# insidethebox

_We design, build and deploy software for you. All inside the box._

> insidethebox is a digital product agency building web apps, websites, mobile apps and AI agents, and helping businesses accelerate with AI.

A small senior agency creating and operating digital products and AI agents.

- Source: https://www.insidethebox.dev/
- Email: mail@insidethebox.dev

## Recent projects

- [TODA](https://www.insidethebox.dev/work/toda)
- [ARADA Maritime](https://www.insidethebox.dev/work/arada-maritime)
- [Persona Lingua](https://www.insidethebox.dev/work/persona-lingua)
- [DocuHub](https://www.insidethebox.dev/work/docuhub-invoices-portal)
- [The BioHack Project](https://www.thebiohackproject.com/en)

## What we do

Ten ways we help businesses build, ship and grow.

## Understand AI Core

Coming soon. Six weeks of video lessons on our learning platform, a weekly live class and a final project from your own work, at a table of five. Pick your seat and we'll email you when the class opens.

## Latest notes

## Have something in mind?

[Start a project](https://www.insidethebox.dev/contact)

## Services

- [Application Development](https://www.insidethebox.dev/services/application-development.md): We design and build web applications, portals, dashboards and internal tools that stay fast, secure and easy to change as you grow.
- [Website Development](https://www.insidethebox.dev/services/website-development.md): Marketing sites, content platforms and storefronts built for speed, search and AI discovery, with a CMS built for you.
- [Mobile App Development](https://www.insidethebox.dev/services/mobile-app-development.md): We build iOS and Android apps from one codebase, with the notifications, widgets and Live Activities that make an app worth keeping.
- [Google Ads](https://www.insidethebox.dev/services/google-ads.md): We plan, build and run Google Ads across Search, Shopping, YouTube, Performance & AI Max, with the product feeds, landing pages and tracking behind them.
- [Meta Ads](https://www.insidethebox.dev/services/meta-ads.md): We plan, build and run Meta ad campaigns across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp, with your own creatives, landing pages and tracking behind them.
- [TikTok Ads](https://www.insidethebox.dev/services/tiktok-ads.md): We plan, make and run TikTok ad campaigns that perform, with tested creatives and measurable outcomes.
- [ChatGPT Ads](https://www.insidethebox.dev/services/chatgpt-ads.md): We plan, launch and optimise OpenAI Ads campaigns, and build the landing pages and conversion tracking that make them pay.
- [Business Consulting](https://www.insidethebox.dev/services/business-consulting.md): Product, technology and operations advice that turns a vague ambition into a costed, sequenced plan measured so that your team can execute. In an unprecedented era of digital transformation, we can help you catch the wave.
- [AI Acceleration](https://www.insidethebox.dev/services/ai-acceleration.md): We help teams find the AI use cases worth funding, prove them quickly and roll them out safely across the business.
- [AI Agent Builds](https://www.insidethebox.dev/services/ai-agents.md): We design, build and operate AI agents that finish real work, from qualifying leads to back-office operations, with clear limits on what they do without asking.

## Work

- [A business relations management system for a sales team in Greek shipping](https://www.insidethebox.dev/work/allseeingeye.md): allseeingeye is the business relations management system a sales team uses to take companies from a first contact to a signed agreement. insidethebox designed, built and runs it.
- [A sales platform for a maritime services agency](https://www.insidethebox.dev/work/arada-maritime.md): ARADA Maritime's platform puts every shipping company on a map, turns the people to ring into calling lists, and tracks each request from open to won or lost. insidethebox designed, built and runs it.
- [A skincare brand, from no customers to an offer on Dragons' Den](https://www.insidethebox.dev/work/paradise-found.md): insidethebox built Paradise Found's Shopify store and runs its organic growth and email marketing, from the brand's first day to an offer on Dragons' Den.
- [A personalised-learning platform for language teachers](https://www.insidethebox.dev/work/persona-lingua.md): Persona Lingua helps language teachers match learner personas with material from their school's library, and generates new personalized material when the library falls short.
- [A teleprompter that lives in the Mac's notch and fills the iPhone](https://www.insidethebox.dev/work/teleprompter-island.md): Teleprompter Island is a teleprompter for macOS and iOS, designed and built by insidethebox. On a MacBook the script scrolls in a black island around the notch, right under the camera, and stays out of screen sharing and recordings. On the iPhone the island becomes the whole screen.
- [A shop for an art brand, and the back office that runs it](https://www.insidethebox.dev/work/toda.md): TODA sells clothing and objects made with Greek artists in limited drops. insidethebox designed and built etoda.gr and its back office, from the product page to the shipping label.
- [An invoice portal for Greek businesses, built on myDATA](https://www.insidethebox.dev/work/docuhub-invoices-portal.md): DocuHub's Invoices Portal syncs supplier invoices from AADE myDATA and lets staff review AI-read uploads. insidethebox built the front end.

## Insights

- [What it takes to run AI agents in production](https://www.insidethebox.dev/insights/ai-agents-in-production.md): A practical guide to running AI agents in 2026, from scoping one workflow, tools and MCP to approvals, security, evals, operations and the rules for agents that talk to people.
- [Beyond the app icon: notifications, widgets, Live Activities and watch apps](https://www.insidethebox.dev/insights/beyond-the-app-icon.md): A practical guide to what an app does outside its own screens in 2026, on iOS and Android, from notifications and widgets to Live Activities and watch apps.
- [Build, buy or extend: how to decide](https://www.insidethebox.dev/insights/build-buy-or-extend.md): How to choose between building custom software, buying a product or extending what you have, from total cost over three to five years to hidden costs, lock-in, risk and a decision matrix.
- [What it takes to build a web application in 2026](https://www.insidethebox.dev/insights/building-a-web-application.md): A practical guide to building a business web application in 2026, covering scope, architecture, security, accessibility, testing and delivery, running it in production, and cost.
- [From AI pilots to real gains](https://www.insidethebox.dev/insights/from-ai-pilots-to-real-gains.md): A practical playbook for getting measurable value from AI in 2026, covering use cases, redesigned work, honest pilots, quality gates, governance and training.
- [How Google Ads works in 2026: a practical guide](https://www.insidethebox.dev/insights/how-google-ads-works.md): A practical guide to Google Ads in 2026, covering campaign types, where ads show, the auction and Ad Rank, Smart Bidding and AI Max, Performance Max and measurement.
- [How Meta ads work: formats, placements and the auction](https://www.insidethebox.dev/insights/how-meta-ads-work.md): A practical guide to Meta ads in 2026, covering the four ad formats and their specs, where ads run, how the auction picks a winner and how to measure results.
- [How TikTok ads work: formats, creative, Smart+, Shop and measurement](https://www.insidethebox.dev/insights/how-tiktok-ads-work.md): How TikTok advertising works in 2026, from In-Feed and Spark Ads to creative for the For You feed, Smart+, TikTok Shop, bidding, a performance playbook and measurement.
- [Shipping mobile apps faster without cutting corners](https://www.insidethebox.dev/insights/shipping-mobile-apps-faster.md): How we keep mobile projects moving — early prototypes, shared foundations and a release pipeline that makes store day boring.
- [Why your website still matters in the age of AI search](https://www.insidethebox.dev/insights/websites-still-matter-for-ai-search.md): AI assistants answer from pages they can fetch and understand. What they read, what helps, what doesn't, and how to measure it.
- [What are ChatGPT ads? A practical guide for 2026](https://www.insidethebox.dev/insights/what-are-chatgpt-ads.md): ChatGPT now shows sponsored placements matched to the conversation. How they work, what they cost, what advertisers see and how to prepare your site.