Outlandish

Outlandish is made up of around 20 collaborators and co-owners who love humour, quality code, and apps that challenge the status quo. We build digital applications and websites for companies, charities and universities that make their lives easier and help them to discover and communicate new insights from their data. We are a worker co-operative and invest all surpluses into projects that help achieve our goals. We specialise in web applications and websites that make large amounts of data easy to manage through beautiful interfaces but we turn our hands to all sorts. We love ambitious and innovative projects and we've helped our clients manage their money, build social movements, publicise research and engage people with poetry. Outlandish is a democratic organisation with open and fair membership, like all co-operatives. Open and fair membership means that if you share our goal and we can find work for you (or you can find it for us) then you can join Outlandish. You have to clock up 235 days work and have met variouscriteria but then you become an equal member and co-owner of the co-operative. Unlike most tech startups, Outlandish is asset-locked, meaning that its owners can never benefit from selling it. We believe that this is the best way to create good employment for our members and stable services for our clients. We can't say that we have completely figured it out, but we are getting better. Our long-term aim is to build a network and support services that make it easier for people working in technology to have good work and make a good living while working for social change. Outlandish is growing, with many opportunities for talented developers, designers, project managers and product owners to get involved. We work flexibly with both our freelancers and our members, either part-time or full-time. If Outlandish sounds like a community you'd like to be a part of, get in touch. We'd love to meet you.