Sairo Studios, 2020–2026
Six years building games, worlds, films and workshops with the next generation. This is everything we made.
Sairo Studios founded
Rooted in immersive tech from day one.
Ciceley Motorsport
BTCC Launch
Real-time web 3D experience and mixed reality social content for a BMW 3 Series.
Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery
Heritage Digitisation
Pro bono 3D modelling and heritage digitisation.
Blackburn Museum
RV Art Winner: Sarah Kirk
Object scanning and digitisation of the winning work.
Bleaklow Trig Point
A highly detailed 3D photogrammetry mapping project.
Ribble Valley Borough Council
Creative Campaign
Digital and creative campaign project.
Lancaster & Morecambe College
Rising Tides
360° VR film simulating climate change in Morecambe Bay, for the college's Igloo theatre.
Stonyhurst College
Immersive Strategy
Educational immersive strategy consultation.
Lancaster & Morecambe College
Cost of Carbon
Visualising the real size of a carbon footprint.
Republiqe × Coach
Coach Pillow Bag AR
AR window-dressing experience at the Monnier HQ in Paris.
Republiqe × Stephen Webster
Digital Fashion
Digital fashion collaboration.
Republiqe × Monnier Paris
Digital Garments
Ongoing digital fashion garments and Web3 assets.
Home Office
HACKMASTERS
A VR game built for the Home Office.
HACKMASTERS
Harms of the Metaverse
Exploring the risks young people face in virtual worlds.
Hoff Pods, OEP & Nick Raw
Chelsea Flower Show
Interactive Unity environment built from CAD, showcasing outdoor pods without a physical unit on site.
Metaverse Fashion Week 2023
Digital fashion activations and immersive design.
Hex Clothing Store
Roblox digital fashion store development.
The First Western
AI and digital film exploration.
Ghost in the Machine
AI and digital film exploration.
The Future of Film
An exploration of AI storytelling and video generation.
“We have worked with Sairo on a number of projects, and the team is creative, knowledgeable, and experts in their fields, showing a level of detail and care that is important to our mutual customers.”
Republiqe
New York Fashion Week 24
Snapchat garments, complex re-topology and cloth simulation.
The Rebrand
The founders became astronauts and Sairo became “Mission Control for Brands Entering Gen Z’s Worlds”, with our services split into three arms (Sairo Education, Sairo Marketing and Sairo Technology) and a typeface of our own, Sairo Signal.
Award
Innovate UK Funding
Won two rounds of Innovate UK funding.
Award
MITHI Award
Recognised for impactful use of AI.
Community Care Gaming
The Domes
Full-stack VR platform for Meta Quest, reducing loneliness and supporting stroke recovery through shared play.
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Be The Future / IMMERS[ED] / It Started With A Sloth
Save Our Species, Together!
A Roblox eco-adventure teaching ecology and conservation.
Uncultured Creatives / Blackburn Youth Zone
Fuse Box AI
AI-generated films and branding exploring Blackburn's industrial heritage.
Blackburn Youth Zone
AI Generation Workshops
14 workshops funded by the Police and Crime Commissioner.
Blackburn Youth Zone
From Player to Creator
A 4-week Roblox crash course in Lua and game development.
Pendle / Barley Chapel
Hill and High Fashion
Photography workshop.
Cliffe Castle Museum
AI Workshops
AI workshops and digital education sessions.
Rezzil
Dedicated spatial software project, completed August 2025.
Greenham Common AR
Augmented reality app and digital heritage experience.
Wyre Council
3D Web Viewers
Historic sites captured as Gaussian splats and embedded in the council's new website.
Sairo Ed × Nottingham Trent University
NTU Fashion Project
Educational fashion collaboration.
UCLan
BTB25: Fashion Evolution 2075
With final-year Fashion Promotion students, presenting the future of fashion retail.
Manchester City FC Sports Business School
Designing Your Football Legend
AI workshop on the Next Gen Programme.
Voxelo
AI Content Pipelines
High-end digitisation and post-production processing.
LiveSync Pilot
Bringing live sports data into gaming, with a live environment on Roblox.
Sairo Ed × Ministry of Defence
MOD Bursary
A Sairo Ed initiative.
Community Arts by ZK
Community Arts
A community-focused arts collaboration.
Thanks to everyone we built with.
Sairo has closed its doors, but the people behind it are still making things.
James Ascroft
Director & Co-Founder
William Sames
COO & Co-Founder
Nicole Wan
Innovation Director
Matty Hall
Marketing Director & Co-Founder
PatchState- Design Repairs
- System Design
James has set up PatchState, where he's helping businesses in the utility industry: patching up their branding, websites and socials, and creating Software States that streamline their marketing through automations and build solutions to their problems.
Will and Nicole have moved on to LIVESYNC, a company bringing live sport into gaming, turning real live moments into playable experiences.
Matty is working freelance with marketing and creative teams on AI adoption, and is open to the right in-house or project role. Alongside this, he's building his practice as a creative technologist.
