BitBrawn & Laced
Sneaker marketplace.
Laced are a leading marketplace for rare and exclusive sneakers, and we helped them launch their online platform in 2018 and expand into Europe in 2023.
Who are they?
Laced turned a niche sneaker-trading community into Europe’s leading authenticated marketplace.
Every product is verified by Laced’s internal specialists, removing the trust issues that plague peer-to-peer sales platforms, and buyers can purchase items like they could on any ordinary e-commerce site.
They’ve grown fast too. £100 million+ in sales, new categories beyond sneakers, and a high-performing mobile app that drives significant user engagement.
How we helped
Laced needed a reliable, senior-led team to build their platform from day one.
We helped deliver their first production-ready system in 2018 and assisted them in establishing the internal capabilities to keep scaling their business.
As their traffic and operational complexity grew, we came back to strengthen the architecture, support a full rebrand, enable European expansion, and put in place the foundations for long-term stability and delivery at scale.
Significantly reduced time and costs
BitBrawn were pivotal in developing our bespoke web application. After its launch, they provided crucial support as our business scaled. They also assisted us in establishing an engineering team. BitBrawn significantly reduced both our time and costs across multiple intricate web application development projects.”
BitBrawn & Purplebricks
UK's largest estate agent.
Purplebricks are the UK's largest estate agent. They've helped over 100,000 people move home, and have saved their customers over £100 million in fees.
Who are they?
Purplebricks reshaped the UK estate agency market with a simple promise: Sell your home online for a fixed fee.
Their clear model and streamlined platform fuelled rapid growth and international expansion into Australia and the US, resulting in a market cap exceeding £300 million.
The simplicity of their web application and pricing fee structure saw Purplebricks grow quickly, and they have since expanded into Australia and the US.
How we helped
Purplebricks wanted to make their valuation workflow smoother, and more efficient.
We delivered a focused three-month engagement that added a clean, intuitive way for sellers to submit essential property details upfront.
The improvement sharpened valuation accuracy and removed a significant volume of repetitive agent queries. Sellers moved faster. Agents saved hours. Operations became more consistent and scalable.
Experience, pragmatism and humility
“BitBrawn have experience, pragmatism and humility that helped them immediately gain the trust and respect of our team. As a legacy from their engagement, we’re equipped with understanding how to improve our web application development cycles, front-end development environment and approach.”
BitBrawn & RIFT
Online tax refunds.
RIFT are the UK's leading tax rebate experts, helping people claim back overpaid tax from HMRC.
Who are they?
Since 1999, RIFT has delivered more than £281 million in tax rebates for over 160,000 customers.
They operate across the Armed Forces, Construction, Oil and Gas and Security sectors. Where people generate significant tax-deductible expenses.
RIFT handles the process of identifying eligible costs, and then puts together a claim which it submits to HMRC, passing the refund back to the customer after a small service fee.
How we helped
RIFT partnered with us in 2021 to push MyRIFT forward, their online self-service platform.
It enables customers to submit claims independently, monitor progress through a straightforward dashboard and message the team securely.
By improving the system’s architecture, workflows and data capture, we helped RIFT achieve a 192% jump in claim submissions, an 84% rise in unique sign-ins and over 99% accuracy on essential claim data.
Calm, measured and pragmatic
“BitBrawn have been brilliant for RIFT; they have led numerous successful web application development projects, and their calm, measured and pragmatic approach immediately instils confidence. They understand the business issues we’re trying to solve and develop practical solutions to drive us forwards.”
BitBrawn & Allocate
Booking management.
Allocate is flexible online booking management software for Hotels, Campsites and Holiday Homes.
Who are they?
Allocate was one of the first companies to offer simple online booking management software.
Operating since 2003, they provide a platform that helps property managers take bookings and payments directly through an embeddable widget embedded on their websites.
Their dashboard centralises room setup, availability, pricing, offers, extras, and booking management. They also connect to major payment providers and integrate with platforms such as Pitchup and Siteminder.
How we helped
Allocate approached us in 2021 when they needed a senior team to stabilise and advance their platform.
We took ownership quickly, cleared critical bugs, improved performance, delivered new booking admin tools, and added key integrations including a new payment provider and a third party booking platform.
We continue to work with Allocate to this day, strengthening platform reliability, and positioning Allocate for faster, more predictable growth in a competitive market.
Has been invaluable
“BitBrawn have not only performed exceptionally well on two projects for me, but stepped in to help when an issue arose with a former developer. Without assistance they methodically unravelled older web applications in order to understand their structure and setup. Their assistance has been invaluable.”
