Our Services - Isle Develop

OUR SERVICES

Three things we do well, for three kinds of people who need them.

We help small businesses, makers, charities and community groups sort out their digital. We help funded projects and the agencies that support rural and island communities make sensible decisions. And we help everyone work out what AI is actually useful for – and what it isn’t.

Hands on digital help

Strategy and reviews

Using AI properly

01 — Hands-on digital help

Sorting out the digital things that have been bothering you for ages.

For small businesses, makers, charities and community groups

Most of our work starts with somebody saying “I know I should be doing something about my website, but…”. We get it. We listen. We work out what would actually help, and then we do it. No jargon, no pressure, no surprise invoices.

/ Website builds and refreshes
From a tidy-up to a brand new site, with hosting and domains looked after.

/ Online shops and ecommerce
Setting them up, sorting the bits that have broken, making them earn their keep.

/ Online shops and ecommerce
Setting them up, sorting the bits that have broken, making them earn their keep..

/ Design and branding
Graphic design, illustration, animation, rebrands.

/ Ongoing care
The little updates, fixes and check-ins that keep the lights on and the bots out.

02 — Strategy and reviews

Independent thinking for organisations spending public or charitable money.

For funders, councils, community trusts, funded projects and third-sector boards

We are not management consultants. We are practitioners who run real digital things in the Highlands and Islands, and who can bring that experience to bear on a piece of strategic work. We tell you what we think, with the receipts.

How we work: Fixed-price scopes, plain-English reports, no jargon, no padding. Happy to work with your existing partners or independently. Insured.

/ Digital strategy
Where you are, where you could be, and a sensible route between the two.

/ Options appraisals
The choices in front of you, honestly weighed, with our recommendation.

/ Feasibility and viability work
Is this thing going to fly? What would need to change for it to?

/ Independent reviews
An outside read on a project that’s stuck, struggling or about to change.

/ Discovery and user research
What do the people you serve actually need? We find out and write it down clearly.

03 — Using AI properly

Working out where AI helps, where it doesn’t, and how to use it without losing the plot.

For anyone trying to make sense of the noise.

AI is a useful tool. It is also being sold to everybody as a magic wand. We help you tell the difference. We use these tools every day in our own work, so we know what they’re genuinely good at and where they fall over.

A useful test: If we can’t explain why a tool is a good idea for you in one sentence, it probably isn’t.

/ AI audit and orientation
A short, honest read of where AI could save you time, and where it’ll waste it.

/ Tool selection and setup
Picking the right tools for what you actually do, and getting them working.

/ Workflows and prompts
Plain-English playbooks for the jobs AI can quietly do in the background.

/ Training and confidence-building
Practical sessions for teams who’d rather understand than just nod along.

/ Data and brand safety
Making sure your AI use doesn’t leak your data or lose your voice.