01 — Systems, infra & data
The Architect
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Designs the bones so nothing breaks at 10× traffic. Allergic to “we’ll fix it later”.
Ask about → Why your Postgres is fine, actually.
Now booking new projects
We skip the pitch deckand write software thatactually ships.
Founded by three senior engineers, Vatatu builds bespoke software and AI systems for companies done paying for slideware. Founder-led, senior-staffed and sized to the job — and you always talk to the people building it. It ships. Then it scales.
- ✳ Direct line to the builders
- ✳ Fixed-price plans
- ✳ Production, not prototypes
vatatu/field.tsxidle · orbiting
TypeScript✳Next.js✳React Native✳Python✳Go✳Postgres✳Redis✳LLMs✳Custom Agents✳RAG✳Evals✳AWS✳GCP✳Docker✳Terraform✳Supabase✳
§ 01 — The not-an-agency story
We're not an agency.
We're the team you'd hire if you could.
Vatatu means “three”. Founded by three engineers who spent years inside teams where the people writing the code were four meetings away from the people paying for it. We thought that was a strange way to build things.
So we built the opposite: a founder-led studio with no sales layer and no juniors learning on your budget. The founders lead every engagement — architecture, AI and product — and the team grows with the project, so a bigger build never means losing your direct line to the people in charge.
Rooted in Gauteng. Building for teams who care more about what ships than what's on the slide.
The founding three
02 — AI, agents & automation
The Machinist
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Wires LLMs into real business logic — with evals, guardrails and cost ceilings.
Ask about → The difference between a demo and a product.
03 — Product, web & mobile
The Finisher
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Turns the hard parts into interfaces people use without a manual. Ships on Fridays.
Ask about → The 40 pixels nobody else noticed.
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Founding engineers, hands-on in every engagement.
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Account managers between you and the code.
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From first call to a fixed-price plan.
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Built in Gauteng. Shipped anywhere.
§ 02 — Capabilities
What we actually do.
(Three things, very well.)
Most projects use all three. That's the point — one senior team that can architect it, make it smart and get it into production.
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Bespoke Software Architecture
Built to last, not to demo.
Scalable full-stack platforms, web and mobile apps, internal tools and APIs — architected for the traffic you’ll have, not just the traffic you have.
- Full-stack web
- iOS & Android
- APIs & integrations
- Cloud infra
- Legacy rescues
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AI Workflows & Intelligence
AI that does a job, not a party trick.
LLMs, custom agents and automation plugged into your real business logic — your data, your rules, measured with evals so you know it works before your customers find out it doesn’t.
- LLM integration
- Custom agents
- RAG over your data
- Workflow automation
- Evals & guardrails
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High-Velocity Execution
Concept to production. Minus the bloat.
Senior engineers, short loops, weekly demos. The team scales to the project; the direct line to the builders doesn’t change. No steering committees about steering committees.
- Discovery sprints
- MVPs in weeks
- Weekly demos
- CI/CD from day one
- Handover that holds
Not sure which box you're in? That's literally what the first call is for.
Book a free 30-min call§ 03 — How work works
From first call to production, in four honest steps.
No 80-page proposals. No mystery invoices. You get a plan you can read in five minutes and a price that doesn't move.
01 · 30 min · free
The call
Tell us the problem. We’ll tell you honestly whether we’re the right people — and if not, who is.
02 · 1 week · fixed fee
The plan
A one-page plan, a working spike and a fixed price. No 80-page proposals.
03 · 2-week cycles
The build
Weekly demos, shared Slack, real commits. You always know exactly where things stand.
04 · and beyond
The ship
Production launch, docs, tests and CI. Then we stick around to help it scale.
§ 04 — Philosophy
Opinions, strongly held.
We've sat on both sides of the table. Flip the switch to see the difference.
Typical agencyVatatu
- Who you talk to
The engineer writing your code
- Week one
A working spike and a fixed-price plan
- “AI strategy”
Agents wired into your actual workflows, with evals
- Timelines
Weekly demos. Real dates.
- Handover
Docs, tests, CI — and a team that picks up the phone
§ 05 — Talk to the machine
Prefer a prompt to a pitch?
Our homepage has a shell. Of course it does. Poke around — and when you're ready, type hire.
zsh — vatatu
vatatu shell v3.0.0 — founded by three engineers.
type `help` or tap a command below.
§ 06 — Your move
Let’s buildsomethingremarkable together.
Two ways in. Grab 30 minutes with the people who'll actually build it, or tell us about the project and we'll come back with honest next steps.
FastestBook a discovery call30 minutes · free · no pitch deck- hello@vatatu.co.za
- Based in
- Gauteng, South Africa
- Response
- Replies within one business day