Ventures

We don't only build for clients.

We also build and back our own products where we see a problem worth solving — applying the same product-development craft to our own ideas.

Why we build

Skin in the game.

Most consultancies stop at the brief. Building our own products keeps the engineering bar where it should be — on the work that has to actually run, in front of real users, paying its own way.

It's also why our client work is what it is. The same team that ships a venture is the team that ships your project. The craft is shared. The standards don't drop because the logo on the invoice changes.

Current venture

getcloak.tech

Free online-safety activities for schools.

Online safety · Secondary schools · EdTech

Free online-safety activities and a scam radar for secondary schools.

Cloak for Schools is a free resource for secondary schools. Students play short browser activities in a lesson, on scams, deepfakes, misinformation and privacy — no accounts, nothing to install. On the Radar is its guide to the scams targeting UK teenagers right now: AI helps scan the security feeds and draft each post, and a person checks every one before it's published. We build it and we run it.

Same product-development craft we bring to client work. Different audience, different brand voice and a problem we cared enough about to back ourselves.

Visit getcloak.tech →

Stage: Live · free to use
Audience: Secondary school staff and their students
Channels: Free activities · On the Radar · Newsletter · LinkedIn
Built by: Solid Code Solutions Ltd

What we look for

What makes something a venture for us.

A handful of filters. If a problem clears all three, we'll consider building.

A problem worth solving

Something we genuinely care about — and where being good at engineering actually changes the answer.

Same craft, different audience

The engineering bar stays where it is. The brand, the voice and the channels can change to suit the audience.

Skin in the game

We back it ourselves. We build it, we run it, and we live with the consequences — same as our clients do.

More to come

One venture today. Likely more tomorrow.

Cloak for Schools is the current example. The next one will appear here when it's real.

In the kitchen

Something we're not ready to talk about yet.

When it's worth showing, it'll be here.

Have an idea?

We co-build with founders too.

Not every venture has to be ours alone. Talk to us →

Visiting from Cloak for Schools?

For Teachers and Parents

Solid Code Solutions Ltd is a UK-registered software consultancy based in Leamington Spa. Past clients include DHL, Sainsbury's, the Department for Education, Freshfields and Reed.

If you're a parent, teacher, or DSL with a question about Cloak for Schools specifically, the best place to start is its own site. If you want to know who's actually building and running it, the rest of this site is your answer.

Back to Cloak for Schools About Solid Code Solutions

Building your own thing?

Founders, we'd like to meet you.

If you're early on a product and you need a senior partner to take it end-to-end, that's the kind of work we love.

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