Our work
Octophin build interactive maps, apps, websites, community platforms and databases solely for the environment conservation, arts and heritage sectors.
We have world-leading knowledge on interactive mapping of all aspects of the natural world and its sustainable communities (from seafood to forestry), and have spoken on building maps for good at
several international conferences. We have built many collaborative databases of wildlife sightings, green spaces, sustainable seafood, recipes and more, and manage a community platform and wiki for conservation technologists and a citizen science wildife identification gaming platform both with thousands of active members.
On the arts side of our work we have worked on big data projects (demographic mapping, dashboard building) for Arts Council England via The Audience Agency and Artsadmin for many years, built the website for real world adventure games company HiddenCity (recently made an official partner of the 007 James Bond brand), built interactive maps and artist databases for the Crouch End Open Studios events and worked with Newham Council on digitisation projects for their new heritage centre.

WILDLABS Courses - online learning platform
An online learning system for the WILDLABS.NET conservation technology platform.

Key Biodiversity Areas database importers and geospatial database
We have worked with Birdlife International on their World Database of Keybiodiversity Areas since 2023 and in 2024 were asked to build a new system to allow organisations to bulk upload sites to be proposed as Key Biodiversity Areas.

Species Use Database
Improving knowledge and understanding of how wild species are used, where they are used, if that use is sustainable or unsustainable, and what impacts that use is having.

WILDLABS Inventory
The Inventory is a collaborative encyclopedia (wiki) of conservation technology and part of the WILDLABS.NET conservation technology community platform.

Instant Detect satellite wildlife monitoring system
Instant Detect 2.0 is a wildlife, environment and threat monitoring system designed by conservationists for conservationists. The system consists of multiple battery-powered cameras and sensors that capture images and data and then transmit it to the cloud in near real-time using satellite connectivity.

WILDLABS.NET
WILDLABS is a conservation technology community platform featuring discussion forums, community groups, instant messages, community sourced listings for events, jobs and funding opportunities and articles.

Spring Alive
We built a new, multilingual multisite for the Spring Alive citizen science project.

IPNLF - Sourcing Transparency Platform
We worked with The International Pole and Line Foundation on a database of tuna products, species, fisheries, gear types, vessels and companies.

Discover Seafood
We worked with Mindfully Wired Communications and the Fishmongers Company to build an interactive online portal about locally caught seafood. Including a UK-wide map of ports and retailers, recipes, directory of species, stories from the fishing community and more.

Food for the Brain website, membership system and Cognitive Function Test
We worked with the Food for the Brain Foundation, a mental health nutrition charity, to redesign and rebuild their website and their scientifically validated Cognitive Function Test.

Capacity for Conservation multilingual organisation assessment tool and resource library
Capacity for Conservation is a free online resource that can help conservation organisations to develop themselves to be stronger, more resilient and able to deliver enduring conservation impacts.

Conservation Leadership Programme
A WordPress based application portal system featuring a collaborative reviewer system, complex multi-group application forms, application cut off dates, MS Word export of reviews and applications, detailed exports and imports of data, quick assigning of reviewers and filtering of applications and more.

Instant Wild
Instant Wild is a gamified citizen science platform (including iOS and Android apps) where users can help identify species in camera trap imagery around the world.

Vitiligo Society website
Block-based, flexible WordPress website and CRM integration

Crouch End Open Studios
A website and app that serves as a home to a directory of artists co-managed by the artists themselves, also a wayfinding system for visitors on open studios events.

Interactive War Memorial for Find My Past
A viral social media campaign for leading geneology website.

Artsadmin CRM system
A customised customer relationship database solution for the arts sector

A custom interactive map builder for zoos, museums and art galleries
In 2016 we build a tool for quickly creating and managing interactive maps.

Cat Map - a viral success for London Zoo
An online campaign which would build excitement and buzz online about a brand-new big cat exhibit at ZSL London Zoo.