AI-native product studio / Brighton
Bigger products,
smaller team.
amillionmonkeys is an AI-native product studio: senior people, nearly 20 years of product judgement and AI agents doing the heavy lifting, shipping the kind of ambitious product that used to need an agency.
Recent work
A few things we've built lately.
NextJS, Laravel, Filament, PostgreSQL, AI
Bupa Express Your Health
Live on launch day in eight languages, 40,000+ visits and 116 artworks submitted from seven countries, every one checked before it went public.
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NextJS, React Native, Expo, Chrome extension, Stripe, Supabase, AI
Purpl
A website, two apps, a browser extension and a 108-screen admin, and disputes won up from 25% to 73%.
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Statamic, Laravel, AlpineJS, Tailwind
Hanover Communications
Live in 13 weeks. Since launch, ten of Hanover's own staff have saved nearly 5,000 edits, with no developer in the loop.
Read the case study →How it works
Shape, Build, Grow.
Senior judgement decides what's worth building. AI does the typing. Three ways in, all priced up front.
Audit / built with AI?
You built it with AI. Now make it safe to grow.
Lovable, Cursor, Claude Code, Replit: it works, people are using it, and you're not sure what's underneath. Send us the code and we'll tell you honestly whether it's safe to ship. Free.
Blog
What's worth knowing.
PHP2Shell: what it means for your website
PHP2Shell is a serious security flaw in the software behind most websites. Here's what it is in plain English, what we did about it, and what to ask your web host.
24 Sept 2026Jev: an AI that doesn't write anything
Jev is a new kind of AI model that makes decisions instead of writing text. We used it to sort over 5,000 support tickets for under $1. Here's where it fits.
17 Sept 2026Claude Fable 5.1 is impressive. You don't need it.
Anthropic's new Fable 5.1 is a genuinely clever model. For most businesses, it changes very little. Using AI properly matters far more than which model you pick.
Next step
Tell us what you're trying to build.
Book a 20-minute call with Phil. If it's a fit, the next step is Shape: a plan before a price. If it isn't, you'll get an honest “that's not for us” and a pointer to someone better suited.