Computle 2025: A Year in Review and Our 2026 Strategy
I founded Computle a few months before COVID-19. At the time, I was deploying thousands of laptops for a multi-trillion-pound asset manager and saw first-hand how difficult it was to deliver compute at scale. I started Computle as a way to address this challenge head on, with simple, remote computers, delivered at scale.
I started in the consumer gaming market, taking on Shadow Tech with newer hardware and better pricing. At our peak, we were seeing 5-7 signups a day from customers across Europe, Asia, and America. On paper, it looked like growth. In reality, it was chaos.
Customers paying £30/month would abandon payments and re-subscribe days later. Then I discovered many of the new signups were using stolen credit cards. Support costs spiralled—each customer consumed more in time than the revenue they generated. And then there was the provisioning - manually onboarding users was brutal. The breaking point was onboarding a user who would email me hourly, asking for support. Our last consumer left Computle earlier this year.
Those lessons clarified everything. In 2022, we began a shift to pure B2B—starting with animation firms, then architects and engineers a year later. We've spent the past three years building what businesses actually need. The £500k we raised in early 2025 validated that focus, and combined with my £200k, positioned Computle to fundamentally reshape the remote workstation market.
Now, as we close out the year and look towards 2026, it's worth reflecting on how far we've come—and where we're headed next.
2025: Our Fifth Year of Trading
Five years in, Computle has evolved from a desk-based server in a WeWork office to a platform powering hundreds of enterprise workstations across three continents. In 2025, we grew revenue by 473%, and our recurring revenue is in the hundreds of thousands of pounds. We work with a number of internationally recognised clients. Here's how we've grown in 2025.
Investing in reducing costs
Our first Computle server operated from a desk in my WeWork office. It cost me £50/month for the internet and, for home gamers, it worked fine. As we scaled up, I moved into a premium data centre, hailed at the time as being one of the first data centres to provide extreme scalability for the then trend of HPC high-density computers. This site provided Computle with a great platform for growth, but the costs were unsustainable.
In 2025, we began our data centre roadmap, opening a wholesale site in the north of the UK. For our customers, this site enables us to pass on savings of around 20-30% versus central London data centres, with no noticeable performance drop. We have also migrated fully away from COTS solutions such as VMware, and delivered Computle Client v3, with Entra ID integration and improved automation.
Automating more of our delivery
I recently delivered a batch of machines at our Northern UK data centre with Jovan. As we did this, it occurred to me that whilst the physical installation was similar to three years ago, thousands of lines of code now automate the software delivery—a process that used to take several hours per user. At scale, this focus on automation ensures that our cost base is as low as possible, saving our customers money.
Holding our competitors to account
I am unabashed in my mission to change the future of computing. You do not get there by repeating the norm. That's why since day one, Computle has custom R&D'd its hardware design, and in 2024, its software architecture. We are proud to have no mid-contract price increases and we have been unabashed in calling out this practice when done by our competition.
We locked our pricing
In April, when US tariffs threatened to increase costs, we absorbed them. In June, when Inevidesk introduced new VPN charges and bandwidth caps mid-contract, we reaffirmed our commitment to price stability—no hidden fees, no surprise charges, no RPI increases. And one month ago, when our competitors were focusing on selling 18 month old 4000 ADA GPUs, we were encouraging users to adopt the new RTX 50 series, with the same overall cost.
While our competitor says "Obviously, Inevidesk costs more than a traditional physical workstation," Computle has done the opposite. We worked out how to deliver our service at the same TCO as a workstation in an office, and we are proud to have achieved that. Read more about how we deliver workstations at scale without the cost overhead.
Focusing on improving the user experience
Computle has been a global company from the outset. However, as we transitioned to business customers, we began the process of expanding our global network. As of 2025, Computle's private network (AS213513) operates points-of-presence in the North and South of the UK, NYC, Hong Kong, and through our partner firms, expanded capabilities in Dubai and Sydney. This, combined with our new Client v3, provides users with a simpler connection experience and reduced latency.
Expanding our team
As Computle scaled, we recognised the need to strengthen our capabilities across multiple domains. We worked with a couple of network design consultancies to optimise our global infrastructure, and expanded our team by three key hires: a communications specialist to enhance our customer engagement, two build engineers to accelerate our hardware deployment pipeline, and a remote deployment team based in Hong Kong to support our Asia-Pacific operations.
Continuing to invest in innovation
In January, we released our 6th design iteration this year, enabling users to move to the NVIDIA RTX 5090. This compact 2U design with extreme focus on airflow and density enables us to continually offer customers the latest hardware offerings at a competitive price. This per-user hardware design has been key from the beginning, resulting in significant cost savings compared to alternatives, such as Inevidesk, who use shared servers.
Introducing simplified management
In 2025, we launched Packtle —our answer to expensive Windows management tools like PDQ Deploy, Intune, and ControlUp. Just as we removed the burden of hardware management with Computle, Packtle eliminates the operational overhead of Windows management. It automates application deployment, patch management, and security compliance—all free for Computle customers. Currently in private testing, Packtle Push enables one-click deployment from a curated application catalogue, with real-time monitoring and compliance reporting. We're not charging per-seat licensing or deployment fees. We're simply extending Computle's fully-managed philosophy to every Windows machine in your environment. General availability is planned for 2026.
Our 2026 Strategy
Our mission is ambitious: to reach 100 million workstations by disrupting the hardware, middleware, and the end-to-end supply of workstations. We're not just building a better remote workstation service—we're reimagining how compute is delivered at scale.
A key milestone in 2026 is planning the construction of our first Computle-operated data centre in the UK. This facility will enable us to fundamentally change how we price our service—splitting costs into a fixed monthly hardware charge and usage-based electricity pricing. For customers, this means matching typical office running costs: if your team isn't using Computle 24/7, you'll save money. We anticipate a further 20-30% reduction in running costs for most users.
It's a simple principle—pay for what you use—and it's only possible when you control the entire stack, from hardware design to facility operations. This move represents the natural evolution of our vertical integration strategy, giving us complete control over costs and enabling us to pass those savings directly to customers.
