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CogFlare. Helping create Faster, Greener and Cheaper Umbraco websites CogFlare is Cogworks' flagship open-source Umbraco package, helping brands like Russell-Cooke build faster, greener, and more efficient websites.

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A couple of years ago, we launched our free Umbraco package, CogFlare 🚀

It improves performance and reduces carbon emissions.

We're pleased to say it's been downloaded 6,000+ times, helping teams build faster, more sustainable Umbraco sites.

See how Russell-Cooke & Prostate Cancer UK use it ↓

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How to Impelement A Local Rag System | Cogworks Developer Tutorial Founder and Senior AI Architetech at XANT shows us How to Impelement A Local Rag System with Semantic Kernel Ollama and Qdrant

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Tech Founder and AI engineer Elliot One shares a handy guide to building a fully local RAG system with Semantic Kernel, Ollama, and Qdrant. This tutorial shows how local document retrieval and AI reasoning can deliver accurate, private, and production-ready AI systems for real-world use. 🌍 👇🔗

Umbraco Spark digital developers event returns to Bristol for 6th yr Web developers and digital innovators will attend the sixth Umbraco Spark conference at We The Curious, Bristol, on Friday 20th March 2026.

UK city #Bristol gets ready for another @umbracospark.bsky.social .
The Sixth Annual @umbraco.com Spark Conference is heading to the city this March, set to bring digital developers together for talks, learning and community-led innovation.#Umbraco #WebDev #TechEvents #Bristol

Cogworks, Community Techaid digital inclusion/e-waste milestone - Cogworks joined its long-term charity partner Community TechAid last week to celebrate the organisation's fifth anniversary.

Read about how we recently celebrated Community TechAid's digital inclusion & e-waste milestones with MediaShotz.

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Image of a conference room for an Umbraco Meetup in Manchester

What a day at Umbraco in the City last week.🙌

The vibrant engergy in Manchester makes community contribution so much fun.

From USynC talks to Umbraco editor experience improvements, there was so much to love.

Kudos to Jon, Rachel, Phil, and Adam for organising such a great event! 👏

“Simply knowing how sustainable your brand's website is is the first step before any optimisations occur.” — Arek Koperek, Frontend Developer at COGWORKS

Read more from Arek: https://www.wearecogworks.com/innerworks/articles/why-check-digital-sustainability

#DigitalSustainability

Digital sustainability is the right thing to do, but it also drives digital momentum!

Curious where sustainability could take your digital platform?

Check your digital sustainability score for free https://www.wearecogworks.com/audit/website-carbon-calculator

#DigitalConsultancy

Preparing for Umbraco 17 | Cogworks Digital Consultancy Learn what Umbraco 17 brings and how Cogworks’ experts prepare seamless, future-ready upgrades that improve performance and sustainability

Umbraco 17 is coming soon! ⏰✨

As Umbraco partners and expert since 2008, COGWORKS has seamlessly upgraded countless solutions through the versions.

It's all here 👉 https://www.wearecogworks.com/innerworks/articles/umbraco-17-upgrade-guide

A website isn't always the answer.

Controversial? 🤭

For Foster + Partners, it was an intranet, built on Umbraco with Azure Cognitive Search 👏
Read the full story: https://www.wearecogworks.com/our-works/foster-and-partners

#DigitalConsultancy #MomentumFramework #Umbraco #Cogworks

Workshop days are always a good day 🙌

Last week, Imran joined the Umbraco community to participate in the Umbraco 17 Workshop, test and explore the new backoffice. 🥳

Lots to love.

Full post coming next week.

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#UmbracoPlatinumPartner

Celebrating Community TechAid's 5-Year Journey of Digital Inclusion Team members, Josh and Katie attend Community Tech Aid's five-year birthday celebration

We're fresh back from our charity partner, Community TechAid's 5th birthday celebration. Read the highlights and this matters to London, us, and beyond! 🌎❤️https://www.wearecogworks.com/innerworks/articles/cta-5-years

#CharityEvent #TechForGood #NonProfit #SocialImpact #DigitalDivide

Head of Development, Imran heads to Canada to talk about how Azure Container Apps can help our builds be kinder to the planet, cheaper to run and more performant... 🌱

Cogworks charity partner, Community Tech Aid celebrate 5 years of helping to end digital exclusion

Azure Container Apps help leading UK charity cut costs and carbon!

Kicking off the week looking back at the last because, well, what a week ❤️

Stay tuned for more info about this method

#DigitalSustainability #SustainabilityConsulting #SustainableDevelopment

Imran hopes to inspire developers to see how thoughtful engineering can drive sustainability, performance, and cost efficiency, all at once. ✨

...why a simple decision to rethink your hosting architecture (moving from traditional web app hosting to a container-based setup using Azure Container Apps) can help major brand websites perform significantly better, be more sustainable, and be cheaper to run...🧵

Cogworks Head of Development Imran has just delivered a smashing talk at DevOpsDays Montréal!

He chatted about the method that helped one of the UK's leading charities, Prostate Cancer UK, cut its hosting costs and carbon emissions by around 85%! ✨

The talk explored... 🧵

Eco web: Cogworks launches free Website Carbon Calculator - Web agency Cogworks has launched a free website carbon calculator/sustainability tool to show how greener websites perform better & cost less.

At the start of this year, we thought:
🌱 Why isn't an easy-to-understand digital sustainability website (beyond just counting carbon)?

And then this happened:

mediashotz.co.uk/sustainable-...
#DigitalConsultancy #DigitalSustainability #WebsiteCarbon #SustainableDevelopment

Shout out to @umbraco.com MCP for making these ideas a reality

AI for Professional Service Firms | Cogworks Insights Learn how firms can use AI to improve websites, user experience, and security — with expert advice from Cogworks’ Kas and Thom.

A quick intro to the possibilities of AI in the professional service world with Cogworks AI and Automation Architect, Thom, and Head of Delivery at Cogworks, Kas.

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Extra special thanks to the valued community members, @PhilWhitaker and @matthew-wise.bsky.social for bringing this solution into the wild 🙌

#UmbracoPlatinumPartner #AIAutomation #MCPServer @umbraco.com #OpenSource

In response to the recently released Umbraco MCP Server in Beta, AI and Automation Architect, Thom, explains why this release could be content management gold, including a few simple use cases that could change way we think about website content. ✨

Article: www.wearecogworks.com/innerworks/a...

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Cogworks: Our aim is simple really. To drive digital momentum so your digital presence evolves, stays up-to-date, and consistently meets user demands and your yearly business goals.