“Software that makes you look good.”

Software Development

AirBlade is a British software development agency. We create software that profits our clients: they sell more to their customers, look more professional, and lower their costs.

How do we do this? We work to understand each client's business. We use the best web technology — Rails¹, Ruby and open standards — to solve the business problems simply and pragmatically. And we stay with each client, evolving their software as their needs change.

After we have helped them, our clients consistently tell us they look better than their competitors; they achieve more; and they operate at a lower cost. We build them a competitive advantage.

We specialise in software for small to medium-sized businesses. Our portfolio includes a content and client management system for an award-winning photographer, an e-commerce site for a smart London boutique, and bioinformatics software for a leading oncologist.

If you think AirBlade can help you, we are available for hire.

¹ We also use Merb, Rack and other Ruby-based frameworks where appropriate — whatever's best for the job.

Rails Business Hosting

We always offer to host our clients' web applications because we think we can provide better uptime than anybody else. Although we're not the only ones who use industry-leading servers and best-practice deployment techniques, and we're not the only ones who have built custom tools to monitor and report on our applications…we are the only ones who know your applications inside out, having lovingly crafted every single line of them.

Our clients like us hosting their applications because it's simpler and easier for them. Rather than having to deal with multiple suppliers, they just talk to us. We take care of everything from the DNS to setting up the server(s) to deploying and monitoring their application. We know every link in the chain so we know in advance it'll all just work.

Domain Email

We can set up a powerful, professional and reliable email service for your domain. Advanced spam filtering, integration with almost any desktop email client via IMAP, web access, etc. And yes, it works with Blackberries.