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Johannesburg · Toronto · On the road

Nine live platforms. One builder.

The product studio behind Coach Kabeya, Weavebase, Just Trade, and the rest of Mokonzi Group. We design, ship, and operate the systems ourselves — then take on the same class of work for clients who need the thing to actually run.

Selected work

Shipped. Live. Ours.

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Engagements

Priced against the book, not against templates.

Each package is calibrated to a class of system already in production. Open the quote builder for a numbered estimate.

Services & rate card

How an engagement runs

The same four steps the group uses on trade.

  1. 01

    Briefing

    A confidential conversation. We want the constraint, the buyer, and the thing that must not break. No deck required.

  2. 02

    Assessment

    A written scope: what we will ship, what we will not, the number, and the calendar. Discovery on Command and World is credited to the build.

  3. 03

    Build

    Named builder. Fortnightly working software. You see the product, not a status theatre.

  4. 04

    Operate

    Launch, hypercare, then a retainer if the product is going to keep living. We do not throw the keys over a wall.

Bring a constraint, not a moodboard.

If it is the same class of problem as a trade desk, a private network, a coaching OS, or a playable world, we already have the scar tissue.

Open a briefing ↗ info@mokonzigroup.co.za

Investor desk

Find capital. Or find a project worth building.

Clients come here to meet investors, and investors come here to find projects. The studio is not locked to one city. Business lead search stays on the desk.

Work

Nine live systems. Combined replacement value sits on the rate card.

Every platform here is in production. This is the studio book — what it would cost to commission the same class of product today.

9 platforms · book $360,000

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Services

A short rate card. Long products.

Four build engagements and a retainer. Priced from the replacement value of the nine live platforms — not from a theme marketplace.

Discovery

Assessment sprint · $2,200

Required on Command and World. Credited in full against the build if we proceed. You leave with a written scope either way.

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What we actually do

Product design

Information architecture, workflow, and interface for operators — desks, networks, and worlds.

Custom engineering

TypeScript applications, realtime, 3D, marketplaces, and compliance-shaped records. No page builders.

Brand systems for products

Voice, type, and a visual language that can survive a dashboard, a game, and a briefing letter.

Holding-group architecture

Several businesses, one group. Portals that stay distinct. The Mokonzi pattern.

Why are these numbers higher than a typical South African brochure site?
Because they are not brochure sites. Presence is the closest thing we offer to a marketing site. Network, Command, and World are original products — the same class as the nine live systems in the work.
Do you invoice in rand?
The rate card is USD. Invoices can be issued in ZAR at the studio rate of 18.0, or at the spot rate on the invoice date if you prefer.
Who actually builds it?
The same builder who shipped the platforms on this site. You are not buying a bench of juniors behind a senior sales call.
Can you take over something that already exists?
Yes. That is the retainer, sometimes with a recovery sprint in front. We will tell you honestly if the existing system should be replaced instead.
What do you not take on?
Token launches, gambling fronts, and work that needs to look like someone else's product. Also anything that has to be deniable.

Quote

A numbered estimate before the briefing.

Pick the class of product. Add the capabilities that actually belong. The number updates as you go — then we take it to the desk.

Engagement

Capabilities

Briefing

Tell us the constraint.

Confidential. We read every brief. If it is not a fit, we will say so in a short note rather than a long maybe.

Engagement

Closest to a platform we already run

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Studio desk

The pipeline. Briefings in, assessments out.

Every start-a-project brief lands here, on the studio book — not in a browser tab. Move stages, attach notes, watch the number.

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Studio

Mokonzi means leader. The work has to hold.

Mokonzi Studio is the product arm of Mokonzi Group. The company sits in Johannesburg, the builder also works from Toronto, and the work follows the project — not a single city.

The group already operates in trade, minerals, advisory, coaching, private networks, and playable worlds. The studio exists so those businesses — and clients who have the same class of problem — get software that was designed by someone who has to live with it.

That is why the portfolio is not a gallery of concept decks. Coach Kabeya Neuro-OS is a live executive product. Weavebase is an evidence-first minerals desk. Just Trade is a cashless barter network in South Carolina and Ontario. Venice Wasteland and Legacy are games you can open in a browser. KUWK is a private family network. Command is a desk. The Import & Export site is how a Johannesburg firm talks to companies entering the SADC through the front door.

If you are commissioning work, you are buying that judgement: when to build a presence, when to build a network, when the thing is actually a command system, and when it needs to be a world. The rate card follows the replacement value of the book, not the price of a five-page brochure.

Briefings are confidential. Government-adjacent and trade work stays on formal channels. We will decline anything that needs to be deniable.