Monks Technology Services in Strategic Partnership with Windsurf Launches Dev²

LOS ANGELES, June 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- S4 Capital'sMonks Technology Services today announced the launch of Dev² (Dev Squared) as part of Monks.Flow, a next-generation AI development environment created in strategic partnership with Windsurf, the leader in secure, enterprise-grade AI development platform. Dev² unites Windsurf's cutting-edge coding toolkit with Monks' expertise in digital transformation to help organizations rapidly innovate, align cross-functional teams, and operationalize AI across every stage of the Application Development Lifecycle.

"This partnership with Monks reinforces our commitment to helping enterprise engineering teams operate in a continuous state of flow," said Gardner Johnson, Global Head of Partnerships. "Together, we're not just making developers faster, but we're enabling organizations to move more strategically by embedding AI into every layer of their digital fabric and unlocking new solutions."

"Our clients increasingly see software development as a strategic advantage, and AI is the unlock," said Adonya Ourshalimian, Head of Portfolio Strategy at Monks Technology Services. "With Dev², we're giving enterprises the infrastructure to reimagine how engineering, design, and marketing work together, transforming developer velocity into real business impact."

Introducing Dev²: A Full-Stack AI Development Hub

Dev² is more than a coding environment — it's an intelligent orchestration layer purpose-built for accelerating the full Application Development Lifecycle, including:

• Discovery & Planning: Requirement gathering, stakeholder interviews, wireframes, and finalizing scope.
• Design & Architecture: UX/UI mockups, visual design, hosting architecture, and technology stack decisions.
• Development & Testing: Frontend and backend development, APIs, integrations, unit testing, manual QA, and security/performance testing.
• Launch & Scale: UAT, DNS/network configuration, deployment, post-launch support, monitoring, and performance tuning.
• Iteration & Optimization: Backlog queue management, incremental work, user validation, bug fixes, and feature enhancements.

At every phase, Dev² integrates AI to reduce cycle time, improve quality, and increase collaboration between technical and business stakeholders.

Strategic Partnership to Drive Enterprise Transformation

As a preferred partner, Monks will leverage Windsurf's secure, no-retention AI coding environment, compliant with FedRAMP High and other stringent enterprise standards to help clients responsibly integrate AI into their dev workflows. Combined with Monks' leadership in creative technology and data-driven content production, the partnership offers an unmatched blend of velocity, governance, and usability.

Together, Monks and Windsurf will enable enterprises to:

• Shorten product development cycles and improve time-to-market.
• Break down silos between product, design, and engineering teams.
• Build scalable, AI-assisted digital experiences with confidence and compliance.
• Make smarter decisions with real-time performance data and insights.

Windsurf's Commitment to Enterprise-Grade Governance

Windsurf's platform provides enterprise-grade governance, with features like FedRAMP High compliance and zero data retention, ensuring engineering teams can adopt AI responsibly and with confidence. This strategic alliance is part of Windsurf's broader commitment to building a partner-first ecosystem, where innovators like Monks help enterprise customers turn developer velocity and creative agility into a sustainable competitive advantage.

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 possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry's best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world's trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.

Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek's Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger's Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek's first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek's Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.

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 and marketing 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 7,300 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.

About Windsurf

Windsurf is a generative AI-powered software development platform helping engineers move faster, reduce technical debt, and build with greater confidence. With code-native models and flow-aware tools, Windsurf integrates seamlessly into existing workflows to enable higher-quality engineering at scale. Learn more at windsurf.com.

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For media inquiries, please contact:

Payal Patel
‍payal.patel@windsurf.com | 224-324-2726

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Sarah Murray
sarah.murray@monks.com | 402-658-9341

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