Four ways we help.
Most companies come for one and stay for another. The engineering and the marketing sit in the same building, which is why they actually work together.
Off-the-shelf stops fitting eventually.
The subscription was cheap. The workaround is not: someone copying data between two systems every morning, a booking tool that cannot handle your pricing, a CRM that cannot see your invoices.
We build the version that fits. Web applications, iOS and Android apps, plugins and the integrations that make them useful. You get the source code and you own it.
Web applications
iOS & Android
Plugins
Integrations
Custom agents
One job, done reliably
Agentic workflows
Multi-step with guardrails
AI strategy
Where it helps, where it does not
Safe by design
Permissions, approvals, logs
Most AI pilots never ship. Ours do.
It is easy to demo an agent. It is hard to make one reliable enough that a business lets it touch real records. That gap is engineering, and it is most of the work.
We start with one process, prove it against your real data, then harden it with permissions, approvals and logging before it runs unattended.
Step onto the floor and watch them work.
This is not a diagram of how AI might work. It is the room where the agents we run for clients actually sit, each one at its desk with a job and a queue.
A working floor, not a demo
Research, outreach, review collection, listing audits and reporting, all happening in one room you can walk through.
Real agents, real work
Each desk is an agent running a live job for a client, not a demo.
Visible by design
You can watch what they are doing, which is the point of building them this way.
Yours can join them
Agents we build for your business take a desk in this office too.
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Software we built, so you don't have to.
Four platforms we designed, built and operate ourselves. Ready today, no project required.
Business App
All-in-one local marketing platform
Listings, social media management, reputation management, advertising, email and CRM — everything a local business needs in one platform.
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EngagePro360
Interactive quizzes, polls & giveaways
Quizzes, polls, surveys, brackets and giveaways that generate leads and drive revenue, with no coding required.
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TextCoder.ai
No code. No designers. Just text to code.
Describe the app, the data model and the integrations, and TextCoder.ai writes the React and JavaScript. Feed it your colours, logo and layout and it builds the site.
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Reputation Management
by Social Mermaid
Monitor and grow your online reputation. Collect more reviews, respond from one inbox, and turn happy customers into your best marketing.
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The specialist services that support the four pillars, available on their own or alongside a build.
One team that can build it and then sell it.
Most agencies cannot build software. Most software shops cannot run marketing. That gap is where projects die: the app ships, nobody uses it, and there is no plan for the second part.
We sit in the middle deliberately. The engineers hear what the market is asking for, and the marketers have something real to sell.
Talk to us about your projectWe ship, not just scope
A working build you can use, not a strategy deck and an invoice.
You own what we make
Source code in your repository, documented, no lock-in.
One accountable team
Engineering and marketing in the same conversation, not two vendors blaming each other.
Built to be grown
Launch is the start. We plan for the marketing from day one.
Trusted by
Brands that build with us.
Loved by businesses like yours
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Bring us the problem you have given up on.
The workflow that keeps breaking, the app nobody can quite buy, the marketing nobody has time to run. A free call costs nothing and the honest answer is sometimes "you do not need us for this".
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