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01 /Who we are

This is Onlybees.

A product studio out of Shillong, and the live-events platform we run ourselves.

Shillong, Meghalaya4+ years delivering100+ clients9 in the hive
02 /Origin

It started with a dance.

The name isn’t a joke about bees. A hive isn’t a crowd, it’s a system. Every bee has a job, and the “dance language” is how one of them tells the rest exactly where to go. That’s the whole idea we took: communicate precisely, then build together.

For our first years that meant music and art: branding, artist curation, production, video. The work that gets a night to happen, and gets people to turn up to it. We kept running into the same wall: the software underneath live culture was miserable, and nobody here was building it.

So we started building it. Onlybees is a product studio now: strategy, engineering, growth, data, design systems and gov-tech delivery. And we operate our own live-events platform as the proof. Real money, real crowds, our name on it.

The mission hasn’t changed, only the tools: Building Effective Engagement Strategies. Join us in the hive.

Artwork by Peter Warjri
Artwork by Peter Warjri, lead graphic designer
03 /What we do

Six disciplines. One team.

The old services list has moved on. This is the work now.

01Product strategy

What to build and why, mapped to the number, not the trend.

Discovery
Market sizing & user-needs analysis
Validation
Problem–solution fit, pain-point mapping
Framing
PRDs & feature prioritisation
Roadmapping
Phased capability rollout
Execution
North-star metrics & KPI definition
02Product build

Shipped production software: web, mobile, data, the lot.

Interface
Next.js & React Native: web, mobile, one codebase
Services
Microservices, API-first, event-driven
Data
Scalable databases, queues & caching
Pipeline
CI/CD & infrastructure as code
Runtime
Edge delivery, observability & production release
03Growth engines

Aware → warm → intent → buy, wired into the product itself.

Awareness
Meta Pixel, Google Tags & UTM tracking
Intent
Conversions API & server-side retargeting
Conversion
A/B testing & checkout-flow optimisation
Retention
Automated nurture sequences & PLG
Advocacy
LTV optimisation & referral loops
04Data & insights

Instrumented ops and anomaly flags, with AI only where it earns its place.

Telemetry
Event instrumentation: Mixpanel, PostHog
Aggregation
ETL pipelines & data warehousing
Monitoring
Automated anomaly flags & real-time alerts
Intelligence
Predictive AI & pattern recognition
Action
Operational BI dashboards
05Brand systems

Identity, design systems and product UI that reads as serious.

Tokens
Core colour, typography & spacing variables
Components
Reusable UI component libraries
Interaction
Micro-animation & motion guidelines
Documentation
Storybook & master design specs
Governance
Scale-ready multi-platform consistency
06Gov-tech delivery

Regulated-grade, WCAG-compliant builds for public bodies.

Data privacy
DPDP Act compliance & data localisation
Governance
Data-fiduciary protocols & consent managers
Accessibility
Regulated WCAG 2.1 AAA standards
Security
SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 & immutable logs
Infrastructure
Air-gapped or isolated public cloud

Brand strategy, digital design, video and event management haven’t gone anywhere. They sit inside brand systems and inside the platform we operate, rather than being sold as standalone line items.

04 /In production

Three things we run ourselves.

Not case studies. Products in production, on our own money and our own name.

In-house · Live events
The platform

Ticketing, guest lists, door scanning, invoices, settlements and Analytics HQ. Every event we run goes through it, so every rough edge is ours to hit first.

TicketingAnalytics HQSettlements
In-house · Agentic CRM
Apis

One inbox, every customer, zero missed conversations. WhatsApp and Instagram in one thread per guest, drafted by AI and sent by humans.

Unified inboxAI-drafted repliesPipelines & API
In-house · Delivery
Propolis

The autonomous bug pipeline. Report it once and an AI engineer triages, reproduces and opens the fix on its own, with the evidence attached.

Autonomous agentEvidence-backed PRsVerified in production
05 /How we work

Real conversations, then real software.

Refined over years of building brand after brand, and now product after product.

01
We talk like people.

Honest opinions, unhindered excitement, and no account manager relaying messages between you and whoever is actually building the thing.

02
We use what we sell.

Our own events run on our own platform. We find the bugs at a door on a Friday night with a queue outside, which is a long way before you would.

03
One team, end to end.

Strategy, design, engineering and growth sit together. Nothing gets thrown over a wall, because there is no wall to throw it over.

04
Built to be handed over.

Documented, instrumented and yours. If we vanished tomorrow, your team could keep shipping on Monday.

06 /Proven in the field
4+
Years of trusted delivery
100+
Clients served worldwide
07 /Start something

Less waiting. More making.