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Two heads in Taivassalo, thinking through small businesses the long way.

An agency built around three ideas: you should own your platform, accessibility is the floor not the ceiling, and good work doesn't have to take six months.

Douglas Locklin

Founder, The Long Way

Twenty years of building software, the last decade focused on the web. The Long Way exists because too many small businesses get steered into platforms that own them instead of the other way around.

How we work

Test-driven from the start. Open-source where we can. Honest about what's hard and what isn't. Every line of code is documented because the next person to touch it should understand why.

See the work we have shipped on the portfolio, or read our resources to see how we think about the things every prospective client asks about.

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