Bean Machine

Bean Machine, written BeanMachine on its own site, is a design and engineering studio that takes software products from first idea through to release. The team mixes UI/UX specialists, full-stack engineers and people with startup backgrounds, and it works for both young companies and larger enterprises.

What Bean Machine offers

• UI/UX design — interface and experience design, rapid prototyping and user testing.
• Web applications — progressive web apps built with React, with front-end and back-end development and API integration.
• Mobile apps — native or hybrid apps for iOS and Android, including React Native builds.
• Custom WordPress — design and development of WordPress-hosted websites.
• Technical strategy — road maps for fast-growing startups, moves off legacy systems, SaaS monetisation models and planning for machine learning and AI.
• Team augmentation — adding the studio's engineers to a client's own team.

Who it works with

The studio serves startups and enterprises. Recent projects include a custom WordPress site for Supplyframe, a platform for alternative investment in fine wine for Vinovest, and Nurture by Naps, a parenting support platform covering pregnancy to early childhood.

Key facts

• Approach: designs products to scale as user demand changes, treating scalability as a core quality rather than an extra
• Leadership: run by partners Robyn and Anthony, whose careers centre on using data to shape technical strategy