one.

Engineers walking through a codebase together

You own all of it.

When the work is done, everything the team made is yours, documented and handed over properly.

  • Source code and its documentation
  • Design files and the design system
  • API documentation
  • Deployment and runbook guides
  • Training for your team
  • A knowledge base to grow with

Want to see your product move like this?

Tell the team what you are working on. You will hear back with a plan, not a pitch.