Human Made was founded in 2010 by Tom Willmot and Joe Hoyle, after a few years of working independently as freelancer web developers building WordPress projects for small clients.

Eventually, Tom was hired by a large US based organisation that had purchased a number of sites and wanted to build niche WordPress powered social networks. Joe soon joined him and here they gained experience working with clients and building sites that eventually grew in scale.

When they left the company with an impressive portfolio, they continued freelancing but with increasing workloads and more clients, they soon realised they could combine their skills and take on different aspects of the business. Tom took on the business operations as CEO, and Joe took over the engineering department as our CTO.

Fast forward to 2014, and Noel Tock completed the trio as a partner with a new Product team, managing projects such as Happytables, Nomadbase, and BackUpWordPress. In 2019, we launched Altis, our WordPress-based digital experience platform.

Today, we’re a team of 100+ people based in five continents working with clients across the globe. And we’re one of the leading providers of WordPress platforms and solutions for enterprise.