A Pretoria-based software engineering consultancy building cloud-native platforms, web and mobile products for enterprises, scale-ups and founders across South Africa, the UK, the US and Australia. When AI is the right tool, we implement it properly.
Twenty-plus teams trust QLTech with systems that can't afford to go down.
We hear the same four stories from CTOs in Sandton, Shoreditch and SoHo. Here is how we answer each one, with delivery detail rather than buzzwords.
Monoliths that take a week to deploy; vendors that hold the keys; postgres 9 in production.
Modern cloud-native architectures
We refactor in slices while you keep shipping: strangler-fig migrations, zero-downtime cutovers, and auto-scaling tuned to your real traffic.
Lovable, Cursor or Bolt got you to a demo. Now auth leaks, every fix breaks something else, and nobody can deploy it twice.
AI app rescue
A fixed-price audit, then we stabilise, harden and hand over. Code, tests and infrastructure end up in your accounts.
Every board meeting asks about AI. Every pilot dies in 'evaluation'.
AI integration with measurable impact
One narrow use case, a six-week proof of concept, then production with an evaluation harness and cost telemetry.
POPIA deadlines, GDPR, enterprise procurement asking for SOC 2 alignment.
Security-first architecture
Threat model first, then a zero-trust rollout, then compliance evidence your lawyers can sign off.
End-to-end capability without the consultancy-sized org chart. Each discipline is led by someone who has shipped it in production, not just slide-decked it.
We pick boring tech on purpose. These are the tools we actually reach for, not the ones on a marketing page.
Three projects in three industries. What we shipped, what it cost, what changed for the business.
Needed a full-stack digital platform to manage bursary applications, transactional data processing, FICA compliance, and fraud detection at scale.
Built mobile and desktop systems with a solid backend, 3rd-party integrations, AI-powered fraud detection, and a dedicated FICA module for regulatory compliance.
Platform scaled to over 130,000 active users with real-time transactional processing and AI-driven fraud prevention.
Inefficient lead tracking and no visibility into sales pipeline performance, resulting in missed opportunities and low conversion rates.
Developed a custom lead management system and website with AI integration for performance tracking, lead scoring, and conversion optimisation.
Increased lead conversions by approximately 80% through AI-driven insights and streamlined sales workflows.
Coaches spending excessive time manually creating programs, managing course content, and providing client feedback without a centralised digital platform.
Built an online wellness platform with custom video processing, course creation, enrollment and management tools, plus AI to optimise the coach journey in building programs and delivering feedback.
Over 40 programs available on the platform, with AI optimisation saving coaches approximately 70% of their time in program creation.
If you built it with Lovable, Cursor, Bolt, v0, Replit or Claude Code and the demo works but the product doesn't, we take it over, fix it properly and hand back code your team can own.
The demo ran fine locally. Deployed, it throws 500s, environment variables are missing, and nobody can reproduce the build.
You prompt for a fix, the AI rewrites half the file, and a feature that worked last week is gone. The codebase has stopped converging.
Users can see each other's data, admin checks run in the browser, row-level security was never enabled, and API keys ship to the client.
Ten users are fine. A hundred is slow. A thousand is an outage: N+1 queries, no indexes, no caching, no rate limits.
Stripe works in test mode, the webhook signature was never verified, emails land in spam, and the retry logic is still a TODO.
The person who prompted it can't maintain it, and the developer you asked for a quote said "rewrite".
We lose deals to the cheapest shop sometimes. Here is what the shops that win on price usually cost you later.
Embedded with your team, your rituals
Walled-off agency, weekly status calls
SAST: full overlap with the EU and UK day, mornings with US East
Often 10–12h offset, async-only
Fixed-scope or transparent retainer
T&M with vague change orders
Core competency, in production across fintech, wellness and sales systems
Outsourced to a sub-contractor
You own every line, every credential
Code in their repos, their cloud accounts
POPIA and GDPR privacy-by-design, security reviewed on every project
'We can do that, for a premium'
A quick, honest read on where you are today. No form, no email gate, no sales call until you say so.
Part of how we build, not a premium add-on.
Privacy-by-design for South African personal information
Data-protection principles for EU and UK clients
Top-10 and ASVS-guided security reviews on every build
Scoped IAM, secrets management, no shared credentials
In transit and at rest, by default, on every environment
Logging and evidence that supports your auditors and procurement
QLTech transformed our approach to technology. Their team didn't just deliver code. They understood our business and built solutions that drove real results.
The AI integration QLTech implemented saved our team hundreds of hours per month. Their practical, ROI-focused approach was exactly what we needed.
Working with QLTech felt like having a senior engineering team in-house. They integrated seamlessly with our existing team and elevated our entire development process.
Rooted in South Africa, delivering technology excellence across borders.
Pretoria HQ · deep roots in the local tech ecosystem with strong enterprise partnerships.
Clients in the UK and EU served remotely from a timezone that overlaps their whole working day.
Engagements in the US and Australia, run asynchronously with clear overlap windows and written handovers.
A lean, agile sequence we have run fifty times. Predictable enough to plan around, flexible enough to stay honest.
We start by understanding your business goals, the systems you already run, and your constraints. Through workshops and analysis we agree the approach and the roadmap.
Our architects design scalable, secure solutions with clear technical specifications. We validate the approach with prototypes before committing to full development.
We build in iterative sprints with continuous integration and testing. You see progress every two weeks and can steer the direction based on real results.
Post-launch, we monitor performance, resolve issues, and continuously optimize. We're a long-term partner, not a one-time vendor.
Embedded consulting engineers who integrate with your team to deliver AI-powered solutions, optimise business processes, and accelerate digital transformation.
Engineers who embed with your team, bring expertise, and ship quality code from day one.
Fixed-scope project, retainer, or staff augmentation: we adapt to how your business works.
From proof-of-value to production: we integrate AI into your workflows with measurable business impact.
Built it with Lovable, Cursor or Bolt and got stuck? We audit, fix and harden it, then ship it properly.
Four short steps. We respond within three business days with a written scope, team, and price.
Four days of quiet work beats four weeks of status calls. Let's scope it.
