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?
Founded in 2018, Laced allow users trade sneakers online, guaranteeing quality by authenticating every item sold in one of their expert authentication centres.
Since launch, Laced have grown to become the largest marketplace of their kind in Europe with over £100 million in sales taken through their platform.
More recently, Laced have expanded to other product lines, including clothing and accessories and have launched a hugely popular mobile app that runs hand in hand with their web storefront.
How we helped
We’ve been closely involved with Laced since the beginning, leading development on the first version of their platform.
Our founder, Mike, was approached by Laced's CEO in 2018 to help build their initial platform as part of his previous company. Under his technical leadership, Laced had a successful web app launch in 2019, and began to grow their own internal development team in 2021.
Since then we’ve worked with Laced repeatedly to help them scale their platform to meet the demands of their growing user base. We worked closely with their leadership and development teams to help them scale their platform, deliver a rebrand, and expand into Europe, as well as build a team that can continue to deliver value to their users.
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?
Founded in 2014, Purplebricks disrupted the UK estate agency market by offering customers the ability to sell their house online for a fixed fee.
The simplicity of their web application and pricing fee structure saw Purplebricks grow quickly, and they have since expanded into Australia and the US, and have a market cap of over £300 million.
How we helped
In 2022, we spent 3 months with Purplebricks allowing customers to provide additional information about their properties online.
In a few simple taps, the users could tell Purplebricks useful information about their property like the type of house, the number of bedrooms, bathrooms, and living rooms available.
This information was then used to provide a more accurate valuation of their property, and saved Purplebricks agents time by reducing the number of questions their agents needed to ask their customers.
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?
Founded in 1999, they've claimed over £281 million in tax rebates for over 160,000 people.
Their customers mainly operate in the Armed Forces, Construction, Oil and Gas and Security industries, where a lot of tax-deductable expenses are incurred during day to day work.
RIFT help their customers identify which expenses they can claim back, and put together a cohesive tax refund claim that they submit to HMRC on their behalf. Once HMRC pays out, RIFT take a small fee for their services and transfer the rest to their customers.
How we helped
In 2021, we begun working with RIFT to develop their self-service web application, MyRIFT.
A continuation of an engagement from our former company, MyRIFT makes it easy for customers to submit their own tax refund claims online each year. It also provides them with dashboard to track the progress of their claim, and a secure messaging system to communicate with RIFT's team.
Our involvement helped to drive a 192% increase in claim submissions, and a 84% increase in unique sign-ins. It also ensured that address and vehicle information, essential to customer claims, was captured with over 99% accuracy.
BitBrawn & Allocate
Booking management.
Allocate is flexible online booking management software for Hotels, Campsites and Holiday Homes.
Who are they?
Founded in 2003, their web application provides a booking widget, which when embedded on customer websites to allow them to easily take bookings and payments online.
In addition to the booking widget, property managers can use Allocate’s an admin dashboard to easily set up rooms, availability, pricing, offers, extras, and manage incoming bookings.
Allocate supports several popular payment providers, and also provides integrations with several third party booking platforms, including Pitchup, and Siteminder.
How we helped
In 2021, Allocate approached us to maintain their web application after their previous developer left the company.
Since then we've fixed numerous bugs, integrated a new payment provider, set up an integration with a third party booking platform, developed new booking admin tools, and improved the overall performance of the application.
All of these changes have helped to keep Allocate competitive and growing in a demanding market.