I. Small team
Tiny on purpose.
Two founders, a small circle of skilled friends, no growth-hacking and no growth-at-all-costs. The team is sized to the work, not to the next fundraise.
It started
on a narrowboat.
No press release, no incubator, no investor deck. A laptop on a fold-down table, a marina that needed help with its bookings, and a kettle on the stove.
Hamish started Towpath from a boat on the Grand Union Canal. He had a background in software and a year of running the small things that keep a marina afloat: bookings, invoices, the wrong VAT rate, the customer who only ever pays by cheque. The off-the-shelf software was either too clever or too dear, and the spreadsheets were quietly losing money every Saturday.
So he wrote the bit he needed first, then the next bit, then the one after that. Other operators around the network asked if they could use it. Then operators in different lines of work asked the same question with different words. Towpath Digital is the small UK company that grew out of that pattern, a constellation of practical products that share one brand, one ethos, and one promise: cheap to start, polished to ship, and built to run with as little manual effort as possible.
We are still small. We are still in the UK. We are still on the water more days than not. We intend to stay that way.