Software studio · Cookstown, Northern Ireland
We build custom software for businesses anywhere.
Web apps, mobile apps and the systems that run your business. You see a working prototype before you spend a penny.
The Vision Lab is free for the rest of 2026.
Four ways to work with us.
The Vision Lab
What if you could see your idea working on a big screen today, before you'd spent a penny? Bring the idea or the problem. You leave with something you can click on. Free for the rest of 2026.
See how it works → 02The Weekly Brief
What if one email a week told you about funding you could apply for and what other businesses near you are doing, before you'd have found it yourself? That's the Brief. £100 a month, first four weeks free.
Read about it → 03Custom software
What if your software fitted your business, instead of your business bending to fit the software? We build apps and systems around how you actually work.
Talk to us → 04Take it to market
What if the day your product was finished was the day it launched? If you want it, we can handle the name, the branding, the website and the launch alongside the build. Your call, never a condition.
How we launch →We created a room in Cookstown where ideas become real.
Two kinds of people come through the door.
Business owners with a problem. A process that eats time, a spreadsheet nobody trusts, a job that keeps going wrong.
People with an idea. The one they've carried around for years and never got out of their head.
Either way, you sit with us for less than a day and leave with working software you can click on.
The Vision Lab · CookstownWhy free?
Because we couldn't find anyone who'd show you your software working before you paid for it, and a working prototype is the best pitch we have.
Free for the rest of 2026. We haven't decided about 2027, so book while it's certain.
So, which one are you?
Everyone who walks into The Vision Lab is carrying one of these.
Perfect. That's exactly what The Vision Lab was built for.
You don't need a spec, a pitch deck or a technical background. Bring the idea as it lives in your head. We'll ask the right questions and build the first working version in front of you.
Book The Vision LabEven better. Our own products were born from watching broken processes up close.
Bring the spreadsheet, the paperwork or the job everyone dreads. Tell us how it works today, then watch it become software before you leave.
Book The Vision LabGood thinking. Funders back what they can see.
If you're applying for a grant or pitching for investment, a working prototype says more than any document. We'll build it with you in the Lab, free, on one fair condition: if the funding comes through, we're the team that builds the real thing.
Book The Vision LabWhy Kenzoku?
The team at work · Cookstown- 01
Young and woman-led
Grace started Kenzoku in 2023 and has spent three years building it, one product and one client at a time. A young entrepreneur running a tech company from Mid Ulster, with ambitions well beyond it.
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A partner you can rely on
It's your product, so you're part of the process. You'll meet the people building it, watch it grow week by week and have a say at every step, not a handover at the end.
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A great team
Professional engineers who review each other's work, test properly and take pride in what leaves the building.
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Built secure, built to last
Security is built in from day one: safe logins, backups and careful handling of your data. And it's built to keep working for years, not just to launch.
Where we've built so far.
We've already built real software in these three areas, and this is only the start.
Healthcare
Manufacturing
Health & safety
Your industry could be next.
Book the Lab and talk it through with Grace. Less than a day, free for the rest of 2026.
Book The Vision Lab →Years of experience sit behind every build, and everything we make is built to be safe for you and for your customers.
Grace Woods · Director & CEOA word from Grace Director & CEO
Why work with us?
You've had the idea for years. It comes back every time the spreadsheet breaks or the paperwork piles up, and it never gets built because the first step looks too expensive to take. So we made the first step free. Come and sit with us for a day and leave with something you can click on. If it's not right, you've lost nothing. If it is, you'll know. Bring it in. I'll put the kettle on.
Grace WoodsDirector & CEO, Kenzoku Digital
Not ready to build yet? Start with The Weekly Brief
What if one email a week did the reading for you?
Nobody running a business has time to watch every funding window and every competitor's move. One missed grant window can cost more than a year of the Brief. So your brief does the watching, and you get the part that matters.
Grace Woods · Director & CEOWe set it up around you
Your sector, the companies you watch, the kind of funding you care about. Your brief is built for your business, not a mailing list.
It does the reading
Every week your brief automatically scans the funding announcements, the tenders, the trade press and the local business news for exactly what you asked for. Hours of reading, done for you.
One email lands
A few minutes to read. A source on every item so you can check it yourself. Quiet weeks are called quiet.
You move first
Ring the firm that just won the contract. Apply before the window closes. Know about the new operations director the week they start.
£100 a monthFirst four weeks freeCancel anytime
The Vision Lab · Cookstown
Walk in with a problem. Walk out with it solved.
Where business ideas come to life.
Less than a day in Cookstown. You talk, we build, and by home time your problem is running on the big screen. You've never been in a meeting like it. Free for the rest of 2026.
Any businessAny industryFree for the rest of 2026
The space The room
Built to prove it before you pay for it.
One room, one very large screen, and no sales deck anywhere in the building.
The Vision Lab · CookstownThe visit How it runs
You talk. We listen.
Structured discovery. We map the process that costs you most: where it starts, who touches it, where it breaks.
We build. Live.
On the big screen, in front of you. Your process, your numbers, your words on the labels. Not a canned demo.
The reveal.
A working prototype of your actual problem. Click it. Test it. Try to break it.
Your call.
If it's useful, we talk about building it properly. If it's not, it cost you nothing but a few hours.
Noah Friel · Software EngineerThen the room goes quiet.
It happens every time. The screen shows your idea, working, and for a second nobody speaks. Then the questions start, and they're never about whether it's possible. They're about what happens next.
The takeaway What you leave with
A working prototype
Of your actual problem, not a demo of someone else's. Yours to keep thinking about.
A straight answer
What building it properly would cost, how long it would take, and what it would save.
Zero obligation
No contract, no follow-up campaign, no pressure. The prototype does the talking or it doesn't.
Funding Prototypes open doors
Chasing funding? Bring the idea here first.
Grant applications and investor pitches go better when you can show the thing working. We'll build the prototype with you, free, on one fair condition: if the funding comes through, we build the real thing. It protects our time, and it means the people who built the prototype are the people who build the product.
The obvious question Why free?
Because owners don't buy promises.
Once you've seen your own problem running on a screen, you don't need selling. And if it's not for you, you've lost a few hours and gained a prototype. That's the whole deal.
Who it's for A considered process
Building a digital product isn't about jumping straight into development. It's about making the right decisions early.
We take on full builds for businesses and individuals with a clear problem to solve and the funding in place to do it properly. Not there yet? The Lab is free, and a prototype can help you get there.
Everything starts with a discovery conversation: understand the process, explore whether an app is even the right answer, and define what success should look like before anything is built.
We build for demanding sectors including healthcare, engineering and compliance, where "it works in the demo" isn't good enough.
We only take on projects where there's clarity, commitment and the right foundations, so the product has the best possible chance of success.
And whatever we build is safe and secure by design, for you and for your customers.
This is for you if you have an idea worth building properly, and you want to see exactly what it takes to do it well before you commit.
The Weekly Brief · Subscription
Hours of reading, done for you.
Every week, The Weekly Brief covers the funding announcements, the trade press and the business news for wherever you operate, then sends you the handful of items that matter to your business. A few minutes to read, with a source on every item.
£100 a monthFirst four weeks freeCancel anytime
The product What lands in your inbox
Short, sourced and straight.
Owner-managers can't watch every funding window and every competitor move. The brief does it for them. You tell us what matters to your business, your brief watches for it, and once a week the useful parts arrive in one email.
Inside Three kinds of item
Funding windows
Grants and support schemes that could fit your business, flagged when they open and again before they close.
Local moves
Contracts won, expansions, hiring and leadership changes at the companies and sectors you ask us to watch.
Straight talk
Every item carries its source so you can check it yourself. If a week is quiet, we say so. No filler, ever.
Getting started Three steps
Tell us about you
Your sector, the companies you watch, the kind of funding you care about. One short conversation.
We build your watch list
Your brief is set up around your business, not pulled from a generic mailing list. Adjust it any time.
It lands every week
The first four weeks are free, and they're real editions, not samples. If it's not useful, walk away.
Pricing Plain and public
The standard plan. Cancel anytime, no long contract, and your first four weeks are free.
The first 25 subscribers. Full price on purpose: founding members get access, not a discount. A quarterly review of your watch list, a direct line to the team, and your name here if you want it.
Two months free against paying monthly, for businesses that already know they'll read it.
Several readers at one business, or advisers who want the brief for their clients.
Start with the free four weeks · No card needed to try it
The promise Why owners trust it
Quiet weeks get called quiet.
The brief is only worth paying for if it's genuinely useful and genuinely honest. So every item is sourced, nothing gets padded, and if a week brings you nothing worth acting on, the email says so and stays short.
Take it to market
The build is half the job.
Most software dies quietly. Built, handed over, never adopted, never sold. We come from marketing, so we don't let that happen.
The gap Why one roof matters
Software firms
Build it, hand it over, disappear. Adoption is your problem now.
Agencies
Great at noise, can't build the thing the noise is about.
Kenzoku is the third thing.
One roof, both jobs. The system that runs your business and the story that grows it, designed together, by the same people, in the same building in Cookstown.
Ella Hetherington · Marketing Account Executive"Building the product is only the beginning. It's what you do with it that changes what's possible."
The work What taking it to market means
Brand
An identity that fits the business you actually run. Built to last longer than a rebrand cycle.
Content
Plain, useful, in your voice. The kind your customers actually read.
Social
Managed properly, week in, week out. No ghost accounts, no filler.
Campaigns
Planned, launched and measured against real numbers: enquiries, orders, sales.
Proof It works
Those numbers came from one campaign, for one local food brand. Proof that with the right marketing, a local business can stand beside the biggest names in the country.
Strongest when we've built it too.
The software and the marketing, designed together from day one. It starts inside The Vision Lab.
Terms & conditions · Kenzoku Digital Ltd
The terms, in plain words.
What you can expect from us, and what we ask of you, across this website, The Vision Lab and The Weekly Brief.
Who we are
Kenzoku Digital Ltd is a software company registered in Northern Ireland, company number NI715597, at 1 Lissan Road, Cookstown, BT80 8EN. You can reach us at info@kenzokudigital.com. These terms cover this website, The Vision Lab and The Weekly Brief. Software builds and marketing work are covered by a separate written agreement for each project.
Using this website
Everything on this site is there to explain what we do. It is general information, not advice, and we may change it at any time. We do our best to keep it accurate but we cannot promise it is complete or up to date. Links to other websites are provided for convenience and we are not responsible for what you find there.
The Vision Lab
- The Vision Lab is a free session in Cookstown where we build a working prototype of your idea or problem in less than a day. It is free for the remainder of 2026. We will give notice on this site before that changes.
- We look at every request before confirming a date, and we may decline or reschedule a session if we think the Lab is not the right place for it.
- What you leave with is a prototype. It is built quickly to show what is possible, and it is not finished, tested or supported software. Do not run your business on it.
- The prototype we build for you in the Lab is yours to keep. The tools, code libraries and methods we use to build it remain ours.
- If you ask us for a prototype to support a grant application or an investment pitch, we build it on the understanding that, if the funding is secured, Kenzoku Digital will be engaged to build the full product. We will confirm this with you in writing before the session.
- We treat what you tell us in the Lab as confidential and will not share it outside Kenzoku Digital without your permission.
- There is no obligation on either side after a session. If you want to go further, we will agree the work, the price and the timescale in writing first.
The Weekly Brief
- The Weekly Brief is a paid email subscription. Current prices are shown on this site: £100 a month, £1,000 a year, or team plans from £180 a month. Prices include VAT where it applies and may change with notice.
- New subscribers get their first four weeks free. Nothing is charged until the trial ends, and you can stop at any time during it.
- Monthly plans are billed in advance and can be cancelled at any time; the brief keeps arriving until the end of the month you have paid for. Annual plans run for the full year paid for.
- The brief is information, not advice. Every item carries a source and you should check the source before you act. Funding items are flagged because they may be relevant to you; we do not assess your eligibility and we cannot promise you will qualify.
- We search public sources and we do our best, but we cannot promise the brief is complete, and some items may be reported later than the events they describe.
- Each subscription is for the named subscriber. If several people at your business want it, use a team plan. Please do not forward or republish the brief without asking us.
Your content and ours
The words, images, design and code on this site belong to Kenzoku Digital Ltd or the people who let us use them. Anything you send us, such as a booking request, stays yours; you give us permission to use it to respond to you and deliver the service you asked for.
Liability
We are not liable for decisions you make based on the brief, on a prototype, or on anything on this site, and we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss. Nothing in these terms limits any liability that cannot be limited by law, including liability for death, personal injury or fraud. Your statutory rights as a consumer are not affected.
Changes and the law
We may update these terms and will post the date of the latest version here. These terms are governed by the law of Northern Ireland and any dispute will be dealt with by the courts of Northern Ireland.
Last updated 9 September 2026.
Privacy policy · Kenzoku Digital Ltd
Your data, and what we do with it.
What we collect, why we collect it, who sees it and how to ask us to change or delete it.
Who we are
Kenzoku Digital Ltd, 1 Lissan Road, Cookstown, BT80 8EN, is the data controller for the personal information described here. We are registered with the Information Commissioner's Office, registration number [ICO registration number]. Questions about your data go to info@kenzokudigital.com.
What we collect, and why
- Vision Lab bookings. Your name, email address, phone number, business name, industry, whether you are bringing an idea or a problem, and the summary you write. We use it to decide whether the Lab is the right fit, to arrange your date and to prepare for your session.
- Weekly Brief subscribers. Your name, email address, business name, the sectors, companies and funding you ask us to watch, and your payment and billing details. Payments are handled by our payment provider; we do not store card numbers. We use this to set up your brief, send it, and manage your subscription.
- Emails and enquiries. Whatever you include when you contact us, used to reply to you.
- This website. We do not set tracking cookies and we do not run analytics on this site. The site loads fonts from Google, which means Google receives your device's requests for those files.
Our legal basis
We process booking and enquiry data because you asked us to and because we have a legitimate interest in running our business. We process subscriber data to deliver the contract you have with us. We will only send you marketing if you have agreed to it, and you can change your mind at any time.
Who we share it with
The people who work at Kenzoku Digital, and the service providers we use to run the business: email, hosting, our payment provider and our subscription tooling. They only act on our instructions. We never sell personal information. Some providers may process data outside the UK; where they do, we rely on approved safeguards.
How long we keep it
Booking and enquiry details for up to 12 months after our last contact, unless you become a client. Subscriber details for the life of your subscription, and billing records for six years afterwards to meet accounting rules. Anything shared in a Lab session is kept only as long as we need it to work with you.
Your rights
You can ask us for a copy of the personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, delete it or stop using it, ask for it in a portable format, and object to processing based on our legitimate interests. Email info@kenzokudigital.com and we will respond within one month. If you are unhappy with how we handle your data you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.
Keeping it safe
We limit access to personal information to the people who need it, use secure services to store it, and remove it when we no longer need it.
Changes
We will post any changes to this policy here, with the date of the latest version.
Last updated 9 September 2026.
Contact
Start something.
Tell us the process that hurts, or the idea you can't stop thinking about. Grace will sort a date for your visit to The Vision Lab.
Grace Woods · Director & CEOGrace Woods
Grace looks after bookings and will sort your date. On the day, you'll be with the full Kenzoku team in The Vision Lab.
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