Software Development · South Africa

We build custom software that ships.

Phoenix Online Studio is a software portfolio company specialising in custom software solutions, SaaS products, and client development services. Nine products. One delivery platform. Disciplined execution.

Trusted by Essential Group, Vigilant, and AgriTrade.

What we engineer

Here's the menu.

psst... if you don't like cilantro, speak to the chef. The exciting stuff isn't scripted.

02 / 07

AI integrations

Claude-powered assistants, document processors, structured-data extraction. Engineered carefully, with the human in the loop.

03 / 07

Cloud & DevOps

CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, observability, secrets management — with the discipline to keep cloud spend honest.

  • AWS
  • CI/CD
  • IaC

04 / 07

SaaS Products

A portfolio of live and near-live products across fitness, agriculture, safety, manufacturing, and social gaming.

05 / 07

Client Development

Bespoke dev for growth-stage SA companies. Fixed-scope MVPs, ongoing enhancements, dedicated engineering capacity.

06 / 07

Data Engineering

Pipelines, warehouses, analytics layers — engineered with the same care as the rest of the platform.

  • Postgres
  • dbt
  • BI

07 / 07

UX & Product Design

Research, wireframes, design systems. Engineers and designers in the same room.

  • Discovery
  • Wireframes
  • Design systems

Off the menu

Don't see your problem here? That's exactly the call we want.

Off-menu work is where the interesting builds start. Tell us what you're actually trying to do.

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Platforms in production

Live engagements. Engineered end-to-end.

01 Live · shipped

Fenix Fitness

Free workout PWA + curated marketplace. Two SA high schools onboarded. B2B subscriptions + marketplace commission.

02 Dev complete

AgriTrade

SA agricultural commodities trading marketplace. v1.0.91 shipped, end-to-end regression-tested, ready for commercial launch.

03 Live · pilot

Vigilant

Community safety & emergency-response platform. Live at ttrmvigilant.co.za. First pilot in Eldorado Park, Johannesburg.

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How we work

Four steps. No surprises.

01

Discover

Chat or jump on a call. Tell us what you're trying to do, what's broken, what 'good' looks like.

02

Architect

Scope, ballpark, timeline, and a wireframe sketch — drafted in days, reviewed by a partner before it lands in your inbox.

03

Build

Sprint cycles. Weekly demos. Your team in the loop. A founding partner on every architecture call.

04

Hand over

Production handoff with documentation and training. Optional support retainer for the months that matter most.

Founder-led, every project

A founding partner runs every build. Every one.

When you sign with PXO, you don't get account managers and offshore juniors. You get a founding partner — on every architecture call, every sprint review, every release.

That promise is in writing.

The stack

Modern. Boring on purpose.

We pick tools that'll still be the right call in three years — then we use them well.

PHPLaravelTypeScriptReactNext.jsMySQLMariaDBPostgresTailwindClaude AI PHPLaravelTypeScriptReactNext.jsMySQLMariaDBPostgresTailwindClaude AI

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