The Locked Questions Feature That Fixed Nucleus Multi-Stage Entry Workflows
Read-only questions were causing unnecessary round-trips between submission stages. An admin asked if they could selectively lock questions instead. We tied the feature to their existing "checked okay" workflow—so it just worked.
Why We Built In-App Alerts for Nucleus Instead of Sending More Emails
Our internal systems worked well for developers, but we had no way to reach administrators inside Nucleus itself. Email was noisy and arrived at the wrong time. Release notes were forgotten by the time clients needed them. This post covers how we built a cross-instance alert system to reach admins i
Unified Pricing Management into a Single Interface in Nucleus
What looked like a simple pricing request from the Film Awards team turned out to be a systems architecture problem. Pricing was scattered across Nucleus with no single source of truth, and they'd been working around it with artificial categories and manual interventions. This post covers how we reb
Simplifying the Awards Navigation List in Nucleus for entrants
The 2025 focus has been admin tools, but this post is about the entrants. Nucleus was designed as a form builder, and BAFTA's Awards team have pushed it to its limits. What started as 7 forms became over 16, and the Create Entry screen was overwhelming users under deadline pressure. How we added gen
Improving Judge Creation in Nucleus
How a support ticket led to a small but useful workflow fix for creating and communicating with judges.
Events in 2025: Reliability, Data, and Delivery
A recap of how BAFTA’s Events platform evolved in 2025 through steady delivery rather than major releases, focusing on reliability, data quality, and operational improvements for high-pressure live events.
Nucleus in 2025: A Year of Incremental Change
A practical recap of what shipped on BAFTA’s Nucleus platform in 2025, covering pricing, judging workflows, admin tooling, finance, and operational improvements delivered incrementally by a small team.
Rebuilding Nucleus Around Content: The Story of Media Library
Each entry had space for exactly one video file. If someone submitted to multiple categories, they uploaded the same 4–10GB video each time. Painful for entrants, wasteful for BAFTA. My first fix didn't work. So I stopped patching and redesigned the entire workflow. That's where Media Library came
Delivering Quick Wins Through User Feedback
The best features often come from listening carefully to users. Here's how user feedback led to a quick win that improved workflows across the platform.
Developing Nucleus for Awards Entry and Judging – Case Studies
I led the creation of Nucleus, BAFTA’s custom awards management platform, replacing a failing third-party system with a scalable, highly configurable solution now used by over 1,400 awards programmes. The platform supports complex workflows, dynamic forms, self-service tools, and remains the backb