SourceBritain
Our own venture · UK manufacturing sourcing
The brief
SourceBritain finds the UK manufacturers that make what you need. The first version worked, but looked generic and early stage: a white template, a sample card with placeholder lines, stock-style photos. It needed to look like a service a buyer would trust with a real job.
Before August 2026, rendered from the site's code
After October 2026, captured on staging data
The desktop after was captured on staging data on 28 October 2026, hours before the new mark replaced the old one in its header.
Before August 2026, rendered from the site's code
After October 2026, rendered from the site's code
On a phone
What we changed
- IdentityA new mark, a forest, cream and mustard palette, and three typefaces with a job each.
- Design systemOne set of tokens, page shells and contrast rules, checked by tests, for every surface.
- Sourcing studioSay what you need in your own words; it reads it once, then asks only what's missing.
- Supplier discoveryReal matches with reasons, a shortlist and comparison, and nobody contacted until you choose who sees it.
- Directory and placesAn index of who makes what, location pages drawn as places, and an atlas of Britain built from real listings.
- MigrationEvery public page, the guides and the buyer, supplier and admin portals moved onto the new system and into production.
The mark
Two brackets, the requirement and the capability, and the square they make together.
- Redesign in production since 26 October 2026
- Every page and portal migrated
- New mark on the site since 28 October 2026
In production since 26 October 2026, too recently to measure.