I've spent 15 years creating experiences for people.
I'm Gareth Evans, and Acodi is my studio. I design and build the apps, websites, marketing and automation that solve real problems for businesses, and you work directly with me.
I didn't know which skill I was honing.
For 15 years I taught guitar online and grew a YouTube channel to more than 770,000 subscribers. Every lesson was an experience I was designing: what someone needs to see, in what order, so that something hard feels simple and they want to come back tomorrow.
Running that business meant building everything around it myself: a members' practice app, payments, member emails, and automation that posts to social media on its own. That's when I realised what I'd been honing all along. It was never just guitar. It was understanding what people need, making complicated things simple, and making them a pleasure to use. And it transfers to anything.
It isn't good enough for something to just work. It has to be usable, intuitive and a pleasure to use: you get exactly what you expected going in, and it's easy. That's true of my lessons and of everything I build, from apps for schools and education companies to systems for sports clubs, consultancies and charities.
What working with me is like
Personal
You talk to me, the person doing the work. No account managers, no hand-offs.
Accommodating
I fit around how your business already works, not the other way round.
In it for the long run
I look after what I build, long after launch.
Let's talk about what you need.
A quick chat costs nothing. I'll tell you honestly what I'd build and what it would cost.