Web · API
Product engineering
Systems your business runs on, not demos. Typed, tested services in .NET and TypeScript, with acceptance criteria agreed before work starts — so “done” means the same thing to both of us.
Software studio — Johannesburg → the continent
We run what we build.
Avanzamos is a Johannesburg software studio with products live in beauty, healthcare, and insurance — and we build to the same standard for clients across Africa.
Software for Africa usually fails one of two ways.
Imported platforms assume payment rails, connectivity, and currencies that aren't yours — so your team works around the tool instead of with it. Local agencies ship a demo, invoice, and disappear, leaving nobody who can maintain what you paid for.
Either way, you carry the risk. We built Avanzamos to be the third option: a studio that engineers for African realities and stays accountable in production.
Capabilities
Four things we do well, end to end.
iOS · Android
Mobile apps
Apps built for the connectivity your users actually have. React Native with offline-first design, so a dropped connection interrupts nobody's workday and data syncs when the network returns.
Azure · CI/CD
Cloud & delivery
Infrastructure that survives release day. Azure environments with automated pipelines, backward-compatible migrations, and releases that can be reverted in one step when something surprises us.
Local rails
Payments & integrations
Take money the way your customers pay. We integrate the payment rails global vendors skip — mobile money, regional gateways, and local card processing across African markets — and every payment path gets reviewed line by line before it ships.
The shipping record
Products we own and operate.
The strongest proof of how we'll treat your system is how we run our own. These are live products, operated by Avanzamos — click any product for the full picture.
Client work gets the same engineering standard — because we know what it costs to run software after launch day. That standard sits on three-plus years of studio work with Geratin, and thousands more hours at Africawide and LeadGurus.
Partners
Companies we work with.
Straight answers
What buyers ask us first.
What does an engagement cost?
Every project starts with a scoping call and a written proposal: fixed scope, fixed acceptance criteria, and the price attached to them. You know what “done” means and what it costs before any work begins. No open-ended retainers unless you ask for one.
How do you handle security and money paths?
The same way we protect our own products. Authentication and input validation at every API boundary, tenant isolation checked on every query, secrets never shipped in client bundles — and payment, payroll, and compliance logic reviewed line by line. Every production bug gets a regression test the same day it's found.
What happens after launch?
We build so the system outlives the engagement: documentation, revertible releases, and migrations that don't trap you on old versions. You can take over with your own team, or we keep operating it with you — the same way we operate our own products.
Tell us what you're building.
One email starts it. We'll reply with a scoping call, and you'll leave that call knowing whether we're the right studio for it.
Managed IT & technology ops — Johannesburg → the continent
We answer before it breaks.
Avanzamos also runs the Microsoft 365 tenants, endpoints, and email systems behind real businesses — the same engineering discipline we bring to our own products, pointed at keeping yours online.
IT support usually means one of two things.
Either it’s an offshore help desk on a ticket queue that’s never heard of load-shedding, doesn’t know your EcoCash rails, and needs the whole story re-explained every time you call. Or it’s one person who’s “good with computers” — fast until they’re on leave, and undocumented the day they leave for good.
We built the IT Ops side of Avanzamos to be the third option: the same engineers who ship production software, on call for the systems that keep your business running day to day.
Capabilities
Four things we do well, end to end.
M365 · Identity
Tenant administration & access
Full lifecycle account management — onboarding, offboarding, access control, and device provisioning — run the way we’d want our own tenant run.
Endpoint · Collaboration
Dedicated IT support
The opposite of a ticket queue: people who already know your setup answer, fix Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, and laptops the same day, and put the root cause away for good.
Security · Continuity
Cybersecurity & systems health
Anti-malware sweeps, breach assessments, access recovery, and scheduled health checks — the same production discipline we apply to systems we build ourselves.
New · Cost
Technology expense management
Unused licenses are money leaking out of your business every month. We audit subscriptions, licenses, and vendor contracts, cut what you’re paying for but not using, and keep watching so the savings stay saved.
The support log
Not a pitch. A support log.
Continuous technology support since 2019 — logged line by line, the real numbers from the systems we already run for clients across the continent.
Tenant — Johannesburg
AVZ-TNT-01 · M365 managed
Monitored
- 0 support engagements — LeadGurus & partners
- 0 hours of hands-on work — LeadGurus, Africawide & partners
- 0 years of continuous client support
- 0 client environments supported
Where the rewards go
The Microsoft Rewards we earn running clients’ Microsoft 365 tenants are donated to Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and CARE. The work keeps systems up — and pays something forward.
The same engineering standard we hold our own products to — because we know what it costs to run systems after launch day.
Partners
Companies we work with.
Straight answers
What buyers ask us first.
What’s the SLA?
Same-day response for standard tickets, same-hour for anything flagged as a security incident. Every engagement is logged and reported — you can see exactly what was done and when.
Do you replace our in-house IT, or work alongside it?
Either. Some clients hand us the whole tenant; others keep an internal contact and use us for overflow, projects, or specialist work like security reviews and expense audits.
How do you handle access and security?
Least-privilege by default, MFA enforced, and every access change logged. The same standard we hold our own product infrastructure to.
Tell us what’s breaking.
One email starts it. We’ll reply with a scoping call, and you’ll leave knowing whether we’re the right fit for your tenant.
Technology expense management — Johannesburg → the continent
We find the money you’re already spending.
Every month, businesses pay for telecom lines, cloud services, and software licenses nobody uses. Avanzamos audits those bills line by line, cuts the waste, and replaces expensive licenses with open source where it genuinely fits — without breaking what works.
Technology spend leaks in three quiet ways.
Telecom contracts renew themselves — old voice and data plans, devices nobody has touched since the last office move, and “bundle” pricing nobody has re-negotiated in years.
Cloud bills grow one service at a time. Each looks small; together they’re a salary. And software licenses stack up per seat for tools that a well-chosen open source alternative would cover — if anyone had time to check.
We check. Line by line, contract by contract, with the same engineering team that runs production systems — so we don’t just find the savings, we implement them safely.
Capabilities
Three audits. One ledger.
Voice · Data · Mobile fleets
Telecoms expense management
Full audit of carrier contracts, device fleets, and usage-based billing. We reconcile invoices against contracts, kill orphaned lines and dormant SIMs, and re-negotiate what stays — billed on results, not hours.
Azure · M365 · SaaS sprawl
Cloud cost review
Subscription and consumption audit across Microsoft 365, Azure, and your SaaS stack: idle resources, duplicate services, wrong-tier licensing, and reserved-capacity opportunities. You get a ranked cut-list with rand values attached.
License → Open source
Software replacement
Where an open source alternative genuinely matches your needs, we migrate you off the per-seat license — tested, documented, and reversible. Where it doesn’t fit, we tell you honestly and negotiate the license instead. No ideology, just arithmetic.
How the work pays for itself
The audit is free. The savings aren’t.
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1. Audit
We review your telecom, cloud, and licensing bills — no charge, no commitment.
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2. Cut-list
A ranked list of every saving found, each with its rand value and the risk of making the change.
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3. Implement & share
We make the changes, verify nothing breaks, and take a share of first-year savings. No savings, no fee.
Partners
Companies we work with.
Straight answers
What buyers ask us first.
What does the audit need from us?
Recent invoices (telecom, cloud, software) and read-only access to your licensing portal or tenant billing. Two conversations with whoever manages the accounts. That’s the whole ask — we do the rest.
Is open source migration risky?
Not the way we do it: parallel run first, data migrated and verified, staff trained, old system kept warm until the new one proves itself. And if an open source tool doesn’t genuinely match what you have, we say so and keep your current license.
How do you charge?
The initial audit is free. Implementation is billed as a share of verified first-year savings — so if we find nothing worth changing, you’ve paid nothing and learned your bills are clean.
Send us a month of bills.
One email starts it. Attach your latest telecom and software invoices, and we’ll come back with what we’d look at first — free, no commitment.