Production studio · South Africa · since 2003

AI builds it.
We make it a business.

Anyone can generate an app that half-works. We harden it, secure it and ship it as a web app on your own domain. It installs to the 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
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Ongoing care · we keep it alive

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 growing, the ops team a founder can't afford to hire full-time.

One-off · start here

Readiness Check

Enter your app's address. We scan it live from outside and show you what's solid and what's exposed.

Free
  • Live scan: uptime, SSL, security headers, email DNS
  • Instant plain-English result
  • Deeper audit covers auth, data isolation, payments
  • No obligation, no lock-in
Run your free check
Most popular Subscription · always-on

Care

Continuous monitoring, upkeep and an AI helpdesk. Your app stays healthy without you watching it.

R1 950/month
  • Uptime, security & deliverability watch
  • Fixes, patches & dependency upkeep
  • AI client helpdesk for daily questions
  • Priority response when something breaks
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Subscription · care + growth

Growth

Everything in Care, plus a monthly pool of build hours to keep shipping new features.

R4 950/month
  • Everything in Care
  • Monthly build-hours for new features
  • Quarterly roadmap & growth review
  • First call on new UPMRKT tools
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Bigger, or need something custom? Talk to our producer → · All plans in ZAR, cancel anytime.

The App Factory · live products

The App Factory.

Products we've built and run ourselves, to our own standard: secured, multi-tenant, monitored. Try them live today. Subscriptions and white-label licensing open soon.

White-label AI adviser

Advisor8

Subscriptions soon

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

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Support inbox & helpdesk

Helm8

Subscriptions soon

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

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E-signature platform

Seal8

Subscriptions soon

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

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AI life & business OS

Cortex8

Subscriptions soon

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

Subscriptions soon

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

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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 UPMRKT build passes this before it goes near your customers.

45% of AI-built code ships a security flaw
Independent testing, 2025 · we build so yours doesn't
Security hardened against the OWASP holes AI shipssecured
Real login & auth, passkeys and sociallocked
Data separation, tenants fully isolatedisolated
Email that lands in the inbox, not spamdelivered
Payments that don't double-charge under loadsafe
Uptime & monitoring, you see it break firstwatched
Backups & recovery when it mattersready
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
22 yrsshipping since 2003

Tell us what to build.

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