Welcome, thoughtbot's Giant Robots listeners! What we talked about

We make sovereign European software products.

We launch independent software products people stick with, across publishing, family history, civic data, video archives, productivity, and newsletter platforms. Hosted on dedicated European infrastructure since 2021.

About Bannermedia

Independent. Long horizon. Founder-led.

Bannermedia is the small independent company behind Lowdown, Tin Chest, Resurface, Plotbeacon, Accountably, and Lettergraph. Founded in 2021, operated from London. Our infrastructure runs across multiple European jurisdictions, with storage, edge cache, DNS, identity, and email all held with European operators.

From the company

Writing.

Essays on how Bannermedia works. Infrastructure choices, licensing approaches, methodology.

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AI

How Lowdown works

Lowdown started as a daily question to Claude. This is how it runs now, from research to correction.

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Bespoke software

Custom builds, selective clients.

Bannermedia takes a small number of bespoke software engagements each year: productised, fixed-scope, fixed-price. Engagement enquiries to hello@bannermedia.ltd.

  • Bespoke build · 8 weeks
  • Code audit · 2 weeks
  • AI transformation pilot · 4 weeks
  • Fractional CTO · 3 months
See engagement offerings →