News 11 June 2026 3 min read Made in Britain By Old Forge Technologies 86 reads Contents There's a particular kind of company you picture when you hear "Made in Britain": a foundry, a loom, a workshop with swarf on the floor. The mark mostly lives on physical things - plug sockets, bicycle cranks, packing tape, gas meters. As of this month it also lives on this website. Old Forge Technology Limited has been assessed by Made in Britain and accredited as a member, with the badge now sitting in the Imprimatur band on the home page. A software consultancy wearing a maker's mark takes one sentence of explaining, and the sentence is this: software is made. It is designed, written, argued with, tested, and kept running - by someone, somewhere, under some country's laws. For Old Forge the someone is me, the somewhere is a bench in Kennett, Suffolk, and the laws are Britain's. The company is registered here, the work happens here, and the person who answers the email is the person who writes the code. ## Why provenance matters for software Provenance used to be a question you asked about objects. With AI work it has become a question you should ask about everything else: who built this system, where does the data live, whose jurisdiction applies when something goes wrong, how many links sit between you and the hands on the keyboard. Buying from a one-person British consultancy gives that question a short answer. The supply chain is a single bench. There is no offshore delivery team, no subcontracted subcontractor, no mystery about where the thinking gets done. That is not a claim that British-made is automatically better. It is a claim about traceability - the same claim the mark makes on a bicycle crank. You know where it came from, and you know who to hold to account. ## A badge you have to keep earning [Made in Britain](https://madeinbritain.co) reviews its members annually; Old Forge will be assessed again in June 2027 to confirm the criteria are still met. I like accreditations built that way. A mark you can lose is a mark that still means something, which is why this one now sits in the Imprimatur band alongside Cyber Essentials - each of them a third party prepared to put it in writing, on a date, for a scope. The forge in the name was always a workshop claim: things shaped here, by hand, to fit. It's pleasing to have that countersigned.
