Technical consulting is help making the expensive decisions: what to build, what to buy, which quote is realistic, and whether the AI project someone is pitching you will survive contact with your actual data. It is advice from someone who still builds, which is a different thing from advice from someone who only advises.
The costliest software decisions get made before anyone writes code, usually in a meeting with no engineer in the room.
An honest read on what you have, what will break first, and what is worth fixing now versus living with. Written up plainly enough to forward to a non-technical board.
Most requests that arrive as "we need to build X" are better solved by configuring something that exists. Working out which is which saves more money than any other line on this page.
Where a model would genuinely help, where it would not, what your data would need to look like first, and what the running cost actually is once volume is real.
Review of proposals, scopes, and timelines before you sign. Knowing which line items are padded and which are missing entirely is worth an hour of anyone's time.
De Wild came in wanting a full brand platform. The right first move was a lean headless prototype that proved non-technical staff would actually maintain it — before committing to the bigger build.
2024
De Wild needed a central source of truth for their brand. We prototyped a headless CMS-powered style guide website where their teams and partners could access brand guidelines, assets, and templates for social posts and advertising.
Pricing here is what real projects of this shape have cost. Your quote will be fixed in writing before anything starts.
R500 to R750 per hour excluding VAT for scoped advisory work. Ongoing engagements run as a monthly retainer from R8,000, which covers a minimum of 20 hours plus priority turnaround. Every engagement gets a scoped quote before it starts.
Yes, and it is one of the more common requests. An hour or two spent on a proposal review regularly catches missing scope, unrealistic timelines, or a platform choice that will cost more to escape than it saves upfront.
Yes, on retainer. That typically means owning technical decisions, reviewing work from other developers, sitting in on vendor conversations, and being the person your team can ask before committing to something expensive.
2026
A Next.js rebuild of a digital studio's brand site, replacing Webflow and adding three-language support.
Tiger Finance
2024
An AI-powered real estate lead generation system with an agent dashboard for Tiger Finance.
RedPower Africa
2024
Webflow website and full infrastructure setup for a renewable energy, minerals, and logistics company.
Thirty minutes on a call is usually enough to work out whether this is a two-week job, a two-month job, or something you should not build at all. You get a written scope and a fixed price before anything starts.
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