i-KOS is a millenium baby - founded in 2000 by Myles Davidson as the service arm to findmedical.com, a directory site for the medical and pharmaceutical industry. As Myles recounts "manufacturers and distributors were clamoring to sign up to findmedical - the trouble was most of them didn't have a web presence". In a typical entrepreneurial move what came next was the beginning of i-KOS as it became; as Myles started offering anyone without an online presence a basic site.
One of Myles' potential customers was a small medical device company in Brighton - it was here that he first crossed paths with Richard Jones. Myles' pitch led Richard to the conclusion that while findmedical was a great concept, it would be a massive undertaking to manage by hand. The timing was perfect, and Richard's first step into the freelance world was to create a custom Content Management System (using ASP and SQL) so that listed manufacturers could update their own entry.
In 2001 Richard joined i-KOS as Technical Director and immediately started work on developing a fully-fledged Proprietary CMS (code name: SiteSolved). SiteSolved, an Enterprise Java Platform; J2EE for the technically minded, was developed and marketed by i-KOS from 2002 - 2009 and at its peak was running over 100 corporate websites with an estimated 1000 admin user base.
In 2008 i-KOS ceased the development of SiteSolved in favour of adopting an Open Source CMS; as you will read elsewhere on this site our platform of choice was, and remains, Drupal.
The real 'everyday' story of i-KOS is the building and growth of a team. At the time of writing there are twelve incredible people that make up this team and if you are thinking of hiring us you should really check our their profiles. It is this collection of very talented individuals which make us such a great agency to work with.
