Built by an agency that got tired of renting software.
Orriq started as an internal build. JCL Marketing — a British boutique studio — was drowning in SaaS subscriptions. HubSpot for CRM. Monday for projects. Zapier to duct-tape them together. Nine tools, three spreadsheets, two part-time admins keeping it running.
So we built what we actually needed — a single multi-tenant platform on Supabase that replaced all of it. Then a client asked for the same thing, in the shape of their business. Then another.
Five builds later, we realised the thing we'd made was a repeatable approach: take modern infrastructure, shape it around the company in front of you, own the result. That's Orriq.
Four principles. Non-negotiable.
Your business is not a template.
We start with how your company actually operates — the objects, the flows, the edge cases — and build software that reflects it. Not the other way around.
Modern infrastructure, calmly applied.
We use what's best — Supabase, Next.js, Vercel, the current frontier LLMs — without chasing hype. Novelty is not a value; good taste is.
Own your operating system.
Every build belongs to the client. The code, the database, the documentation. If we part ways, you keep running. That's the deal.
British understatement.
We don't do 'empower'. We don't do 'transform'. We build things, ship them, and explain them in plain English.
Small, senior, deliberately so. The same two engineers you meet on the discovery call are the ones writing your schema, shipping your deploys, and answering your Slack at 9pm when something needs a decision.
Based between Birmingham and remote — we work with clients across the UK and Europe. For larger builds we bring in trusted collaborators, never an offshore subcontractor pool you didn't agree to.
Jon Lawson founded JCL Marketing in 2021. Orriq is his answer to the question he kept getting from clients: "can you just make it actually fit us?"