Details
| Founded: | 2008 |
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| Hourly Rates: | $100 - $149 |
| Employees: | 2 - 9 |
| Avg. Project Cost: | $5,000,000+ |
| Ratings: |
4.1
7 Reviews
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About
Anchor is a print and digital idea tank. They develop relationships, trust, ideas, campaigns, brands, websites, and videos because that is their passion. Their process starts with the relationship and is fueled by clear, open and constant communication. Their team of mobile app and web enthusiasts leaves no stone unturned in line to keep up with the most advent techniques and ideas.
Anchor Marketing & Design Reviews
Delivered exactly what the brief asked for, then kept improving past that point anyway
Cormac Whelan / VP of Engineering | May 12, 2026This was our fourth agency in three years, and I say that with some embarrassment. Every previous engagement had looked promising on paper and fallen apart somewhere in delivery. What was different here was the sequencing: they spent real time understanding the actual problem before proposing anything, rather than pattern-matching to a solution they already knew how to sell. The build ran to schedule, our own engineers had genuinely positive things to say during handover, and four months into live operation we haven't had a single critical incident. We're already talking about the next phase with them.
Project summary
A previous project had worked fine in staging and fallen apart in production. We approached vendor selection this time with a lot more scrutiny as a direct result.
| 4.0 Overall Rating |
| 4.0 Quality |
| 4.0 Schedule |
| 4.0 Project Cost |
| 5.0 Willing To Refer |
| Project Type: | AR/VR Development |
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| Project Cost: | $50,000 to $149,999 |
| Project Duration: | Nov 2025 - Feb 2026 |
| Business Type: | Gaming & Gambling |
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| Location: | Cork, Ireland |
Questions & Answers
Custom build that quietly replaced three separate off-the-shelf tools we were juggling before
Willem Jansen / Chief Technology Officer | May 12, 2026Looking back, the thing that stands out most is how uneventful the whole project was. Technology projects of this size tend to generate their share of fire drills and awkward escalation calls. This one really didn't. Issues got flagged early enough that they never became incidents, scope changes went through an actual process instead of a tense phone call, and risks were tracked rather than just hoped away. That kind of quiet competence is unusual in my experience, and it made the whole thing feel easier on our end than I know it was on theirs.
Project summary
New digital service standards required every citizen-facing application to hit accessibility and performance benchmarks our legacy systems simply couldn't reach. Patching them wasn't realistic.
| 4.0 Overall Rating |
| 3.5 Quality |
| 4.0 Schedule |
| 4.5 Project Cost |
| 5.0 Willing To Refer |
| Project Type: | Software Development |
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| Project Cost: | $10,000 to $49,999 |
| Project Duration: | May 2025 - Mar 2026 |
| Business Type: | Government & Public Sector |
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| Location: | Rotterdam, Netherlands |
Questions & Answers
Closed the operational blind spots we'd been working around for longer than we'd like to admit
Griffin Ashcombe / Managing Director, Tech | Apr 20, 2026We had proposals in hand ranging from roughly half to well over double what we eventually paid this team. What set their proposal apart wasn't the price — it was that the number matched what they actually delivered, almost line for line. I've been burned before by proposals that were really just opening offers in a negotiation that continues throughout the project. That wasn't the case here, and I don't say that lightly.
Project summary
This project had a board-facing deadline tied to a wider strategic push. We needed a partner who'd treat that date like it was their own problem, not just ours.
| 4.0 Overall Rating |
| 4.0 Quality |
| 4.5 Schedule |
| 3.5 Project Cost |
| 5.0 Willing To Refer |
| Project Type: | IoT Development |
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| Project Cost: | $10,000 to $49,999 |
| Project Duration: | Jun 2025 - Mar 2026 |
| Business Type: | Environmental Services |
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| Location: | San Francisco, USA |
Questions & Answers
Product teams can finally move independently instead of queuing behind each other
Kenji Watanabe / Director of IT Strategy | Mar 17, 2026Looking back, the thing that stands out most is how uneventful the whole project was. Technology projects of this size tend to generate their share of fire drills and awkward escalation calls. This one really didn't. Issues got flagged early enough that they never became incidents, scope changes went through an actual process instead of a tense phone call, and risks were tracked rather than just hoped away. That kind of quiet competence is unusual in my experience, and it made the whole thing feel easier on our end than I know it was on theirs.
Project summary
Years of incremental patches had left us with a platform that technically worked but was quietly holding the business back strategically. A proper rebuild was the agreed way forward.
| 4.5 Overall Rating |
| 4.5 Quality |
| 4.0 Schedule |
| 4.0 Project Cost |
| 5.0 Willing To Refer |
| Project Type: | DevOps Services |
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| Project Cost: | $150,000 to $499,999 |
| Project Duration: | Nov 2025 - Feb 2026 |
| Business Type: | Construction |
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| Location: | Yokohama, Japan |
Questions & Answers
Sales adopted it within the first week — no complaints, no holdouts
Tanner Ridgeway / VP of Operations Technology | Feb 02, 2026Our stakeholder list for this project included board members, operations leads, compliance, and end users, all with wildly different levels of technical fluency and different definitions of success. Managing that mix well is genuinely hard, and this team did it better than any vendor we've worked with. They shifted register depending on who they were talking to without ever dumbing down the substance, kept expectations honest the whole way through, and delivered something each group could point to as meeting their own bar. That range is rare.
Project summary
Years of incremental patches had left us with a platform that technically worked but was quietly holding the business back strategically. A proper rebuild was the agreed way forward.
| 4.0 Overall Rating |
| 4.5 Quality |
| 4.0 Schedule |
| 4.0 Project Cost |
| 5.0 Willing To Refer |
| Project Type: | CRM Development |
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| Project Cost: | $50,000 to $149,999 |
| Project Duration: | Apr 2025 - Jan 2026 |
| Business Type: | Environmental Services |
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| Location: | Salt Lake City, USA |
Questions & Answers
Turned marketing spend from a cost debate into a revenue conversation with leadership
Roisin Cassidy / VP of Product Engineering | Jan 15, 2026The easiest thing to praise is the technical output itself — solid test coverage, a deployment pipeline that just works, documentation that people actually reference instead of ignoring. But what I keep coming back to is the number of conversations we haven't had to have since launch. No 2am incident calls. No emergency patches. No post-mortems about what went sideways. That absence is really the whole pitch, if you ask me.
Project summary
New digital service standards required every citizen-facing application to hit accessibility and performance benchmarks our legacy systems simply couldn't reach. Patching them wasn't realistic.
| 4.0 Overall Rating |
| 3.5 Quality |
| 4.0 Schedule |
| 3.5 Project Cost |
| 5.0 Willing To Refer |
| Project Type: | Digital Marketing |
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| Project Cost: | $500,000+ |
| Project Duration: | Feb 2025 - Nov 2025 |
| Business Type: | Government & Public Sector |
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| Location: | Belfast, UK |
Questions & Answers
Execution matched the proposal on every dimension that actually mattered to us
Airi Kobayashi / Head of Product Development | Jan 14, 2026Five months post-launch, we're running at roughly double the transaction volume we'd specified in the original scope document, and the platform hasn't needed a single structural change to handle it. That's the real tell for whether a team designed for what you told them versus what you were actually going to need. We're now scoping a second phase and I expect this to be a multi-year relationship at this point.
Project summary
Our app was sitting at a 2.9-star average, and nearly every negative review mentioned the same two things: speed and how convoluted the booking flow had become.
| 4.0 Overall Rating |
| 4.0 Quality |
| 3.5 Schedule |
| 4.0 Project Cost |
| 5.0 Willing To Refer |
| Project Type: | Low-Code / No-Code Development |
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| Project Cost: | $50,000 to $149,999 |
| Project Duration: | Jun 2025 - Oct 2025 |
| Business Type: | Travel & Hospitality |
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| Location: | Nagoya, Japan |
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