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CUYCO

Software that fixes how the work moves.

Cuyco is a Cape Town software company founded by Ross Cuyler. You deal with the people doing the build — which is the whole reason clients get straight answers about what something will take instead of an estimate filtered through three people.

Founder
Ross Cuyler
Based
Cape Town, ZA
Shipped
14 projects
Since
2021
Ross Cuyler, founder of Cuyco, Cape Town

Ross Cuyler, founder · Cape Town, South Africa

How the work usually goes.

Most projects arrive the same way: someone has a business that works, a process that does not, and three quotes that all say something different. The first useful thing we do is usually not writing code — it is working out which of the three quotes is describing the actual problem.

After that it is fairly ordinary. We scope it in writing, build it in weekly increments you can see, and hand it over with the accounts in your name. The projects on this site range from a gelato brand's storefront to a secure legal documents system for a US law firm, which sounds like a lack of focus until you notice they are all the same job: take something a business does manually and make software do it reliably.

The AI work grew out of the same place. Nobody who called us wanted “AI”. They wanted lead triage that did not depend on someone checking an inbox, or property valuations that did not take an afternoon. That is what Lynx.ai turned into, and it is still how we scope anything with a model in it: find the manual step first, decide whether a model actually beats a rule second.

We work with clients in South Africa, the Netherlands, and the UK, entirely remotely. If you want to know whether we are any good, the case studies are more honest than anything we could write here.

Sectors and tools

Sectors we have shipped into

  • Food and retail brands
  • Property and financial services
  • Legal and compliance platforms
  • Energy and logistics
  • Education and wellness
  • Sport and gaming ventures

What we build with

Product
Next.js, React, TypeScript, Webflow
Mobile
FlutterFlow, Flutter, RevenueCat
Data
Supabase, Firebase, Postgres, Sanity
Automation
n8n, Claude, OpenAI, Webhooks
Commerce
Stripe, Yoco, Shopify

Tools follow the problem. If your team already runs something that does the job, the right advice is to keep it.

Ask us something specific.

The fastest way to find out whether this is a fit is to describe the actual problem. You will get a straight answer about scope, cost, and whether it is worth building at all.

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