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People

You will talk to the people building it.

Two technical owners who do the work, and a vetted specialist network around them. There is no account-management layer between you and the person making the decisions — which is the whole operating model, not a perk.

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Environmental portrait, three-quarter, at a desk or in a workspace — not a studio headshot. Direct to camera, natural light, dark clothing against a dark ground. Should read as the person who signs things off, not a LinkedIn profile picture.

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Tyler Brown

Founder

Founded futr in 2016 and formalised it under FUTR Technology Group in 2023. Owns governance, commercial decisions, security review and the agent runtime. Approves every price, scope and external action — which is why you speak to him rather than about him.

StrategyCommercialAI & automationGovernance

Led · GridNode.ai · Get Yachties

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Environmental portrait at a workstation with design or code visible but out of focus behind. Mid-action rather than posed — the person building, caught looking up. Same lighting treatment as the other portrait so the pair sit together.

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Manqoba Nhlapo

Head of Design and Development

Joint technical owner. Website delivery is shared between Manqoba and Tyler, and technical and design decisions require his participation. The person actually building it is in the room from the first call.

DesignDevelopmentInterface systems

Led · Spoormaker & Partners · Kahindo · Bahati Collective

The specialist network

Beyond the two of us, work is delivered by specialists engaged per engagement under supplier agreements. We describe them by discipline rather than by headcount, because capacity that is real this month and imaginary next month is worth nothing to you.

Motion & 3D

Scroll-driven cinematics, modelled and rendered rather than simulated live — the technique behind the Spoormaker build.

Motion · 3D · Creative development

Content & social

Editorial, campaign and social production. Planned at eight clients per manager so accounts are not spread thin.

Content · Social · Editorial

Security & technical rescue

Malware forensics, compromise recovery and hardening — the work agencies call us for when something has already gone wrong.

Security · Forensics · Technical rescue

We house the best talent on offer.

If you are a specialist who wants work worth signing, we would like to know what you do.

Work with us
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However you prefer.

Marine and yacht enquiries go straight to a named senior contact, and nothing is published without permission.