App Development
Fintech and space technology firms often need a working product or client portal, built properly. We build apps your own team can take over.
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We are based in London and work with Glasgow businesses remotely, with visits when they help. Glasgow is Scotland's largest city, with growing strengths in fintech, space technology and clinical life sciences alongside a busy creative scene.
What the Glasgow market looks like.
More than six hundred and fifty thousand people live in Glasgow City and over twenty thousand enterprises are registered here. Health and social work is the largest employer, with retail and professional, scientific and technical work level in second place.
Registered businesses
20,585
VAT or PAYE registered enterprises in Glasgow City, trading from 26,595 business sites between them.
Industry benchmark. Source: ONS UK Business Counts, 2026.
People living here
654,330
Residents of Glasgow City: the market a local search result is competing for.
Industry benchmark. Source: National Records of Scotland, mid-2025.
Largest share of jobs
14.9%
Human health and social work is the biggest employer by share of employee jobs, ahead of wholesale and retail.
Industry benchmark. Source: ONS Business Register and Employment Survey, 2024.Also on record The £1.13bn Glasgow City Region City Deal was the first City Deal in Scotland, funded by £500m each from the UK and Scottish governments and £130m from local authorities. Source.
Glasgow, drawn in light.
The grid of streets around George Square, Buchanan Street and the Clyde, drawn from OpenStreetMap and lit as light flows to a single site.
Where we would start for a Glasgow business.
Glasgow's own investment information singles out fintech, space and satellite technology, clinical life sciences and the digital creative industries. For businesses here we would usually start with these five.
UI / UX Design
Complex products, such as satellite data or clinical tools, live or die on whether a user can understand them. Clear flows make technical products usable.
UI / UX Design in GlasgowContent Marketing
Life science and deep tech buyers want evidence. Plain, carefully checked writing earns their trust and ranks for their questions.
Content Marketing in GlasgowSEO & Search Strategy
With professional and technical work so prominent, many Glasgow firms compete on specialist searches. Matching pages to those exact phrases is where gains come.
SEO & Search Strategy in GlasgowSocial Media Graphics
For the city's creative businesses and venues, a template system keeps social posts on brand without slowing anyone down.
Social Media Graphics in GlasgowHow we work with clients in Glasgow.
The journey north
The fastest train from London Euston to Glasgow Central takes about 4h 30m, so a visit usually means an overnight stay. We keep those trips for the occasions that justify them: a product discovery session, a design sprint with your team, or a launch.
How the weeks go
A product team in the Merchant City and a studio in London can work as one if the habits are right. We keep tickets in your tracker, join stand-ups by video when invited, and leave designs and copy where your engineers already look. Once a week you also get a plain written summary for anyone outside the product team who needs to know how marketing is going.
Product companies in Glasgow often already have engineers and designers. We can slot into your sprints, use your tools and keep our work in your repository, so nothing depends on us later.
What we would look at first
Glasgow product companies usually ask us for growth, and our first answer is a measurement check. Are trials, demo requests and sign-ups tracked the same way in the product and on the website? Is anyone looking at where people drop out of onboarding? Before we design or build anything new, we make sure the numbers describe what is really happening, because a redesign aimed at the wrong step wastes a sprint.
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Questions from Glasgow.
Is Rankrix based in Glasgow?
Our only base is London. Glasgow clients work with us remotely, and we travel for sprints, discovery sessions and launches.
Can you build an app for a technical product?
Yes. We design and build apps and portals on a mainstream stack, document them, and hand over the code and accounts so your team owns everything.
We already have a product team. Where would you fit?
Usually in the parts the team has no time for: the marketing site, search, content and campaigns. We can also take on design or build work inside your own sprints.
Can you help with funding or investor pages?
Yes. We can write and design the parts of your site that investors and grant assessors read, keeping every figure to what you can show and every claim to what you can support.
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Sources for this page
- Population: National Records of Scotland, Mid-2025 Population Estimates (published 14 July 2026), mid-2025 (30 June 2025)
- Business counts: ONS UK Business Counts, via Nomis Labour Market Profile, 2026 (UK Business Counts)
- Employment by industry: ONS Business Register and Employment Survey, via Nomis Labour Market Profile, 2024
- Sectors: Invest Glasgow (Glasgow City Council), Economy page key clusters
- Journey time from London: Trainline route page
- Local context: investglasgow.com
- Street pattern: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
