Company
A small companywith global reach.
Unovo builds the systems, websites and tools that businesses run on. We work out of Sheffield and the work does not stay there: what we build moves freight across borders, reconciles millions of pounds a month and runs the parts of a business that cannot stop.
Meet the gang
Talented team,with a wholesome energy.
We are mostly senior people who spent the best part of our careers in digital services, getting to be really good at what we do. Our backgrounds and experience are varied, and yet we always converge on the same thing - a fixation on doing the right thing by the client.
Tanvir
Co-founder, Managing Director
Runs the commercial side and is usually the first person you speak to. Stays on your project from the first call to whatever it turns into.
Usman
Co-founder, Technical Director
Owns how things get built and managed day to day. His experience building scalable platforms is what makes our outputs extraordinary.
Spiro
Head of Design
Creates beautiful brands and user experiences to ensure all of our clients and their products are looking and feeling the part.
Naz
Project Manager
Keeps projects moving day to day and ensures both clients and team members are up to speed on progress and all questions are answered.
Why we started
We had both watchedthe same thing go wrong.
Between us we had spent years inside businesses watching good people work around software that had stopped fitting them. Not broken software. Software that had been right once, had never been revisited, and had quietly become the reason a job that should take an hour takes a day.
Unovo is a young company and we would rather say so than have you find out. What is not young is the work: the systems we have built are running payrolls, moving freight and reconciling millions of pounds a month, and they were built by the people you have just met.
When a job needs more
The right people,for the right problem.
Some projects call for expertise beyond our core team. When they do, we work with specialists we know and trust - people who share our standards and bring depth in areas where it matters.
Think Cloud
Cyber security
Security reviews and infrastructure hardening. They are the reason we can answer a security questionnaire properly rather than optimistically.
DevCraft
Machine learning
Models, and the work around them that decides whether a model is any use. Called in when a problem genuinely needs something learned from data rather than rules somebody could write down.
Braine
Front-end engineering
Interface work at depth. They come in when a build has more front end in it than a timeline allows, or when how something behaves in the hand matters as much as what it does.
Cacao Creative
Design
Brand and interface design when a project wants more studio than we are. A long enough relationship that we hand over work rather than brief it.
Where to find us
Sheffield.And wherever you are.
We are at the Olympic Legacy Park, next to the stadium, about ten minutes from the city centre and five from the parkway.
You are welcome to come to us, and for anything substantial we would rather come to you, wherever that is. Half a day on your site is worth a week of calls.
An open invitation
Not everyone who writes to usis buying something.
We are not hiring at the moment, which is not the same as having nothing to talk about. A company this size gets most of what it needs from people who introduced themselves before there was a role, a project or a reason to.
You do this for a living
Designers, engineers, writers. We bring specialists in by the project rather than by the year, and the people we call are the people we already know.
You run something similar
Studios and consultancies we can pass work to when it is not ours to do, and who do the same for us. The firms above are how that already works.
You are nowhere near ready
If you are still working out whether something is worth doing at all, that is a better time to talk than after you have decided. We will not chase you afterwards.
or write to contact@unovo.io
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Worksop Road, Sheffield S9 3TL
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