Mi-Box Live: £30,000 Saved — App Rescued in Flutter, Not Rebuilt

Mi-Box Live: £30,000 Saved — App Rescued in Flutter, Not Rebuilt

Mi-Box Live was told it needed a £30,000 rebuild. Instead, we salvaged the existing database and rebuilt the app layer...

A cross-platform app that helps emergency services identify vulnerable people with dementia, quickly and safely

A cross-platform app that helps emergency services identify vulnerable people with dementia, quickly and safely

We set out to solve a clear challenge: help emergency services, event stewards, and members of the public rapidly identify...

How We Saved a Luxury Paint Supplier £75,000 By Fixing Their Shopify Ecommerce, Saving A Costly Rebuild

How We Saved a Luxury Paint Supplier £75,000 By Fixing Their Shopify Ecommerce, Saving A Costly Rebuild

Rethink, Not Rebuild: How We Avoided a £75,000 Shopify Rebuild by Fixing the Store They Already Had , We Fix...

From start up to global operation, how Resolved became an international business in just 12 months

This time last year, The Resolved Group did not exist. It was an idea being turned into a plan, a belief that we could build a world class technical agency from the North East, one that fixes what others cannot, supports what others abandon, and uses technology to make a real difference.

Twelve months later, we are running two offices, working with clients across multiple continents, and operating a 05,30 to 20,00 UK support window, with extended out of hours coverage through our India base. What was once a small regional team is now an international business with the capability, reliability, and heart to match some of the biggest names in our field.

How we made it happen

Over the past year, we have deliberately internationalised Resolve Beyond, the part of the group that handles technical support, maintenance, and rescue work for Magento 2, Shopify, WooCommerce, and Flutter apps.

We built a high performing, payroll backed team in India and fully integrated it with our UK operation. This was not about outsourcing, it was about creating one team, operating across time zones, built on shared values, develop, mentor, and promote from within.

That decision has changed how we work. Clients now benefit from faster response times, seamless project handovers, and genuine round the clock coverage without inflated costs. It also means we can take on larger, more complex stabilisation and maintenance work without slowing delivery or adding overheads.

Going from regional to global

We have moved from regional targeting to global positioning, still supporting UK SMEs, charities, and local partners, and now serving businesses in Asia, the USA, and the Middle East. Since January, international leads have grown by 185 percent, and more than a third of new business now comes from overseas.

Opening our India office unlocked true follow the sun delivery, allowing us to handle urgent support requests at any hour while keeping quality consistent. It also opened up new trade opportunities and made us more agile as a business.

Our biggest achievement

In roughly the length of a football season, we have gone from concept to a fully operational international group. Along the way, we have created around 20 jobs in two regions where those opportunities really matter, roles that build confidence, careers, and stability for the people who take them.

That growth has accelerated our long term plan. We are now forecasting a valuation of £10 million by 2030, double our original projection, a milestone that reflects both the demand for what we do and the quality of the team delivering it.

But the biggest win is not just commercial. It is proof that a North East start up can scale globally without losing its values. We have shown that you can grow fast, hire internationally, and still stay true to the community and principles that built you.

The next chapter

We are still early in the journey, but the foundations are strong. The next year will bring new partnerships, further expansion into new markets, and deeper investment in people, in the UK and abroad.

Our goal stays the same, build a world class agency that delivers technical excellence and uses that success to make a positive impact through tech for good.

We are proud of what the last 12 months have brought, and we are even more excited about what comes next. This is what it looks like when ambition, values, and community all pull in the same direction.

The Resolved vision.

building something that changes lives.

A unique specialist agency that fixes, supports, and develops existing platforms, and the engine behind what we are building into one of the biggest tech for good operations globally. That is the point. We keep businesses trading, we make broken things work, and we use the same skills to help people at scale.

Over the next couple of years our plan is simple, grow what works, keep it human, make a real difference through technology. No fluff. Do the work. Show the results.

Doubling down on real support

Resolve Beyond will keep focusing on takeover and rescue work for Magento 2, Shopify, WooCommerce, and Flutter apps. The messy technical stuff is where we are calm. Rethink, not rebuild, stabilise what you have, lift Core Web Vitals, improve conversion, keep revenue flowing while we get things right. We hold a three hour response target, we operate 05,30 to 20,00 UK time, and we are lining up additional time zone coverage to move toward true 24 hour support.

Full stack capability

Magento 2, Shopify, WooCommerce, Flutter, React, Node, Laravel, bespoke CRMs, ERP and payment integrations, data pipelines, mobile apps. Not just e commerce. A full stack that many agencies do not touch, in the North East, across the UK, and abroad. We use it to solve problems quickly, with clear ownership, no drama.

Going global without losing our roots

More of our leads are international now, so we will build on our India base, invest in overseas talent, and tighten delivery so we can serve clients from London to Los Angeles with the same standard. Hartlepool stays home. The values do not change, honesty, reliability, do what we said we would do.

Building talent differently

Resolve Academy will mentor and train 50 young people from diverse backgrounds into real tech roles across the group and our partner agencies. Non traditional pathways, practical skills, paid opportunities, proper career starts, not just certificates.

Tech for good at scale

Resolve Changing Lives will donate 25 mobile apps to good causes worldwide over the next two years. Mental health, dementia support, charity fundraising, and community tools that are simple to run and easy to use. Useful software that helps people in daily life, not tech for tech’s sake. The aim is impact, reach, and a low cost of ownership so charities can keep using what we build.

Scaling responsibly

Through Resolve Scale Up we will keep mentoring founders with practical operating playbooks. We will grow through agency partnerships, follow the sun delivery, multi currency billing, clear statements of work, and a steady drumbeat of case studies and references that show real outcomes.

The bigger picture

The next one to two years are about global reach with a local heart. Grow overseas revenue, create more jobs, help more clients succeed, and keep the same straight talking approach that built Resolved.

This is the vision,
a specialist agency that fixes what others cannot,
a team that develops people not just code,
a company using technology to help as many people as possible worldwide.

We are proud of how far we have come, and we are more excited about where we are going. This next chapter is about scale, and it is about legacy, building something that truly changes lives.

Mobile first and channel ubiquity, time to rethink how you sell online

Most people are not sat at a desk when they buy. They are in a queue for coffee. On a train. On the sofa with the TV on. They see something on TikTok. They Google a review. They message a mate. Then they press buy now on their phone. That is how it works in 2025. Mobile first and everywhere at once.

What mobile first really means now

It is not just a site that looks fine on a phone. That is table stakes. Mobile first means the whole journey is built for real life. Short attention. Lots of interruptions. Zero patience. Ready to buy if you make it easy.

Speed matters. If a page takes more than about three seconds half your visitors will give up. Each extra second can knock conversion by roughly seven percent. If your checkout takes longer than making a coffee you lose the sale.

Be everywhere without feeling broken

People do not think in channels. They move from Instagram to your site to your app without caring what sits behind it. If wishlist items do not follow them or the basket resets it feels broken and trust drops.

This is why connecting your stack matters. Website. App. CRM. Inventory. Payments. Marketing tools. All talking to each other so a customer can pick up where they left off anywhere. Call it composable. Call it joined up. The name does not matter. The feeling of continuity does.

Make buying simple

A lot of checkouts fail because they try too hard. Too many steps. Too many fields. Forcing accounts people will forget. Let customers pay the way they want. Apple Pay. Google Pay. PayPal. Klarna where it makes sense. Fewer clicks. Fewer forms. More sales. Simple.

Personal but not creepy

Be helpful in the moment. Show things that match what someone is doing right now. A nudge on an abandoned basket is fine. Following someone round the internet shouting about it is not. Think shop assistant who listens. Not salesperson who will not leave you alone.

Keep improving in small steps

The best teams treat optimisation like brushing their teeth. Small updates every day. Test a shorter checkout. Move a button. Try a different delivery promise. Look at the data on real devices not just a big monitor in the office. What works on desktop can flop on mobile.

A few numbers worth knowing

About three in four ecommerce sessions now start on mobile.
Roughly half of users bounce if a page takes more than three seconds to load.
Every extra second of delay can cut conversion by around seven percent.
About a fifth of checkouts fail due to avoidable friction.

Bottom line

Mobile is not another channel. It is the heartbeat of how people shop. If your tech design and customer journey do not reflect that you are already behind. Build for speed. Join everything up. Keep checkout short. Personalise with care. Improve a little every day.

Do that and you will win the small moments that turn a scroll into a sale.

Breathing New Life into a Magento Website for The Expanded Metal Company

We are experts at fixing, maintaining, and supporting existing sites, especially in e-commerce, most days we improve what is already there, make it faster, clearer, and easier to manage, rather than rebuilding for the sake of it. This project is a great example of that mindset in action on Magento.

We did not do a ground up rebuild, we kept all the existing Magento mechanics and functions and put a brand new skin over the top. The big gain came from twenty years of learning how customers buy online, and how a manufacturer like EMC sells, then shaping the Magento front end, navigation, and content around those behaviours. Huge thanks to Natalie Nicols and the EMC team, their clarity made fast progress possible.

What stayed, what changed

Stayed the same, Magento as the platform, the catalog architecture, pricing rules, account structures, order flows, and the integration touchpoints staff use every day, including Epicor.

Changed for the better, the visual design, layout, information hierarchy, and how Magento presents product data, applications, and use cases, all tuned to real buying journeys for specifiers, buyers, and repeat trade customers.

The Magento facelift, guided by behaviour
• Navigation that mirrors how people shop, we reorganised menus, categories, and layered navigation so customers can browse by application, material, mesh size, gauge, and spec, using Magento’s native attributes and filters.
• Cleaner product pages, we surfaced the right detail at the right time, technical data, downloads, certifications, and stronger imagery, making Magento’s content blocks work harder.
• Search that understands intent, we tuned on site search, synonyms, and filtering so common queries land on useful results, not dead ends.
• Performance housekeeping in Magento, we trimmed third party scripts, tightened theme assets, optimised images, and ensured indexers, cache, and cron are doing their job, quick on 4G as well as office broadband.
• Editor friendly publishing, reusable blocks, sensible templates, and a tidy Magento admin so the EMC team can update content without wrestling the CMS.
• The fundamentals that matter, technical SEO, accessible colour contrast, clean URLs, and structured data, steady foundations, no drama.

Magento, without breaking the back office

Manufacturing sites live alongside internal systems, Epicor in EMC’s case. Because we kept the underlying Magento mechanics, nothing critical in the back office was disrupted.
• Inventory and pricing sync continues on schedule, Magento receives stock levels and prices from Epicor with the same safeguards and fallbacks.
• Order handoff is unchanged, Magento pushes orders into Epicor for fulfilment and invoicing, status updates flow back so customer comms stay aligned.
• Customer specific pricing and terms remain intact, Magento still respects trade rules defined in Epicor.
• Decoupled integration and monitoring, authenticated APIs, queues where appropriate, clearer logging and alerts, Magento keeps serving pages even if an endpoint blips.

This is the balance Magento projects need, move confidently on the customer facing layer, respect the operational backbone.

Why this works on Magento

Magento is powerful, it has moving parts, caches, indexers, modules, and theme intricacies, starting from scratch can be costly, risky, and unnecessary. Here, the engine was sound, the skin and the signposting needed attention. With two decades in e-commerce support and maintenance, we made Magento feel modern and effortless without changing the foundations the business relies on.

The result

It is still the existing Magento website, now vastly improved, clearer journeys, faster pages, stronger product storytelling, and no disruption to Epicor, order processing, or staff workflows. It shows what The Expanded Metal Company does best, serious capability, proven applications, products that solve real world problems, and it does it in a way that matches how their customers actually buy.

Want to take a look

If you work with expanded metal, or you just appreciate a well put together Magento site, give it a browse. If your own Magento website feels creaky, you probably do not need a rebuild, you might just need a new skin and a buying journey that matches how your customers think, we can help you rethink, not rebuild, and keep your integrations, Epicor included, running smoothly.

Mentoring Future Talent at Resolve Academy

We welcomed Charlie for a work-experience day, and it was an absolute privilege. We first met him through The Talent Foundry, where we spent a day mentoring students on confidence, GCSE prep, and what’s possible beyond school. Charlie told us, straight up, he wants to build an e-commerce clothing brand, get into tech, and his words, be a millionaire. We love that energy.

Charlie joined us at Resolve Academy for a hands-on look at digital product development and how a tech business actually runs. He sat in on three client meetings, joined our full team meeting, and saw how we plan work, communicate clearly, and ship safely. No fluff—just the real thing.

From there, we rolled up our sleeves together. We helped Charlie turn a goal into a plan: we workshopped a brand name, defined core values, and mapped a launch strategy that fits a first-time founder—lean, realistic, and scalable. We discussed suppliers and manufacturing options (from print-on-demand to small-batch screen printing), fulfilment and distribution (direct-to-consumer first, marketplace later), and how to set up a simple tech stack for a starter store. We sketched a logo concept, and—because numbers matter—built three-year projections that show how pricing, margins, and small, consistent sales can compound.

It sounds like a lot for a 15-year-old. But Charlie nailed it. He listened, asked smart questions, and stayed focused from the first meeting to the last. The best moment was seeing the switch flip from “I’ve got an idea” to “I’ve got a plan.” He left with a clear next-step list he can action, and the confidence that comes from doing the work, not just talking about it.

This is exactly why Resolve Academy exists: to open doors, grow confidence, and turn ambition into momentum. We’ll be inviting Charlie back to keep building, whether that’s launching his first drop, prototyping a store, or testing a simple paid campaign when he’s ready. Whatever path he chooses, fashion, tech, or both, we’re in his corner.

If you’re a school, college, or community group and want to give your students real exposure to tech and entrepreneurship, or if you’re a young person who’s hungry to learn, get in touch. We’re building a pipeline of placements, workshops, and mentoring that helps talent like Charlie’s find their feet.

Resolved Group Welcomes Sought After Growth Leader to Power Next Stage

We’re thrilled to announce Parveer Pannu has joined The Resolved Group as Relationship Manager, a senior commercial hire with the track record, network, and discipline to match our technical reputation for fixing what others won’t or cannot.

Why Parveer. Parveer has spent years at the sharp end of SME and scale-up growth, supporting more than 150 businesses as an Innovation Manager, guiding high-growth companies through the North East Growth Hub, and leading business development strategies across digital, creative, and tech. He’s also built and run international businesses, managed major corporate partnerships, and delivered strategies that unlocked rapid revenue growth. That blend of public-sector scale-up expertise, private-sector wins, and hands-on operator experience is exactly what our clients, agency partners, and global ambitions demand.

What he brings. Parveer turns partnerships into performance and performance into measurable value. He’s partnership-led and KPI-driven, grounding relationships in clear outcomes, clean handovers, and honest communication. He brings scale-up discipline, regular reviews, visible KPIs, and a cadence that keeps momentum alongside global reach that fits our UK base, India hub, and expansion into the Middle East and the US. Because he’s built teams and businesses himself, his approach is pragmatic: priorities that move the needle, not pitch-deck promises.

His mandate at The Resolved Group. Parveer’s focus is to deepen client success, strengthen our partner ecosystem, open new markets, and make the value of “Rethink, Not Rebuild” unmistakable. That means proactive health checks instead of reactive firefighting, roadmap conversations tied to budget and risk, and clear links between our engineering work and business outcomes—reduced downtime, safer releases, faster fixes, and a lower total cost of ownership.

What this means for clients and partners. You’ll feel the shift from day one: proactive contact, transparent status, and decisions made faster because we’re aligned on priorities. With our UK team and India office operating a follow-the-sun model, Parveer is formalising the rhythm clients already love us for joined-up handovers, shared playbooks, and a support experience that remains personal even as we scale. Delivery continues to run through disciplined dev,  stage, and live pipelines with observability and rollback plans, so speed never compromises stability.

From Hartlepool to India: Building a 24/7 Tech-Fixing Powerhouse

We’ve been featured in The Northern Echo this week for a milestone moment: opening our second office in India and taking a big step toward a truly 24-hour support model. If you’d like the full piece, here it is: The Northern Echo article.

 

Why this matters

Our clients don’t work on a 9–5 timetable—and neither do critical issues. Expanding to India means we can progress towards follow-the-sun coverage, shorten lead times, and keep complex platforms stable without waiting for the next business day. It’s the practical foundation for our next chapter: widening delivery into the Middle East and the US, while keeping the heart of our culture in Hartlepool.

The model: real people, real fixes, around the clock

We’re building an always-on service that’s more than a rota. It’s a joined-up operating model:

  • Follow-the-sun triage: handovers between the UK and India every day, with shared playbooks for incidents, releases, and priorities.

  • 3-hour reply rate on maintenance plans, with clear SLAs and escalation paths.

  • Dev → stage → live pipelines and rollback plans so fixes ship safely, not urgently.

  • Observability first: logging, alerting, and error tracking so we see issues before customers do.

  • “Rethink, Not Rebuild”: fix what you have, protect brand continuity, and avoid needless cost and downtime.

Resolve Academy: opening doors, growing talent

We’ve launched Resolve Academy in India, mirroring the approach that’s worked in Hartlepool. The idea is simple: create opportunity and raise standards.

  • Structured onboarding for graduates and career-changers.

  • Pair programming & shadowing with senior engineers and ops.

  • Weekly clinics on performance, security, accessibility, and release discipline.

  • Real projects, real accountability, with support from project managers who care about outcomes, not just tickets.

I care deeply about this part. Giving people a chance—training, mentoring, and helping them find their footing is why I do this. The Academy lets us scale without losing our soul.

Protecting culture at scale

Growth means nothing if you dilute what made you good. We’re intentional about culture: plain-English comms, honest status updates, sensible processes, and ownership at every level. The teams in Hartlepool and India work as one group with the same standards, the same playbooks, and the same bias toward getting stuck in and fixing what others won’t and cannot.

From Durham to Dubai (and beyond)

We already support businesses from Durham to Dubai, rescuing platforms others have written off, Shopify stores with failing integrations, WordPress and Magento sites with performance bottlenecks, and mobile apps that need to pass store reviews and stay there. The India office strengthens that delivery today and prepares us to extend coverage into the Middle East and the US as demand grows.

From Discarded to Life-Changing: How We Helped Launch Furbd’s Tech for Good Movement

At Resolve Beyond, we’re proud to stand behind projects that make a meaningful difference—and this one is close to our hearts. We’ve had the privilege of supporting the incredible team at Furbd, a charity dedicated to transforming unwanted technology and redistributing it to those in need across the Tees Valley.

A Mission That Matters
Furbd’s mission is simple but powerful: to break down digital barriers and give more people the chance to thrive in a tech-driven world. They refurbish donated devices and return them to the local community, providing access to tools that many of us take for granted. In today’s world, having access to a device is no longer a luxury—it’s a necessity.

Whether it’s applying for jobs, accessing public services, managing finances, or gaining new skills, having the right technology can be life-changing. Furbd is working to ensure that no one is left behind in the digital age.

Our Role in the Journey
We were honoured to work alongside Sue Kearney, David Thomas, Becky Kearney—who created beautiful design and illustration work—and Max Freer from The OOK Agency to bring Furbd’s vision to life digitally.

Our team at Resolve Beyond developed a fully bespoke eCommerce and CRM system tailored specifically to Furbd’s operational needs. This new platform allows Furbd to seamlessly manage:

Online purchases
Device inventory and stock movement
Drop-off points
Sponsorship tracking
Distribution to recipients
It’s now a smooth, integrated system that helps the charity scale their impact without the headache of manual processes—leaving them to focus on what they do best: changing lives.

Launch Day
We had the pleasure of attending the official Furbd launch event, where we presented the new website and shared our passion for supporting such a forward-thinking, compassionate initiative.

Seeing the energy, care, and commitment behind Furbd was genuinely inspiring. It reminded us why we do what we do—to build digital solutions that empower people and amplify impact.

Looking Ahead
We’re incredibly proud to have been part of Furbd’s journey and will continue to support them as they grow. This project reflects what Resolve Beyond stands for: rethinking how digital can work for everyone, not just a few.

If you’re looking to build, improve, or maintain a digital platform that supports a bigger mission, we’d love to hear from you.

Behind the Scenes of The Agency Collective’s Hub Support

Over the past two years, we’ve had the privilege of supporting The Agency Collective with the ongoing maintenance, development, and technical oversight of their WordPress-based online hub — a key platform that connects nearly 500 agency leaders around the world.

The hub is central to how The Agency Collective operates: a space where members can log in, access exclusive video content, join events, and engage with a trusted community of peers. It’s a vital part of their day-to-day value delivery — and it needs to work, without fail.

That’s where we come in.

We’ve taken on full responsibility for ensuring the platform remains stable, secure, and user-friendly. More than just routine updates, our support is proactive, fast, and tailored to the evolving needs of their growing community.

Over the last two years, our team has worked closely with them to:

Keep the platform stable and bug-free – We actively monitor and patch issues caused by plugin updates, server changes, and third-party integrations. Our goal is zero downtime and minimal disruption.

Support ongoing updates and tweaks – Whether it’s adding new features, adjusting layouts, or improving performance, we help adapt the hub to better serve members as expectations evolve.

Offer growth-focused advice – Acting as a technical sounding board, we help The Agency Collective make informed decisions on where to invest in development and how to future-proof the platform.

What sets our support apart is our reliability and responsiveness. As part of our service, we offer:

Unlimited bug fixes – so there’s no hesitation when something needs to be addressed. No ticket limits, no extra charges — just fixes when and where they’re needed.
A 3-hour response time – meaning support is never far away. If something goes wrong, we’re on it — fast. This ensures issues are dealt with promptly and confidently, without delays or escalation worries.

Why Support & Maintenance Should Start on Day 1 — Not After Something Breaks

Most businesses put huge effort and budget into the development of their website, ecommerce store, or mobile app. Weeks, sometimes months, of design, coding, testing, and revisions — all leading to that exciting moment when the project finally goes live.

But here’s the hard truth that doesn’t get talked about enough:

Going live is not the end of the journey. It’s the start of it.

Far too often, support and maintenance is treated like an optional extra.
Something to think about when something breaks or customers start complaining.

That’s a reactive approach. And it’s risky, expensive, and unsustainable.

Why Maintenance Matters From Day One

Think of it like this — you wouldn’t buy a new car and then decide to start servicing it only when the engine fails. You look after it from day one because you want it to run well, stay safe, and last.

Your digital platforms are no different.

Here’s why proactive support and maintenance isn’t just important — it’s essential:

1. Bugs and issues don’t show themselves until customers use your platform
No matter how good your development team is, no testing environment can replicate real-world user behaviour at scale.
Studies show that over 50% of website bugs are discovered post-launch — when customers are actually using the site or app.

If you’re not prepared to fix them quickly, you risk damaging customer experience and revenue.

2. Technology changes constantly
Digital evolves every day.
API providers change their endpoints.
WordPress, Magento, and Shopify release updates.
iOS and Android roll out new versions every year.

If you’re not actively maintaining your platform, it will fall behind — sometimes without you even noticing, until something critical stops working.

In 2023 alone, WordPress released 14 core updates — many of them security related.
If you’re not keeping pace, you’re vulnerable.

3. Security isn’t a one-time task
Neglected websites and apps are prime targets for cyber attacks.
According to a 2023 Sucuri report, over 52% of hacked websites were running outdated software.
That’s not because they weren’t built well.
It’s because no one was looking after them.

A structured maintenance process helps reduce risk, patch vulnerabilities early, and protect customer data.

4. Small problems become big, expensive problems
Most businesses don’t realise how much time and money is wasted fixing preventable issues.
A Magento store running an outdated payment plugin.
A Shopify store with broken app integrations.
A WordPress site bloated with unused plugins slowing down checkout.

These aren’t development problems.
They’re maintenance problems that got ignored.

In our experience, around 70% of major rebuild projects we’ve been asked to rescue could have been avoided with proper ongoing support.

5. Waiting until something breaks always costs more
When something goes wrong, you’re suddenly on the back foot.
You’re firefighting, losing revenue, frustrating your customers, and spending money you hadn’t planned for.

Compare that to the peace of mind that comes from knowing you’ve got structured, proactive maintenance in place — issues are spotted early, fixed fast, and your business keeps running.

What Proper Maintenance Looks Like

Good maintenance is not about reacting. It’s about managing.

That includes:

1. Regular software updates and patching
2. Ongoing performance monitoring
3. API health checks and version management
4. Security audits and backups
5. Bug fixes and technical housekeeping
6. Monthly reviews and proactive improvements
7. It’s not glamorous work.

It’s not the thing that wins awards.
But it’s what separates businesses that operate smoothly from those that spend half their time in crisis mode.

The Takeaway

The most successful digital businesses and agencies we work with have one thing in common:
They treat support and maintenance as part of the development process — not an optional extra.

If you want your digital platform to grow with your business, to scale safely, and to serve your customers well — maintenance needs to start on day one.

Because prevention is always cheaper, safer, and less stressful than cure.