About the studio · since 2013
A small studio.
A long list of years.
Robert Pakszys, founder and lead engineer, answers for every project. He reads every enquiry and writes the reply himself. Developers join when the work needs them, and the larger projects have a team of their own.
The story
It started with a refused raise.
After university Robert built WordPress sites for a salary and asked for a raise. The answer was no: how would that look to the other employees. The work itself was full of things that could be automated or done better, and nobody was interested in either. So he went on his own: two years under the INFIGO name inside an academic business incubator, then, on 8 August 2013, a company of his own in Gdańsk.
Computers were less a career choice than the family trade. His parents met at computer-science studies, and his father was teaching him to program while he was still in primary school.
What INFIGO has sold since then is the thing that was missing in that office, and in most services we have bought ourselves: someone who names a date and keeps it, then answers for the quality. In practice that is a written scope, a date we keep, and a site that is still running in year five.
Thirteen years. Forty-one case studies. A site from 2014 still running as written.
How we work
House rules.
Some of these are taste. Most we have tested for years on sites we maintain ourselves. If one of them does not suit you, it is better to find out before we start.
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No page builders.
Elementor, Divi and WPBakery make a fast start, and two or three years later the site cannot be changed without a rebuild. We write the theme for your design, slower at the start and in service for years.
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A short plugin list.
Forty plugins mean forty separate updates and forty chances of a conflict. We keep about eight we trust and write the rest ourselves.
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Scope in writing first.
We do not start with a series of paid workshops. You send what you have and get an answer within a week. If it is a yes, a written scope with a fixed price follows, usually within another week.
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The same people after launch.
The people who build a site or an application are the people who maintain it. You write to one address, and the answer comes from someone who knows the code.
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05
No surprise rebuilds.
When something the site runs on is nearing the end of its support, we tell you well in advance. The migration then has a scope, a price and a date instead of being an emergency.
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06
You pay for hours worked.
Fixes and changes are billed by the hour. A month with nothing to do is a month without an invoice. Larger jobs are quoted up front.
The logbook
Since 2011, selected entries.
A few of the projects, in order. Most are still online, and several have been in our care since the day they launched.
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2011
First invoices, through an incubator.
Two Norwegian hotel sites and one for a dog school, billed under the INFIGO name through an academic business incubator. The client on that first invoice, Semway, is still on the books.
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2013
Registered in Gdańsk on 8 August.
After two years in the incubator, a company of its own. Norway had been part of the work since the first invoice, and the Semway site itself was built the year before.
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2014
Aseke, still running today.
A bilingual industrial catalogue from before the WordPress years, built on CMS Made Simple. The company still updates it itself, twelve years later.
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2015
La Danse goes online.
A WooCommerce store for an Oslo dancewear boutique. Trading ever since on the same codebase, maintained by the people who built it.
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2016
Jølstad's funeral planner.
A guided planning application for Norway's largest funeral bureau, where families choose from hundreds of products. Six years later the same group got a whole platform of sites, maintained by INFIGO to this day.
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2018
Agrosec, designed and built.
A complete site for a Polish grain-drying supplier, one of the few projects where INFIGO did the design as well as the build.
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2023
Xcruiter taken over.
A recruitment platform taken over from another developer. We rebuilt the foundations that needed it and have added features ever since. The biggest project on the books today.
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2024
Sverdrup Steel, six languages.
A multilingual B2B catalogue with its own steel calculators, on one custom theme and a short plugin list.
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2026
Year thirteen.
This site in two languages, and the same rules applied to our own products: GoFirmo, a monitoring app, is in development, and GoAuditor audits sites from the command line.
Selected clients