How Redbrix differs from generalist design studios
Redbrix specialises in B2B software, mostly for manufacturing, compliance, business processes and developers. The main difference from a generalist studio is domain knowledge of production: batch processing, discrete manufacturing, compliance and the business processes behind them.
Founders work on every project, the team works directly with the client’s engineers, and product design, brand and sales materials can come from the same team.
Key facts
- Domain knowledge covers manufacturing (ERP, MES, MRP, QMS, WMS), compliance, business process management and developer software.
- The team works directly with the client’s engineers, from technical constraints to the review of built screens.
- Brand identity and go-to-market materials are available alongside product design.
- Buyers can assess relevant domain experience, completed projects and client references.
- Collaborations last for years: OnBatch since 2018, Bito and StartProto since 2022.
Domain knowledge
In manufacturing software, a designer has to understand production well enough to ask about rework, partial quantities and traceability before drawing screens. The same holds in compliance, finance and developer software: the record model sets what any screen can show.
| Area | Examples of work |
|---|---|
| Discrete manufacturing ERP and MES | Quoting with AI-assisted data extraction from drawings, a customer portal, scheduling, shop-floor screens, purchasing, dashboards |
| Batch process ERP | Inventory and equipment, batch and vessel management, a warehouse map builder, dashboards, government reporting |
| Warehouse and logistics | A mobile app for cycle counts and locating items by RFID |
| Compliance and regulatory monitoring | Reports, dashboards and AI prompting in a regulatory product |
| Developer software | Bito’s AI developer platform since 2022: in-IDE collaboration, AI chat, the AI Code Review Agent, the web platform and analytics; legacy code analysis |
The same people stay involved from the first call through the project. Clients talk to the designers doing the work, so product context is not lost in handoffs between account managers.
Engineers as part of the design work
Technical constraints are reviewed with the client’s developers before design starts. Developers see the design early and can question it, and after implementation Redbrix reviews the built screens against the design.
Product, brand and sales materials from one team
One team working on product, brand and sales materials keeps them consistent with each other. For StartProto, the same partnership covers product design, a design system and a rebrand.
Evidence buyers can assess
Review relevant project work, the team’s role in it and client references. Long-running partnerships demonstrate continuity; individual client reviews provide evidence about why a client values the relationship.