about

Small studio, sharp edges.

LemonOctopus is a creative technical studio for people who want web work to feel faster, stranger and more useful.

We work with founders, creative teams and product-led businesses — hospitality, SaaS, content platforms and anyone who needs a site or system that ships without calendar theatre.

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Why the octopus? *

Most web projects fail in the boring places: vague scope, too many meetings, launches that feel like accidents. LemonOctopus exists to do the opposite — creative work with a technical spine, delivered async so you can keep running your business.

The name is deliberately odd. Good digital work should feel distinctive, not like another template with a new logo. The mascot is a reminder that useful and playful are not opposites.

We are a UK-based studio working with clients who value taste, speed and honest communication over agency theatre.

What we stand for *

Creative-first

Taste matters. We build things that feel alive, not like another template with a new logo.

Technical enough

The work is playful on the surface and solid underneath: performance, accessibility and maintainability stay in view.

Async by default

Clear written updates, fewer meetings and more time spent actually making the thing better.

Honest scope

We say what is in, what is out and what will cost extra before the sprint starts — so nobody is surprised at launch.

Launch-ready handover

Deployment, analytics, QA and documentation are part of the work, not an afterthought you pay for separately.

Always improving

We measure what matters after go-live and keep tuning the system once it meets the world.

Who you are working with *

Jake

Founder & creative technologist

Jake runs LemonOctopus end to end — strategy, design, build and launch. Background spans product sites, content platforms, AI workflows and the unglamorous rescue work that keeps older systems alive.

How we work day to day *

Async-first does not mean silent. It means the right information shows up in writing, at the right time, without a standing call to repeat it.

read the full process

✣Project updates you can scan in two minutes — scope, progress, blockers and next steps.
✣Scoped sprints with a named approver so feedback does not ping-pong through three people.
✣Shared docs, staging links and handover notes — not mystery progress in a black box.
✣Full process detail lives on the process page when you want the longer version.

working with

Next.jsReactAstroTypeScriptTailwind CSSShopifyWooCommerceWordPressLaravelPHPPythonNode.jsOpenAIClaudeRAG pipelinesVector searchPineconeQdrantSupabasePostgreSQLMySQLRedisAWSVercelDockerStripeSanityContentfulWebflowMapboxGraphQLREST APIsn8nResendLangChainEmbeddingsCI/CDHeadless CMSNext.jsReactAstroTypeScriptTailwind CSSShopifyWooCommerceWordPressLaravelPHPPythonNode.jsOpenAIClaudeRAG pipelinesVector searchPineconeQdrantSupabasePostgreSQLMySQLRedisAWSVercelDockerStripeSanityContentfulWebflowMapboxGraphQLREST APIsn8nResendLangChainEmbeddingsCI/CDHeadless CMS