ICT solutions · Gauteng, South Africa
We place experienced engineers into your team, and we run fixed-scope programmes to a milestone plan. Either way the work lands in your repositories, where you can check it.
info@ekse.ioAbout
EKSE is an engineering firm based in Gauteng, South Africa. We work inside our clients’ teams rather than beside them: our engineers commit to the client’s repositories, work to the client’s standards, and have their work reviewed the way any team member’s is.
We were built to do this differently to the traditional solutions provider — fewer promises made up front, more evidence produced along the way.
Evidence
Changes are merged through pull requests in your repositories, status is written weekly, and the specific pull requests and commits accompany each invoice. You never have to take our word for progress.
Seniority
Most businesses do not need a full-time architect. We place experienced engineers for a set number of hours a day on a monthly retainer, so you get the seniority without carrying the salary.
Measurement
Before proposing a rebuild we measure what you already have — speed, structure, accessibility, search visibility, security — and record the method and its limits beside every number. Sometimes the finding is that a rebuild is not warranted.
Terms
Fixed-scope programmes run to a milestone plan, with the scope, the acceptance criteria and the price written down before anyone starts. Retainers state the hours, the notice period and the response time for a critical defect.
Solutions
Developers, QA and automation engineers, and solution architects placed into your team on a monthly retainer — set hours, defined scope, an agreed response time for critical defects. Remote from Johannesburg, on site by arrangement.
Fixed-scope builds run to a milestone plan: data architecture, operational dashboards and reporting, drill-down and exports, forecasting. Delivered incrementally into your repositories with written status every week.
A measured review of your live site — speed, page structure, accessibility, search visibility and security — with every finding numbered, evidenced, and assigned to whoever has to fix it. One report you can hand to any supplier, including one that is not us.
A recurring report on what a customer finds when they go looking for a business like yours: your own site, the competitors that come up beside it, and the listing sites and directories they pass through on the way. Measured automatically against the live pages, then read, checked and signed off by a person before it reaches you — every figure carries the method behind it.
Design and build, from a bounded refresh of what you have to a bespoke system. We will tell you when something off the shelf would serve you better.
Domain registration, email and application hosting, and the ongoing maintenance behind them, so your infrastructure is somebody’s responsibility rather than nobody’s.
Structured assessment and grading of developers, against a written rubric — for hiring, or for taking an honest reading of a team you already have.
Process
Two questions decide most engagements: whether something that already exists will do the job, and how you will know when the work is done. We answer the first one honestly, even when the honest answer is smaller than the work we would rather sell.
Option 1
In many cases someone has already built what your business needs. Running a web server in your own office made sense once; using a hosting provider makes more sense now.
Option 2
In other cases your requirements are genuinely unique, or they exceed the limits of what an off-the-shelf product allows.
Work is merged through pull requests in your repositories. Status is written, weekly. Delivery evidence — the pull requests and commits behind the milestone — accompanies each invoice, so acceptance is a reading exercise rather than an act of faith.
Toolset
Contact
Send us the problem in your own words. If the answer is that you do not need us, we will say so.
info@ekse.ioGauteng, South Africa