Human Made

Human Made is an enterprise WordPress agency. It was founded in 2010 in Matlock, in the United Kingdom, by Joe Hoyle and Tom Willmot together with Noel Tock, and it has been remote-first and distributed since the beginning. Today its team works from delivery hubs across Europe, Asia and the Americas, and the company trades through Human Made Limited in the UK, Human Made Inc. in the United States and Human Made Pty Ltd in Australia.

The agency builds and maintains large, business-critical websites and publishing platforms on WordPress. Several of the WordPress project's best-known contributors work there, including Mike Little, a co-founder of WordPress, and Ryan McCue, who created the WordPress REST API. The company is also the team behind Altis, an enterprise WordPress hosting and digital experience platform.

Key features

• Enterprise WordPress development. Platform rebuilds, redesigned websites, new functionality and centralised multi-site platforms built to scale.
• Migrations to WordPress. Moves from Adobe Experience Manager, Drupal, Sitecore and proprietary or legacy systems, with attention to content, URLs and search rankings.
• Retainers. Ongoing maintenance and continuous improvement for platforms that need to stay secure and keep evolving.
• Audits. Reviews of performance, reliability, security and accessibility that end in prioritised recommendations.
• Staff augmentation. WordPress engineers embedded in a client's own team, short or long term, with access to the agency's security, infrastructure and editorial specialists.
• Open source and public handbooks. Projects such as Cavalcade, a background job runner, and Tachyon, an image service, plus public Employee and Engineering handbooks.
• Assurance. Human Made is a WordPress VIP Premier Agency Partner and states that it is SOC 2 Type II certified.

Who it is for

Human Made suits organisations where the website is large, complex and central to the business: publishers and media groups, financial services firms, universities, technology companies and other enterprises with many editors, high traffic and international audiences. Teams planning to leave a proprietary CMS for WordPress are a core audience. A small business with a simple site will usually be better served by a smaller studio.

Pricing at a glance

Human Made does not publish rates. After an initial conversation it proposes an approach with an indicative investment range, and its site notes that enterprise engagements often begin with a discovery or audit phase before build work. Retainers and staff augmentation are offered for ongoing needs. Prices as checked on 10 October 2026; confirm on the vendor's pricing page.

Things to consider

• WordPress only. The agency's depth is entirely in WordPress; compare other specialists if you have not chosen a platform yet.
• Enterprise orientation. Processes, security controls and budgets are set for large organisations.
• Hosting choices. It partners with hosts including WordPress VIP, Pantheon and Kinsta as well as its own Altis platform; ask how a host is recommended for you.
• Remote delivery. Confirm which hub will staff your work and the hours of overlap with your team.

Getting started

1. Read the about page and the service pages for development, migrations, retainers, audits and staff augmentation.
2. Browse the agency's open-source work on GitHub.
3. Write a short brief covering your organisation, current platform and goals.
4. Send it through the contact form and ask whether a discovery or audit phase makes sense.