Kayo Digital

Codegarden by day. Awards dinner by night. 🍻🏆

Last night was all about celebrating the people, projects, and community that make Umbraco what it is. A fantastic evening, great company, and plenty of stories shared around the table. 🤩

Right back to it, Justin and Richard are back and ready for another day of all things Codegarden day 2. 💪☕

A huge congratulations to everyone who took part in the Russet Runners 10K in Marden on 31st May! 👏🏃

As proud sponsors of this year's event, it was great to see so many runners crossing the finish line and collecting their certificates from our Managing Director, Richard, who also laced up his running shoes and took part on the day! 👟

Here are a few photos from the presentations 📸

Well done to all the runners, volunteers and organisers for making it another fantastic community event. 💪🏅

We recently helped Parson's Nose turn a disconnected loyalty scheme into something customers actually love, and the results speak for themselves. 🥩

By connecting their in-store and online experience into one seamless journey, purchases jumped by a whopping 396%.

We've broken down exactly how (and why) it worked in our latest article. Worth a read if you're sitting on a loyalty scheme that isn't quite delivering. 👇

https://kayo.digital/kayo-how/what-happens-when-loyalty-actually-works-hint-plus396-purchases/

You heard it here first. We’re looking for the world’s worst website user (well… not really) to prove that we can make any website accessible, even for the worst of us!

So, if you:

🟢 Get impatient when websites take too long to load
🟢Can never find the information you’re looking for
🟢Fill in contact forms with random information just to get through them faster
🟢 Shout “Where am I supposed to click?” at your screen
🟢 Ignore cookie banners and hope for the best

…like everyone does!

Apply for the role and your business will automatically be entered for a chance to receive:

✔ A CRO + UX audit
✔ 3 hours working directly with our team
✔ Actionable insights into how real users experience your website
✔ Recommendations to improve conversions, usability, accessibility, and engagement

Ps - feel free to add your own recommendations of what makes the worst website user in the comments below

https://kayo.digital/kayo-how/the-search-for-the-world-s-worst-website-user/

Yesterday we held our first AI Hackathon with the team! 🤖💻

The brief was simple: Spend the day exploring how AI could make your role faster, easier, or more effective by applying it to a real, everyday task. 🤔💭

The results were impressive. In just one day the team created:

🔹 A wireframed website generated through AI-assisted workflows
🔹 A real-time hosting analysis dashboard
🔹 Magento error log analysis to speed up issue diagnosis
🔹 AI agents to support everyday workloads
🔹 Automated transcripts and summary emails
🔹 And several other experiments we’re excited to keep developing!

It was a great reminder that the real value of AI isn’t theory, it’s embedding it into real workflows to create meaningful productivity gains.💪

A huge effort from the whole team. Looking forward to building on these ideas and seeing where this takes us next. 🤩👏

Last week we brought a small group together for the Healthcare Leaders Kaizen Club to explore some of the digital challenges trusts are currently facing, and the discussion didn’t disappoint! 🗣️🤝

In fact, a few themes stood out:

🤖 AI-powered information access
🔎 Smarter ways to search and navigate documents
♿ A growing shift toward task-based accessibility

It’s always valuable to hear how different trusts are approaching similar challenges and sharing what’s working across their organisations. 💭

Thanks to everyone who joined and contributed to the conversation so openly! 🙏

If you'd like an invite to the next session, or want to share what your trust is seeing, don't hesitate to get in touch with us!☺️

💬 What digital challenges are you currently seeing across your organisation? We might be able to help! 👇

We’re proud to be sponsoring UMBRAAD 2026 🎉

UMBRAAD is a free, virtual event dedicated to accessibility, inclusion, and digital best practices within the Umbraco community. It’s a great opportunity to learn from experts, share ideas, and explore how we can build more inclusive digital experiences. 🧠💬💻

If you work with Umbraco, care about accessibility, or simply want to create better digital products, this event is well worth your time.

👉 You can sign up here: https://umbraad.com/

Feel free to register and share with anyone who might find it useful. 🤝

UMBRAAD 2026 Join us on May 21th 2026 for Umbraco Accessibility Awareness Day