Who is ThatEngineer?
Your boutique engineering studio — for the problems you were told were too small, or too strange, to solve.
ThatEngineer (Pty) Ltd works with sole traders, growing SMEs, non-profits and multi-site groups across South Africa. Software, integrations, automation and AI — engineered around the way your business already runs rather than the way a product wants it to run.
We stayed small on purpose. The engineer who scopes your system is the one who engineers it, supports it and answers the phone afterwards. No account layer, no handover, no queue position.
you Envision That. we Engineer That.
Level 1 B-BBEE contributor
100% black-owned, giving your procurement team 135% recognised spend on every invoice we send.
You work with the engineer
Founder-led. The person who scopes your work is the person who engineers it, supports it and answers afterwards — no account layer, no handover.
That's who we are
Our Core Values
Eight things we hold ourselves to on every job we take for you, whether it is a two-day fix or a multi-year platform.
01
Presence
We learn how your business actually runs before we change anything — the counter, the office, the floor. Embedded enough to spot the problem you did not think to mention.
02
Availability
There is always an engineer reachable on your job. No ticket queue, no account manager relaying questions to someone you have never met.
03
Quality & Precision
Systems specified properly, tested properly and engineered to stay stable under a real working day — with room left to improve them as you grow.
04
Quick & Accurate
The person on the job moves fast without guessing. Working pieces land in weeks, and each one solves the problem it was scoped to solve.
05
Trust, Honesty, Transparency
Scope, cost and trade-offs on the table early — including the times we are at fault, and the times we tell you the work is not worth doing.
06
Integrity
What we quote is what we invoice, and what we hand over is what we said we would engineer. No padded hours, no surprise line items.
07
Empathy
The people using the software matter more than the architecture diagram. If it makes their day harder, it is not finished.
08
Life-Long Partnerships
Documented work, standard tooling and accounts in your name. You stay because your systems keep paying off, never because leaving is painful.
Our mission
Engineer software that quietly does your work
We exist to give you the kind of systems that used to be reserved for large enterprises — integrations, automation, live visibility and AI where it genuinely pays back — engineered to fit how your business already runs, and handed over documented and owned.
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Our vision
Proof that world-class engineering can come from a small studio
We are engineering a studio that competes on craft rather than headcount: senior work, trusted whether you are one person or a multi-site group, and good enough to hold its own anywhere in the world without ever leaving home.
Level 1
B-BBEE contributor status
4h
First response to you
Founder-led
You work with the person who engineers it
How we work
We start your job with a technical review rather than a proposal. We map the systems you already run, find where your data stalls, and only then recommend a starting point or a bespoke system engineered for you.
Deployments are staged and reversible. Your trading day does not stop for our releases, and every change is documented so your internal team keeps ownership of the estate.
Costing is itemised in engineering hours, and small first phases are welcome. No open-ended retainers, no vendor lock-in tactics.
100% Black-Owned Entity
135% procurement recognition
You get the engineer
The person who scopes your work engineers it
On-Site & Remote Support
On site or remote nationwide
Staged, reversible releases
Your trading day stays intact
Legal & Compliance
Entity: ThatEngineer (Pty) Ltd
135% Procurement RecognitionRegistered Address: Port Elizabeth / Gqeberha, Eastern Cape
Want to know if we are the right fit?
Bring the bottleneck. We will tell you honestly whether it is worth engineering, buying, or leaving exactly as it is.
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