SISSuite
The product covers the safety lifecycle. The old public site did not. We built a marketing site that puts every phase, the modules on that phase, and the 55-second tour on one page — in the colours of their flyer.
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Real briefs from product partnerships, enterprise squads, NHS platforms, and studio SaaS we still run. Each one starts with what was broken — not a logo wall or a victory lap.
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SISSuite, Mobtag, and Captur. The rest of the work is in the grid below.
Mobtag
Maintenance, compliance, and inventory lived in different pictures — the product still felt like admin software, not something you open on a gate or harness. We rebuilt field-first: one scan opens the live record, with per-client layouts on the same workflow underneath. Still in partnership — small loops, accountable releases.
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Teams lose the trail of what happened across apps, webhooks, and batch jobs — then spend days reconstructing timelines when something breaks. Captur is studio SaaS we built and run: one ingest API, indexed events, and query paths that stay boring under load.
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SISSuite
The product covers the safety lifecycle. The old public site did not. We built a marketing site that puts every phase, the modules on that phase, and the 55-second tour on one page — in the colours of their flyer.
Read the brief →Mobtag
Maintenance, compliance, and inventory lived in different pictures — the product still felt like admin software, not something you open on a gate or harness. We rebuilt field-first: one scan opens the live record, with per-client layouts on the same workflow underneath. Still in partnership — small loops, accountable releases.
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Podium Energy
Offshore planning was being rebuilt in slides. Podium needed the operational plan in one place — people, process, and status — instead of a deck that was already out of date by the time it was presented. We built the operational planning tool and stayed on as technical partner.
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Inspections, faults, and equipment history were hard to prove once the engineer left the site. I-Ingenuity is the inspection platform for that — records, faults, and reports in one place, with a public site that says what the product actually does.
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SMEs keep getting platform theatre or a junior-heavy agency behind a slick deck — then nobody senior is left when the demo ends. Grumpy Dev is the standard Half Shell holds itself to: plain English on fit, Laravel when it is honest, and no disappearing after launch.
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Learnio
Shipping a learning product under pressure is not more tickets — someone has to own vertical slices and care what learners see on a Tuesday. We embed under their brand with the same staging and release rigour as their internal team.
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ZEN Timesheets
NHS areas needed a straight line from shift to payroll — less chasing across email, paper, and half-finished spreadsheets at close of play. Ten-week platform build: approvals, sickness, and compliance tied to shifts on one timeline payroll can defend.
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ANS digital services
Wide remit across cloud, business apps, security, and AI — plus ageing microservices and a legacy core still paying the bills. Embedded like any other squad member: standups, planning, retros, shipping upgrades alongside care for the old bits others avoid.
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YourParkingSpace
Passengers see a search box; operators see inventory, hardware, and rules that fight each other. Squad contractor work on ANPR-led booking paths, ops tooling, and supply status so the front stays fast while the backend tells the truth.
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