Strategy · Design · Engineering
One company holding two specialist brands — a deep technical consultancy and a design studio — so strategy, creative and engineering never sit at different suppliers.
A design studio produces something beautiful it cannot build. An engineering shop builds something solid that looks like everyone else. In between sits you — translating, absorbing the cost of every misunderstanding, owning a result nobody is quite accountable for.
Apex‑Nova exists so that handoff happens inside one company instead of between two invoices. Two specialist brands, kept deliberately distinct so each stays genuinely good at its craft — and one entity answerable for the whole of it.
Each brand runs its own practice, its own site and its own client relationships. Both are wholly owned by Apex-Nova (Private) Limited — so engaging one gives you access to the other.
The engineering and delivery arm. Anchormont takes an intent and turns it into architecture that holds — integration, identity, cloud and AI enablement, scoped and shipped.
The creative studio. Oak Palette decides what a brand should mean and how it should look before anyone writes a line of code — strategy, identity and the design system that carries them.
Some clients want the studio. Some want the engineering. Some want the whole length of it. Three different routes through the same company — pick the one that sounds like you.
You need something decided, designed and built — a brand that ships, or a product that has to be shaped before it can be made. This is the one that uses the whole company.
The problem, its real cost, and whether the answer is a brand, a platform or both. Run by the company before either brand is assigned — so the answer is not shaped by who happens to be asking.
Positioning and strategy. What it means, who it is for, and why anyone should care — settled before pixels.
Identity, visual system and the interface itself, designed as something buildable rather than a poster.
Integration, identity, data and the platform decisions underneath the design.
Engineering and delivery — the design becomes a running system, with governance around it.
Hosting, iteration and creative evolution together. The brand keeps moving without changing suppliers.
Anchormont is the deep technical side of the company — a consultancy and delivery practice for organisations whose systems have outgrown the way they were first built.
Architecture and advisory first, then the engineering to carry it: integration, identity, cloud modernisation and pragmatic AI enablement, built inside real governance rather than around it.
Integration platforms, API ecosystems and event-driven architecture that let systems actually connect at scale.
IAM strategy, federation, authentication flows and the governance frameworks that hold them together.
Migration and modernisation across hybrid and cloud-native environments, focused on resilience and performance.
Pragmatic AI adoption, agentic workflows and automation designed to fit inside enterprise governance, not around it.
Technology strategy, platform selection, solution architecture and transformation roadmapping.
Oak Palette is the design studio — a creative growth partner for brands doing good work while looking like nobody in particular.
Strategy and positioning before identity, identity before interface, and a design system that holds all of it together long after the launch.
Hard questions about perception, positioning and audience come before any visual work. That diagnostic clarity shapes everything after it.
The work is shaped by your goals, not by a house style waiting to be applied to the next client who walks in.
Strategic clarity without beautiful execution is wasted insight. Beautiful work without a strategic foundation is wasted effort. Most studios pick one.
Recognition, reach, conversion, trust. Everything is designed with a clear eye on what should genuinely be different afterwards.
A brand, a platform, or the whole thing — one conversation, no obligation. You don’t need to know which arm you need; working that out is our job. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll say so early.
Or read how the two arms differ