Tech & AI consulting · Barbados, 246
Eight Piggies is a two-founder consultancy built in Barbados by Matt Hamilton and Martin MacDonald. We design, build and ship real systems — national-scale AI, enterprise search strategy, and the engineering to make it all stick. Live systems, not slide decks.
What we do
You know the rhyme. Every engagement is one of our eight piggies going exactly where it should — to market, into your repo, or all the way home.
…went to market
Product-led SEO and launch strategy from the operator who ran search for Expedia and Orbitz. Positioning, distribution, and a roadmap your team can actually ship.
…stayed home
Senior engineers inside your team, on retainer. Your repo, your standup, your roadmap. No agencies, no hand-offs, no theatre.
…had roast beef
LLMs, RAG, agents and search that survive contact with real users. Transcription, entity graphs and vector search — proven at national scale, in production.
…had none
Sometimes the right answer is “none”. We audit your stack, your search presence or your AI plans — tell you what not to build, then what to build instead.
…cried “wee-wee-wee”
Risk-managed launches with QA, monitoring and rollback plans. When something cries for help, we’re already all the way home.
…built the sty
Architecture, crawl control, indexation and internal linking at Fortune 500 scale — with the tooling and measurement to prove what worked.
…learned to talk
Docs, demos, talks and community. Years as the voice of the developer at IBM, Ripple, Protocol Labs and Arbitrum — we make technical audiences care.
…served the island
Government services, transparency tools and digital public infrastructure. We helped launch alpha.gov.bb — we know how public systems ship.
Track record
Between us we’ve held senior roles across big tech, blockchain, travel and government — and everything below isn’t history. It’s running, right now, in production.
AI-powered search over Barbados parliament — every claim linked back to the original video evidence. 200+ debates, 105k+ sentences.
yuhheardem.com LiveIsland-wide product search across 100+ retailers and 1,800+ Instagram vendors. Vector search + LLM reranking, ~1,000 searches a day.
yuhgettintru.com LiveCultural events discovery for Barbados — 40,000+ social posts scanned, 6,500+ posters detected, 1,600+ events and counting.
weoutside246.com LiveGovernment services as a service you can actually use. Matt was part of the launch team with GovTech Barbados.
alpha.gov.bb LiveA shame-free, context-aware task manager for ADHD brains, living entirely in WhatsApp. No guilt mechanics, ever.
untangleapp.ai LiveProduct-led SEO consultancy running enterprise engagements since 2017 — technical SEO, content systems and measurement your team can actually ship.
mog.media LiveMartin’s SEO & GEO platform, nine years in the making: 83M+ URLs crawled, 350+ documented issue types, AI prioritisation and GSC-native reporting.
metricular.net LiveNot another meeting that could have been an email. Your AI attends visibly, listens politely, and sends back the decisions, actions and awkward bits.
sendmy.ai LiveKnowledge infrastructure: distributed media resolved into entities, claims and evidence — provenance intact. Public laboratories: StaysCentral & SailCentral.
curatedcontent.orgWho you actually get
Eight Piggies is deliberately small. When you hire us, you get us — the people whose names are on the work.
Technologist and developer advocate turned island engineer. ex-IBM, Ripple, Protocol Labs and the Arbitrum Foundation. Since moving to Barbados in 2021 he’s been proving that a small island is the best place to build big systems — parliamentary search, island-wide shopping search, events discovery and gov-tech. All live. All national scale.
Enterprise search operator since the early web. Led SEO and marketing for Expedia, Orbitz and Omnicom, founded MOGmedia in 2017 and spent nine years building Metricular into a full SEO & GEO platform. Now turning distributed media into structured knowledge with CuratedContent, and letting AI attend your meetings with SendMy.ai. Runs BarbadosSEO, the Caribbean’s largest search conference. Occasional troublemaker.
Straight answers
The short version of who we are, how we work, and what it costs — without the agency fog.
We’re a tech and AI consultancy: applied AI systems (LLMs, RAG, agents, search), enterprise technical SEO and go-to-market strategy, embedded senior engineering, and civic tech. Everything ends up in production, not in a slide deck.
Barbados, in the Caribbean (AST, UTC−4). We work with clients worldwide, remotely and on-site — and our systems are proven at national scale on the island, including work with the Government of Barbados.
The founders, directly. Eight Piggies is deliberately small: you get Matt Hamilton and Martin MacDonald — the people whose names are on the work. No account managers, no juniors, no hand-offs.
Fixed-scope audits (technical SEO, AI readiness, stack), project builds (AI products, search platforms, migrations and launches), embedded engineering retainers, and advisory. We start with a short scoping call — and tell you quickly if we’re not the right fit.
No. Barbados is our proving ground, but we work with clients globally — from startups to Fortune 500s. Remote-first since long before it was fashionable.
Depends on scope: fixed-price audits, project builds, or monthly retainers. Email hello@eightpiggies.com with what you’re trying to ship and we’ll come back with honest numbers — fast.
Start something
Tell us what you’re trying to ship — an AI product, a search problem, a system your citizens or customers deserve. If we’re not the right piggies, we’ll say so fast — and point you at better ones.
hello@eightpiggies.comRight now in Bridgetown
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Barbados · AST (UTC−4) · We answer fast, island time not included.