Digital Platform and Product Delivery
Working digital services that perform at scale.
What this service is
We build digital platforms and products for organisations whose services are used by millions of people. National policing. Government. Financial services. Regulated utilities. Environments where the platform has to perform under pressure, absorb attacks, and stay up.
Our strongest evidence is in CMS-led delivery - platforms built on Optimizely and Umbraco, integrated with government and commercial back-office systems, delivered to the Government Service Standard and its commercial equivalent. We're extending that into modern full-stack delivery: headless architectures, Next.js, TypeScript, and the Cloudflare Developer Platform.
The thread running through all of it is the same: we build for the real thing, not the demo.
What we do
CMS-led platform delivery
Content-managed platforms at national scale. Optimizely and Umbraco with complex integrations, multi-site architectures, personalisation, and intelligent search. Built to perform under high traffic and sustained attack.
Modern full-stack delivery
Headless and bespoke digital services on Next.js, TypeScript, React, and the Cloudflare Developer Platform. Growing track record on greenfield government and commercial builds where a modern stack is the right call.
Replatforming and migration
Moving organisations off legacy CMSs, portals, or custom platforms onto modern equivalents. Careful sequencing, careful migration, no downtime, no lost content, no surprises.
Ongoing product development
Long-term delivery partnerships where the platform evolves continuously. We work in small increments, measure outcomes, and keep adapting. The average tenure of our core clients is over a decade.
Why build with CDS?
We build for the real thing
The evidence base across our clients is national scale: 10 million daily users, 99.99% availability through 227 million peak requests, 100% uptime over multiple years, migrations completed in weeks without downtime.
We're full lifecycle, not just delivery.
We build it, secure it, and run it. Clients get one accountable team from start to finish - not a delivery partner who hands over and walks away.
We start from the problem.
Every engagement begins with a clear understanding of what the service needs to do and who it needs to serve. Technology follows that understanding, not the other way around.
AI is already part of how we deliver.
We use AI-assisted development tools across our engineering teams. It makes our delivery faster, our code more consistent, and our teams more effective. We also build AI capability into the services we deliver: applied AI features, AI-enabled workflows, AI on the Cloudflare Developer Platform.
See our proof
We work with clients across central government, emergency services, health, financial services and national-scale consumer digital. The common thread is that the services they run can't afford to fail.
The central government property register - delivered in five months
Failing government digital services rescued. All audited against the 14 points of the Government Service Standard, given a structured recovery plan, and returned to successful delivery.
A customer-centric digital platform for Yorkshire Water
Umbraco CMS implementation following service design discovery. 5 million customers. 20% reduction in bill-related call volumes. Delivered on time with more functionality than planned.
Building the UK's national digital policing platform
Optimizely platform serving 43 police forces. 100% uptime since 2022. £200k annual saving from centralised hosting.
Replatforming the National Rail Enquiries Journey Planner to handle high demand
Service design discovery leading to website redesign and a 20% reduction in bills-related call volumes. Started from problem definition, not a pre-formed brief.
Speak to our experts
Get in touch with our team today to see how we can help your organisation.
