Case study

Platform build · Independent pharmacy sector

PharmGrowth: one platform to run an entire pharmacy business online

The studio's deepest build to date — a complete digital platform for independent UK pharmacies, spanning a marketing site, a delivery-management SaaS with its own driver app, and multi-product admin dashboards. All of it live, in production, today.

3 productsOn one platform
2 live sitesIn production right now
Full SaaSIncl. dedicated driver app
£0 templatesEverything custom-built

The problem worth solving

Independent pharmacies in the UK are squeezed from every direction: national chains with big digital budgets, online-only pharmacies with slick apps, and NHS funding pressure that leaves no slack for experiments. Most independents still run on a Facebook page, a phone line, and paper delivery logs.

The gap was obvious once stated plainly: independents don't lose to chains on care — they lose on visibility (no proper web presence), convenience (no online ordering or repeat-prescription flows), and operations (deliveries managed on paper, with controlled-drug logs kept by hand).

PharmGrowth was built to close all three gaps at once — not as three separate purchases, but as one platform an independent pharmacy could actually adopt.

What was built

1. The marketing platform — pharmgrowth.co

A conversion-focused site selling professional, NHS-ready pharmacy websites on a subscription model, with an interactive product tour showing prospective pharmacies exactly what their own site and admin dashboard would look like before they commit.

2. Routly — delivery management SaaS

The most ambitious piece: standalone delivery software for pharmacy operations, with a staff portal and a separate driver app. This is the part paper logs can't compete with.

3. The admin layer

Behind both products sits a custom operations dashboard: multi-product subscription tracking, invoice and income logging, a full subscription audit trail, push notifications, and real-time lead management. The business runs from one screen.

Both previews above are the real production sites, streaming live — click either to open it.

Decisions that shaped the build

Demo-first sales, baked into the product

The platform's whole go-to-market rests on one idea: build the prospect's website before pitching them. A pharmacy owner opens an email and sees their own branded site, already live. That approach demanded tooling — fast rebrandable templates, per-prospect deploys, and a pipeline that tracks which demo went to whom. The same demo-first philosophy now runs through everything Atlantas Media offers.

Isolation over convenience

Patient-adjacent data raises the bar. Routly keeps every pharmacy's data isolated with row-level security enforced in the database itself, and the delivery platform runs on entirely separate infrastructure from the marketing side — linked only by each pharmacy's NHS ODS code. Slower to build; the only defensible way to build it.

Boring, reliable infrastructure

No exotic stack. Managed Postgres with auth and row-level security, Stripe for subscriptions, static-first frontends on a global CDN, and lightweight Node services for the backend. Small-business software should fail rarely and cost little to run — the stack was chosen for exactly that.

Supabase / Postgres Row-level security Stripe subscriptions Netlify CDN Railway / Node.js Push notifications

What it proves

PharmGrowth is the ceiling of what this studio builds — a multi-product platform with real operational software underneath it. Most businesses don't need a delivery SaaS with a driver app. But every business benefits from the same fundamentals scaled to their size:

The same platform thinking behind a full pharmacy SaaS is what goes into a £39.95/month Starter site — just scaled to fit the business it serves.

Your turn

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