Design-and-build agency for the AI era · London

Forged in Kyln

Digital products, websites and platforms built for the real world.

Trusted by founders and growing teams

From first idea to finished product.

Kyln is a digital design-and-build agency for the AI era, based in London. Marketing sites, product and platform builds, AI prototype rescue and fractional-CTO direction — entered through a paid review from £1,500, or Sites & Care from £175/month.

Ideas are easy to shape. Anyone can sketch something out, build a prototype or prove a concept. Creating a product that people trust, use and depend on is a different challenge altogether.

That is where Kyln comes in. We take what you have started and forge it into something ready for the real world. From technical foundations and user experience to scale, we turn promising ideas into products built to last.

Product design

User experience, interfaces and digital thinking.

Build & development

Websites, platforms, applications and integrations.

AI & automation

Practical AI that improves products and processes.

Infrastructure & scale

Architecture, cloud, security and technical foundations.

Ongoing support

Hosting, monitoring, maintenance and continuous improvement.

The shift, in numbers · Google, 2026

AI writes the first 80%. The last 20% is the product.

Generation is the easy part now. An AI agent drafts most of a feature on its own, then stops at the 20% that decides whether a real customer can trust it: authentication, data, edge cases, security.

There is a name for closing that gap properly. Vibe coding is prompting an AI and shipping what comes back. Agentic engineering is the opposite discipline: AI kept inside real guardrails, tests and review. The first is fine for a weekend prototype. The second is what production software needs, and it is the whole of what we do.

The first 80% — AI drafts itThe last 20% — the product
  • 85%

    of professional developers use AI coding agents

  • ~41%

    of all new code is now AI-generated

  • 3-10×

    more per feature to change unmaintained AI code, once it passes the crossover point

Sound good?

Paid reviews from £1,500. Sites & Care from £175 a month. See what we do in detail, and how we can support your next project.

What we offer

Our Projects

WNTD
WNTDFull-stack marketplace build
A car marketplace that posts what you want, not what you've got

A marketplace where people buy and sell cars and private plates directly: list a vehicle they are looking for, receive offers, counter, and settle the deal in one place.

View case studyFull-stack marketplace build
WNTD case study
Spectinga
SpectingaEmail deliverability, DNS, sender reputation
Five figures a month vanishing into junk. The fix started with a pint.

A fast-growing marketplace lost 30% of its revenue when a developer switched email provider without warming the sender or aligning the DNS, so the marketing emails landed in junk. We found the cause in under 30 minutes, fixed SPF, DKIM and DMARC, warmed the sender, and the click rate returned within the week.

View case studyEmail deliverability, DNS, sender reputation
Spectinga case study
Tango
TangoDocument automation, hardening
Eight weeks of legal back-and-forth, down to five minutes.

Generating insurance T&Cs is a months-long back-and-forth between Legal, Marketing, Ops, Partners and external counsel. We learned that process and turned it into a five-minute one. Drafting, review and sign-off, with threaded comments, approver hand-offs and an audit trail that holds up. Deterministic where it has to be, AI where it helps.

View case studyDocument automation, hardening
Tango case study
ButterGolf
ButterGolfBrand + marketplace, web and mobile
Old clubs, new life. A brand built from scratch.

Vinted for golf clubs. Sell the set gathering dust in the garage, or pick up someone else's, on your phone or the web. You get what you paid for, or your money back.

View case studyBrand + marketplace, web and mobile
ButterGolf case study

What clients say

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An unexpected tech problem dropped our revenue by 30%. This one issue was costing us tens of thousands of pounds a month, and Josh and the team at Kyln laid out the path to the solution in less than 30 minutes.
Bertie Wilson
Bertie Wilson
Founder & CEO at Spectinga
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To be honest, I thought my work would be a bit too small, but Kyln made me feel so welcome.
Ciara Atkinson
Ciara Atkinson
Senior UX Researcher & Service Designer
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I was struggling to find someone who actually understood what I was trying to create, until I found Kyln. Unbelievable experience.
Jonathan Lawrence
Jonathan Lawrence
Serial Entrepreneur
Kyln and Ford Creative saved our teams hundreds of hours a month with the work they've done. They actually understood our business and delivered exactly what we needed.
SquareTrade Leadership
SquareTrade Leadership
Leadership team
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Kyln took my baby and turned it into a beautiful site. I'm so happy.
Euan Wilkie
Euan Wilkie
Founder, Need a Tradesman
Josh, founder of Kyln
Founder
Josh
Base
London
Est.
2024
LinkedIn
Profile
The founder

Same job, different scale

Hi, I'm Josh. I was studying geology when I took a job on an IT service desk, resetting passwords in the Windows XP era. Twenty years on, the work has run from weekend PC builds for farmers and small offices, through backup tapes swapped by hand in server rooms, to server migrations for challenger banks and redesigning how a UK government department connects its cloud networks.

The scale kept changing. The job underneath never did.

Whoever the client is, I get picked for the same reason: I ask the question everyone else forgot to. A national CCTV rollout once looked ready to launch, until that question turned up a small detail — anyone could download the footage with a link. AI has now made it easy to ship something beautiful with nothing holding it up. That's why I started Kyln: proper architecture, security and technical direction for small businesses, at the standard I held for banks and government.

Working on something? Let's talk it through.
Production readiness · free · 2 minutes

Is your AI-built product safe to sell yet?

The Production Readiness Scorecard is a two-minute self-assessment that grades how close your product is to something you can safely put in front of paying customers, and names the risks standing in the way.

  1. 01

    Describe what you built

    One line on what your product does and how many paying customers it has today.

  2. 02

    Answer honestly

    A short set of pointed questions across auth, data, security, testing and operations.

  3. 03

    Get your grade and risks

    An instant letter grade and a “% ready” score, then your three biggest risks ranked worst-first, specific to what you’ve built.

Get your grade
Free · no account · top-line grade is instant
How the grade is worked out
Kyln

C

64% ready

Promising, but not safe to charge for yet. Three issues would bite a real customer first.

Top risks · worst first

  • 01Admin endpoints have no authentication
  • 02API keys are committed to the repository
  • 03No automated tests run before deploy

Sample · your result is personalised

Frequently Asked Questions

Anything not covered? Email contact@kyln.digital
Stuck on the last 20%?That is the part we build. Design, engineering and delivery under one roof, from first sketch to launched product.

Kyln is a digital design-and-build agency for the AI era, based in London. Marketing sites, product and platform builds, AI prototype rescue and fractional-CTO direction. Two ways in: Website Care from £175/month, or a Product & Platform build entered through a paid review from £1,500. You own what ships.