Giant Hat

Giant Hat is a small web development team that builds websites and web applications, working as part of Thomson Printing. It puts emphasis on planning before any code is written, offering a structured planning stage for new app and website projects. The team keeps up with web technology through ongoing learning and by teaching others.

What Giant Hat offers

• Project Blueprint — a tailored plan for an app or website before development starts.
• Prototype builds — a first beta version of an app built from scratch, from its own plan or the client's.
• The Rebuild — a full redevelopment of an existing website that no longer serves its owner.
• Custom APIs and web applications — back-end services and user-facing tools, including a HIPAA-compliant system for a health-sector client.
• Ongoing maintenance — looking after the systems it has built.

Who it works with

Clients shown include CertaScan, for which it built software to capture newborn footprints plus related websites and an API; Kolcraft, for which it runs several websites; and Stamp & Chase, for a hospital leadership web app.

Key facts

• Parent company: Thomson Printing
• Team: small team of web developers
• Sectors served: healthcare, consumer products, music and others