Zakaria Maghfour
Turns what your business needs into a site your customer understands at once.
{ About Fiducia }
A studio of three in Arnhem. Raised on computers, websites since 1999, and eighteen years of IT at organisations where nothing may fail. We now put that precision into your brand and website.
- 1999Mach4 Dezign, the first own web agency
- 18years in IT and software
- 25+countries running a system Zakaria worked on
- 3people, one team, no account managers
Experience gained at
- Accenture
- Royal Schiphol Group
- ProRail
- BAM
- Volvo Financial Services
- CIMSOLUTIONS
{ The team }
Three people. One team.
The people you meet in the first conversation design and build your work. No handoff, no juniors taking over, no account managers in between.
Portrait coming
Design and front endShaner
Makes every screen right, down to the last pixel and on every device.
Portrait coming
DevelopmentAli
Builds what we design: fast, secure and ready for what comes next.
The founder's time machine
1988
Commodore 64
Raised on computers
My father's Commodore 64. Loading games from a cassette tape, on a screen without colour.
{ Why Fiducia }
A letter from the founder.
In 1999, next to my studies, I opened my first web agency: Mach4 Dezign, a nod to my surname. Everyone feared the millennium bug, and suddenly every company wanted a website and a digital logo. I designed brand identities and built websites for small businesses one after another, all by hand in HTML with a separate stylesheet for every browser. Those were golden years. They taught me that precision is not a luxury, and that running a business is what I love most.
Instead of growing the agency, I chose a job after my studies. Looking back, the best school I could have had.
At Accenture I learned the trade as a developer and designer, including almost a year in the UK. After that I spent years on systems that really matter: pricing for Volvo lease contracts in more than 25 countries, ProRail's train traffic applications and Schiphol's A-Pier, the airport's largest physical IT project.
I have seen everything change, from writing every line by hand to the smartest tools of today. We work with the newest technology because it gets you live sooner. But a tool does not know what is good. Because we understand every layer, we stay at the wheel. That is the difference.
Running my own business kept pulling. I went freelance, grew fast on social media and learned how attention works online. Then I founded the Fiducia Group, with two companies that each have to be the best at their craft. Fiducia Design does brand, websites and advertising. Fiducia Development builds software and AI.
Zakaria MaghfourFounder, Fiducia Group
{ Where our strength is }
Three worlds. One team.
Websites and brands
More than twenty five years of designing and building sites and brands. From the first HTML to the newest technology, for small and medium businesses.
Large organisations
Accenture, Volvo, ProRail and Schiphol. Systems for thousands of users, where downtime is not an option. We hold every site to that standard.
IT down to the bone
Developer, analyst, designer and manager. We understand every layer of what we build, from the server to the last pixel.
How we work
- 01
Your process first, then your site
We start with how your business works and what your customer wants to know. Only then do we design.
- 02
Made to measure, down to the detail
No templates. Every site is made for your customer and keeps up with new technology.
- 03
Built like a system
Fast, secure and easy to manage. The way we learned it at organisations where downtime is not an option.
- 04
Newest technology, experience at the wheel
We work with the newest tools, so you go live sooner. Our experience decides what is good.
{ Fiducia Group }
Two companies. Each the best at its craft.
Kept apart on purpose, so you always work with specialists. And together as soon as your site also needs software, integrations or AI.
development{ What you can count on }
- 01
A fixed price
The price in the proposal is the price. Extra work only with your written approval, price included.
- 02
A date we keep
The go-live date is in the proposal. If we run late, you pay the final instalment only once it is live.
- 03
Everything is yours
Design, code, copy, domain and accounts are in your name. You can always leave, and take everything with you.
- 04
Honest advice
If something will not pay off for you, we say so. Even when it means less work for us.
{ Meet us }
The first conversation is with me.
Thirty minutes, online or in Arnhem. You tell me what you want to achieve, I tell you honestly what I would do. Even if that means you do not need us.
Zakaria MaghfourFounder, Fiducia Group