The person behind aity.
I'm Marc, based in South Yorkshire, England. I've spent around 32 years working in IT, and aity is what I build outside of that day job — a family of small, carefully made tools rather than one big product.
A dual management role covering both the Development team and the IT Networks team.
Some of what that's involved over the years:
Before that, I was a self-employed trainer (2006–2011), running City & Guilds basic IT courses and government-contract training.
Most of my career has been spent building software for organisations. aity is the opposite of that — software built directly for the person using it, with no committee in between. Mosaity and Explaity grew out of wanting to make genuinely useful, calm tools for people who need to understand themselves or explain their needs to others. Some of the games exist for much simpler reasons — Octavia's Unicorn World was built for my granddaughter.
Different projects, same approach: work out what actually helps, then build it properly.
Writing under the name MJ Saunders — novels and children's stories, published through Anubis Productions.
Plus a growing range of themed journals and notebooks — browse the full collection at anubisproductions.uk.