_work.case_studies

The work

Four engagements. Each one started with a business problem that was costing money, time, or both.

What these projects have in common

Each started with a conversation about something that wasn't working. None started with a technology decision.

A business running on 10 disconnected systems

A field services business had grown to the point where its operations couldn't keep up. Ten separate tools — for scheduling, accounting, job management, document handling, and payments — all running independently. Staff spent most of their day moving information between them. The fix connected all ten systems into a single automated layer. The coordination work is gone.

Systems Integrationn8nXeroMicrosoft 365

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A payments business doing manual reconciliation across three markets

Eleven people across three African markets were matching payment records by hand every day. The process was slow, error-prone, and impossible to audit cleanly. Gainly replaced it with a custom-built platform that pulls live payment data, reconciles it automatically, and produces a full audit trail in real time. The eleven people now do other work.

Custom PlatformReactSupabasePawaPay

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A school with no web presence or local search visibility

The school had no website and no way for prospective families to find them in local search results. Gainly built a fast, properly structured site with the technical foundations that search engines require — schema markup, local SEO optimisation, and analytics from day one.

Web PresenceLocal SEOSchema Markup

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A catering business that needed a bookable web presence

A catering business needed to be found online and needed customers to be able to pay a deposit to secure an event booking. Gainly built a WordPress site with WooCommerce and PayFast, going from nothing to a live, bookable site.

Web PresenceWordPressWooCommercePayFast

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_work.the_pattern

The pattern

The work looks different across these projects. The starting point is always the same: a business running processes that cost more than they should, or systems that can't share information, or no digital presence at all.

The fix is whatever the problem actually requires — not a preferred technology or a packaged service.

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