Hodfords

Remote engineering teams from the UK and Vietnam

Headquartered in the United Kingdom, Hodfords has worked with businesses since 2000. It supplies a client's digital team or provides engineers who strengthen a team that already exists. Its UK leadership works with engineers based in Vietnam, and the company describes the combination as smooth delivery without any loss of quality. Its clients are spread across Europe and Asia.

Engineering and AI-assisted delivery

The company presents its engineering as AI-facilitated, with software engineers working alongside seasoned product and delivery leads so that projects finish on time, to specification and within budget. It describes its engineers as being used to accelerate digital transformation projects, and it says it can take on either a legacy system that needs upgrading or a new enterprise app built to grow.

Flexible hiring and consulting

Clients can take on engineers, AI specialists and digital consultants for a day, a week or a month at a time. The company says this lets clients scale their teams up or down as demand changes. Its consultancy covers AI adoption, process automation and digital transformation strategy, aimed at helping a business use its resources more efficiently and reduce costs.

Government and public-sector standards

The company says it follows the Government Digital Service Standard for its projects, and that it is now an approved supplier on the G-Cloud 14 framework, which is a route for public bodies to buy cloud and digital services. It presents these credentials as evidence that its work meets government-backed standards of quality.

Sectors and the kinds of software built

The website lists fintech, online retail, healthcare and medical technology, and manufacturing and supply chain businesses among its sectors. Among the products it describes are a property search app for mobile devices, which uses GPS to show homes within a set radius of the user and lets landlords list properties with photos and video, and a restaurant platform that combines a point-of-sale terminal for staff, an app for customers to order food for collection, and a desktop system for managers.

Web and mobile work for long-standing clients

Hodfords has built websites for retail and e-commerce clients, including one collector of posters, photography and antique maps that it has supported since the early 2000s. It describes how the site moved from a traditional business toward online ordering as the client grew. The company also builds native iOS and Android apps, and for one university anniversary app it built content in HTML5 and JavaScript so that the same material worked on both platforms, while noting that the approach offered less interactivity than native code.

Staffing, culture and how the company works

The company describes itself as an extension of its clients' businesses, taking on the administrative and operational work so that a client can focus on innovation and growth. It says it draws on a community of technology talent across its UK and Vietnam teams, and it presents its approach as one built on curiosity, experience and close working relationships.