S4 Capital's Monks Technology Services Supercharges the Full Application Development Lifecycle with Dev²

Dev² ("Dev Squared") drives 44% faster delivery cycles and higher quality within a flexible, secure AI stack across retail, e-commerce, fintech, and manufacturing clients

NEW YORK, Sept. 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Monks Technology Services — the AI-first, experience-driven technology arm of S4 Capital plc — has introduced Dev², a breakthrough model that speeds up the full application development lifecycle. Early results show 44% faster delivery and 25% fewer bugs.

Dev² uses AI to ensure quality and consistency across Enterprise ecommerce platforms, particularly in the lead-up to the holiday shopping rush, when frequent UI changes and promotions can disrupt critical flows such as checkout. It dramatically speeds up unit testing — thousands of tests across product pages and checkout — shrinking the cycle from days to minutes and catching defects before customers see them, saving thousands of hours each month. It also automates design pattern maintenance, continuously monitoring for new components and maintaining a single, up-to-date base to deliver a consistent look and feel across pages. The result is a reliable, high-quality experience with faster checkouts, accurate product details, and intuitive navigation that reinforces brand trust and reduces bounce, turning holiday traffic into conversions.

"Everyone will tell you AI can make development faster. That's table stakes," says Karan Chetal, Chief Growth Officer at Monks Technology Services. "The difference with Dev² is who we pair it with. Lean, senior engineering squads — people who understand what the best outcome looks like — working with AI to accelerate every stage of the application development lifecycle. That combination doesn't just increase velocity; it uplevels the quality. It means fewer bugs, better architecture, and experiences that are right the first time. For e-commerce, that's the difference between simply shipping faster and delivering something customers love and trust."

Dev² uniquely delivers the following:

• Private AI Stack — Total Data & IP Control: Dev² deploys inside the client's own infrastructure, on-premises or private cloud; integrates with bring-your-own AI models like Azure AI, Ollama, or custom LLMs; and doesn't allow for public LLM exposure, ensuring compliance with strict enterprise, privacy, and regional regulations.
• Parallel Workstreams with Agentic AI: Dev² uses agentic AI workflows that can execute tasks in parallel — e.g., auto-generating tests while code is being written, reducing idle time and cycle delays. In practice, this means more features delivered per sprint, without increasing headcount.
• Proven Performance Gains: In pilot testing, Dev² drove 44% faster delivery cycles versus traditional models and 25% fewer bugs in production. Additionally, developers report less context switching and improved "flow state," leading to more consistent output.
• Modular & Flexible Integration: Dev² works with any modern tech stack — retail, e-commerce, fintech, manufacturing — and can integrate directly with retailer APIs, loyalty systems, POS integrations, and omnichannel marketing platforms.
• Designed for Enterprise Scale & Security: Dev² has built-in governance controls, SSO, and compliance reporting, and its modular platform supports air-gapped deployments for highly sensitive environments.

About Monks
Monks is the global, purely digital, data-driven, unitary operating brand of S4 Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global Marketing and Technology Services to accelerate business growth and redefine how brands interact with the world. From crafting tailored, outcome-focused campaigns to modernizing critical infrastructure for the ever-evolving digital landscape, Monks delivers solutions that engage audiences in real time, drive cultural relevance and sustain long-term impact—a tripartite approach that establishes it as a trusted partner to the world's most innovative brands.

Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services, ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-24) and remains the only partner featured in AdExchanger's Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). Named Adweek's first AI Agency of the Year (2023) and The One Show's inaugural AI Pioneer Organization, Monks was also awarded Business Intelligence Group's 2025 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award in both the Organizational and AI Product categories. As a trusted partner to cutting-edge innovators in tech, Monks earned titles such as Optimizely Experimentation Partner of the Year (2025), runner-up for the Adobe Firefly Partner Award (2024), and Workato's AI Visionary Customer Impact Award (2024). Additionally, Monks was named Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24) and achieved a record-breaking number of FWAs.

About S4Capital
S4Capital plc (SFOR.L) is the tech-led, new age/new era digital advertising, marketing and technology services company, established by Sir Martin Sorrell in May 2018.

Our strategy is to build a purely digital advertising, marketing and technology services business for global, multinational, regional, and local clients, and millennial-driven influencer brands. This will be achieved by integrating leading businesses in two synchronised practices: Marketing services and Technology services, along with an emphasis on 'faster, better, cheaper, more' execution in an always-on consumer-led environment, with a unitary structure.

The Company now has approximately 7,000 people in 33 countries with approximately 80% of net revenue across the Americas, 15% across Europe, the Middle East and Africa and 5% across Asia-Pacific. The longer-term objective is a geographic split of 60%:20%:20%. At the Group's last full year results, Content accounted for approximately 60% of net revenue, Data&Digital Media 24% and Technology Services 16%. The long-term objective for the practices is a split of 50%:25%:25%.

Sir Martin was CEO of WPP for 33 years, building it from a £1 million 'shell' company in 1985 into the world's largest advertising and marketing services company, with a market capitalisation of over £16 billion on the day he left. Prior to that Sir Martin was Group Financial Director of Saatchi & Saatchi Company Plc for nine years.

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