From the beginning, Epimorphics has been shaped by a deep belief in the power of data to improve decision-making, support public value, and drive meaningful innovation.
Founded in 2009 by a team with a background in building the foundations of the semantic web at HP Labs, we set out to turn advanced data ideas into practical tools that make a difference. Our early work included helping define key web standards at the W3C and supporting the UK Government in opening up environmental data in reusable, machine-readable formats.
As part of our early growth, we joined SetSquared, the UK’s leading enterprise partnership and business incubator – an experience that helped us build solid foundations as a values-driven technology SME.
Since then, we’ve grown into a trusted partner to organisations across the UK public and private sectors, and internationally. We’ve delivered long-running data services for regulators and government departments, built robust open data platforms, and supported national policies on open standards, metadata, and FAIR data.
We remain proud to be a 100% employee-owned company, committed to long-term thinking, transparency, and shared success. Our team includes recognised experts in linked data and data architecture, and we continue to work at the intersection of technical rigour and real-world impact – helping clients make their data more accessible, usable and AI-ready.
While data is our focus, we also care deeply about how we work. We’re committed to operating responsibly – minimising our environmental footprint, supporting sustainability in digital service design, and creating long-term social value through the organisations and sectors we serve.
Our mission is to be the trusted partner helping people to structure, link and use data that matters.
We aim to do that in a way that is thoughtful, collaborative, and sustainable.
Want to see what that looks like in practice? Explore our project work to see how we’ve helped organisations across sectors design, build, and run trusted data services.
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Whether you’re looking for a specialist data partner, interested in collaboration, or just want to find out more about what we do – we’d love to hear from you.
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Our Journey in Highlights
Awarded a new contract to continue supporting HMLR open data publications
Supported the Regulated Products Reform updates
Published our Carbon Reduction Plan
Awarded Gold under the Fair Payment Code for fair payment practices
Our Agora Concept Store Client implementation went live
Celebrating Epimorphics at 15
Renewed our agreement with Agrimetrics to support the Environment Agency’s Hydrology data service
Awarded a new contract supporting the Pensions Regulator
Awarded a new contract supporting UK CEH
Successfully awarded Framework Contract on the new GCloud 14 framework
Agora Concept Store product now available
Lots of updates to the FSA’s data services
Lots of updates to the Hydrology Service
Agora Concept Browser client testing began
After many years meeting all the principles we became a Prompt Payment Code Signatory
AI and ChatGTP use of Hydrology API project and blog post
14 years of Epimorphics
Supporting Agrimetrics
Major Hydrology Service Updates
Agora Catalog testing began
updates to key registers
Supporting the i10 ecosystem
The revamped Hydrology Data Service for the EA goes live
We’ve been awarded the new contract for continuing to support the FSA data services
We grew our shareholder numbers (all staff can become shareholders)
Alex and Dan join the Epimorphics team
Register of CBD products linked to novel food applications is launched
The expanded regulated products service for the FSA goes live
Welcome to Beth, Tom, Jon and Viki all joining the team
We became a Carbon Neutral organisation
and a new Hydrology Explorer application for DEFRA, to include new stations and groundwater data
We built a register of Approved Regulated Food and Feed Products for the FSA
Jordan joined our team in January
We welcome the rest of our summer 2020 interns to the team – Angela, Adrian, Redan and Louise
And we’ve also completed a research project for UK CEH
and Kal also joined us
Helen joined us in the meantime as one of our interns
Ian even made a wooden Epimorphics stool
What a few months adapting to working from home. We’ve got stuck into the Epimorphics lego or maker challenge
Covid 19 hits the world and life as we know it changes
Followed by Andrew as our Ops Lead
Bogdan joined the team
Alex becomes a Director
Go-live of a major upgrade to the FSA Alerts editor
We continued as a digital marketplace supplier on the GCloud 11 framework
Our 2019 summer Interns (Célia, Will, Charlie and Amy)
FSA Internal Unified View data hub
We kicked off our 2019 Summer Intern Programme
Honza joined our Data Modelling team
Joseph joins our front-end team
9 years old on the
9th of November
We’re now on the Digital Outcomes and Specialists (DOS3) framework
The UK House Price Index (HPI) becomes an official statistic
We developed and run a service for displaying all the hydrographic information for the last 50 years
The Food Standards Agency’s new digital registration service goes into private beta with the reference number generator we built
We developed a system to enable people to see the maintenance schedule of all Environment Agency’s assets
We continued as a digital marketplace supplier on GCloud 10
Harry joins as our summer intern
Kat joins the project team
Lizzie joins the team
The Food Standards Agency’s new website goes into beta using the Food Alerts API we built
We’re also looking for new team members
Simon joins the team
We continue to grow with Max and Mihajlo staying with the team
The Food Standards Agency’s began internal testing of a new Food Alerts API service
We took on two summer interns (Max and Mihajlo)
The Food Standards Agency’s went live with their code repository and food types code service
We continued to support the Environment Agency with new data services
The Food Standards Agency’s first new open data service went live at data.food.gov.uk
Mike joined us
Our first summer intern, Silviu, joined us. Read more here about Silviu’s work.
Alex joined us after leading open data in Defra
The new UK House Price Index service went live for the Land Registry supporting the new developing national statistic
The EA River Levels and flood monitoring API goes live – a world first in terms of scale of open-linked data services
We join GCloud as a Crown Commercial Service supplier
We developed the Registry software for Defra, MetOffice and others.
We begin developing new data services for the Environment Agency as well as working with the Biotech sector in the UK, Europe and the US.
We started projects with the finance sector in the UK and the US
We started a series of projects with UK publishing customers
Moved to Portishead (our current home)
The prototype-Bathing Water Service for the EA went live
We supported the BBC in building their Sports Ontology
We supported the development of the linked-data kernel as part of data.gov.uk
We built two linked-data demonstrators for the Technology Strategy Board
The team worked with W3C on many of the core standards and built much of the core technology.
The core of the team were there at the inception of the semantic web, while part of HP’s Semantic Web Research Programme in Bristol.
