2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Best People Teams
Benchmark
We believe craft deserves better tools. We build software that helps independent studios look established from the first day they open.
Halyard started in a rented darkroom above a bike shop in Portland.
Halyard has grown into a team of 1,284 people across four studios.
Since launch, tens of thousands of independent studios have shipped their work on Halyard.



We are grateful to keep earning workplace recognition for being a genuinely good place to build a career.
2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Benchmark
2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Benchmark
2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Benchmark
2021, 2022, 2024
Benchmark
2021, 2022
Workplace Trust Ireland
2021, 2022
Workplace Trust Ireland
2021, 2022, 2023
Benchmark
2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Peerline
2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Workplace Trust
2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2024
MakerList
2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Wellworks
2021, 2022, 2023, 2025
Benchmark
2021, 2022, 2023
Peerline
2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
MakerList
2021, 2023, 2024, 2025
MakerList
2023, 2024, 2025
MakerList
2023
Signal Review
2023
The Ledger
2022, 2023, 2024
Benchmark
2023, 2024, 2025
Benchmark
2023
The Ledger
2023
The Ledger
2023
The Ledger
2023, 2024
Benchmark
2022, 2023, 2024
Benchmark
2022, 2024
Benchmark
2024
Workplaces Forward
2024
Choice Awards for Women
2024
Choice Awards for Women
2024
Choice Awards for Women
2023, 2025
Benchmark
2025
Signal Review

Developing real empathy for what our customers need, fear, and hope for is the only way we get this right. We want to hand them the same standard of tools and service we would want on our own worst deadline.
Good design should not be reserved for the well funded, and we are stubborn about pursuing it in everything we ship.
We try to shape where this industry goes by imagining and then building the products that ought to exist. That means taking real bets on large ideas, while accepting that anything worth making gets there through constant iteration.
The shortest path to knowing something, paired with a healthy bias toward doing something, is how we compound. We aim for both at once.
Ideas arrive from anyone, from anywhere, and they are fragile when they do. They need room to grow before they are judged. We believe the creative process is the whole business, and we defend it as we work out where the product goes next.


Halyard Porto, Portugal
Rua da Alegria, N° 42
4000-034 Porto