Human-first solutions
Intracia takes on software and web consultancy, and builds the product of the same name. We carefully craft software for optimal, delightful experiences.
Usability comes first, not last. The marketer editing a page, the developer picking up the code afterwards, the visitor who wants an answer — each of them meets the software on their own terms. We design for them before we design for ourselves.
Intracia is a consultancy, and has been building high-performance, scalable and secure web sites for years. We're finally now able to offer an editing and management solution to complement it.
Three principles
What that means in practice.
1. Software you love using
We design for the person who has to use it, not for the person who signs off on it. Intracia works properly on a phone, puts your tools and your content up front, and names things in plain words. Health checks and assistants keep you on track, and a confirmation dialog names the data it's about to affect.
2. An ethical business
No dark patterns, no lock-in, no revenue that depends on you not noticing. Your content stays in your own repository, so the door out is always open. We describe what the product does in clear, simple language, so you can tell whether it fits before you commit.
3. Your privacy first
We collect the least information we need to run a great service and see what's working. Analytics ask before they run and stay off if you say no, and nothing records you unless you start it. You can opt out at any time and exercise your privacy rights, regardless of whether your location legally enforces any.
Our founders
Who we are
Kerry has spent her career on how technical products explain themselves to the people who buy them. Damien has spent four decades on the tools other developers depend on.
Engineering & Operations
Damien Guard
Damien has spent four decades writing software, most of it on the tools other developers depend on — .NET at Microsoft, the Atom editor at GitHub, SDKs and developer experience at Auth0, and the official MongoDB provider for Entity Framework Core.
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Marketing & Design
Kerry Guard
Kerry is CEO of MKG Marketing, the B2B SaaS and tech agency she co-founded in 2011, and leads marketing and web design at Intracia. She spends most of her time on the same problem from two directions: how technical products explain themselves to the people who have to buy them.
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Location
Where we are
We're based in St Peter Port, Guernsey — an island in the English Channel just off the coast of northern France. We can see the French coast on a clear day and it's a short ferry over.
Guernsey shares the UK timezone, so we get a full working day with Europe and a morning overlap with the US East Coast.
Photo by Simon English on GuernseyWeb
From the blog
What we've learned building software, and the opinions we came away with.
You don't need WordPress any more
I ran WordPress for years — my own sites and clients', from cPanel to HHVM to a dedicated server. Then came the hack while I was asleep, and the content I couldn't manipulate. Why I left, and what I run instead.
Reintroducing Intracia
A new site, a clear list of the work we take on, and Intracia out in the open for the first time.