Enterprise-grade work, applied to purpose-driven problems.
Enjoy Development is a research-led technology partner for organisations trying to change something. Insight, strategy, software and measurement, in one team.
Founded in 2022. Built on 30 years of senior product and engineering work, intentionally redirected to mission-led organisations after a decade in enterprise field operations.
Paul King.
Founder & CEO
30 years across enterprise software, mobile platforms, e-commerce and SaaS. Two prior companies built and shipped to national-scale clients. Now deploying that experience inside the social sector.
I've spent thirty years building software at scale: first as an engineer, then as an architect, then running product and engineering teams. Two of those years were inside a Microsoft partnership shipping the UK's first mobile data-capture platform for field marketing. In 2003 I founded Teamhaven and spent the next four years building and shipping the first SaaS platform for field marketing, taking it to blue-chip clients at national scale. Most recently, I ran technology strategy at Fieldology, inside the UK's largest independent field marketing agency.
In 2020 I started looking sideways. The third sector was running on tools a generation behind the commercial market. Charities, foundations and public bodies were being asked to deliver more with less, and the technology supporting them hadn't kept up. Enjoy Development is what I built in response.
I work with a small core team I've hand-picked over years: highly skilled, deeply passionate, ruthlessly efficient. Researchers, strategists, designers and engineers who care as much about the outcome as I do. Small enough to stay accountable, senior enough to ship.
“The best technology disappears into the lives it improves. Listen first. Build the right thing.”
Four principles. Visible on every engagement.
Not values on a wall. The actual decisions that shape how we scope, staff, price and ship every project.
- 01
Purpose-led.
We choose engagements by the outcome they're trying to create, and we keep that outcome on the table every week the project runs. Purpose is the filter, not a slogan.
- 02
Research-backed.
Independent, methodologically rigorous, mixed-methods. We follow the data, including when it contradicts the brief.
- 03
Strategy-focused.
Decisions before deliverables. Strategy that names trade-offs, not euphemisms. We've sat on both sides of the table: inside charities and foundations, and inside high-growth product teams.
- 04
Accountable.
We design, ship and run the thing. Not as advisers handing it off, but as the team accountable for whether it works.
Thirty years of work, redirected.
1998
First mobile data capture platform in field marketing, built in partnership with Microsoft.
2003
Founded Teamhaven. Built and shipped the first SaaS platform for field marketing over four years, serving blue-chip clients at national scale.
2010s
Led technology strategy at Fieldology, inside the UK's largest independent field marketing agency. Blue-chip clients, national-scale systems.
2020
Pivoted to the social-impact sector after seeing how thin the technology bench was inside organisations doing the most important work.
2022
Founded Enjoy Development to bring enterprise-grade research, strategy and engineering to mission-led organisations.
2024
Launched Impactful, our own product: a volunteering platform for young people, built end to end in-house.
- Registered as
- Enjoy Development Ltd
Company number 11274660 - Registered office
- Vicarage Court, 160 Ermin Street
Swindon, England, SN3 4NE - Get in touch
- Send us a brief →
Memberships
Member of Tech for Good South West, the regional community of technology companies building for social impact.
Got a brief that needs more than a vendor?
Three fields. A short, considered reply within one working day. From someone who has read what you wrote.