Production studio · South Africa

AI builds it.
We make it a business.

Anyone can generate an app that half-works. We harden it, secure it, and ship it on your own domain. It installs to a phone like an app, with no App Store and no six-month native build. The idea is yours. The production is ours.

Web app, no App Store, installs on any phone, live in days
8+ live products we run ourselves, in production
Your app · your domain · you own it
upmrkt · production-check --live
01Security hardenedscan
02Real login & authscan
03Data separationscan
04Email deliverabilityscan
05Payments under loadscan
06Uptime & monitoringscan
07Backups & recoveryscan
0 / 7 checks ✓ PRODUCTION READY
Why "solid" isn't just a word

Whatever we build, it ships production-ready.

Anyone can generate something that looks finished. We build the part that survives real users, real money, and real data. Every build passes the seven checks before it goes near your customers.

45%
of AI-built code ships a security flaw.
Independent testing, 2025 · we build so yours doesn't
The app factory

Products we built, and run ourselves.

Held to our own standard: secured, multi-tenant, monitored. Try them live today. Subscriptions and white-label licensing open soon.

White-label AI adviser

Advisor8

An always-on AI adviser trained on your business, running under your own brand and domain. For coaches, consultants, and firms.

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Support inbox & helpdesk

Helm8

A shared team inbox for customer support. Assign, reply, and track conversations, with a knowledge base and AI that resolves the routine ones.

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E-signature platform

Seal8

Send, sign, and track documents without the DocuSign price tag. Team workspaces, automatic reminders, full audit trail.

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AI life & business OS

Cortex8

A personal AI operating system that actually reaches you. Real lock-screen push, reminders, and an attention inbox. All web.

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Video curation

Cusp8

Curate and present branded video collections your way, with custom branding and full embed control.

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Built for you

Your app

The one that doesn't exist yet. Tell our AI producer what you need and it turns two minutes of talking into a real brief.

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The mission

Built in South Africa.
Priced for South Africa.

Most of the tools South African businesses rely on are priced in US dollars, getting steadily more expensive as the rand moves, whether your business grew or not. We build powerful, locally made alternatives at pricing that makes sense here: fixed rand prices that don't swing with the exchange rate, not a US tool with a rand-shaped invoice.

This isn't the budget option. It's the smart one. Real capability, without the rand tax.

International customers welcome. This is where we optimise first, not the only place we serve.

Community development

We didn't buy an audience.
We built one.

Years before we sold a single subscription, we were building places where a neighbourhood actually gathers. Those platforms now reach over a hundred thousand people. Local businesses use them to find customers they'd never reach otherwise, at a price that makes sense for a small business. And when a charity or a community initiative needs to be heard, we carry them.

SINCE 2016
100k+

I Love Fourways

A community hub connecting residents, local business, news, and daily life. One of South Africa's largest neighbourhood platforms, built and run by us for close to a decade.

ilovefourways.co.za →
SINCE 2019
Blue Heart

A network of kindness

Connecting people who need help with the people and organisations who can give it. Built to make good work easier to find.

blueheart.africa →
SINCE 2023
Outdoors

Get Outdoors Africa

Reconnecting people with nature and with each other, and pointing them toward the small local operators who make it possible.

getoutdoors.africa →
For local business

Reach your neighbourhood, not the whole internet.

Advertising on our community platforms puts a local business in front of the people who live down the road. It's how these platforms pay for themselves, and it's the most useful money a small business can spend on reach.

Advertise with us →
For charities & initiatives

If it matters here, we'll help you say it.

Charities, fundraisers, and community initiatives don't have advertising budgets. We make room for them anyway, wherever we can. Not as a marketing line, as the reason the platforms are worth running.

Tell us what you need →
Running platforms at this scale, for real communities, is why we know what shipping to real people actually costs. Every lesson we learned keeping a hundred thousand neighbours online is a lesson your app gets for free.
Proof, not promises

We don't just fix apps. We run our own.

Every tool we sell, we run in production ourselves. And we've run community platforms at real scale for years. That's the standard we hold your app to, and the reason we're different from a cleanup shop that only touches other people's code.

8+
live products, in production
100k+
community members served
7
checks before anything ships
The comparison

The global agencies rescue code.
We do more than that.

Big cleanup agencyUPMRKT
Who they're built forFunded startups & enterpriseFounders & small businesses
PricingUSD, enterprise ratesRand, founder-accessible
Run their own products?No, they fix other people'sYes, 8+ live in production
Can they hand you the tool?No, build onlySubscribe or white-label
Who you deal withAccount manager & a queueOne team, accountable end to end
Ongoing care · grow with us

Ship it once. Keep it alive for good.

The build is only half the job. Software rots, dependencies break, spam filters shift, customers ask questions. Our subscriptions keep your app healthy and moving. As the technology improves, so does what your app can do.

No obligation
Free
Readiness Check
  • Send us your app, we run the full production audit
  • Plain-English risk report
  • Fixed-fee quote to close the gaps
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Most chosen
R1 950/mo
Clerk Care
  • Uptime, security & deliverability monitoring
  • Fixes, patches, dependency upkeep
  • An AI helpdesk for daily questions
  • Priority response when something breaks
Start with Care
Keep shipping
R4 950/mo
Clerk Growth
  • Everything in Care
  • A monthly pool of build hours
  • New features, shipped continuously
  • Quarterly roadmap review
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Start here

Tell us what to build.

An app you wish existed. A task you're sick of. A half-built thing that's stuck. Talk to our AI producer for two minutes. It turns what you say into a full brief and starts your project on the spot.

Contact us

Send us a message.

Advertising, a community initiative, a plan, or something else entirely. We read everything.

We reply to everything, usually within a working day.