Custom Apps
The software your business runs on, whatever shape that takes.
Web apps. iOS and Android. macOS and Windows. From a single-purpose tool to a platform that runs a 200-seat operation.
Shared codebases where it makes sense: React on the web, React Native on mobile, Tauri on the desktop. You pay for the logic once. What changes per platform is the interface, not a rebuild.
What We Build
Eight Things, All Working
Every one of these is running for somebody right now. Push them around: they are the real thing, not screenshots.
01
Operations Platforms
For businesses that outgrew spreadsheets and a folder of disconnected tools. One system, one login, everything joined up. Multi-company, roles and permissions, and an audit trail of who did what.
Move a job through the board.
02
Client & Staff Portals
Your clients, tenants or staff get their own login and see only what belongs to them. Documents, invoices, progress. It lives on your domain and wears your brand, not ours.
Sign in and tab through it.
03
Booking & Scheduling
Restaurant tables, consulting rooms, cabins, service calls. Availability rules that match how you actually trade, automatic confirmations, and a calendar that fills itself.
Take a slot and watch it go.
04
Invoicing, Quoting & Finance
Quote to invoice to paid, with VAT handled and the maths matching how you actually bill. Not how off-the-shelf accounting software thinks you should.
Add a line. The total is live.
05
Dashboards & Data Apps
Your numbers, now, not a month-old export. Revenue, orders, conversion, whatever runs your day, in one pane you can drill into and hand to the board.
Change the range. It redraws.
06
Email & Marketing Tools
Drag-and-drop builders and newsletters that render properly in Outlook, which is harder than it sounds. Your tool, your templates, your list. No per-contact bill.
Build a mailer from blocks.
07
Digital Twins & Simulation
A live model of something physical: an estate, a warehouse, a fleet. Real state, updating, so you can see the operation instead of reading about it in a report.
Watch the estate tick over.
08
Native Desktop & Mobile
Not everything belongs in a browser. Sometimes it needs to live in the dock, work offline, and talk to hardware. Tauri and Rust for desktop, React Native and Expo for mobile.
Switch the surface.
Real Projects
Range, in Four Glances
Newberry House
Two campuses, one platform, from first website visit to enrolled family.
Operations platform + portals24 cabins, 5 interfacesNoupoort Mountain Estate
Event-gated bookings and automated invoicing. Zero manual booking.
Booking + finance + twinInstant quoting3DPrintZA
South Africa's 3D printing network: quoting, a filament finder and studio dashboards.
Marketplace platformNative macOSDevDock
Every dev project in one cockpit instead of a hundred windows. Tauri and Rust.
Desktop nativeAlready Have an Application?
We Take Things Over
Not every job starts on a blank page. Most of the interesting ones do not.
Your developer left
Nobody knows how the code works and everyone is afraid to touch it. We read it, document it, and take it over.
You outgrew the spreadsheet
Airtable, Sheets, a no-code tool held together with hope. We migrate the data and build the real thing.
It works, but barely
Slow, ugly, breaking at the edges. We rebuild it in pieces, in production, with no big-bang weekend.
You are renting software that nearly fits
Paying monthly forever for eighty percent of what you need. We build the twenty percent you are missing, and you own all of it.
Any of that sound familiar? Tell us what you are stuck with →
How a Build Actually Works
No Black Box
A simple tool is about six weeks end to end. A full platform is closer to six months. Anyone who quotes you either without asking questions first is guessing.
Discovery 1 to 2 weeks
We sit with the people who will use it and map what actually happens today: where the time goes, where the errors creep in, where data gets lost. You get a written brief that states the problem properly, before anyone mentions a solution.
Design 2 to 4 weeks
Wireframes first, then high-fidelity screens in Figma. You click a real prototype on your own phone. We test it with the people who will use it. Nothing gets built until you have signed off on what it is.
Build 4 to 12 weeks
You see working software from week two, and a demo every fortnight after that. We build on designs that have already been tested, so the build is execution, not guesswork.
Launch and evolve Ongoing
Hosting, domain, SSL and monitoring handled. Bugs fixed free for the first month. Then we stay on: features, iterations, and scaling it when the work arrives.
Under the Hood
What It Is Made Of, and Why You Care
AI Inside Your Platform
Your Software, With an Assistant In It
Not a chatbot bolted to the corner of the screen. An assistant that can actually reach your data, do the work, and bill fairly for it.
An assistant that can reach your system
We expose your platform over MCP, so an AI can read your jobs, quotes and stock and act on them properly. “Which invoices are overdue and who do I chase first?” is answered from your live data, not guessed.
You control the spend
AI costs money per request, so we meter it. Credits sit against a subscription tier: your users get an allocation, you see exactly what was spent and on what, and heavy users buy more. Nobody opens a surprise invoice.
Work that happens without a human
A Claude agent living inside your platform: triaging enquiries, drafting the quote, summarising a thread, flagging the job that is about to run late. It does the pass a person would do first, and hands over what actually needs judgement.
It can speak, and it can listen
ElevenLabs for natural speech and transcription: a booking line that takes the call, a site inspection dictated hands-free and filed as a structured record, notifications your staff hear instead of read.
We do not bolt AI on for the sake of the word. If it makes your tool faster, sharper or cheaper to run, we build it in and meter it honestly. If it does not, we leave it out and say so.
Built and Running
Apps We Have Actually Shipped
Web, desktop and mobile. Real systems with real users, not concepts.
TurfOps
Operations software for ground you do not own: a multi-tenant platform for golf course and grounds contractors. Web…
Newberry House
One platform runs the whole school: 342 children, 474 parents and 82 staff across two campuses, from first…
Noupoort Mountain Estate
Event-gated cabin bookings, automated invoicing and self-service portals for a 24-cabin wedding estate. Five interfaces, one platform, zero…
What Am I Doing
Everything about your work and life in one place: projects, family, diary, notes and reminders, with AI that…
DevDock
One window per project: terminals, browsers, .env files, local AI, agents and a retro arcade, all scoped to…
3DPrintZA
South Africa’s 3D printing network. People get parts printed, studios run their whole business and suppliers sell filament…
Letto
A white-label property management platform for South African landlords: bank statements, bills and leases become clean books, tax-ready…
Real Nutrition
A calm Mannatech catalogue for South Africa: 57 products with prices in rand, the science behind them and…
De Keurboom
Five garden cottages in Kuils River, rebuilt on the same WordPress: four times faster on a phone, made…
Hour Jar
Our own habit tracker: every hour of the day becomes a glass marble, 24 a day, filling a…
Magic Beans
Our own loyalty app: any small business designs its own stamp card, picks which visits earn a reward,…
Marginator
Our own crypto arbitrage calculator: live prices from seven exchanges, every route between global and South African prices…
WordPress Invoice Plugin
Dezignza Invoices is a WordPress invoice plugin for quotes, invoices, clients and payments: rands and 15% VAT built…
Febe’s Licensing and Registrations
A Somerset West licensing runner’s clients now do the whole errand on their phone: photos fill in the…
KS Attorneys & Conveyancers
A single, quietly confident page for a new Somerset West law firm: six practice areas, an introduction to…
HML Estates
A bilingual one-page site for a trust and estate specialist: Afrikaans and English on one switch, a plain-words…
Bastille
A site for a senior construction project manager and principal agent: 29 projects searchable in seconds, every value…
French Wedding Cakes
Twenty years of a French pastry chef’s wedding cakes rebuilt as a calm, photo-led site he edits himself:…
Essilor Instruments
Essilor Instruments South Africa, part of EssilorLuxottica, needed a catalogue that explains 35 medical instruments clearly, keeps prices…
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