About

A small senior team that ships across every platform.

RecensLabs is a Cape Town build studio. We design and ship production software for web, Android, and iOS — and we run our own portfolio of SaaS products, so we feel the same launch pressure our clients do.

We keep teams small so the person scoping your project is the one building it.

Most studios grow by adding layers — account managers, project managers, hand-offs. We grew by staying small and senior. When you talk to us, you talk to the engineers and designers doing the work, not a middle layer relaying messages.

That's only possible because we build across the whole stack ourselves: a marketing site, its web app, and its native mobile apps can all come from the same team. One product feels consistent everywhere it runs because one team owns it everywhere it runs.

40+
products shipped
9 yrs
building for clients
3
platforms, one team
4
SaaS products of our own

How we work

Four principles that shape every engagement — not slogans, just how we actually operate.

01

Senior by default

No junior work billed as senior. The people who scope the project are the ones who build it.

02

Ship, then iterate

We put working software on staging every week. You react to something real, not a slide deck.

03

One team, every screen

Web, web app, Android, iOS from one group — so your product behaves the same everywhere.

04

Own what we ship

We run our own SaaS products, so we build the maintenance and support you actually live with.

The people behind the build

A tight group of engineers and designers who have shipped together for years.

YK
Yoweli Kachala
Founder · Full-stack
NM
Naledi Mokoena
Lead Designer
SD
Sipho Dlamini
Mobile Engineer
AP
Anja Pretorius
Backend Engineer
Where we are

Cape Town based, comfortable working remote.

We're in SAST (UTC+2), which overlaps a full working day with Europe and the mornings of the US East Coast. Most of our clients are remote — we've built the rituals to make that boring in the best way.

BaseCape Town, South Africa
TimezoneSAST · UTC+2
OverlapEurope full day · US AM
Working styleRemote-first, weekly demos

Like how we think?

Tell us what you're building — web, Android, iOS, or all three — and we'll scope it within a week.

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