Est. 2009 · Edinburgh · A design-led holding group
Built on design.
A quiet parent to ventures across studio, software and space — each one built the same way: carefully, and design-first.
Roughton is a holding group with a designer’s temperament. We start companies, back founders and shape rooms — but the through-line is always the same: design as the first decision, not the last. Fewer things, made properly.
Four concerns, one temperament
01 — Ethos01
Spaces
Place, property, and the potential of a room.
02
Interiors
Hospitality design — every great room starts here.
03
Brands
Identity, and the tools that serve them.
04
Digital
Software, built quietly and precisely.
02 — The portfolio
Six ventures.
Six ventures.
One group.
02 / 06Digital
Vade
The sourcing library every interior studio wishes it kept. Save any vendor or product URL; find it later by colour, category or instinct.
03 / 06Digital
Foldout
Six live widgets for restaurant and venue websites. One edit in the dashboard; correct on every page within a minute.
04 / 06Digital
Vinting
AI listing generator for Vinted, eBay and Gumtree. Photos in, complete listings out — titles, descriptions and prices from live UK market data.
05 / 06Digital
Thermomaker
Any recipe, Thermomix-ready. Paste a link, snap a photo or drop a PDF — rebuilt as Guided Cooking steps and pushed to your Cookidoo account.
06 / 06Digital
Astrocanvas
A visual editor for Astro websites that writes back to source. Click any text, edit in place, and the change lands in your real .astro file.
2009
Established
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Live ventures
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Disciplines
Edin.
One city
How we operate
03 — ApproachWe keep the group small on purpose. Every venture is designed, shipped and looked after by the same hands — so taste, tooling and standards carry across all of it.
01
Design first
The look, the words and the logic are decided together, at the start — never bolted on at the end.
02
Own the stack
We build our own software so the studio moves faster and clients get tools nobody else has.
03
Restraint
Fewer projects, fewer features, fewer words. What's left is what mattered.
04
Made to last
Rooms, brands and products built to still look right in ten years.