Case studies

    Results that ship

    MVPs, proofs of concept and production platforms across education, healthcare, travel and consumer brands. A selection of some apps we've shipped and what we used we used to build them. 

    Platform build · Education

    STEAM Arena

    A GIS-driven directory platform connecting UK schools, families and home educators with verified STEAM providers, backed by a full admin suite.

    Provider verification, geographic search across the whole of the UK, and an admin layer the client's team runs day to day without engineering support.

    Engagement
    Collaborative build
    Status
    Live
    Built with
    ReactPostgres + PostGISMapping APIsAdmin suite
    Custom CMS · Consumer brand

    DEFY Brands

    A bespoke website with a custom CMS, built so the founder can finally publish without friction.

    The brief was less about the site and more about the workflow behind it: every page, product and post editable by one non-technical person in a few minutes.

    Engagement
    Collaborative build
    Status
    Live
    Built with
    Custom CMSLovableBrand site
    Platform, AI and retained support · Healthcare

    Your Heart Check

    A direct-to-consumer platform for at-home cardiac monitoring. Patients order a three-day Holter monitor and get a clinician-reviewed ECG report in seven days, with AI-assisted analysis running on Azure.

    Stripe payments sit in the front-end marketing site so orders complete where patients land, and a Synthesia integration generates patient explanation video from the platform. We support the service on a monthly retainer.

    Engagement
    Platform build + retained support
    Status
    Live
    Built with
    TensorFlowAzureSynthesiaStripeUK data residencyMonthly retainer
    Native iOS · Travel

    Schengen Days

    A rolling-window short-stay calculator for non-EU travellers, on the App Store since 2022. It answers one question exactly: how many of your 90 days in any 180-day period are left.

    The 180-day window moves every day, so the calculation has to be day-accurate across past trips and planned ones at once. Everything runs on device and syncs through iCloud — no accounts, no tracking, and it works with no signal at a border. Currently rated 4.4 on the App Store.

    Engagement
    Native app development
    Status
    Live on the App Store
    Built with
    SwiftiOSiCloud syncOffline-first
    Founder enablement · Education

    Beyond School

    Enabling a founder to launch a platform connecting young people with career opportunities, through strategic mentorship and hands-on training.

    The brief was capability rather than delivery: the founder wanted to build and keep building it themselves. We shaped the architecture, taught the tooling, and stayed available for the decisions that were expensive to get wrong.

    Engagement
    Founder enablement
    Status
    Live
    Built with
    MentorshipLovableArchitecture support
    Native app · Live events

    Electric Airshows

    A proof-of-concept for a drone light show media playback system, built to establish whether the approach was technically viable before any production investment.

    Timed media playback has no tolerance for drift, so the work was almost entirely about synchronisation and hardware behaviour rather than interface. The result gave the client a clear answer and a costed route to a full build.

    Engagement
    Native app development
    Status
    Proof of concept
    Built with
    Native appMedia playbackSync
    Discovery track record

    Discovery, before the build

    Product discovery and strategy led by our founder, Claire Owen, for organisations including CompTIA and the Youth Futures Foundation. Research and strategy on most of these; on Circadian Dynamics we delivered the build and the store release as well.

    001

    CompTIA Career Explorer

    A straightforward alternative to traditional career sites, showing the diversity and global reach of tech careers beyond Silicon Valley.

    Product discovery
    User insights and value proposition
    Usability testing and outcomes report
    Ongoing strategy support
    002

    The Workforce Almanac

    An accessible data platform mapping U.S. workforce training providers, for policymakers, researchers and training entities.

    Product discovery
    User and stakeholder interviews
    Value proposition
    Launch and live demo sessions
    003

    Youth Futures Foundation

    Lead discovery for the redesign of the youth labour market data dashboard.

    Lead product discovery
    Stakeholder research
    Dashboard strategy
    004

    American Opportunity Index

    Discovery for version two of the index, ranking employers on how well their workers do. Since republished as Where Your Work Matters.

    Product discovery
    Stakeholder interviews
    Value proposition
    005

    Circadian Dynamics

    An Android application bringing personal health monitoring to the Bittium Faros device over Bluetooth, with real-time heart rate and blood pressure readings.

    Stakeholder interviews
    User insights and value proposition
    Project management
    App store deployment
    Not public

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