Our work
Octophin build interactive maps, apps, community platforms and databases solely for the environment conservation, arts and heritage sectors.
We take great pride and care in all the work that we do, the resulting trust with clients leading to almost all of our work being received through word of mouth rather than bid applications
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.
Our work has featured in publications including the BBC, Independent, Ars Technica, Wired Japan and more, but most importantly has had a direct impact on people and the environment.
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.

TerrAdapt geospatial analysis and reporting dashboard
Visualising projections of changes in natural environments

Interactive map, dashboard and portal for 400 years of UK sturgeon sightings
We worked with the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) to visualise 400 years of historic sturgeon sightings in the UK.

Newham heritage centre consultancy
A consultultancy project around the best ways to digitise the Newham historical archive and showcase their upcoming heritage centre.

The Audience Agency - Multi-site system and three websites
We worked with The Audience Agency to build three interlinked websites each with their own urls, theme but sharing a server and some content.

Tropical Biology Association website support
Since 2023 we have worked with the Tropical Biology Association to support and improve their WordPress website.

Key Biodiversity Areas factsheets scraper, archive and backup system
We worked with the Key Biodiversity Areas team at Birdlife International to build a scraper of their World Database of Key Biodiversity Areas

Booking Behaviour Report
Giving monthly insights into the timing, frequency, proportion of first time visitors and group dynamics of arts organisation bookings.

Global Safety Net map
We built a globe-view interactive map for One Earth's Global Safety Net project featuring more than a dozen categorised raster and vector layers and data queries mapped to a user selectable view of countries, ecoregions, bioregions and states.

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

Time Traveller’s Guide to London Zoo
We built an interactive historical timeline for ZSL London Zoo powered by a flexible content management system and including features such as a quiz and multiple themes.

Our Stories Our Systems
We built a portal and interactive questionnaire centering around anxiety about climate change.

Berlin Airlift bilingual historical timeline
A website and interactive timeline to mark the 75th anniversary of the Berlin Airflift, one of the first major events of the Cold War.

iBeholder mobile arts survey system for 4 galleries in Northern Ireland
We worked with The Audience Agency and Thrive to build a mobile-first web application for art gallery surveys.

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.

North Western Waters Advisory Council mutlingual interactive map (AC Fishmap)
A multi-lingual map for fishers and legal and conservation organisations containing dozens of layers and lists of fishing regulations.

Interactive map of UK arts demographics
We used the Audience Agency's database of millions of (anonymised) bookers, placed into demographic categories using their Audience Spectrum system to plot the data onto an interactive map.

Seabird Flyways
We worked with BirdLife International on a project visualising their project on the "Six Major Bird 'Super Highways'.

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.

RAF Museum interactive touchscreen kiosk and archive database
Converting word documents and images into an interactive museum kiosk at RAF Museum.

Seabird Tracking Database
We built a new version of the collaborative Seabird Tracking Database for Birdlife International.

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

Trillion Trees website
We built a new website for Trillion Trees, showcasing their work across the world through features including a project directory and an interactive map.

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.

The National Red List Project
Creating a new database, interactive map and importer of thousands of historic records for the National Red List.

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.

Ticketing pipelines and big data APIs for hundreds of arts venues in the UK
Octophin built ticketing pipelines for many ticketing systems (Spektrix, TicketSolve, Tessitura and more); creating APIs, scrapers and importers to ingest, parse, normalise, analyse and anonymise (via Experian APIs) daily data on tickets, people and events.

Filmpro interactive exhibition of disabled and neurodiverse artists
In 2020, filmpro commissioned three self-defining disabled and neurodiverse emerging artists to produce new work that pushes the boundaries of digital platforms. These commissions were displayed in an online exhibition built by Octophin.

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.

NUS - RecycleLeague pilot
We built a data visualisation showing live weekly recycling rates of various competing universities and other institutions.

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.

TerrAdapt
Aside from our work with TerrAdapt on their geospatial visualisation, analysis and reporting tools Octophin built, designed and now support a website to showcase their work.

HiddenCity (real-world adventure games) website, team editor and booking system
A beautiful and engaging new website that integrates with their booking system, game progress, team editing and creation, leaderboards and more for HiddenCity.

ZSL Donations, Patrons and Fellowship System
A highly customisable WordPress-based system for donations and membership.

Trillion Trees Consultancy
Reforestation data collection research project for Trillion Trees (FORMAPP)

SCUTE - Conservation hardware administration system
SCUTE will build an extendable graphical administration interface for hardware devices from JSON schema files, allowing people to view reports about connected devices, update and manage configuration

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.

Tricky Trawling Greenland Fishing Game
A game teaching about the effects of trawl fishing on benthic life in Greenland

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

Fauna & Flora International - donations system support
We worked with Fauna & Flora International on creating better integration between their CRM system and donations payment gateway.

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.

London Zoo's Tiger Territory touch screen interactive
An interactive touchscreen game to promote ZSL’s Instant Wild app

Chagos Information Portal - Tracking Map of Red Footed Booby Expedition
We animated and visualised the first tracking data from seabird species from the Chagos Archipelago. journey.

Artsadmin Room Bookings system
A room booking, staff management and equipment and catering system

Chagos Information Portal - Interactive Timeline
An interactive timeline of expeditions

Colchester Zoo online shop
Drupal Commerce ecommerce website for one of the UK’s largest zoos.

My True Selfie Anti Bullying Campaign App
Tackling low self-esteem, body image and bullying with technology

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

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

The Top Secret Comedy Club website
A stylish WordPress site for the UK’s most highly-rated comedy club.

ParcelHero - Curiosities online game
Can you guess all 100 world cities in this addictive online game?

Chagos Information Portal
A resources library and interactive map landing page for UK charity the Chagos Conservation Trust.

eHarmony - Dating profile text analyser "Language of Love"
Dating profile analyser based on research into successful profile keywords for men and women.

ZSL - Food Web Interactive iPad Application
Easy to customise conservation education app for school groups.

Angel Shark sightings map
An interactive, multilingual map allowing divers to record sightings of the critically endangered species.

UK Heartbeat - Live Twitter visualisation and analysis for eHarmony
An Interactive Twitter multi level visualisation dashboard for the word “love”

Big Wasp Survey
The Big Wasp Survey aims to gather important scientific data to help to quantify wasp species abunance, diversity and distribution.

eHarmony - The Future of Dating interactive report
Communicating the findings of a report by relationship site eHarmony and Imperial Business College into what dating will be like by the year 2040 in a consumer-friendly and shareable way.

Technical Consultancy and development for 51Degrees
Octophin Digital have provided consultancy, training and Node.js and PHP development work for 51Degrees, providers of a popular device detection system.

The Foods of Athenry rebrand
Project managing the rebrand of premium Irish baked products company

Neil Mason Photography Website
A stylish online portfolio for fashion and architechtural photographer Neil Mason.

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.

Thames Marine Mammal Map
An interactive citizen science map built for the Zoological Society of London’s Thames seal conservation project.

Tiger Territory game
Immerse yourself in Sumatra as a critically endangered tiger.