The bespoke software and AI development agency won Best User Experience and Going the Extra Mile at the 2026 TBE Awards. It was also a finalist for Using Tech to Transform Business.
Bespoke software and AI development agency Rocketmakers has won two awards at the 2026 TBE Awards: Best User Experience and Going the Extra Mile.
The winners were announced on Thursday 5 November at Komedia in Bath. The awards are run by The Business Exchange Swindon and Wiltshire, and they drew a record 140 entries this year.
The winning entry is a data platform Rocketmakers designed and built for an international technology company, whose customers need answers from complex data without specialist training. The design is built around progressive disclosure: users start with a clear summary, and each interaction reveals the next layer of detail.
The platform is now the main way the client’s customers use its service, and the work has since grown into ongoing development.
Collage helps home-educating families record and track their children’s learning. Its founder came to Rocketmakers after a previous agency left the business with a product it couldn’t launch.
Rocketmakers rebuilt and stabilised the platform. It delivered 438 hours against the 200 it was contracted for, without passing the extra cost on. Collage is now live, with 150 families using it and 800 more on the waiting list.
“We were in a tricky position when we reached out to Rocketmakers. The previous build wasn’t fully usable and had some key issues, and we’d already spent money we couldn’t claw back. They were honest about what it would take and then went well beyond what we’d agreed to get us the version we needed. Collage still exists because of that.”
Sarah Cudmore, Founder, Homegrown Learning
Rocketmakers was also a finalist for a real-time environmental monitoring platform it is building for a UK specialist hire company. The platform brings sensor data from construction and industrial sites into one live view.
Richard Godfrey, CEO of Rocketmakers, said:
“I’m so proud of the team. Both winning projects asked a lot of them, and they rose to the challenge.
“Being recognised for user experience and for going the extra mile means a lot, because those are two of the things that we feel set us apart, alongside our enthusiasm for development.”
Rocketmakers is a bespoke software and AI development agency based in Bath, UK. Founded in 2007 by CEO Richard Godfrey & CTO Keither Walker, it designs, develops and deploys custom web apps, mobile apps and AI products for startups and established businesses. All of its work is done by its own in-house team, with no offshore subcontracting.
Rocketmakers is a certified B Corporation and won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation in 2018. It has since been named Digital Agency of the Year at the UK Business Tech Awards and the Global Business Tech Awards, and Dev Agency of the Year at the UK Dev Awards. Find out more at rocketmakers.com.
Rocketmakers is an award-winning software design and development agency based in Bath, UK. We work with funded startups, scaleups, and corporate innovators to design, build, and launch software that makes a difference.
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