Automotive
Ford Academy
fordacademy.co.za
A management platform built for Ford's South African dealer network — performance tracking, member management, and training in one place.
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We build platforms. Then we keep them running.
Design, engineering, hosting and support from one accountable team — from database to DNS. What you get isn't a project that ends. It's a platform that stays up.
Platforms built
08
Operating since
2010
Uptime, trailing 90d
99.9%
Median response
41 min
Platforms
A few of the platforms we've built.
Every engagement is different — we tailor what we build to the problem at hand. Here are a few of ours.
Environmental & ISO
CS Environmental
csenvironmental.co.za
A compliance portal for environmental management and ISO 14001 certification — document registers, audit prep, and corrective actions in one calm place.
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Fitness & Wellness
Pulse Studio
pulsestudio.co.za
The everyday operating system for fitness and wellness studios — schedules, bookings, members, and payments without the spreadsheet sprawl.
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Sales & CRM
SmrtContacts
smrtcontacts.com
A fast, modern CRM that runs on autopilot — people, companies and deals in one workspace, with a visual pipeline and a drag-and-drop automation builder that handles the busywork.
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Invoicing & Finance
SmrtLedger
smrtledger.com
Multi-company invoicing without the spreadsheet mess — branded invoices and statements, recurring billing, payment allocation and automatic aging, all computed server-side in ZAR.
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Insurance & Risk
RiskSurvey
risksurvey.app
A field risk-survey platform for insurance surveyors — capture on-site assessments, score risk and generate reports even offline at remote sites, then sync automatically once you're back on signal.
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Security & Incident Response
SmrtIncident
smrtincident.com
Out-of-band incident response — when everything goes down, your response plan stays up. Guided playbooks, secure war rooms and an append-only evidence locker, hosted well clear of the systems they're there to rescue.
Visit SmrtIncident →HR & People Ops
Zen Leave
zenleave.co.za
Calm, compliant employee leave for modern South African teams — built around the BCEA so HR doesn't have to remember every clause.
Launching soonAnd a few more in the works.
If your industry needs a purpose-built platform, we'd like to hear about it.
Services
Build, host, run, evolve.
More than code. We're not developers who hand over a zip file and disappear — we build platforms and then operate them, so you get a living product, not a one-off project.
Design & build
UX, frontend, backend, integrations — designed and engineered for the specific shape of your industry.
- Discovery & workflow mapping
- Clickable prototypes
- Production-grade engineering
Hosting & infrastructure
Servers, database, SSL, backups, monitoring. One bill, one team, one phone number.
- SA-region hosting
- Daily encrypted backups
- On-call incident response
Continuous evolution
Platforms grow. We ship small, considered changes informed by real usage.
- Sprint-based delivery
- Telemetry-led decisions
- Quarterly roadmap reviews
Support & partnership
A real human who knows your platform, your team, and your priorities.
- Named account lead
- SLAs that actually mean it
- Plain-English status updates
Process
From idea to a platform that stays up.
Four honest stages. No big reveals, no surprise invoices, no zip-file goodbyes.
01
Discover
We sit with you, your team and your customers, and map the workflows, the edge cases, and the half-broken spreadsheet that's actually running things. ~2–3 weeks
02
Design
Clickable prototypes before code. You see, click and feel the platform — bad ideas die while they're still cheap. ~3–5 weeks
03
Build
Iterative sprints with regular demos. We ship to staging weekly, and to production when it's genuinely ready. ~8–14 weeks
04
Run
The day after launch we're still here — monitoring, supporting, and shipping the next thing your team needs. Ongoing
Principles
What makes us different.
Six things we hold to on every platform we run.
Full-stack ownership
One team from database to DNS — no vendor finger-pointing.
POPIA & BCEA aware
Compliance and data protection built in, not bolted on at the end.
Long relationships
Our clients stay with us for years, not months. We do this work to do it well.
Industry-specific
We don't build generic SaaS. Each platform reflects its sector's reality.
Local & accountable
A South African team that moves fast and communicates plainly.
Always shipping
Small, considered improvements every fortnight — for every platform we run.
Writing
Notes from building and running software.
The practical things we keep relearning — about invoicing, pipelines, and the unglamorous admin that decides whether a business feels calm or chaotic.
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