About StacksMind
A decade of software.
Now an AI studio.
StacksMind is a UK-focused AI studio built on ten years of shipping real software — 1,500+ projects for 500+ clients worldwide. Today, everything we build is AI-native.
Our Story
From software house to AI-native studio.
StacksMind began as a full-service software house — ten years designing, building and supporting systems for clients in the UK and worldwide. E-commerce platforms, business applications, integrations: the unglamorous, essential software that companies run on.
Then AI changed what software could do. We didn't bolt a chatbot onto the old service list and call it a transformation — we rebuilt our delivery around LLMs, agents and automation, and retrained the way we scope, build and support every project.
This studio is the result. UK-focused and Birmingham-based, we bring a decade of delivery discipline to AI work: honest scoping, production-grade engineering, and systems that quietly get the work done.
The Journey
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Founded as a full-service software house.
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1,500+ projects shipped for 500+ clients worldwide.
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The AI pivot — delivery rebuilt around LLMs, agents and automation.
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Today: StacksMind, the UK-focused AI-native studio.
How We Think
Principles we build by.
Three commitments that shape every engagement — from first call to production support.
Systems over hype
No demos that impress for a day and die in a drawer. We ship production systems your team actually relies on — and we support them after launch.
Proof over promises
Every engagement is scoped around measurable outcomes. If we can't define what success looks like in numbers, we won't ask you to pay for it.
Your data, your rules
NDAs signed before details are shared, UK GDPR respected by design, and your data never used to train anything without your say-so.
The Team
The people leading StacksMind.
A leadership team you'll actually talk to — backed by the wider StacksMind delivery team.
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James Whitfield
Founder and CEO
Two decades in software, the last ten building StacksMind — and now leading its shift into an AI-first studio. He still reads every proposal before it goes out, and the free consultation calls are usually with him.
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Sarah Okafor
Head of AI Engineering
Leads the agent, LLM and automation builds.
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Daniel Hayes
Head of Delivery
Keeps every project scoped, staffed and on time.
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Priya Sharma
Lead AI Consultant
Turns business problems into buildable AI roadmaps.
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Tom Reid
Head of Client Success
Your point of contact after launch.
Built With
The stack we build on.
Production AI runs on the right tools — these are the ones we reach for every day.
Claude
Frontier LLMs for reasoning, agents and long-context work.
OpenAI
GPT models for generation, embeddings and vision tasks.
LangChain
The orchestration layer behind our RAG pipelines.
LangGraph
Stateful graphs for complex multi-agent workflows.
CrewAI
Role-based agent teams for multi-step operations.
n8n
Workflow automation that glues systems together.
AWS
Cloud infrastructure our deployments run and scale on.
Client Proof
In our clients' words.
StacksMind was able to work with me to meet a very short deadline due to crucial files being deleted and requiring recreation right before a launch date. They did this with mininal direction based on our prior working relationship and produced the exact outcome right on time.
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Amanda Hunter
Upwork Client
Always a pleasure to work with StacksMind. I had an expedited job i needed completed in a couple of hours... on a Saturday evening. StacksMind jumped on it immediately and did a fantastic job. Communication is always excellent, his knowledge of WordPress and hosting issues is amazing, and They always exceeds expectations. Thanks StacksMind!!
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Willi Walther
Upwork Client
StacksMind completed the job in time, I am extremely impressed with his committment to his work. On top of job assigned to him StacksMind also gives valueable advise which has really helped me in taking critical decisions. Over all it was a wonderful experience working with StacksMind
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Imran Qamar
Upwork Client
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