Cirlume · Independent design & engineering studio
Cirlume designs and engineers digital products for the work people actually do. Our engineers have built and run software used by millions of people, and bring the same care to every product.
Featured product / SoulCare
Team log, live
PRN medication chart
Carer app, eMAR
What we do / 01
Most products need more than one discipline at once. We bring design, engineering, AI and cloud to the same table, so decisions don’t get lost between teams.
Find the right problem, map the work, and design an interface people can use with confidence.
Build connected web and mobile products, with the APIs, data and permissions behind the screens.
Put models to work on specific, reviewable tasks inside the systems your team already uses.
Selected work / 02
Our productA training monitor built for decisions in the moment.
A rhythm and defibrillator simulator with ECG, capnography, vital signs and resuscitation controls in one teaching interface. Educators can load a scenario, change the rhythm and adjust the monitor as a session unfolds.
Built with TypeScript, React Native & Expo
Workflow map · In development
One clearer route from request to resolution.
An operational platform in development that connects customer requests, inspections, dispatch and payments across a property-maintenance workflow.
How we work / 03
The team shaping the product stays close to the team building it. We make decisions in working prototypes, reviewable releases, and honest conversations about trade-offs.
Map people, tasks, existing systems, and the decision that matters next.
Prototype the important journey and bring engineering into the discussion early.
Deliver working slices, check the edge cases, and leave a system the next team can understand.
Engineering / 04
We think through data boundaries, access, integrations, releases and recovery alongside the visible product, and design them in from the start.
In SoulCare, each care provider’s data lives in its own database.
Small Go services on AWS Lambda, with infrastructure defined in Terraform.
SimRhythm runs on iOS, Android and the web from a single Expo app.
Technologies / 05
Applied AI / 06
We put models to work on bounded jobs inside the systems you already use, test them on real examples first, and keep a person in charge of anything that matters.
Not every task should be automated. We say so when conventional software, or a person, is the better answer.
Industries / 07
Care visits, clinical training, maintenance call-outs and financial records each come with their own rules. We build around them, not over them.
Shift to plan for · December 2025Most providers now digitalShift to plan for · October 2025Resuscitation Guidelines 2025Shift to plan for · October 2025Awaab’s Law in forceShift to plan for · April 2026Making Tax Digital for Income TaxWhat’s changing / 08
New rules, store deadlines and end-of-life dates across our sectors and tools, each checked against an official source.
Insights / 09
Article ·
How to give each pull request its own database branch, with safe data, tested migrations and automatic clean-up.
Article ·
How to build a document assistant that cites its sources, respects permissions and says when it does not know.
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What Awaab’s Law asks of the systems social landlords use to log, investigate and repair hazards, and the records they need to keep.
Where to start
Each link opens the enquiry form with your choice filled in. We reply within two working days.
Common questions
Across the United Kingdom and the Middle East, with founders, product teams and organisations whose software runs a real operation.
With a fixed first stage: discovery, a prototype or a technical review with agreed outputs. You decide what comes next with something concrete in hand.
Yes. We agree which part of the product we own, the interfaces between teams, and how reviews and handover will work.
You do. Cloud accounts and databases are set up in your name, and handover includes the repositories, deployment steps and operating notes.
Coverage and response times are agreed for each engagement. We don’t offer a default 24/7 commitment.
Yes. We design, build and run SoulCare for home-care providers and SimRhythm for medical education, which keeps us honest about what software needs after launch.
The studio / 10
We design, build and run our own products, SoulCare and SimRhythm, alongside client work. The people who scope your product are the people who build it.
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