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AboutFounder-led digital studio

One studio for the website and the work behind it.

Founo is led by Nasim, in the North East, working with businesses across the UK. The person you brief plans what your customers see and builds the system behind it.

Who leads the work

The person you brief leads the work.

Someone writing notes on a pad at a wooden table, a mug beside them.
Where every project starts: a conversation and a page of notes.

“I lead the strategy and the delivery, from how a customer understands an offer to how the software behind it behaves.”

Nasim, founder of Founo

Booking flows, payments, staff tools and the rules between them are part of the same job. The person planning the customer’s journey also understands the system underneath it, so nothing is handed from a strategy team to a separate technical one.

You speak to
Nasim, who is responsible for the scope, the priorities and the delivery.
You review
Working progress at agreed checkpoints, not slide decks.
Specialists
Photography, copy, ads or extra development, brought in when the work needs them and named in the quote.

Experience

Built from both sides of the work.

Founo’s work draws on product engineering, production software and commercial customer journeys: what happens on screen, and the services and workflows underneath.

What customers see

Aliya’s Beauty’s landing page: an eye drawn from lash fibres above the headline and a button to book

What the business runs on

Aliya’s Beauty’s staff diary for a Wednesday: the day’s visits listed by time, each with the client and the treatment
Both sides of one business we built for: Aliya’s Beauty’s landing page and the staff diary its bookings land in. Shown with demo data.
  1. Product engineering

    Fintech product

    Technical Co-Founder

    Product and engineering work across a multi-user payments and operations platform, spanning payment requests, verification, case management, permissions, workflow automation and reporting.

    • Multi-tenant
    • Payments
    • Workflows
  2. Professional engineering

    Tesco Insurance

    Software Engineer

    Production engineering across Tesco Insurance’s online quote-and-buy journey and supporting backend services, spanning feature delivery, APIs, platform improvements, testing and release.

    • Customer journeys
    • APIs
    • Production systems

How we decide what to build

Made for you. Never from scratch.

Every build starts from work we’ve already made and proven, so a custom site costs far less than an agency build and takes far less time.

What every business like yours needs

Proven parts from work we’ve already shipped.

Pages, booking, quoting, payments and tracking we’ve built and run before. They arrive tested, so the budget goes on what’s yours.

What only your business does

Built around how you actually work.

The workflow, the data and the details that set you apart, designed with you, with a discovery piece before any large build.

Principles

Seven rules we work to.

The same for a one-page website as for a year of software.

01

Fix the real bottleneck

Start with what is actually holding the business back, not the channel or the technology someone assumed it needed.

02

Build on what already works

Every build starts from parts we’ve already made and proven, so you get something made for you without paying to reinvent the basics.

03

Fit the way you work

The parts that make your business different are designed around how you run it, with discovery first on anything large.

04

Measure what matters

Enquiries, bookings and hours saved, not page views. Tracking is part of the job from day one.

05

No fake scale

One founder-led studio, with specialists brought in when the work needs them. No invented departments.

06

Scope in writing

What’s included, how long it takes and what it costs, agreed before work starts. Changes are priced before they happen.

07

Honest proof

Our work is shown as it was built. Where we haven’t measured a result, we don’t claim one.

Our work

Three businesses. What we built.

All case studies
  • Treetop Gardens landing page: a finished garden at dusk, with a lawn, patio, decking and string lightsLandscaping and licensed waste, South TynesideTreetop GardensA website where the garden gets built as you scroll, with the enquiry form, quotes, jobs and a staff workspace behind it.WebsiteEnquiry formQuotes and jobsStaff workspace
  • Aliya’s Beauty homepage: an open eye drawn from lash fibres above the headlineBrows, lashes and beauty, South ShieldsAliya’s BeautyA public website connected to treatment booking, deposits and the staff tools behind the diary.WebsiteBookingDepositsStaff tools
  • Scissor Guys website: the opening screen of the homepageBarbershop, South ShieldsScissor GuysA mobile-first site for a barbershop on Ocean Road: cuts, walk-ins, opening times and directions.WebsiteWalk-in detailsMobile layoutDirections

Where

Based in the North East. Working across the UK.

Most first conversations near home are still a short drive. Everything else works just as well on a call.

  1. South ShieldsSouth Tyneside
  2. NewcastleTyne and Wear
  3. SunderlandTyne and Wear
  4. GatesheadTyne and Wear
  5. DurhamCounty Durham
NewcastleSunderlandGatesheadDurhamSouth ShieldsNorth Sea

Tell us where it gets stuck.

A website, more customers, less admin or custom software. You’ll hear back from Nasim within one working day.