About us

We enjoy creating the most elegant online solutions to help pioneering organisations do what they’re best at.

That’s spot on – and it’s more than that, too. Broadly, it’s about doing things right. 

From looking out for each other, to working with organisations whose values line up with our own. From doing good, careful work that matters to us, our clients and their end users, to minimising our impact on the planet. And from solving problems through fun, creativity and expertise, to honing it all with commercial savvy and a practical, collaborative mindset. And more besides.

It’s never just lipservice. Because we believe that great ideas, brilliantly executed, power success in today’s connected world.

Working with us

Genuinely, we love our work. Doing great projects for great people is fun – and enthusiasm is infectious. Especially when our clients share a gnarly problem they need our help to solve.

We’ve got you. We understand that when you come to an agency, you want a dedicated team with the creativity to dream up bespoke ideas, the breadth to cherry pick the best of what we’ve seen, the experience to steer you away from the pitfalls, and the skills to bring it all to life. Not to mention a clear purpose: to bring all that to our partnership with you, to help you to achieve your goals.

The nuances of great site design aren’t always obvious. But we pride ourselves on best practice in every aspect.

For example, making your site accessible is important, whether you’re part of a publicly-funded organisation with a legal obligation to hit the compliance rules, or you simply want to do the right thing. This is second nature to us.

Will it be equally brilliant on different devices? Yes. Whether your audience is mobile-first, wedded to their laptops, or a mix of everything, we’ll optimise accordingly and make your site fully responsive. 

Energy use and emissions don’t stop with your car or your heating bills. Giving your users the best all-round experience includes minimising your site’s environmental impact. We’ll optimise yours for the greenest possible results. 

Share your problems with us, and we’ll work with you to devise an elegant solution that’s commercial, targeted and appropriate. We understand you’ve got stakeholders as well as customers to satisfy – we’ll pool resources to delight both. Plus, we’re here to make your life easier with a clear process and a promise of speedy responses to any questions and problems, straight from our in-house team.

We’re content management experts  – and that’s why we use the best open source content management system on the market: the mighty Wagtail. If it’s good enough for The NHS, Google and NASA, it must be pretty impressive. (Not that we built those sites, you understand – next time maybe. You’ll find our own credits here). 

When you talk to us, we’ll check to see if it’s the best system for you too, and we’ll explain why.

It’s all part of doing things right.

Our foundations

Director Rob Colley set up Cursive in 2008, with a vision of delivering outstanding creative work, combined with technical excellence for small agency prices at a time when the economic landscape looked pretty dire. We’ve always been about punching above our weight with the projects we work on and we’ve been very lucky to work with organisations at the very top of their game.

We relish our independent status and we measure success in more than simply pounds and pence. We look at team happiness, client feedback, the quality of our reputation and how we’re recognised by our peers. 

Good Business Charter

It might help to know that we’re a member of the Good Business Charter. Take a look at the details of what that means to us but if you want the TLDR version, we pay the real living wage, backed up with fair hours and contracts. We care about employee wellbeing, representation, diversity and inclusion – and we have proper systems in place to make sure everyone is treated fairly at work. We pay our taxes and we’re striving to get to net zero. We write our commitment to clients into our contracts, we always try to source things ethically and we pay promptly.

Open source

We use open source software in all our projects, and it’s nice to give a little back. That’s why we actively encourage getting involved in open source projects, whether fixing a bug, or building something new, it feels good to be involved.