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White-label development
We build under your brand. Your client deals with you, sees your name on the work and never has to know a second company is involved.
Best for — Agencies selling development they do not staff for.
For agencies
Your engineering team, in South Africa.
We work behind established digital, branding and UX agencies that already have the client and the brief, and need more engineering capacity than their team can comfortably carry. You keep the relationship. We build the software.
The model
You stay the agency. We stay invisible.
Nothing about your client relationship changes. The work simply gets delivered by a larger team than the one on your payroll.
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You win the project
Your pitch, your brand, your client, your commercials. None of that moves.
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The build outgrows the team
More scope than capacity, a skill set you do not keep in-house, or a date that will not move.
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We become the delivery team
In your repo, on your board, to your standards, under whichever model suits the job.
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You ship and keep the client
The work goes out under your name. The relationship, the renewal and the credit stay yours.
Partnership models
Six ways to use us.
Most partnerships start with one of the first two and move as the workload becomes predictable.
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Dedicated developer
One or more of our engineers joins your team on a monthly basis. Your stand-ups, your board, your repo, your tooling, your process.
Best for — A steady delivery load you do not want to hire permanently for.
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Development pod
A small cross-functional ZTDEV team takes a defined product or module end to end, and reports into whoever you nominate.
Best for — A whole workstream you would rather not manage day to day.
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Project delivery
We take responsibility for a fixed technical scope, at a fixed price, against a date. You keep the client relationship and the commercials.
Best for — A well-defined build with a deadline attached.
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Technical rescue & maintenance
An inherited codebase, a stalled build, or a backlog nobody on your team wants to touch. We stabilise it, document it and keep it running.
Best for — Legacy systems and projects that went sideways.
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AI, cloud & backend
Specialist capacity for the work that sits outside a typical design or web agency: integrations, automation, data pipelines and infrastructure.
Best for — Projects that got technical faster than expected.
Why this works
The boring things that decide it.
Offshore delivery usually fails on time zones and communication rather than on engineering. Here is where we actually sit.
We are in your working day, not asleep through it
Johannesburg is UTC+2 and South Africa does not run daylight saving, so the offset only moves when your clocks change.
- London1–2 hoursEffectively the same working day.
- Amsterdam · Berlin0–1 hoursThe same working day.
- New York6–7 hoursOur afternoon is your morning.
- Sydney8–9 hoursOur morning is your afternoon.
English, natively
English is the working language of South African business. Stand-ups, code review, documentation and client-facing writing all happen in it.
One team, in-house
We do not resell the work onward. Everything is designed and built by the same people you meet on the intro call.
Proof you can click
19 client platforms are live in production right now, listed with their real URLs. Go and open them.
How it starts
Small, then real.
We would rather prove the fit on one contained piece of work than talk anybody into a retainer.
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A short intro call
Thirty minutes. What you build, where your delivery pressure actually sits, and whether there is a real fit. No deck required.
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A small paid pilot
One contained piece of work with a clear definition of done. Both teams get to judge the fit on delivered code rather than on promises.
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A delivery review
We look at what shipped, how the communication went and what we would each change. If it did not work, it ends here, cleanly.
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An ongoing arrangement
Whichever model suits the way you actually work, on a rolling basis. Most partnerships settle into dedicated capacity or repeat project delivery.
Have more work than engineers this quarter?
Tell us what is on your delivery board and where it is tight. If we are not the right fit we will say so on the call rather than three weeks into a project.