Callum Delaney didn’t set out to start a business. He started building software out of simple enjoyment, finding it helpful during a period of mental health difficulty.
That passion grew into Ident.ink, which was incorporated in August 2026. Because Callum is 15-years-old, company law in the UK means that he can’t serve as his own director – so his father took on the role instead.
Ident.ink is aimed at businesses, creators and projects rather than consumers. It gathers comms, workflows, development tools, identities and hosting into one service, so an organisation does not need to use several unconnected services.
Building the tool wasn’t a problem for Callum, but getting it in front of people was more of a challenge. While on work experience at ProperGeeks in Wallasey, Delaney built an internal management system and database that replaced older paper-based processes.
While that database didn’t become the permanent solution, the experience was invaluable and led to paid employment as an inhouse developer for a hardware merchant. This proved that Callum’s ideas were viable and something more than just hobbyist coding.
A significant opportunity with a local university subsequently fell through. Delaney says that without a company structure and commercial requirements, Ident struggled to land the deal. The technology was sound, but there was no infrastructure around it. So the company was incorporated.
Delaney provides one metric: 424 successfully verified production routes. Ident.ink’s website offers live performance metrics.
While Delaney admits that the fledgling outfit’s current numbers are small, he says he would rather publish them than a hypothetical upwards graph. He says: “I am not trying to accumulate millions of accounts simply so I can put an enormous signup number in a pitch deck.”
