Upskillcycle is a Singapore social enterprise. We ship digital work for clients, run workshops for companies, and open tech careers to people the industry overlooks, including persons with disabilities. Each one pays for the next.
Operating since 2021 Accessible by default, WCAG 2.1 AA BusinessForGood member
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Three ways in
They are not a ladder. Each path feeds the other two, which is the whole point of the name.
For businesses and organisations
Marketing sites, landing pages, internal tools and accessibility fixes. Delivered by a team that includes the people most sites forget to test with.
For teams that need to move faster
Hands-on workshops in low-code, no-code and AI tools. Your people leave having built the thing, not having watched a slide about it.
For individuals and career switchers
Courses, one-to-one mentorship and real project work. Open to everyone, designed so that a disability is never the reason you cannot start.
Why the name
Most inclusive hiring programmes depend on someone's goodwill budget surviving the next quarter. Ours depends on client work being good. That is a sturdier thing to stand on.
Career switchers, fresh graduates and persons with disabilities train on the tools that let a small team ship real software: Webflow, no-code platforms, AI-assisted design.
The strongest graduates move onto paid client work under senior supervision. You get the website. They get the portfolio piece and the pay cheque that makes the next job possible.
Clients who watched us work usually want their own people trained on the same tools. That training revenue funds the next intake of learners, and the loop starts again.
Build
We are a small studio, so we are honest about scope. If your project needs forty people, we are not the right call. If it needs a sharp site shipped properly and kept alive afterwards, we are.
The site that has to explain what you do and get someone to enquire. Built for speed, edited by your team without calling us every time a price changes.
Booking systems, member portals, intake forms, dashboards, the spreadsheet that outgrew itself. Built on no-code where that is genuinely faster, and in code where it is not.
A WCAG 2.1 AA audit of your existing site, a prioritised fix list, and the fixes themselves if you want us to do them. Tested with keyboard and screen reader, not only automated scans.
Moving off a platform you have outgrown, or off one nobody at your organisation still knows how to edit. We keep the URLs, the search rankings and your sanity.
Hosting, updates, backups, small content changes and a person who answers. Monthly, cancel when you like. Most of our clients take this and stop thinking about it.
You need the site live this month, not next quarter, and you need to edit it yourself afterwards.
Grant reporting, donor pages, programme sign-ups. We understand the funding cycle because we live in it.
Procurement gets a capable vendor. Your ESG and DEI reporting gets a supplier story that is actually true.
Accessibility conformance is not optional in public-facing work. It is the part we are best at.
Roughly one in six people worldwide lives with a significant disability. On most websites they hit a wall at the first dropdown. We test differently because of who is on the team.
Genuinely sequential, so we number it. Most marketing sites run four to six weeks end to end.
Thirty minutes. What the site has to achieve, who has to be able to edit it, what the deadline actually is. You get a written quote within three working days.
Sitemap, page outlines and the words, before any visual design. Most projects that go wrong went wrong here.
Desktop and mobile, real content in place. Two rounds of revisions included.
Staging link from day one so you watch it come together instead of waiting for a reveal.
Keyboard, screen reader, contrast, page weight. Fixed before launch, documented for your records.
Go live, plus a recorded walkthrough of how to edit your own site. Care plan starts here if you want one.
Train
Your team does not need another overview deck about AI. They need to have made the thing once, badly, with someone in the room to unstick them.
Prompting that holds up under real work, where the outputs go wrong, and what your team should never paste into a chat window. Ends with three of your own workflows rebuilt.
Marketing and ops people leave with a live Webflow page they made themselves, and the confidence to change it on a Tuesday afternoon without raising a ticket.
For comms, marketing and web editors. Alt text that earns its place, heading structure, link text, PDFs, and why your CMS lets you break the site by accident.
Turn the spreadsheet everyone is scared of into something with permissions and an audit trail. Airtable and Softr, using your actual data.
Six to eight weeks, weekly sessions with project work in between. For teams going through a real digital transition rather than a one-off skills top-up.
Tell us the three things your team keeps getting stuck on. We will tell you honestly whether a workshop fixes it or whether you have a process problem instead.
On-site anywhere in Singapore, or virtual. Group sizes from six to thirty.
Learn
Open to everyone. Designed from the ground up so that a disability, a non-technical background or a mid-career gap is never the reason you cannot begin.
Foundational. Your first exposure to web design, ending with a page that is actually online.
Interactions, CMS collections, responsive edge cases and handing a site over to a client.
Using generative tools in a real design workflow without producing work that all looks the same.
Digital illustration and 3D modelling with TinkerCAD, for people who want to make things visually.
How code actually gets from a laptop to a live server, for people heading towards technical roles.
Matched with someone doing the job now, not someone who did it in 2015. Portfolio review, interview practice and the unglamorous questions about how work works.
Graduates who are ready get placed onto supervised paid client projects. A portfolio of live work beats a certificate in every interview we have watched.
Materials, pacing and assessment adapt to how you work. If you are a person with a disability, ask us about current funding support administered through SG Enable, and we will tell you exactly what you would be eligible for today.
Straight answers
Talk to us
One form, three destinations. We reply within one working day, and if we are the wrong fit we will say so rather than take the meeting.