Medialam

Process

How the work gets done.

We believe in efficiency and maximising our resources to provide the best value to our clients. The primary way we do that is by re-using the same five projects we’ve been developing for the past decade.

01

Discover

We work closely with our clients to understand their needs and goals, embedding ourselves in their every day operations to understand what makes their business tick.

Our team of private investigators shadow the company directors for several weeks while our account managers focus on going through their trash. Our senior security experts then perform social engineering hacks to gain access to their business accounts — handing that information over to our forensic accounting team.

Once the full audit is complete, we report back with a comprehensive plan and, more importantly, a budget.

Included in this phase

  • Stakeholder interviews
  • Audience workshops
  • Brand audit
  • Forensic audit
  • Proofs of concept
  • Blood samples
Notebooks and research material

02

Build

Based on the discovery phase, we develop a comprehensive roadmap for each project and start working towards delivery. The roadmap is an intricately tangled mess of technical nonsense designed to drag the project out as long as possible.

Each client is assigned a key account manager to keep lines of communication open and obscure the actual progress of the project. They act as a buffer between the client’s incessant nagging and the development team.

Our account managers are trained to only reply to client emails after 9pm, several days after the initial email. This reinforces the general aura that we are very busy.

Medialam were so regular with their progress updates we almost began to think they were automated.
Debra Fiscal·CEO of Unseal
A workshop in progress

03

Deliver

About halfway through the Build phase, we push each project out by six weeks due to a change in requirements. This allows us to increase the budget a final time before launch.

Despite largely using pre-built components, most of the progress on each project takes place in the final twenty-four hours. The development time allocated to each client is actually spent making augmented reality demos that go viral on Twitter.

We ensure that the main pages are fully functional at launch — the auxiliary pages will, of course, be lorem ipsum shells that get updated as part of our exorbitant maintenance retainer.

In this phase

  1. 01

    Testing

    Our projects always have 100% test coverage, which would be impressive if our tests weren't as porous as a sieve.
  2. 02

    Infrastructure

    To ensure reliability, we only use the best Digital Ocean droplets that £5 a month can buy.
  3. 03

    Support

    Because we hold the API keys for every critical service your business uses, you can expect a lifetime of support, and invoices, from us.
A meeting room

Our values

Six values, posted by the kettle.

  • Meticulous

    The first part of any partnership is getting our designer to put your logo in our template. The second is getting them to do the colours.

  • Efficient

    We pride ourselves on never missing a deadline, which is easy because most of the work was done years ago.

  • Adaptable

    Every business has unique needs, and our greatest challenge is shoe-horning those needs into something we already built.

  • Honest

    We are transparent about all of our processes, banking on the simple fact our clients never actually read anything.

  • Loyal

    We foster long-term relationships with our clients that go beyond just delivering a product, allowing us to invoice them for decades.

  • Innovative

    The technological landscape is always evolving, and so are we. We are constantly on the lookout for new open-source projects to rip off.

New business

Got a brief, a budget, or simply too much money?

We are taking on new work for Q3 and Q4. We answer most inquiries within seven working days, three of which we may be in Como.

Studio

  • London56 East Hill
    London SW18 2HQ
    +44 (0) 20 7946 0142