Ryan Ormrod
White-label / remote / UK hours / no retainer
Ryan Ormrod, independent developer
You keep the client. I take the build, overflow or difficult development work.
Got a design ready to build? Send the Figma. Development team overloaded? Send the ticket, repository or troublesome project. I work remotely behind your agency, on UK hours, without a retainer or employee overhead.
Who this is for
Design studios and software houses use the same arrangement: you keep the client, I deliver the code. Equal audiences. Different briefs.
You handle the brand, UX and design. Send me the Figma and I’ll turn it into production-ready development behind your agency.
Your developers are at capacity, somebody is off, a deadline has moved, or a difficult project needs another pair of hands. Give me the repository, ticket or brief.
01 / Agency problems
Agencies buy hours when the work exists. No extra salary, no retainer sitting idle, and your client relationship stays yours.
Add delivery capacity without hiring. I enter the existing codebase, ticket or brief and ship the slice.
Hand me the Figma and I will implement it under the art direction you already sold.
Give me the repository and tell me what’s broken. Rescue, debugging, legacy and stalled builds.
Use me when the workload exists. No employee overhead. No unused retainer days.
White-label and NDA-friendly. I stay off their inbox unless you ask me to join a thread.
Temporary staffing problems need temporary capacity. I work UK hours, remotely, then the clock stops.
02 / What I take on
Organised the way agencies brief work, not as a list of languages. WordPress, WooCommerce, Laravel, Vue and PHP sit underneath all four.
Design to production. New sites, shops and interfaces from a Figma or a written brief.
Add the machine around a site you already have: payments, APIs, plugins, dashboards.
Overflow when your team is full. Maintenance, debugging, performance and upgrades.
Inherited, stalled or broken work. I enter the repository and make it shippable.
Branding, art direction, UX workshops, copywriting, mood boards. If the job is “make it look nicer,” that stays with you. If the job is make the design or the repository work, that is me.
03 / Proof
Private due to NDA
Names stay off the page. The work does not. Logistics, cloud software, hospitality, shops, inspections, configurators, catalogues, accessibility and APIs, shipped under other agencies’ brands.
Goods-planning software that builds a day’s runs from fleet, load, service type and place, then lets a planner split a route and print the driver pack. Maps, allocation, the board a warehouse actually opens.
A multi-purpose cloud: templates, remote updates, site sync. Built so the product could sit behind more than one face without leaking the people on it.
High-brightness digital signage for hospitality. A template library, remote push, venues staying in sync. The screen the floor staff actually point at.
The core of a finder: nearby, available, the job landing with the right person. Capture, route, handover. Not a brochure with a form on it.
Range, cart, UK checkout, stock that matched the till. Stripe, PayPal, Worldpay as the brief asked. A small brand that could actually run the shop.
Catalogue, payments, the rebuild a retailer points a customer at. Not a theme with the logo swapped. The live store, from a Figma already sold to the client.
Forms in the field, reports that print, the board a safety inspector actually uses. Playground-grade process, not a generic CRM skin.
WCAG as the brief, not a plugin ticked at the end. An admin a trustee can open. The public site a disabled visitor can actually use.
A trade buyer assembles a product from parts and sees the figure before it hits the cart. Woo, analytics, the kind of tool that replaces a PDF and a long email chain.
Thousands of SKUs, filters that do not die, Magento under a retailer’s load. That depth of catalogue, without putting a name on this page.
When the brief was campaigns, not carts. Forms, lists, the tracking you already promised your client. Wired in, not a second website.
Updates, gateways, the unglamorous care that keeps a live shop alive. Local retailers, ongoing, the work nobody puts in a case study unless it fails.
Shipped under your brand. After payment you take the code, or I deploy it. My name never appears on the work.
Ryan Ormrod, behind your agency
04 / How it works
Five steps. Remote throughout. White-label if you need it. The board below is the same process, drawn as a build.
Brief, Figma, ticket, repository or broken project.
I review it and estimate the hours before development begins.
Remote, on your staging, white-label if required.
Your agency tests on staging. Client contact stays with you unless you invite me into WhatsApp or email.
Final payment, then code handover or deployment.
05 / Commercial terms
For defined work I estimate the required time first. You know what I’m expecting the job to require before development begins. Project quotes are those hours, written as a figure.
Your client remains your client. White-label and NDA as standard. I work behind your agency, on your staging, under your brand.
Ryan Ormrod, white-label delivery capacity
Time at £30/hr. UK invoice, no VAT. The quotation follows your brief. Send the job, receive a figure for that slice.
06 / The kit
The tools agencies actually name on a brief. Search the rest when you need to check a specialist library, gateway or host.
Separated by commas. Matches the tools you can name on a job.
PHP, Node and the JavaScript UI kits you can name when you send the brief.
Content systems and storefronts you already sell: WordPress to headless, Magento to Shopify.
CSS systems, component kits and client-side state: the layer your client actually sees.
Build, deploy and day-to-day kit you can put on a job: Composer and npm through to Apache.
Relational truth, document stores, cache, search and the ORMs I wire for you.
Hosts, CDNs and platforms you can put on the brief: from a cPanel box to an edge network.
Unit, browser, a11y and performance checks so the release you show your client is not a guess.
Handoffs, assistants and model APIs I can wire into the same stack as the rest of your site.
UK and international rails you can name at checkout: cards, wallets, invoices and pay-later, wired in, not bolted on.
Lists, ads, analytics and the tags that tell you whether the site you sold is actually earning.
Current kit
Vite, Laravel, Vue, Tailwind, Stripe, Playwright, Cloudflare. You send the file; I wire it under your brand.
If the stack matches, send the brief, Figma, ticket or repository.
Send me a job07 · Send me a job
Studio name, the work, the stack, a Figma or Git URL, and the staging hostname you will point at my server. Include a digital NDA link. I quote that job and stay off your client’s inbox.
Agency / Dev Pulse
AI-curated developments for design and development studios: frontend, backend, WordPress, software engineering, AI, web standards, tooling and platform changes. The feed is generated from the trade press.
Executive summary
OpenAI safety researcher David Robinson (opens in a new tab) resigned this week, warning that the company's culture is broken (opens in a new tab) as speed trumps safety. His departure follows a series of high-profile exits and comes as Anthropic meets religious scholars (opens in a new tab) to shape AI morality, while Meta's Muse (opens in a new tab) faces scrutiny over its personal profiles.
Meanwhile, the industry's shift from chatbots to autonomous agents accelerates. Developers argue agents need documentation, not memory (opens in a new tab), echoing wider debates about reliability and safety. The controversy intensifies as Yann LeCun dismisses extinction fears (opens in a new tab) just as OpenAI's internal strife reignites questions about accountability.
~/lab
Things I sell sit above. This is the workshop: the random UI generator and other experiments.
For experiments
Not client work. Lab pieces, photography tools and other toys that sit below the commercial offer.
Lab
An AI experiment that invents compact UI demos for practical product and design problems. Fun, not a product, and not the thing I sell.
Press next to ask the model for a new widget. Nothing here is a real product.