About Human Made

Human Made is an enterprise WordPress agency that builds and maintains large-scale websites and platforms for global organisations. Founded in 2010 and remote-first from the start, the team of 70+ specialists works with publishers, financial services, higher education, technology companies and other enterprises running big, complex, business-critical websites on WordPress. Human Made is a WordPress VIP Gold Agency Partner and is SOC 2 Type II certified.

Human Made was founded in 2010 in Matlock, in the United Kingdom, and has been remote-first and distributed since the beginning. The registered office is 81 Dale Road, Matlock DE4 3LU, UK, and the team works across Europe, Asia and the Americas. The company operates through three legal entities: Human Made Limited (UK), Human Made Inc. (USA), and Human Made Pty Ltd (Australia).

No; they are unrelated. Human Made (humanmade.com) is a WordPress development agency for enterprises; HUMAN MADE is a separate Japanese fashion label. If you’re looking for enterprise WordPress development, migrations or support, this is the right Human Made.

Human Made designs, builds and maintains enterprise WordPress websites and platforms. Its core services are WordPress development (platforms, websites and tools at scale), migrations to WordPress from systems such as Adobe Experience Manager, Drupal and Sitecore, staff augmentation (embedding enterprise WordPress specialists into a client’s team), ongoing retainers for continuous improvement and maintenance, and security, accessibility and performance audits.

Human Made works with global enterprises and well-known publishers, including Standard Chartered, Harvard University’s Harvard Gazette, Skyscanner, TechCrunch, Siemens and Capgemini. For Standard Chartered, Human Made migrated the bank onto WordPress and now supports a platform serving around 350 million page views a year across 29 markets, used by more than 1,500 editors.

Human Made focuses on sectors where websites are large, complex and central to the business: enterprise organisations, digital publishers and media, technology companies, higher education, and financial services. These are typically organisations with many editors, high traffic, international audiences and sophisticated use cases — the situations where WordPress at enterprise scale needs genuine specialists.

Human Made was co-founded by Joe Hoyle and Tom Willmot, along with Noel Tock, and the team includes several of the WordPress project’s best-known contributors: Mike Little (co-founder of WordPress itself), Ryan McCue (creator of the WordPress REST API), John Blackbourn (a WordPress Security Team lead) and Joeleen Kennedy (a usability and accessibility advocate). This depth of core-contributor expertise is a large part of why enterprises trust Human Made with business-critical WordPress work.

Yes. Human Made is a WordPress VIP Gold Agency Partner — VIP’s highest partner tier — and is SOC 2 Type II certified for security and operational controls. The agency also holds a top rating on Clutch. 

The best first step is to get in touch through humanmade.com/contact with a short description of your organisation, your current platform, and what you’re trying to achieve. Human Made will arrange a conversation to understand the requirement, then propose an approach and an indicative investment range. Enterprise engagements often begin with a discovery or audit phase before build.

Altis is an enterprise WordPress hosting and digital experience platform, built by the team behind Human Made and offered as a separate product. Human Made is the agency that designs and builds enterprise WordPress projects; Altis (altis-dxp.com) is the managed platform those projects can run on, with pricing that starts from around $24,000 a year and is based on page views rather than server usage. Many organisations work with Human Made, host on Altis, or both.

Yes; migrating large, complex sites onto WordPress is one of Human Made’s core specialisms, including moves from Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Drupal, Sitecore, proprietary, and SAP-based systems. Migrations are handled with content integrity, editorial continuity and SEO preservation as first-order concerns, which is what large enterprises with years of content and many editors need. Human Made migrated Standard Chartered onto WordPress from a legacy enterprise CMS, and has run similar transformations for organisations including Siemens and Capgemini.

Security and accessibility are treated as core engineering concerns, not add-ons. Human Made is SOC 2 Type II certified, employs a WordPress Security Team lead (John Blackbourn), and offers dedicated security and accessibility audits for large organisations. Accessibility is built into how sites are designed and tested so that enterprise platforms meet the standards their audiences and regulators require.

Human Made is a long-standing, active contributor to WordPress core and its wider ecosystem, employs WordPress core committers, release contributors and a co-founder of WordPress itself, and has created open-source tools used widely across the community — including Cavalcade (background job processing, used by WordPress.org) and Tachyon (image optimisation). This open-source commitment is central to how Human Made works and what it believes in.