Web apps · Websites · AI features
Web Apps and Websites, Properly Made.
Made by Kiln designs, builds and looks after web apps, websites and AI features. We run our own products too, so we build yours the way we build ours.
Sound familiar?
If Any of These Ring True, We Should Talk.
You have an idea and nobody to build it.
A product, a customer portal, a tool your team keeps asking for. Freelancers disappear and big agencies quote for a team you don't need.
What we do about it
We shape a first version with you, build it, and stay to run it.
Web apps and productsYour website isn't pulling its weight.
It works around the clock and it's the first thing customers see. If it's slow, dated or broken, it's costing you business.
What we do about it
We rebuild it around what your customers need, and make the next step obvious.
WebsitesThe developer left. The knowledge went with them.
Your systems still run, but nobody really understands them. Every change feels like defusing a bomb.
What we do about it
We learn the system, write it down and look after it, so it stops being a risk.
Care and supportOur own products
We Don't Just Build for Clients. We Run Our Own.
We design, build, host, support and sell two products of our own. Every lesson from running them goes into the work we do for you.
Blocky
Website planning software for agencies. Sitemaps, real copy and client sign-off in one place.
24
Section types
5
Workflow stages
£19
A month, flat
0
Per-seat charges
Kiln Studios
Pay-monthly websites for UK small businesses, built on a design platform we made ourselves.
£40
A month, to start
3
All-inclusive plans
2
Weeks to go live
0
CMS logins to learn
What we do
Five Things We Make and Look After.
Web Apps and Products
SaaS products, customer portals and internal tools, from first idea to live and looked after. Built the way we build our own.
Learn moreWebsites
Bespoke marketing sites, rebuilds and online shops. WordPress, Shopify or fully custom, delivered on time and built to earn their keep.
Learn moreAI Features and Automation
AI built into your product or your working day. We find where it saves real time and money, then build it and make it stick.
Learn moreCare and Support
Hosting, monitoring, security patches, fixes and steady improvements. Your tech, handled, by people who know it.
Learn moreTechnical Leadership
CTO-level thinking by the day. Architecture, roadmaps, audits and a straight answer on what to build, buy or leave alone.
Learn moreHow it works
No Mystery. No Jargon. Just a Process That Works.
We Talk.
A free 30-minute call. You tell us what you need, and we tell you honestly whether we're the right people to build it. No pitch, no obligation.
We Plan It Properly.
Before anyone builds anything, we agree what's being made: the screens or pages, the words, the cost and the dates. In plain English, not a forty-page deck. It matters enough to us that we built Blocky to do it.
We Build It. We Stay.
The work ships on time and to the standard we hold our own products to. Then we stay to host it, look after it and keep improving it.
Kind words
Don't Take Our Word for It.
What clients and colleagues say about working with our founder, Gareth.
“Gaz is a one in a million web developer and colleague. He is incredibly creative and easy to work with, knows the entire stack, and clearly communicates and solves problems at all levels. Our CMO even commented 'this never happens' — we launched on time and on budget, despite a number of changes along the way.”
Not Sure Where to Start?
Answer two quick questions and we'll tell you how we'd approach it. It runs on the same kind of AI we build into client products.
About the studio
A Small Studio With Its Own Skin in the Game.
Made by Kiln is the studio behind Blocky and Kiln Studios. We design, build, host and support our own software every day, and we bring the same care to client work.
The studio is led by Gareth Thurlow, who has spent more than twenty years building for the web: live broadcast apps for the BBC, projects for ASOS and YO! Sushi, and an agency he built and sold.
2
Products of our own, built and run in-house
20+
Years our founder has been building for the web
25k
Concurrent users on his live BBC broadcast build
100%
Uptime on air across those broadcasts
Currently taking on new projects
Got Something Worth Building? Let's Make It Properly.
Tell us what you need. A real person reads it and replies with a straight answer, including if we're not the right fit.