Cogapp

Cogapp works with museums, galleries, libraries and archives across the UK, US, Europe and Asia, building digital experiences for institutions such as the British Library, MoMA, the National Portrait Gallery, The National Archives (UK), Qatar National Library, the Natural History Museum of Denmark and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The agency has been working in the cultural sector for more than 40 years, focusing on organizations that need their collections and services to reach audiences online.

The agency's process moves through five linked activities: digital strategy, user experience, design, technology and agile project management and delivery. An in-house team handles the work directly rather than outsourcing it, and the agency describes itself as technology agnostic, with experience spanning a range of content management systems and frameworks depending on what a given institution already runs. Certified Scrum Masters support the multi-disciplinary teams, and Cogapp brings in third-party specialists where additional expertise is needed on a project.

Cogapp points to more than 30 awards for its work and describes decades of experience delivering technical solutions built to last, rather than short-term fixes. Its Agile methodology is positioned around delivering projects on time and within budget, a discipline suited to the long-running, multi-stakeholder nature of museum, library and archive projects. The combination of a stable in-house team and a sector focus of four decades gives the agency continuity across the strategy, design and technology work it takes on for cultural institutions.