Our story · Founded 2016

We scaled up.
Then we chose
to scale back.

Most agencies grow to get bigger. We grew — then deliberately got smaller. Not because we failed. Because we found something better.

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01 / Origin
Budapest & Pécs, Hungary — 2016

Built from
scratch.
On purpose.

It started with a clear conviction: software agencies were too slow, too opaque, and too disconnected from business reality. We wanted to build something different — a studio that thought like a product company, not a service firm.

We started small, in Hungary, with a handful of developers and designers who cared more about the outcome than the invoice. Every project was a chance to prove that good software could be built fast, transparently, and beautifully.

The early years were scrappy. Long nights, tight budgets, and the kind of intensity that only a young team with something to prove can sustain. It worked. Word spread. Clients came back. Then they sent their friends.

02 / The Growth Years
30+
People on the team at peak — developers, designers, strategists, PMs
200+
Projects delivered across web, mobile, and enterprise software
3
Offices — Pécs, Budapest, and Pocking, Germany
10+
Industry awards from Clutch, RGB Design, and Bestnet
Notable clients
BMW Seiko Vogue Wired MÁV Telekom +80 more
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03 / The Honest Moment

We were good.
But we were
spread thin.

At 30+ people with projects running in parallel across multiple verticals, something quietly started to slip. Not deadlines. Not quality on any single project. But the level of focus and ownership that made us great in the first place.

Too many parallel projects
When you're running 15 projects at once, no single client gets your full creative bandwidth. The best thinking comes from deep focus — and that requires saying no.
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Overhead grew faster than output
More people meant more coordination, more meetings, more handoffs. The ratio of "people thinking about the work" vs. "people doing the work" was tilting the wrong way.
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Clients deserved better
Our most important clients weren't always getting our most important people. That's not the agency we wanted to be — and we knew it.

"We had built a good agency. But we wanted to build an exceptional one. Those are two very different things — and you can't have both without making hard choices."

— Cubicfox Leadership, 2023

04 / The Reinvention

We rebuilt
around what works.

In 2023, we made the decision that most agencies never have the courage to make: we deliberately shrank.

We restructured around a lean, senior-only core team. We cut the number of simultaneous projects. We embedded AI into every step of our process — not as a gimmick, but as a genuine force multiplier that lets a small team do what a large team used to.

It meant turning away work. It meant hard conversations. But it also meant that every project we take on now gets the full weight of our best thinking — and that's the only version of Cubicfox we want to be.

Before
After
then30+ people, mixed seniority
nowLean core, senior-only
then15+ parallel projects
nowA few at a time, by design
thenAI as an experiment
nowAI in every step we take
thenAccount manager in between
nowYou talk to who builds it
then6–12 month delivery cycles
now1–6 months, fixed scope
05 / Today
~58
Active projects at any time Not 15. Not 20. Enough to stay fully engaged with each one.
300%
Faster delivery with AI Same quality, fewer weeks. AI handles the repetitive; humans handle the decisions.
100%
Senior on every project No juniors learning on your budget. Every engagement gets our best people.

You don't get an agency.
You get the team.

The person you meet in the first call is the person building your product. No bait-and-switch. No account managers. Direct access to the people who care.

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06 / What we stand for
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Focus over volume
We take fewer projects so we can go deeper on each one. Focus is our competitive advantage — and yours.
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Ownership mentality
We treat your product as if it's ours. We ask the uncomfortable questions. We push back when needed. That's what partners do.
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AI-native by default
AI is not a feature we bolt on. It's the operating system underneath everything — from discovery to deployment.
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Radical transparency
No hidden costs, no scope creep by stealth, no surprises at invoice time. You always know where things stand.
Trusted by leading companies
BMW
Seiko
Vogue
Wired
MÁV
Telekom
RGB Design
Bestnet
BMW
Seiko
Vogue
Wired
MÁV
Telekom
RGB Design
Bestnet

Ready to work together?

Work with the team
that chose depth
over scale.

We have space for a few new projects. If what you've read resonates — let's talk about yours.