Award-winning & 4× finalist

Websites and software that simply work.

Our tools have been used by UK local government, and by businesses working home and abroad. We design and build extraordinary things.

Selected work

Things we built, and still run.

We still run every one of them. That's the honest test: we live with the maintenance, the support load and the 3am uptime, not just the launch day.

Someone walking a tree-lined park path, holding a phone showing their FitWalk route and 6,032 steps.
  • 02
  • FitWalk
  • iOS & Android
  • React Native
  • Health

A walking app that routes you through the green bits — and leaves something to find along the way

Routes generated from your own front door and scored on how much green space they actually pass through, with coins and gems dropped along them to pick up. Background GPS that keeps counting with the screen off, Apple Health on iOS and Health Connect on Android, a watch face, streaks and leaderboards. The map turns from day to night on the real sunrise where you are standing, not on the clock.

The Beanz Barn website, showing the soft play frame behind the centre's name and a Book Now button.
  • 04
  • Beanz Barn
  • Booking
  • Capacity
  • WooCommerce

A booking system for a soft play centre — sessions, parties and vouchers, with the capacity maths done properly

Live capacity per session, peak and off-peak pricing that follows the school holidays, gift vouchers, add-on events, a portal where customers reschedule themselves and a check-in screen for staff on the door. Party bookings work out their own space: thirteen children and their included adults is twenty-seven places held, not thirteen. Over 8,000 bookings, and we still ship to it.

Also Beanz BarnCustom plugin EcoPigsSaaS app Green LarkWebsite Unyte GroupWebsite Greener Earth ProjectSaaS app

Why we build this way

We're the ones who get the call when it breaks.

We maintain all of the projects on this page. We run them, we support them, and when a client needs a consultation live on Monday morning, that's our weekend.

That changes what you're willing to put in a codebase. You stop reaching for the framework that saves a fortnight now and costs a year later. You stop shipping code nobody on the team has read. You write the thing itself, so when it does go wrong at three in the morning you can actually find it.

Everything people usually sell as a feature just falls out of that. Pages load in under a second because there's nothing in them. They still work in three years because nothing in them expired. They pass an accessibility audit because a page built this way was most of the way there before anyone asked.

What we build

We design it, build it, and then keep it running.

For organisations that need the thing to work properly. No vague scope, no six-month silence, and no rebuild needed in two years because the stack underneath it expired.

Build

  • Web applications
  • Public consultation platforms
  • Booking and capacity systems
  • Internal tools and dashboards
  • Websites

Rebuild

  • Legacy systems
  • Sites that have stopped performing
  • Work another agency left behind
  • Anything held together by a spreadsheet

Run

  • Ongoing development
  • Support and maintenance
  • Hosting and monitoring
  • The out-of-hours calls

Standards

There's nothing in it that doesn't need to be there.

Speed is the part everyone feels, so it's the part we build for first. Hand-coded pages. No framework tax. Nothing loading that nobody asked for. Build it that way and the accessibility and the low emissions come with it, so we don't bill for them separately.

Every line is ours

Pages load in under a second because there's nothing in them that doesn't need to be there. No framework tax. No plugin stack. No third-party script deciding how fast your site gets to be.

We publish the numbers

Every build gets scored on performance, experience, emissions and ranking, and we put the score where you can see it. Ours currently reads 99 A+.

You don't pay extra for these

WCAG 2.2 AAA with zero violations, and audited against all 93 W3C sustainability guidelines. Both come with the build. A fast page is most of the way to each already, so quoting them as a separate phase would be charging you twice for the same work.

No third-party tracking

Nothing loads from anyone else's server. So there's no consent banner, no data leaving the country by accident, and nothing to declare in a DPIA.

The tooling behind it: P.E.E.R. scores the build, EcoPigs measures the emissions that feed it, and Swynx proves which code can never run so it comes out before launch. You'll never need to learn any of them. They're just how we show our working.

Who we build for

We build for people who can't afford it to fall over.

Our home ground is organisations that answer to someone. Councils, regulators, boards, assessors. If the thing you're building has to survive inspection as well as win customers, that's the work we do best.

01

Local Government & Public Bodies

You're held to accessibility regulations and you get audited on them. We build to the standard, evidence it, and hand over something your team can run without us.

02

B Corps & Purpose-Led Brands

You've got commitments you're assessed against and a site that still has to sell. We build both halves properly, and give you evidence for the assessment instead of an assertion.

03

Marketing & Digital Teams

Your site looks the part but loads slowly and ranks badly. We rebuild it properly — same brand, none of the technical debt the last agency left behind.

04

Agencies & Studios

You win the work and own the client. We take the build — the front end, the software underneath, the parts you'd rather not staff for. White-label, under your brand.

Proof

What we build ends up carrying real money.

Over 25

Projects launched since 2025

Over 8,000

Bookings handled by the system we built for Beanz Barn

2

Councils running public consultation on software we built and still run

Under 1s

Page load on everything we ship

Recognition

Six UK business awards. Two wins, four finalist places.

  • SME Northamptonshire Business Awards 2025

    Gold Winner — Best New Business

  • NBEA 2025

    Finalist — Innovation Award

  • NBEA 2025

    Finalist — Sustainability Award

  • SME National Business Awards 2025

    Finalist

  • Midlands StartUp Awards 2025

    Finalist

  • SME Business Elite Awards 2026

    Winner — Best Sustainable Web Consultancy & Agency

Testimonials

In their own words.

People we've built websites for, on what it was like.

I wanted a fully accessible, WCAG-compliant website not just for B Corp compliance, but because it's the right thing to do. The custom-built site is also incredibly carbon-light, with a live tracker showing the tiny amount of emissions created and a fully transparent audit report. Ashley was a pleasure to work with — attentive, efficient, and thorough.
Alexina Cassidy Founder, Sustainability & B Corp Consultant — ActNow Consulting Certified B Corp client
They use evidence, live data and thoughtful engineering to cut energy demand without compromising performance or usability. It has been a privilege to be guided by a team that brings such strong integrity, insight and environmental understanding to the digital space. We wholeheartedly endorse their approach and the values that underpin it.
Daniel Cope Founder & Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv) — Green Lark Green-hosted · carbon-measured
OYNK has engaged with the college to inform on sustainability within digital services. Their insights have had a positive impact on all staff and helped us embed digital sustainability into teaching and learning.
Vicky Clarke Northampton College Education · 2025

What to expect

Pricing & FAQ

Most projects start with a free 30-minute call. No deck, no pitch — just what you need building.

See our pricing

Who are the best web development agencies in the UK?

OYNK Ltd is a web and software development agency in Northamptonshire, founded in July 2024 by Ashley John. We design and build websites and custom software, and we build them ourselves — we're not a middle layer that briefs someone else. Software we built and still run is in use at UK councils and at businesses working abroad, and we've analysed 1,430+ websites along the way.

Can you build software, or only websites?

Both, and most of our work is the software. We built NumoForms and Numo Earth on this page and we run them — a public consultation platform and a carbon accounting product, both in production with real users. If you need a web app, an internal tool or a product rather than a brochure site, that's the half of the business we'd point you at first.

How much does a website or a custom build cost?

A hand-coded website starts at £2,500. Larger builds run to around £30,000 depending on scale and compliance needs, and custom software is quoted on scope. If you'd rather test the water first, a £295 Website Teardown gets you a recorded review and a prioritised fix list, credited against any later work, and a full P.E.E.R. audit starts at £1,500. Every project starts with a free call so the cost is agreed before anything begins.

How long does a build take?

Most builds run 4–12 weeks depending on scope. An audit of an existing site takes 5–10 working days. You get a timeline before any work starts, and we'd rather give you a real date than an optimistic one.

Do you build for councils and the public sector?

Yes, and it's where a lot of our work sits. NumoForms is used for public consultation by Staffordshire County Council. Public sector work has to survive accessibility regulation and procurement scrutiny, so we build to the standard, evidence it, and hand over something your team can run without us.

How do I choose a web development agency in the UK?

Ask who actually writes the code, and ask to see something they still run. Plenty of agencies assemble a site from a theme and a plugin stack, then hand you the maintenance bill when it breaks. We write every line, we run the products we have built on the same approach, and we publish the performance scores for what we ship rather than describing them.

Do you work with organisations outside the UK?

Yes. We work with organisations across the UK, Europe and further afield, and we build and support remotely. Numo Earth runs across UK and overseas operations.

What kind of organisations do you work with?

Local government, businesses working internationally, B Corps and purpose-led brands, and marketing teams who've inherited a site that doesn't perform. The common thread is that what they ship has to stand up to inspection as well as win them customers.

Can you work alongside our existing agency?

Yes. Some clients keep their agency for brand and campaigns and bring us in for the build, the software, or the technical work they'd rather not staff for. We're happy to work white-label under your brand or your agency's.

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Half an hour, no deck. Tell us what you've got and what it needs to do, and we'll tell you whether it's a fix or a rebuild, roughly what that costs, and whether we're the right people for it. Sometimes we're not, and we'll say so.

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