Find the right problem
Product strategy, discovery and user research in regulated, data-heavy environments, ending in priorities you can defend.
A little magic.
A lot of making.
ResearchStrategyDesignAutomationEngineeringArchitecturePlatformFull-stack. No relay race between strategy, design and code.
Oh My Hat brings senior product leadership and technical delivery into one small, accountable team. Fewer layers. Better decisions. Working software sooner.
Make it make sense
UX, product design, design systems and prototyping for demanding B2B and B2C workflows.
Build the real thing
Architecture, full-stack delivery, AWS platforms, deployment pipelines and legacy modernisation.
Help teams scale
Fractional CTO and design leadership: delivery structure, engineering standards, mentoring and AI workflows that keep review quality intact.
Enterprise platforms in complex, regulated sectors. Nearly 50 years of building them.
Data-intensive platform design
311% user growth, 325% lift on pricing tools
Product direction and experience design for market intelligence and trading tools supporting 32+ GW of renewable investment decisions.
Regulated and compliant platforms
FDA and CE compliant, through an $80M Series C
Product strategy and design leadership for real-time surgical collaboration and operating-room software, built to clinical and regulatory standards.
IoT, mobile and wearables
Five products, 60+ countries, award-winning
The first IoT-enabled air quality ecosystem across iOS, Android and wearables, plus the commerce and analytics platform behind it. Later acquired by a global consumer group.
Platform architecture and integrations
Customer journeys through to core systems
Technical leadership across customer journeys, platform development, third-party integrations and the systems behind a growing insurance product.
Data, automation and cloud delivery
One platform, many brands
Technical direction for the data pipelines, integrations, automation and AWS infrastructure behind a multi-brand operator.
Full-stack delivery and modernisation
Discovery through to long-term care
Discovery, specification, CMS-driven platforms, legacy modernisation and the long-term maintenance that keeps them running.
Outcomes from work led and delivered by the studio’s founders, in-house and as consultants, before and alongside Oh My Hat.
Let’s pull it
out of the hat.
Frame
We get close to your users, business and technology. Then we define the valuable thing to solve.
Shape
Design and engineering work in the same loop, testing desirability and feasibility together.
Ship
We deliver in useful increments, learn from reality and leave your team stronger than we found it.
Two disciplines.
One conversation.
Nearly 50 years of building software between us, inside regulated healthcare, energy markets, insurance, commerce and cloud platforms. The two people who scope the work are the two who do it, and we stay with it after launch.
Product & design
Juan Coleman
Product design leader with 20+ years shaping strategy, systems and teams. 30+ products taken to market and £118M of capital influenced, with specialisms in financial data and regulated environments, med-tech, connected products where hardware meets software, and community building.
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Technology & engineering
Andrew Gerber
Fractional CTO and technical lead working between strategic direction and hands-on delivery. Cloud architecture, delivery leadership and pragmatic AI-assisted engineering, across insurtech, commerce and operations, plus modernising and re-platforming legacy systems.
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Tell us what you are building and what makes it hard. A short note is plenty, and it comes straight to Juan and Andrew.
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