Intelligence from the frontier.

AI promises everything. Most African SMEs end up with expensive subscriptions to tools they barely use. Here is the pattern we see, and the thinking that prevents it.

Building a consulting and technology company from kuGompo City, Eastern Cape is a deliberate choice. Here is why it matters, for us, and for the businesses we work with.

Hiring a full dev team when you needed one senior brain is the most expensive mistake non-technical founders make. Here is how to tell the difference.

A small studio in kuGompo City put four products into market in a year. The secret is not heroics or headcount, it is an internal operating system that turns every build into a head start on the next.

Anthropic's Claude is our default across the platform. One product runs OpenAI instead, deliberately. Here is exactly what runs where, and why a studio that tells you is one you can trust with the rest.

The custom software vs off-the-shelf question rarely needs a build. Here is the honest test for when a South African business should keep paying for a subscription, and the specific signals that mean it is finally time to build and own your own system.

Most apps assume fast, always-on connections and cheap data. In South Africa, none of that holds. Here is how we build offline-first apps that keep working through load-shedding, patchy coverage, and expensive mobile data.

Fractional CTO is a term that means different things depending on who is selling it. This guide is for South African founders who need to know whether it solves their actual problem, and what to look for if it does.