South African technology & delivery partner

Customer platforms and operations systems: built, integrated, and run for you.

We build the platforms businesses and agencies depend on, and we stay on them afterwards: WhatsApp, USSD and SMS on one backend, operations platforms and dashboards that replace the spreadsheet layer, and campaign technology delivered to the date on the packaging. Built for Tiger Brands, Assupol, Fines Traffic Management and Umzimvubu Local Municipality.

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Tell us the problem and we will tell you what it takes to fix it. We reply within one business day.

Why Yasuke

  • 1 teamProudly South African. Design, messaging and software under one roof, with nothing handed off mid-project
  • 3 channelsWhatsApp, USSD and SMS behind one customer record, so a customer stays one person whichever way they reach you
  • YoursYou own the code, the data, the WhatsApp numbers, the USSD codes and the sender IDs, in your repository from day one, with the rights assigned to you
  • Kept runningHosting, monitoring, backups, security updates and a support agreement with response times in writing

Where we have delivered: FMCG, financial services, municipal government and traffic management.

What we build

What we build, and then run

Platforms that carry real operational and campaign load, and a team that stays on them afterwards.

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01 · Operations platforms & integrations

The systems that run the business.

Operations platforms, real-time dashboards, workflow and approvals, customer and partner portals, and the integrations that make payments, CRMs, ERPs and messaging gateways talk to each other so nobody retypes anything. Built to the audit, access-control and record-keeping standards an insurer or a municipality has to meet, and delivered for Assupol, Fines Traffic Management, Tiger Brands and Umzimvubu Local Municipality.

Includes: Operations platforms 路 Dashboards & reporting 路 Workflow & approvals 路 APIs & integrations 路 Support & maintenance

Bespoke software See Trudex

02 · Customer engagement platforms

Reach every handset in the country.

WhatsApp for conversations, USSD for the phone with no data, SMS for the message that has to arrive. All three on one backend, inside Meta's rules, the WASPA code and POPIA. Plus the loyalty and competition mechanics that give customers a reason to keep talking to you: till-slip competitions with AI validation, points and tiers, instant rewards, and a live dashboard while the campaign is still running.

Includes: WhatsApp Business Platform 路 USSD 路 SMS & notifications 路 Chatbots & automation 路 Gamified loyalty 路 CPaaS integrations

Customer messaging Loyalty & campaigns

03 · Digital front doors & campaign microsites

The front door, and the page the campaign lands on.

Fast, credible websites, campaign landing pages and booking sites that load in seconds on mobile data, say the right things, and land the enquiry in a system rather than an inbox. Mobile apps and progressive web apps where a browser is not enough, and an honest answer about when you do not need an app at all.

Includes: Web design & development 路 Campaign landing pages 路 CMS 路 SEO foundations 路 Mobile & progressive web apps

Websites Mobile apps

Not sure which of these you need? Tell us what is going wrong: the system you are replacing, the date you are working to, or the thing that keeps breaking. We will tell you which one fixes it.

Tell us the problem

Clients

Who we build for

  • Tiger Brands

    Campaign Technology 路 Live Dashboards

  • Assupol

    CSI Project Management 路 Trudex

  • Fines Traffic Management

    Operations Software

  • Umzimvubu Local Municipality

    Website 路 Operations Software

  • DMH Marketing Africa

    Technology Partner

  • Gold Hammer Holdings

    Websites

Portfolio

Work in production

Operations Platform

Trudex - bespoke operations command centre

Trudex replaces the spreadsheets and scattered tools a growing operations team drifts into: projects, jobs, issues and reports behind one real-time dashboard. Triage critical alerts up front, save the views your team lives in, and ask an in-built AI assistant plain-language questions of your live data.

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Trudex operations dashboard on a laptop
WhatsApp Automation

AI-validated competition bot - Tiger Brands

A WhatsApp bot that runs a national competition with nobody in the loop. Customers photograph a till slip, AI validates that the receipt is real and eligible, and valid entrants get their airtime straight away: a purchase rewarded the moment it happens.

WhatsApp competition bot for Tiger Brands on a phone
Real-time Dashboard

Live campaign analytics - Tiger Brands

Entries, redemptions and spend on the same campaign, live. The client reads performance the moment they want it instead of waiting for the next periodic report.

Real-time campaign dashboard on a laptop
Directory & Booking Platform

XCii - discover and book local services

A South African directory that puts a small business’s whole appointment book online: no paper diary, no phone tag. Customers find beauty, medical or fitness services nearby, book as a guest or signed in, and pay a deposit via Paystack. Owners run bookings, staff, payments and reviews from one dashboard.

Open XCii →

XCii home screen - find and book local services
Gamification

"Bugs Bang" brand game - Tiger Brands

A branded arcade game for an FMCG pest-control range: product education disguised as play, built to hold a customer’s attention for minutes rather than seconds.

Bugs Bang game title screen Bugs Bang spray selection screen Bugs Bang gameplay screen

Websites - various clients

Aspire Day Spa website
Aspire Day Spa
Ingwe Security Solutions website
Ingwe Security Solutions
Olebelo Travel website
Olebelo Travel
DietitianHub website
DietitianHub

Send the brief, the problem or the campaign. We come back with a plan, a fixed price for the first phase and a launch date, plus what it takes to run it afterwards.

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For agencies & production partners

The delivery team behind your campaign.

Activation, shopper-marketing and integrated agencies win work that needs technology they do not keep in-house: a WhatsApp journey, a till-slip competition, a microsite, a branded game, a live dashboard for the client meeting. We build it, we run it for the duration, and your client sees your brand.

How it works

  • Built backwards from the media date. Campaigns have launch dates on packaging and media plans. We work backwards from those, and we test the whole path on real handsets before the first ad airs.
  • Reporting you can present. Entries by hour, by region and by store, rewards issued and budget remaining. Live, in a pack you can put in front of your client.
  • A clear division of labour. We own the technology, the validation and the audit trail. You own the client, the creative and the prizes.
  • Compliance handled. Promotional competition rules drafted to the Consumer Protection Act, POPIA consent and opt-out records kept, and every entry, validation and reward logged so a draw can be witnessed and defended.


What we are usually asked for: WhatsApp journeys and chatbots · USSD entry mechanics on any handset · AI till-slip validation and instant airtime · campaign microsites and landing pages · branded HTML5 games · live campaign dashboards · integrations into client CRM and rewards systems.

Running at FMCG scale. An AI-validated WhatsApp competition bot and live campaign analytics, built and run for Tiger Brands, plus a branded game engine of our own, playable before you brief it.

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After launch

Most of our work is with clients we already launched.

A platform that matters to the business needs someone on it every month: patched, watched, and improved as the business changes. That is the arrangement we would rather have than a hand-over and a goodbye.

Four ways we stay on

  • Managed platform care. Hosting, monitoring, backups, security updates and a support contact with response times in writing.
  • Improvement and roadmap. The backlog keeps moving without a new procurement round every time something needs changing.
  • Campaign delivery capacity. For agencies and brand teams running a calendar: platforms kept warm between campaigns, and a team that already knows the build.
  • Messaging and integration operations. Channels, codes and sender IDs kept live and compliant; deliverability and cost watched and tuned; consent and opt-out records kept for your auditors and for a complaint.

The honest version: we do not ask anyone to commit to a retainer up front. Start with one fixed-price phase. If it earns its keep, we will propose what it costs to keep it running and improving, and you decide then.

Talk to us about running it

Free tools · on the house

A few things we’ve built for you to use.

Built in-house with the same tooling as our client work. No sign-up to try them, no watermarks on the output.

QR Code Generator

Colours, shapes, centre logo. A crisp 1024×1024 PNG you can print or embed.

Open

WhatsApp Click-to-Chat

Build a wa.me link with a pre-filled first message. Share as a QR or a one-tap link.

Open

USSD Menu Simulator

Prototype a *120# menu and walk through it on a phone screen, with the 182-character check built in.

Open

SMS Segment Counter

See how many messages you’ll be billed for before you send, and fix the characters that double it.

Open

Campaign capability · in the Arcade

Open-world driving sim

A branded game engine we own - playable before you brief it

Jozi Taxi Run runs on the same engine as our brand-campaign mechanics: HTML5, in the browser, no app store, leaderboards and rewards built in. Work a five-minute minibus-taxi shift across a Johannesburg-inspired city, then picture your fleet, your streets and your sponsored stops in it.

Start your shift Browse the whole Arcade →

Jozi Taxi Run title screen - a minibus taxi in Gauteng livery at the Sisonke taxi rank

Tell us what the system has to do, and what it has to keep doing.

Send the brief, the problem or the campaign. We come back with a plan, a fixed price for the first phase and a launch date, plus what it takes to run it afterwards. We reply within one business day.

We work best with organisations where the platform is load-bearing: a campaign with a media date, an operation across several sites, or a system a team depends on daily. If that is not you yet, our free tools are genuinely free. Start there.

Email info@yasuke.co.za Phone +27 73 123 3212 Web www.yasuke.co.za
First, which of these is closest?

So the right person replies. We answer technical and commercial questions differently.

The problem, the brief or the campaign. Rough is fine: the system you are replacing, the date you are working to, or the thing that keeps breaking.

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No newsletter, no sales sequence. One reply within one business day, from a person who can scope the work.