Big-name experience, for businesses of every size
Blue Unicorn Digital is Billy McColl and a small team building websites, apps, CRM systems and AI for businesses across Glasgow and Scotland, from a base in Paisley.
The story so far
Billy McColl has spent years building the systems busy businesses run on. That includes CRM and internal support systems for Selfridges, Harrods, Fortnum & Mason, Itsu, Itsu Grocery, Harvey & Brockless and Traceall Global. The support systems he built for Selfridges, Itsu, Harvey & Brockless and Traceall Global are still in daily use. He was also integral to the team behind the first major rebuild of S1Jobs, Scotland’s iconic job board, in 15 years.
Blue Unicorn Digital brings that experience to everyone else. Most businesses stitch together a web agency, an app developer, an AI consultant and a CRM supplier, and things fall through the cracks. Here, one person understands the whole system, builds it, and is still here after launch.
Why a unicorn?
The unicorn is Scotland’s national animal. And we are based in Paisley, a town whose name went round the world on a pattern. We would like to do the same for good, honest websites.
Where the experience comes from
Selfridges, Harrods, Fortnum & Mason
CRM and internal support systems for three of the UK’s best-known department stores.
Itsu, Itsu Grocery, Harvey & Brockless
CRM and support systems for food and hospitality brands, still in daily use.
S1Jobs
Integral to the team behind the first major rebuild of Scotland’s iconic job board in 15 years.
Traceall Global
Bug-tracking and support systems, still in active use today.
A few things we’re stubborn about
We build it by hand
Every site and system is hand-coded for the job. No templates, no page builders, nothing you will have to fight later.
We talk like people
No jargon and no hard sell. If something is not worth your money, we will say so, even when it costs us the job.
We fix the price first
You know what you are paying before we start. The price we agree is the price on the invoice.
We stick around
The person who builds your project looks after it. You will never be passed to a call centre.
Passing it on
Outside client work, Billy mentors new developers around the world. Derrick met him in the third year of his software engineering degree; he is now a software engineer in Uganda and works on client projects with us.
“I first met Billy when I was still at university, in the third year of my software engineering course, and he truly changed how I viewed everything in software development.”
Find out exactly what it costs.
We reply within 48 hours with one fixed price in writing. No obligation, no sales patter.