First CTO
Helping founders and teams establish good technical foundations, make confident technical decisions and build engineering teams that scale. Decades of experience, no jargon, no theatre.
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Apps for living.
Services for building.
A house of brands who thoughtfully builds software and helps others to do the same.
From organising family routines to coaching grassroots sport, from platform games to providing fractional CTO services, we make things we'd want to use.
Brookhaus - Mark IIDrawing - BH-002Thoughtfully built
About the studio
We're makers, helping others build great software, and crafting our own.
Brookhaus is a small, intentional company. We make software for the things that matter most in everyday life, from organising family routines, to managing your sports coaching, to understanding your finances, or simply kicking back with a fun video game.
Every product we make is crafted with the same philosophy: do less, but do it well.
We also help others build. Through our consulting and fractional CTO brand, FirstCTO, we bring decades of experience to early stage founders and teams who need confident, pragmatic technical guidance. No jargon, no theatre, just clear thinking and honest advice.
Everything we make is thoughtfully built. That's not just a tagline, it's how we work.
Principle 01
Do less, but do it well
We'd rather ship one considered thing than ten half-finished ones.
Principle 02
Build what we'd use
Every app we create we're using ourselves.
Principle 03
Plain words, no theatre
Honest, jargon-free conversations with our team and clients.
Principle 04
Independent and intentional
Our pace, our standards, our long-term commitments.
Our brands
Multiple studios one roof.
Dad Makes Games
Building handcrafted games with heart and a bit of mischief. Small studio, big ideas, built with care.
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Software for everyday life.
Doorstep
Doorstep is family life, organised and shared. Calendars, tasks, chores and rewards in one calm space.
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Grassroots+
An app for coaches and communities of Grassroots sports. Communication, events, drills, session plans, performance tracking. Everything a coach needs and nothing they don't.
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Cinchflow
Clear-eyed personal finance tracking. Free and Open-source, private by design.
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