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 I have spent nearly 30 years online, building interesting machines and avoiding huge wealth. Our visions of the new world didn't quite work out, but there is still plenty of 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 have always cared most about voice and texture, which has led to a lot of interesting work 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 the German Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

I only take work if it matters, and if I can make something special. Right now I am working on realtime visualisation of emissions, but sometimes it's a handmade campaign page, or a single web form that has to be exactly right. I'm often given an old 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