The story
Firstly, the company name. It's Scottish Gaelic and translated/pronounced it reads geek. It's usually one of the first questions I get asked.
I started the business in 2010 while still employed in local government, helping small businesses and non-profits get online. I moved on from local government in early 2011, worked with a local software house, then went full-time with GHIJK later that year.
A lot has changed since then. What started as building websites has evolved into building custom web applications, SaaS platforms, and AI-powered products. I've worked with everyone from Sir Paul McCartney and Under Armour to early-stage startups. I co-founded Paipers, an AI writing platform, and ship my own products like Pitchside and Vellum.
In 2024, I moved from Glasgow to New Zealand with my family. I now work with clients across the UK, US, and Australasia.
Through all of it, one thing hasn't changed:
Honest, transparent technology advice and code. Always.
Some milestones over the years
2010
Traded under the name 'GHIJK' for the first time, helping small businesses and non-profits with their web projects.
2011
- Engaged by Twin Technologies to work onsite with Under Armour in Baltimore, building the front end of their V5 commerce platform
- Incorporated with Companies House in Scotland
- Went full-time with GHIJK
2013
Engaged by MPL Communications to deliver the first mobile-friendly experience of paulmccartney.com on Drupal.
2014
- Took on the management of web properties for The Gospel Coalition
- David joined as employee #1
- First garden office installed
- Jamie joined as employee #2
2015
- Decided that being a company of one was preferable after both team members moved on
- Helped Cigna Health build a responsive website for cignaglobal.com
- Started building Harvest Glasgow on Craft CMS
2016
Engaged by Prudential Assurance to help deliver a front end for pruadviser.co.uk.
2017
Helped Disney's Circle Media Labs replatform meetcircle.com to Statamic CMS.
2018
Got involved with a local startup building a CRM suite, focusing on the JavaScript chat widget.
2019
- Launched Chariot, a ride-sharing platform for churches
- Became one of the first verified Statamic CMS partners
- Launched Purku, an automated transcription service using AWS (my first AI project)
2020
Started building Loveology.org, the most complex application I have built end-to-end.
2021
Loveology launches. Continued to grow the platform with new features, integrations, and a migration to serverless infrastructure.
2023
Started working with Wild at Heart, building a Statamic CMS and Laravel API layer that powers their Astro/Svelte frontend.
2024
- Co-founded Paipers with Dr David McMinn, an AI-powered writing platform with proprietary citation technology
- Moved from Glasgow to New Zealand with my family
- Took on Cool Chile Co. and Vitrocsa for ongoing Laravel and Statamic work
- Built The Grounded Self website with custom Telegram integration
2025
- Built Redeemer Church website on Statamic with Planning Center integrations
- Rebuilt Loveology with React, TypeScript, and Inertia.js on Laravel Cloud
- Continued growing Paipers with new AI features
2026
- Built and launched Pitchside, a React Native coaching app for iOS and Android
- Started building Vellum, a Xero-integrated invoicing tool for visual businesses
A biography
"We'll never have the Internet in this house"
These immortal words were spoken by my dad (a software developer, by the way) sometime in the mid-90s. He's never explained his reasoning to me.
Nevertheless, he gave in when he decided he wanted to sell his Charles Rennie Mackintosh font online. Between the two of us, we wrote beautiful HTML that would allow someone to pay for their digital download with a system called Payloadz.
I was hooked. I took the formal route after that: college, university, a degree in Multimedia Systems, then a string of developer roles in corporate and government. They were useful, but I knew I wanted to build things my way.
GHIJK gave me that. What started as helping small businesses get online turned into building custom applications for global brands, shipping my own SaaS products, and eventually co-founding an AI company.
The tools keep evolving, but the work is the same: solving real problems with code.
Have a project in mind? If you like what you've read here, there's a great chance we could be a good fit. If it's something I don't do, I'll likely know someone who does.