Solutions & product development consultancy · Johannesburg

Products that solvereal problems.

We identify the problem worth solving, build the product, and grow it. Apps, SaaS, websites, brand, data-driven marketing, and automation, from one team.

12+ years · 1,200+ projects and clients served

Featured engagements

  • Meta
  • IFC — World Bank Group
  • Digify Africa
  • Energy Capital & Power

Campaign

6 months

Leads

0

CTR

0.00%

Impressions

0.00M

CPM

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Thrifty Adventures · LinkedIn · 2025–26

Why we build

The problem you've learned to live with.

Every business has one: a process held together with copy-paste, or an idea stuck in the notes app. Good ideas rarely die from bad code. They die in the handoffs between agencies.

LumiSkin: the version that got built.
Identify

Most products fail because nobody needed them.

CB Insights puts "no market need" at the top of the reasons startups fail. The job is to find the moment that keeps costing someone money or time, not a market gap. Innovatr's site looked fine and converted badly. We rebuilt it around what buyers actually needed to know.

The Innovatr homepage before the rebuild

Innovatr · site rebuilt around what buyers actually needed

Build

The product and its brand are one build.

Software people can use, with a name and a face they remember. Wordmarks, packaging, print, and photography made as one system, so the thing still looks like itself on a Tuesday afternoon post.

Legacy Lab wordmark and identity system

Legacy Lab · wordmark

Grow

A product nobody finds solves nothing.

Building it is half the work. Marketing and analytics decide whether the right people ever find it, and tell you what to fix next. Two clients, two very different goals.

Goal: leads from a standing start

742
leadsfrom a channel that had never run before. Cost per lead stays with the client
4.91M
impressions0.97% CTR vs a 0.52% benchmark

Thrifty Adventures · Jul 2025 – Jan 2026

Worked with Alroy for 2+ years. He's extremely professional and has a variety of talents you can make use of. He's like a Swiss army knife.
Energy Capital & PowerKelly-Ann AyukCo-Founder & Chairperson, Energy Capital & Power
Services & consulting

The same process, run for you.

Custom products, brand, data-driven marketing, and automation, from the same hands that ship our own. Each one opens to how it works and what it did for a real client.

We identify

The problem, who it affects, and whether it is worth building for. Every project starts here, before anyone writes code.

“What is actually broken, and is it worth building for?”

We build

Apps, SaaS, and websites, with the brand around them. Product and identity ship together, from scoped idea to the thing itself.

Hakkan screenCaughtSlipping screenLegacy Lab wordmark and identity systemGold-foil business cards for Deja Media

We grow it

Marketing, analytics, and automation. Being found, and running without you.

Thrifty Adventures social campaign post grid

742 leads

Thrifty Adventures · from a channel that had never run before. Cost per lead stays with the client

Mapping the workflow before automating it

A Zapier Canvas board mapping a lead-triage workflow end to end

Not sure which you need?

Most projects are a mix. Send the problem and we will come back with scope, time, and cost.

Start a project
How we work

Identify. Build. Grow.

One process, whether the product is ours or yours. Here is how it sounds from the inside.

  • People start our booking form and vanish halfway through. We cannot tell where, and it is costing us bookings.
  • That is a painful one. You are paying to bring people in and losing them at the last step. We have seen it before, and it is usually fixable.
  • Before we change anything, let us watch it happen: a week of analytics on where people leave, on which device. Then we will know what we are actually fixing.

An illustration of how a project runs, not a real conversation. Real client words are further down the page.

See how a project actually runs
Built by us

Built by us. For us, and for everyone else.

We went looking for ordinary problems, the kind nobody writes a brief for. Four products of our own came out of that. Each one was identified, built, and is now growing: the same process we run for clients, tested on ourselves first.

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You know you're doomscrolling. Nothing calls you out.

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Devotionals are written for everyone. Your walk isn't.

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It's 6pm and you're staring into the fridge again.

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AI made content cheap to make. And worthless to read.

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Your business has a problem like one of these. We can build yours the same way.

Alroy consistently produces high-quality and timely work, and is always willing to go the extra mile to ensure a project's completion.
IFC — International Finance CorporationHermione NevillSenior Consultant, IFC — International Finance Corporation
Alroy demonstrated an exceptional work ethic, resourcefulness, and dedication to client success, including supporting post-contract.
GL eventsDevi Paulsen-AbbottCommercial & Strategy Director, CIO Africa by dx5

Work delivered for

  • Meta
  • IFC — World Bank Group
  • Digify Africa
  • Energy Capital & Power
  • African Agri Council
  • Jenna Clifford
  • Innovatr
  • Thrifty Adventures
  • Deep Ocean
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Bring us a real problem.

One email gets you a straight answer on what it takes. If we are not the right people for it, we will say so.