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Independent software studio

UK · 2026

We build software —ours and yours.

Kernyard creates useful digital products, develops websites and web applications, and builds bespoke software for businesses.

KY / 001

51.5072° N

  • 10+ years software experience
  • Web · Cloud · Desktop · Mobile
  • Small, senior-led delivery
  • UK based

You work directly with the person designing and building the software.

01 / How we can help

Two services: websites and web apps, and software built for you.

These are the two ways to engage Kernyard. Our own products are a separate offering — software we design, own and sell ourselves, not something we do on commission.

01 / Web development

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Marketing sites, web applications and customer-facing portals designed and built for your business.

Service

Type

  • Business websites

    Web development

    Fast, accessible marketing sites that represent the business properly.

  • Web applications

    Web development

    Product-grade applications built to be extended and maintained.

  • Customer portals

    Web development

    Secure areas where customers self-serve instead of emailing.

  • Landing pages

    Web development

    Focused pages built to explain an offer and convert the right enquiries.

  • Website redesigns

    Web development

    Replacing outdated sites with something clearer, faster and easier to maintain.

  • CMS-powered websites

    Web development

    Sites your team can update without waiting on a developer for every change.

Learn more about web development

02 / Bespoke software

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Internal tools, integrations and purpose-built systems shaped around how you actually work.

Service

Type

  • Dashboards

    Bespoke software

    Interfaces that make operational data readable and actionable.

  • Internal tools

    Bespoke software

    Software shaped around how a team actually works day to day.

  • Integrations

    Bespoke software

    Connecting the systems a business already depends on.

  • Customer portals

    Bespoke software

    Purpose-built areas for customers to manage accounts, orders or requests.

  • Purpose-built systems

    Bespoke software

    Custom software where nothing off the shelf fits.

Learn more about bespoke software

02 / Our products

Software we build because we think it should exist.

Products are not a service. These are applications Kernyard identifies, designs, builds, owns and sells — bought off the shelf rather than commissioned.

03 / Problems we solve

Business problems, not technology shopping lists.

Most useful software starts with something that is slow, fragile or manual. These are the kinds of problems Kernyard takes on.

  • 01

    Replacing manual spreadsheets

    When critical work lives in fragile sheets that only one person understands.

  • 02

    Reducing repetitive admin

    Cutting the copy-paste, chasing, and re-keying that wastes staff time every week.

  • 03

    Building customer self-service

    Giving customers a clear way to get answers and complete tasks without emailing you.

  • 04

    Connecting disconnected systems

    Linking tools that do not talk to each other so data stops living in silos.

  • 05

    Replacing outdated websites

    Updating sites that no longer represent the business or convert the right enquiries.

  • 06

    Automating repetitive processes

    Turning repeatable workflows into reliable software instead of manual effort.

04 / Process

No bloated process.

Enough structure to make the right thing, properly.

  1. 01

    Understand

    What the business does, what is failing and what success actually looks like.

  2. 02

    Define

    Scope, constraints and the smallest useful version of the thing.

  3. 03

    Design

    Interface and architecture decided together, before code hardens.

  4. 04

    Build

    Short cycles, working software, no surprises at the end.

  5. 05

    Ship

    Deployed properly, monitored, documented and handed over cleanly.

  6. 06

    Improve

    What real usage teaches, folded back into the product.

05 / How we think

A short list we actually hold to.

Useful over flashy
Software should solve something.
Simple over clever
Complexity should earn its place.
Built to last
Good foundations make future changes cheaper.
Own the outcome
We care about what happens after launch.

06 / Have something worth building?

Let’s work out what it should become.

madebykernyard@gmail.com

UK · Working internationally