01 Family services marketplace
Kinurture
Role pending source verification
View project01About MarkkoLocation pending verification
A marketplace agency,
not an agency with
a marketplace page.
Who we are
Markko is the service-marketplace brand of a team that designs and builds for the web. We do one kind of work: marketplaces where people, businesses and their software agents discover, decide and transact. Dates, company names and ownership on this page are drafts.
- Founded
- Draft · year and place unconfirmed
- Entity
- Draft · company name unconfirmed
- Sister brand
- Draft · relationship unconfirmed
- Focus
- Service marketplaces only
02One team, two front doorsMarkko · company relationship unconfirmed
The same people, a narrower door.
The wider agency is described as web, software and AI work for many kinds of businesses. Markko is the narrower door: if you are here, the conversation is a marketplace. That company relationship is not confirmed on this page.
- Strategy
- Model, pricing, supply plan and the numbers that say go or no-go.
- Design
- Journeys for buyers, providers and operators, tested with real ones.
- Engineering
- Bespoke and platform builds, payments, integrations, agent-ready data.
- Growth
- Supply activation, search, paid acquisition, retention and leakage control.
- Operations
- Hosting, support and a standing engineering allowance after launch.
03Our historyUnverified draft · dates and milestones
A draft timeline, not a verified history.
These entries repeat the design copy so the shape is visible. They are not confirmed company milestones, ownership records or project outcomes.
- 2004
Agency founded
Draft note: a Reading studio building websites and software. Not a confirmed milestone.
- 2011
First marketplace
Draft note: an early two-sided platform. Outcomes and the project itself are not confirmed.
- 2018
Marketplace focus
Draft note: marketplace work described as the majority. The mix is not confirmed.
- 2023
Company name
Draft note: a company name appears in the design. Ownership is not confirmed.
- 2026
Markko
Draft note: a dedicated front door for service-marketplace work. Launch facts are not confirmed.
04What we stand forFour principles · every project
Four things we will not trade away.
They are in the design system, the proposals and the code reviews. If a decision breaks one of them, it does not ship. Read the field notes.
- 01
Marketplace-specific
We only do marketplaces. Every pattern, tool and opinion comes from building two-sided platforms, not from a general web practice.
- 02
Agentic by design
Listings, availability and transactions are built to be read and acted on by software agents as well as people, from the first release.
- 03
Human control
Agents act inside limits the operator sets. A person decides when the rules run out. We never sell a self-operating marketplace.
- 04
Commercial clarity
Fixed scope, fixed price, a decision at the end of every engagement. No unsupported results, no metrics we cannot source.
05What we have doneNamed work · outcomes not claimed
Named marketplace work
Years of marketplace experience are not stated here. That figure is unverified.
Strategy sets the model and supply plan. Product designs both sides of the transaction. Engineering builds the platform and integrations. Growth handles search, acquisition and conversion. Operations keeps supply, trust and payments working after launch.
- 01 Strategy
- 02 Product
- 03 Engineering
- 04 Growth
- 05 Operations
A two-sided market for sponsors and the properties they back.
02 Sponsorship marketplace
Sponsorfy
Role pending source verification
View project
03 B2B vehicle marketplace
WorkVans
Role pending source verification
View project06The teamRoles under review · no portraits
Small by design. Roles still under review.
The intended project shape is a strategist, a designer, an engineer and a growth lead. Names, titles and portraits are withheld until they are confirmed.
- 01
Strategy and product
Role under review. Name and title are not published.
- 02
Engineering
Role under review. Name and title are not published.
- 03
Marketplace UX and product design
Role under review. Name and title are not published.
- 04
Search, acquisition and operations
Role under review. Name and title are not published.
07Why MarkkoFive reasons · no adjectives
Why people choose us over a bigger agency or a platform vendor.
- 01
We have modelled marketplace numbers
Take rates, liquidity and leakage are part of the work. This is a way of working, not a verified result.
- 02
One team from model to growth
Strategy, design, build and growth stay with the same people. Nothing is handed over a wall.
- 03
Platform-neutral, and we say so
MarketStarter is described as a sibling product. We say when it fits and when Sharetribe, Medusa or bespoke code is the better call.
- 04
Agent-ready without the hype
We build for buyers, providers and their agents, with people in control. No self-operating marketplace promises.
- 05
Small enough to be honest
You talk to the people doing the work. If the answer is no, you hear it early.
12Start a conversation
Tell us about the marketplace you want to run.
What happens
A short call to understand the model, the stage you are at and whether one of the starting points fits. No deck, no pitch.
- Reach
- Global marketplace agency
- Focus
- Service marketplaces
- Delivery
- AI-native, agentic, people in control