What makes us tick?
Hiring consultants is a big deal. Your money and reputation are on the line.
We founded Maple to change how we'd previously worked with clients. Rather than requiring you to jump in with both feet and commit six-figure amounts up-front to a project, we designed our services to function as a series of small engagements. These control risk (for both parties!), let the project adapt to new discoveries, and keep us laser-focused on where you want to get to.
You'll hear Peter talk about risk management time and time again. In his view the digital industry is run on optimism. He believes that knowing what you're getting, why you're getting it, and how & when it'll be delivered shouldn't be optional.
Combine this approach with our top notch technical skills and it's no wonder we're so popular.
Core team
Peter Bowyer
Peter began his career in 2001 putting a U.S. newspaper online, and has worked with 100+ businesses and charities including Vodafone, ING and Lloyds Bank, and on the 2012 Olympic delivery.
Outside work he's retrofitting his terribly built standard British house, and looking forward to being warm!
Jenny Bowyer
Jenny's strengths build on her varied career in Heritage and Museum Studies, education and specific learning difficulties (SpLD). She trains on how to enthuse children, and to create accessible content for people with dyslexia and ADHD.
Jenny's looking forward to when Peter's finished renovating.
Our extended team
We build teams for every project from our pool of experienced freelancers, because we want to bring in the best people for your unique project.
- Harry - user experience (UX) and copywriting.
- Libby - HubSpot
- Ben - frontend development and MODX.
- Jonathan - Google Analytics, Google Ads and training.
- Linda - Salesforce Marketing Cloud
Our clients say...
Maple have been a stand out partner on this project. Their strong commitment to the specific needs of our target audiences, their attention to detail, their ability to listen and to be flexible, and their positive focus on problem-solving and offering creative solutions, were all key to the success of this project.
Underpinning these elements was their vast experience in MODX, our CMS, which enabled them to quickly understand problems that arose and offer efficient, workable solutions that could deliver what was needed.
As a result, Schools hub has been designed so that the interface, the design and the user experience all support and enable learning, when so often it can be a barrier. It has been a genuine pleasure to work with them!
Eleanor Hilton
National Portrait Gallery
Peter helped us design and implement our progression to becoming a fully digital business, in particular programming successive enhancements to our Symfony systems.
Our revenue has doubled in the past few years in large part thanks to the changes Peter was instrumental in delivering.
Andrew Chevis
CEO, CitizenCard
Peter quickly understood what we needed to do to keep our legacy systems running and gave clear advice about minimising any risky developments.
He always explained the technical background clearly and looked for the most cost-effective way forward.
What I found different with Maple was the collaborative nature of the relationship: working together, we could home in on the simplest solution.
Emma Hyman
Head of Operations, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Peter is one of the best I have worked with. It’s his pro-active input that I find so valuable. He will challenge decisions and use his experience to eliminate potential pitfalls early-on, enhancing the end result.
Warren Ryland
Marketing Director, London
Maple Design were professional from first interaction through to completion the project with us. NHS integrations are complex and require a good working knowledge of engineering best practices, combined with an appetite for understanding the domain.
The team at Maple Design provided both elements and as a result of their work, we have a solid foundation for maintaining the various reference databases that are required to provide a safe and stable platform to our customers. Thank you.
Tim Gray
Co-founder & CPO, Medicus Health