UK-based Web design and marketing company Jojet is doing exactly what Assembla was first designed to do - building and managing an agile distributed team.

Note: This is our first post from guest writer Ryan Menezes, who will be profiling Assembla users with good ideas about how to use the system.

Jojet has been using Assembla for around 18 months. Jojet is what CEO Joel Hughes calls one of the "good guy" web firms - it uses white hat SEO and actually takes web standards seriously.

Jojet used hardly any remote work between its formation in 2001 and when it started with Assembla. Joel had freelanced a ton earlier in his career, including private contracting to ready firms for Y2K, so he realized that sticking to in-house work held Jojet back. But proper remote development needed source control. He began researching project management services till he found the one he wanted.

"Assembla just came out tops," says Joel. "And still does."

Since then, the company's ammassed a whole circle of freelancers in the UK and abroad. One worker, who Joel hired right around the time he signed up with us, lives in nearby Cardiff. He still does a load of work for Jojet, but he and Joel have only met in person once.

It's been a good year for Jojet. They began working with Underwood Insurance right when they signed up with Assembla. The site now comes up as number one on Google for several of their key phrases. Before Jojet stepped in, it appeared nowhere in the first ten pages of listings.

Another client, Learning Providers, bagged more than 20 new paid registrations in a short period after Jojet redid their site. Earlier, they had managed no new subscriptions for a year and a half.

Joel doesn't want to host his own project management apps any more than he'd want to host his own email or DNS servers - the admin overhead would cost him way too much. That's why he tried online subversion repositories, and he found we offered the most features. He likes how we handle the SVN side, and he calls ticketing a key part of Jojet's development procedure. Our "killer feature" though, says Joel, is support.

"When something was wrong it got fixed sharpish!" says Joel. "More than that, Andy Singleton and Jeff Carl have both taken the time on previous occasions to listen to my concerns or listen to my ideas for new features. That is cool."

In the next year, Joel sees the company growing even more. Turns out that right before talking to me, he was writing a job description for a new recruitment ad, trying to grab even more new developers and designers.