The studio · est. London 2008

Independent studio.
Senior teams.

We’re an independent studio founded in London in 2008 by engineers who wanted to build mobile apps the craft way. In teams small enough to care, with people senior enough to know what “good” looks like.

Eighteen years later that is still the shape of us. No off-shore hand-offs. No AI theatre. No juniors learning on your project. Everything signed off by a name we can print on our website.

FW studio · Apple Vision Pro session
How we work

Four non-negotiables.

01
Senior, always

The people who pitch are the people who build. Average tenure on our team is 7 years. Our most junior engineer has shipped more than most "senior" developers anywhere else.

02
Working software over slides

You see a working prototype in week two. You never pay us to write a strategy document that ends in another strategy document. We are a delivery studio.

03
Your IP, your team, your future

All code and IP is assigned to you. We train your team alongside ours so you can own what we build. BNEF is the template: we wrote v1, ran a residency, handed over.

04
Independent

Independence is how we do right by every client. No VC, no holding company, no quarterly revenue target pulling us off course — so when the honest answer is "build less", "wait", or "this is not for us", we can say it. The advice you get from FW is the advice we would take ourselves.

Leadership

The people who sign off.

Matt Brooke-Smith
Matt Brooke-Smith
Founder & CEO
18 yrs at FW
Jonathan Flintham
Jonathan Flintham
Head of Development
16 yrs at FW
Davide Casarin
Davide Casarin
COO
13 yrs at FW
Jenny Grinblo
Jenny Grinblo
Director of Product Strategy
13 yrs at FW
Three offices, one studio

Where we build.

One team across three cities. Every project runs as a blended team of designers, engineers, strategists and AI specialists, drawn from wherever the best fit lives.

Est. 2008 · UTC+0
London

The original studio. Our HQ and the home of our longest client relationships.

1 Long Ln · SE1 4PG
Est. 2018 · UTC+1
Barcelona

A home for cross-European talent and a bridge into the Mediterranean market.

Carrer Sardenya 229 · 08025
Est. 2021 · UTC+3
Riyadh

On the ground in the Kingdom, close to our government and enterprise partners.

Anas ibn Malik Rd · 13212
Careers

We build great teams.

Much of our leadership started here and grew into the roles they hold today. We back talented designers and engineers who care about craft and want to build things that matter. If that sounds like you, write to us.

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