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.
Your AI always agrees with you. That's a problem.
AI is trained to tell you what you want to hear. I built a tool to fix that, and the solution turns out to be embarrassingly simple.
22 May 2026Express Your Health: inside Bupa's global creativity-and-health campaign launch
Two years after Picture of Health, Bupa came back to us. Here's the story behind Express Your Health — one of Europe's largest hand-painted murals, the eight-language platform behind it, and the 800M-reach launch weekend.
21 May 2026What to look for when hiring a developer
What questions to ask, what answers to look for, and what warning signs to avoid when hiring a freelance or agency web developer.
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.