GraphQL Technical Steering Committee member and community-funded open-source maintainer with over 15 years of experience. Founder of SoutHACKton and co-founder of Southampton Makerspace.

Jem Gillam

Community Operations at Graphile. Manages community engagement, sponsorship programs, and operational aspects of Graphile Ltd.

Executive Team

Benjie Gillam

Maintainer and Director

Lead developer of the Graphile suite, including PostGraphile and Grafast.

Jem Gillam

Community Operations and Director

Responsible for community management and company operations.

Board of Directors

Benjie Gillam

Director

Jem Gillam

Director

Founding Story

Originally started as PostGraphQL by Caleb Mer, the project was handed over to Benjie Gillam in 2017. Benjie and Jem Gillam incorporated Graphile Ltd in 2018 to formalize the maintenance and expansion of the Graphile suite of developer tools.

Business Model

Revenue

Not publicly reported; community-funded.

Revenue Model

Crowd-funded open source via GitHub Sponsors and Open Collective; paid development support and consultancy.

Pricing Tiers

Launch Offer

$25/mo

Early-access Worker Pro preset, discounted support.

Production Sponsor

$100/mo

PostGraphile Pro access, pgRITA database tool, logo featured.

Private Advisor Tier

$1,500/mo

Development Support contract, priority Slack/GitHub support, discounted consultancy.

Private

Target Markets

Industries & Segments

Software Developers
PostgreSQL Users
Startups
Enterprise Backend Teams

Use Cases

Building scalable GraphQL APIs over PostgreSQL
Rapid prototyping of full-stack applications
Managing database migrations
Asynchronous background task processing

Notable Customers

Various Open Source Users
Community Sponsors

Quick Facts

Headquarters

Southampton, United Kingdom

Founded

2018

Entity Type

Limited Company

Employees

Total Funding

Crowd-funded (GitHub Sponsors/Open Collective)

Investors

Community Sponsors

Office Locations

Southampton

Funding History

Community FundingVaries (Crowd-funded)

Ongoing

N/A valuation

GitHub Sponsors

Open Collective Community

History & Milestones

2025-10-28

PostGraphile V5 and Grafast V1 reached Release Candidate status.

2019-04

Graphile Starter released for full-stack application development.

2018-01-30

Graphile Ltd incorporated in the UK.

2017

Benjie Gillam becomes lead maintainer; project renamed to PostGraphile.

2016-04-23

PostGraphQL (later PostGraphile) v1.0.1 released by Caleb Mer.

Key Capabilities

GraphQL planning and execution engine (Grafast)

PostgreSQL introspection and schema generation

Extensible plugin system

High-performance background job processing

Full-stack project scaffolding

Integrations & Partnerships

Platform Integrations

PostgreSQL
Node.js
GraphQL
React
TypeScript

Key Partnerships

GraphQL Foundation Member

Connect

Website

GitHub

X / Twitter

Discord

AI Topics

Graphile Ltd focuses on these topics:

Task Automation(1)

Database Tools(1)

DevOps Infrastructure(1)

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Graphile Ltd

Providing higher-performance, efficient GraphQL planning and execution engines and related open-source tooling for Node.js/PostgreSQL ecosystems.

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At a Glance

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Southampton, United KingdomHeadquarters

2018Est.

2Employees

Focus Areas

Task Automation

Database Tools

DevOps Infrastructure

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Graphile Worker

PostgreSQL Job Queue for Node.js

Task Automation Database Tools DevOps Infra

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Latest News

10/28/2025

PostGraphile and Grafast release candidate!

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03/24/2025

Major Grafast beta: three down, one to go

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11/12/2024

Graphile Worker 0.14 - Batch Jobs

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10/01/2023

Step Aside Resolvers: a New Approach to GraphQL Execution

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Products & Services

PostGraphile

Extensible high-performance GraphQL API server backed by PostgreSQL.

Grafast

Next-generation planning and execution engine for GraphQL (v1.0 RC).

Graphile Worker

High-performance Node.js/PostgreSQL background job queue.

Graphile Migrate

Opinionated SQL-powered migration tool for PostgreSQL.

Market Position

High-performance alternative to Hasura and Apollo, focusing on deep PostgreSQL integration and efficient GraphQL execution via Grafast.

Leadership

Founders

Benjie Gillam

GraphQL Technical Steering Committee member and community-funded open-source maintainer with over 15 years of experience. Founder of SoutHACKton and co-founder of Southampton Makerspace.

Jem Gillam

Community Operations at Graphile. Manages community engagement, sponsorship programs, and operational aspects of Graphile Ltd.

Executive Team

Benjie Gillam

Maintainer and Director

Lead developer of the Graphile suite, including PostGraphile and Grafast.

Jem Gillam

Community Operations and Director

Responsible for community management and company operations.

Board of Directors

Benjie Gillam

Director

Jem Gillam

Director

Founding Story

Business Model

Revenue

Not publicly reported; community-funded.

Revenue Model

Crowd-funded open source via GitHub Sponsors and Open Collective; paid development support and consultancy.

Pricing Tiers

Launch Offer

$25/mo

Early-access Worker Pro preset, discounted support.

Production Sponsor

$100/mo

PostGraphile Pro access, pgRITA database tool, logo featured.

Private Advisor Tier

$1,500/mo

Development Support contract, priority Slack/GitHub support, discounted consultancy.

Private

Target Markets

Industries & Segments

Software Developers
PostgreSQL Users
Startups
Enterprise Backend Teams

Use Cases

Building scalable GraphQL APIs over PostgreSQL
Rapid prototyping of full-stack applications
Managing database migrations
Asynchronous background task processing

Notable Customers

Various Open Source Users
Community Sponsors

Quick Facts

Headquarters

Southampton, United Kingdom

Founded

2018

Entity Type

Limited Company

Employees

Total Funding

Crowd-funded (GitHub Sponsors/Open Collective)

Investors

Community Sponsors

Office Locations

Southampton

Funding History

Community FundingVaries (Crowd-funded)

Ongoing

N/A valuation

GitHub Sponsors

Open Collective Community

History & Milestones

2025-10-28

PostGraphile V5 and Grafast V1 reached Release Candidate status.

2019-04

Graphile Starter released for full-stack application development.

2018-01-30

Graphile Ltd incorporated in the UK.

2017

Benjie Gillam becomes lead maintainer; project renamed to PostGraphile.

2016-04-23

PostGraphQL (later PostGraphile) v1.0.1 released by Caleb Mer.

Key Capabilities

GraphQL planning and execution engine (Grafast)

PostgreSQL introspection and schema generation

Extensible plugin system

High-performance background job processing

Full-stack project scaffolding

Integrations & Partnerships

Platform Integrations

PostgreSQL
Node.js
GraphQL
React
TypeScript

Key Partnerships

GraphQL Foundation Member

Connect

Website

GitHub

X / Twitter

Discord

AI Topics

Graphile Ltd focuses on these topics:

Task Automation(1)

Database Tools(1)

DevOps Infrastructure(1)

Back to all developers