Hactar

We are a digital studio with a commitment to social good.

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The things we do

We're specialists in planning for and delivering growth. Whether you’re a beyond-profit supported by a hard working team of volunteers and part time staff, or a global brand, we’re here to help you on your journey. We're experts in designing for and building with Wagtail, the CMS of choice for thousands of non-profits and businesses around the world, from the NHS to NASA

Digital transformation

For holistic, business-wide challenges, a broader transformational service might involve a series of workshops and training, helping you hire an internal team, or creating a plan for digital transformation.

Strategy and UX

Our decades of experience bring a wealth of collective knowledge that we will apply to honing your value proposition, developing robust product roadmaps, user personas, and empathy maps. We’ll help you create business model canvases, service maps, user journeys, and scalable adoption ladders. In short, we’re here to help you transform your organisation.

Websites

Our goal driven approach means your website isn’t just a digital brochure. We look at business requirements and user goals to make sure the money you spend on a new digital presence provides the same kind of value to you and your clients as a new member of staff might. Like any member of staff, you should be able to teach your website new skills so we can build with you a framework for endless possibilities. We have customised Wagtail to integrate with all kinds of external services from CRMs like Salesforce, through to payment providers like Stripe. We've yet to meet a service we couldn't integrate with.

Apps and platforms

Any digital application should be capable of learning, growing, and supporting your organisation. Whether it’s a content management system that behaves like a cataloguing platform, or a mobile application for a heritage brand, we apply this thinking to every client project, big or small. It frees up our clients to get on with what they’re really good at - people stuff.

Support

Relationships shouldn’t end with delivery - we’re happy to say that our clients often become partners - some of whom we’ve been lucky enough to be working with years down the line. We get to know them, their business goals, and their user needs. This level of experience helping launch startups, websites, and applications means we know when to chip in and when it’s best to leave our partners to work under their own steam.

Our role beyond launch is to provide ongoing support to you and your organisation. This might be a light touch service level agreement, or something a little weightier like a monthly retainer to help you continue on the test and learn pathway.

We’ve worked with clients across publishing, healthcare, philanthropy, retail, finance, ethical trading, education, and sustainability.

Each one of these sectors presents its own challenges and opportunities. And each one of the organisations we’ve had the pleasure of working with have had very specific audience needs, and business goals.

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