ResearchWiseAI
A suite of tools for market research, from survey analysis and reporting to text analytics in Excel.
- Data Analyzer
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- PII Scanner
- Academy
Open for new engagementsfrom November 2026
Senior technical leadership, and somewhere sovereign to run what we build.
We help organisations build digital products, improve existing systems and lead engineering teams, then run them on Forge, our own platform in Sheffield. Experience across SaaS, publishing, education, healthcare and research.
Or email hello@portervalley.tech
Based in Sheffield. Working directly with the people responsible for delivery.
Selected work
From an idea to a working product
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How we work
Three shapes of engagement, each with a price you can reply to.
Technical Review
One clear question, a written report within five working days, and a call to go through it.
£3,950 plus VAT
A delivery project
Design and build a product, or improve an existing one, scoped weekly at a day rate.
£1,200 a day plus VAT
Fractional CTO and ongoing care
Two days a month of senior technical leadership, or four, with hosting and maintenance agreed per site.
from £2,400 a month plus VAT
Who you work with
Will Poynter. Founder and CTO. Formerly Engineering Director at Babylon Health, CTO at several startups and Technical Manager at UCL's CLOSER consortium.
About WillExperienced people. Direct responsibility.
Work directly with an engineer who understands the product, the systems behind it and the team delivering it.
Build with the future in mind
Clear architecture, useful documentation and maintainable software make the next change easier.
Work in plain English
We explain the options, agree the scope and keep you involved in decisions about your system.
Stay involved
Development, hosting and ongoing care can sit with the same people, with responsibilities agreed from the start.
Hosted on our own platform, in Sheffield
Every change tested, recorded and shipped automatically.
Every change goes to a private preview of your site first, and every page is tested there. Only if everything passes does it go live, where it is tested again. If anything fails, it stops, and your visitors never see it.
Hosting
Hardware we own, in Sheffield
Your site and its data are kept in several copies across our own machines, and stay in the UK.
Delivery
Nothing done by hand
Every change goes through the same tested route, and any change can be undone in one step.
Care
Watched around the clock
We check your live site day and night, renew its security certificates automatically, and are alerted the moment something fails.