Your technical & development partner

The challenge

Gadsby came to us through another agency who handled the initial design and build. They needed a technical consultant to support the development process. After launch, the original agency relationship ended and Gadsby needed someone to take ownership of the entire technical side - hosting, maintenance, performance, and ongoing development.

What we did

We took over all hosting and server management, migrated infrastructure to a more reliable setup, and became the ongoing technical partner. Beyond the website, Gadsby had a bespoke in-house WMS/CRM/PIM system that had grown unwieldy over the years. We rebuilt the entire system in Laravel - a proper, future-proof platform with clean architecture, API integrations, and AI-powered features for stock management and order processing.

The outcome

What started as a consultancy engagement became a full technical partnership. The Laravel rebuild replaced years of accumulated technical debt with a system the team actually enjoys using. Site performance improved significantly, downtime dropped to near-zero, and the business now has a technical foundation that can scale with them.

The challenge

A creative agency had more development work than their small internal team could handle. They were turning away projects and losing pitches because they couldn’t promise the technical delivery. They needed development capacity that felt like part of their own team - not an outsourced supplier.

What we did

We embedded our development team within theirs. Shared office space when needed, joined their standups, used their project tools. To their clients, we’re invisible - the work ships under the agency’s brand. We handle all the development - front-end, back-end, server management, deployments - so their team can focus on what they do best: strategy, design, and client relationships.

The outcome

The agency now takes on projects they’d previously have declined. Their development capacity scales up and down with demand without the overhead of permanent hires. The partnership has been running for over two years with no client ever knowing we’re involved.

The challenge

Carly Press had fallen foul of a previous agency partnership. The old website was outdated, poorly maintained, and didn’t represent the quality of their work. They’d lost trust in agencies and needed someone who’d work with them directly, listen to what they actually needed, and deliver without the runaround.

What we did

We worked directly with the Carly Press team to design and build a completely new site on WordPress with Oxygen Builder. Clean, modern, properly reflecting their brand. No page builders generating mountains of inline CSS. No unnecessary complexity. Just a solid, fast, maintainable site that they can update themselves.

The outcome

A website that actually represents the business. Fast, clean, and built to last. More importantly, a working relationship built on trust - the exact opposite of what they’d experienced before.

The challenge

Story Seeds wanted to put personalised stories into the hands of children from disadvantaged backgrounds. The vision was ambitious: generate a unique audio story for each child every day, tailored to their age, interests, and world, then deliver it directly to their Yoto player without any parent effort. Nothing like this existed. It needed AI story generation, text-to-speech, device integration, and scheduling, all working together reliably.

What we did

We built a full-stack application on Next.js with a serverless architecture on Vercel. Claude generates personalised stories via the Vercel AI SDK, incorporating each child's name, age, interests, favourite characters, local weather, and school calendar events. ElevenLabs converts the stories to natural speech with age-appropriate voices. The audio is pushed to Yoto players via their OAuth API. The entire pipeline runs automatically every five minutes, checking schedules across time zones and generating stories without human intervention. The system supports English, French, and Spanish, with accessibility features for neurodivergent children.

The outcome

A fully automated platform that generates and delivers personalised audio stories to children's devices every day. Parents set up a profile once and their child gets a unique story tailored to their world, on schedule, without anyone pressing a button. Our MD Chris Ryan sits on the Story Seeds board and the project is built and maintained pro bono.

The challenge

A leading South West wholesaler had been running their entire operation on a legacy PHP 7.4 system built over many years. 310 database tables, 1,270 PHP files, 20+ integrations, and 3.3 million records across stock, orders, purchasing, and customer data. The system worked but was increasingly fragile, difficult to maintain, and holding back the business. They needed a ground-up rebuild without disrupting daily operations.

What we did

We designed a modular business platform built on Laravel 11, Livewire 3, and Filament 3. Rather than a big-bang replacement, the project is structured as 7 phases over 15 months, each replacing a core module of the legacy system: Product Information Management, Inventory, CRM, Purchasing and Logistics, Order Management, Warehouse and Dispatch, and Quality. Each phase is independently deployable, with data migration running in parallel. The PIM module alone manages 5,000 products with dynamic fields, version control, approval workflows, and e-signature integration.

The outcome

Currently in active development. The phased approach means the business continues running on the legacy system while modules are replaced one at a time, with no disruption to daily operations. When complete, the platform will manage the full lifecycle from product specification through to warehouse dispatch, replacing a system that took over a decade to build.