Spanner has been building web pages and internet machinery since 1995, when a peer-support bulletin board for disabled people took off and a career in philosophy was abandoned for the madly utopian 90s internet. Since then it has spent over 30 years working online, winning prizes, building interesting machines and failing to achieve tech billions. Our visions of the new world didn't quite work out, but there is still good work to be done.

At times Spanner has been company-sized but generally it's me, Will Ross, with dog in old Cumbrian barn. I care about voice, texture and history, which has led to long relationships with for organisations like the Royal Society, the BBC, Amnesty International, Oxfam, Defra, the City of London, the Croucher Foundation, the FIA, the Shaw Prize and more recently, the German Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

I only take work if it matters, and if I can make something special. Right now I'm working on realtime visualisation of emissions at a country-wide scale, but sometimes it's a handmade campaign page, or a clear and simple web form that has to appeal to grumpy Nobel prize winners. I'm often given a traditional offline workflow for sympathetic translation, and I've built systems ranging from one request a month to over a million per second (it's still going). I'm always looking for something new to try.

If this is the sort of approach you might need, please get in touch.

Spanner Ltd
Cheese Press Barn, Scales,
Ulverston LA12 0PF
Office: 01229 808407
UK company number 3376238
VAT number 718801138