A transport and booking platform for moving horses, built with React, React Native and Django REST Framework. Owners book a journey within a city or between them, and the system matches it to operators equipped for live animal transport. It is a booking product whose cargo makes almost every ordinary assumption wrong.
Selected clients · 2008 – today
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The problem
The challenge.
Transport was arranged through personal networks and phone calls, so an owner's options were limited to the operators they happened to know.
The cargo is a live animal, so operator suitability is a hard constraint — vehicle type, ventilation, journey duration limits and handling experience — not a preference to sort on.
Journeys vary enormously in shape, from a short local move to a long multi-stage route, and a booking model built around one of those handles the other badly.
Owners are anxious in a way that ordinary logistics customers are not, so visibility during the journey matters as much as the booking itself.
The plan
Our approach.
01Modelled operator capability as structured attributes in Django REST Framework rather than free text, so matching a journey to a suitable operator is a query the system can answer instead of a judgement the owner has to make.
02Made journey duration and route a first-class part of the booking, because welfare requirements for live transport depend on time and distance rather than on price or convenience.
03Built the owner-facing app in React Native and the operator side in React, matching how each actually works — owners on a phone, operators managing a schedule at a desk.
04Treated the journey rather than the transaction as the object the interface is organised around, so status during transit is the default view instead of something to go looking for.
05Kept booking amendments and cancellations inside the system, since plans around animal movement change frequently and pushing that back to phone calls would have recreated the original problem.
The result
The outcome.
Owners reach operators beyond their existing personal network.
Operator suitability is matched on structured capability rather than assumed.
Short local moves and long multi-stage journeys are handled by the same booking model.
Journey visibility is the default view, which is what owners actually want from the product.
Most clients renew for a second engagement. The ones who don't usually hire someone from our team to run the project in-house.
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We are a mental health charity and not tech-minded. We needed to improve our patient registration system but wanted a company that we can relate to. Hassan took the time to meet with me and patiently went through our process to find a personalised solution for us. Hassan's team did a great job streamlining our process and connected our registration system to our patient management software. Whenever we have a glitch, they resolve this quickly. Enigmatix Global provides a personal and efficient service and we have adopted them to be our IT provider.
Tien Kuei
CEO · Power to Live Foundation
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I am writing to wholeheartedly recommend Enigmatix Global as a premier bespoke software development agency. Our journey with them has been nothing short of exemplary, far exceeding our initial expectations. While many agencies can develop based on strict specifications, Enigmatix Global demonstrated an incredible commitment to our project that was truly unparalleled.
Robert McPherson
Managing Director · RBM Global Ltd
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Dragonfly has been working with the team at Enigmatix Global for several years now on building out our web-based platform and APIs. One of their strengths is quickly building out a multi-disciplinary team to work on the development and delivery of features with different technical requirements. Their support has allowed us to accelerate our development work without building an internal team. They have also worked seamlessly with other third parties both during the acquisition of Dragonfly and development of our mobile app. Enigmatix Global has been instrumental in bringing our ideas to life and providing guidance to help us make the best technical decisions. I would recommend getting in touch with them if you're looking for support.
Rebecca Palser
COO · Dragonfly
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Hassan and the Enigmatix Global team have been indispensable partners as we rebuilt our client-facing applications into a single platform. As well as being exceptional technically, they consistently invest the time to understand the product and suggest how it can be enhanced and improved.
David Claridge
CEO · Dragonfly
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Enigmatix Global did some great work for Sainsbury's, bridging complex interactions between some older less flexible systems, some rigid vendor solutions and the new systems we were building. The software Enigmatix Global developers wrote stood up well, long beyond the interim scope of it needing to work for 12 to 18 months, and was still in active use 5 years after its creation, since it was part of mission-critical systems.
Fraser Pearce
Senior Engineering Manager · Sainsbury's
Frequently asked
Common questions, answered.
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We've been building software since 2008. Eighteen years of delivery across finance, healthcare, retail, logistics, energy, the public sector, and beyond. We're a consultancy, not a body-shop, and we've kept the same engineering discipline across every engagement shape.
Our head office is in Rochdale, United Kingdom — that is where contracts, commercial, and programme governance sit. Around it: Riyadh and Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, Manama in Bahrain, and engineering and operations centres in Lahore and Bahawalpur, Pakistan. Delivery is global, with teams shaped around your time zone and regulatory footprint, not ours.
We offer three engagement models. (1) Dedicated engineering teams: a cross-functional pod working long-running on your product, staffed in 72 hours. (2) Offshore development centre: a branded engineering function inside your company, operational in four weeks. (3) Staff augmentation: vetted senior engineers embedded in your existing team, on the keyboard within 72 hours.
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