About OTB Studio
One person, end to end.
I'm Oliver. I spent over a decade in big tech, building and running product and engineering work on large, complex, security-sensitive systems, including banking-grade applications.
Now I run OTB Studio from Ipswich, and I build for the businesses around me: websites, web apps and full platforms for companies across Suffolk and East Anglia, and further afield when the project is right.
The premise is unusual but simple. The same person who talks to you designs the site, writes the code, sets up the hosting and answers the phone afterwards. A café gets the same engineering standards as a bank. A national company gets the attention of a studio where nothing is delegated.
How an engagement runs
You get in touch
A short form or an email. Tell me what the business does and what you think you need, even roughly.
We talk
A proper conversation about the business, the customers and what the site actually has to do. Free, and useful even if we never work together.
You get a written proposal
A clear scope with deliverables, a timeline and a fixed price. What it says is what you pay.
I build it
Design and development by the same pair of hands. You see progress as it happens and nothing is a surprise at the end.
You own it, I stay close
The site, the domain, the email: all yours. I stay available for support, changes and growth, on terms that suit the business.
In my own words
For most of my career I built things I couldn't point at. Large systems for large companies: work I was proud of, and that almost nobody I know ever saw.
The last stop before home was Estonia, where I ran technology and product for a cryptocurrency exchange. Interesting work, high stakes, and a very long way from Suffolk. When I moved back to Ipswich I kept noticing the same thing everywhere: businesses that were excellent in person and invisible online. The pub you'd drive twenty minutes for, represented by a stale directory page and somebody else's reviews.
I built East Anglia Insider partly to fix that, and partly to find out whether I still enjoyed building things when my own name was on the door. It turned out I did, more than anything I'd shipped in the decade before.
That's the honest origin of OTB Studio. It isn't a stepping stone back to something bigger. It's the discovery that the work I most want to do is for businesses I can walk into, run by people who answer their own phone. I'd rather build carefully for a few of them than quickly for many.
— Oliver
The first conversation costs nothing.
Tell me about the business and what you need. I'll give you a straight answer, even if that answer is that you don't need me yet.
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