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PressExperience designClient work

Relaunching Thrive, Growthpoint's student living brand

Touchfoundry is partnering with Growthpoint to relaunch Thrive, its student living brand - rebuilding the digital experience behind it around how students actually go about finding a place to live.

Cleoné van HelsdingenSenior Digital Marketing Manager5 min read27 Aug 2026

PressDeliveryEnterprise scaleClient work

The technology behind Takealot's Personal Shopper programme

Takealot's Personal Shopper network runs on a purpose-built app and dashboard - a two-product platform Touchfoundry designed, built and now runs, on a fixed budget and timeline.

Fabio LonganoCEO7 min read13 Aug 2026

ArticleEngineeringEnterprise scaleClient work

Enterprise systems need enterprise standards

Building a platform whose users' income depends on it being right, inside a security bar set by another company. What integrating with Takealot's systems constrained, and why the business layer got no interface at all.

Luke JohnstoneLead Systems Architect8 min read6 Aug 2026

ArticleProduct strategyFrameworksMeasurement

Impact = value / effort - calculating and measuring what matters

The cheapest way to lose a roadmap is to rank it by opinion. The formula we use to score what to build next, how we put numbers on both halves of it, and what it changes about the argument.

Gareth HayhowSenior Solutions Manager6 min read1 Aug 2026

ArticleExperience designDigital transformationStudio life

Our new site asks who you are before it says a word

Digital has matured past one-size-fits-all, and generic is now the expensive option. Our relaunched site makes the argument in public: it asks who you are, then reshapes itself around the answer.

Cleoné van HelsdingenSenior Digital Marketing Manager6 min read29 Jul 2026

ArticleStudio life

tf Labs 002: anything goes

The second tf Labs took the brief off entirely: build whatever you like, have it working by the end of the day, and sell it to the room in three minutes.

Melissa SmitHead of People and Operations5 min read3 Jul 2026