Studio of one · Cape Town · 1 build slot open
Websites that sell.
Software that works.
Twenty years of both.
Twenty years building the systems businesses run on. Nearly ten building the sites, automations and AI tools that bring them customers. One operator, start to finish, on the other end of every email.
20 yrs
Building production software
10 yrs
Building sites that sell
0
Account managers in the way
100%
Code and assets you own
A studio of one. By design, not by accident.
Agencies bill you for hierarchy. Freelancers leave you holding the project management bag. Zivaro is the third option: one senior operator, an AI stack doing the volume, and one person accountable for all of it.
01
You talk to the person doing the work.
No account managers, nothing lost in the hand-off, no "let me check with the team." Every conversation lands with the operator, so decisions happen in the same call you raise them in.
02
Websites are the easy half.
Twenty years of that time went on production systems: contracts, integrations, security, billing, reporting. Software that carries real money and fails loudly when it is wrong. A marketing site is the part of your business a developer finds straightforward, which is exactly why so few of them are built by anyone who has had to do the hard part.
03
Agents do the volume. I make the calls.
The work runs through an orchestrated AI stack with review gates: one agent builds, another checks it against the spec, a third reviews the code, and nothing reaches you without me approving it. That is how one person ships what used to take a department, and why fast does not mean sloppy.
What I do
Four disciplines. One operator. Zero hand-offs.
Most studios pick one. The work that actually moves your business needs all four to talk to each other. That is what you get when one person owns the stack.
01
Web Design & Development
Marketing sites, landing pages, e-commerce, custom web apps. I design and build the whole thing: copy, layout, code, deployment.
02
Workflow Automation
Connect the tools you already pay for. Data flows, alerts fire, nothing falls through the cracks. The work that used to need a full-time ops hire.
03
AI Solutions
AI agents, embedded chatbots, document processing, RAG over your data, internal copilots. Owned by you, branded as yours, running on your domain.
04
SEO & Growth
Technical SEO, content strategy, and GEO (showing up in AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity). The growth engine that runs after the site is live.
Four steps. No drama.
The process is deliberately simple. AI handles the grunt work; I make the calls that matter; you see progress on a shared link from day one.
- 01
Discovery
Week 1A short call, a clear brief. We agree on what success looks like, who it is for, and what we are not doing.
- 02
Design & Build
Weeks 2 to 4I build in public. You see progress on a shared link from day one, not on a big-reveal day three months in.
- 03
Ship
Week 4 or 5We go live. Domain, hosting, analytics, the lot. Documentation handed over so nothing is hidden behind me.
- 04
Optimise
OngoingOptional retainer for SEO, AI features, automations, and iteration based on real user data. Or hand over and we are done.
Ready when you are
Let's build the thing.
A short discovery call. No deck, no sales pitch. I will tell you honestly whether I am the right fit, and what it would cost to ship.