Fractional CTO Retainer
Senior IT leadership on a monthly retainer — strategy, oversight, vendor management, governance and execution without the fixed cost of a full-time CTO.
What this covers →The proof, not the pitch
Seven platforms. Drive them yourself.
These are not products we are selling you. We designed, built, deployed and still operate every one of them — they are the evidence behind the advice, and the reason we can tell you what a system really costs to run.
They are not screenshots either. Each demo below runs the same logic as the live product — move a slider and the numbers actually recalculate.
Want the real thing instead? Sign into the actual production systems → — pick a role, read the guide, and explore a live application loaded with sandbox data.
Automotive · Live
DealerPulse
Sales, stock, activity forecasting, rebates and warehouse-grade analytics across every brand, region and rooftop — from one sign-in. Every headline number drills to the individual VIN, scoped to what each user is cleared to see.
Move the sliders — the month-end forecast re-runs off live activity, exactly as the Predictive MTD Funnel does.
Units MTD0across 20 dealers
Forecast attainment0%vs target 422
Stock > 90 days0capital at risk
Trade pool matches0movable inside the group
Attainment by region — click any bar to drill
Gauteng · 6 dealers · best performer Suzuki Bassonia
WealthTech · Live
CostusWorx Retire
A decision engine that models a client's retirement across 1,000 simulated market paths and grosses SARS income tax up inside the cashflow loop — producing a dated, reproducible report an adviser can defend to a client, a compliance officer and the FSCA.
500 real simulated paths, recomputed on every change. Sequence risk is the reason two clients with identical averages get different outcomes.
Probability of success—pot outlives the horizon
Median end value—real terms, today's rands
Worst 5% ruin year—sequence-of-returns risk
Safe drawdown—for 90% success
Survived to horizon
Depleted early
Median path
WealthTech · UK · Live
Retire UK
The UK edition of the same engine — HMRC bands and the personal allowance inside the cashflow loop, State Pension captured straight from a gov.uk forecast, and funds classified by IA sector and SEDOL. One codebase, two regulatory contexts.
Same simulation core as the SA engine — different currency, different return assumptions, identical maths. That is what a well-built platform buys you.
Probability of success—pot outlives the horizon
Median end value—real terms, today's pounds
Worst 5% ruin year—sequence-of-returns risk
Safe drawdown—for 90% success
Survived to horizon
Depleted early
Median path
EdTech · Live
Learn.CostusWorx
A training portal for organisations that have to evidence competence — courses from PDF, video, PowerPoint or SCORM, quiz-gated completion, automatic certificates, and a dashboard that answers who is overdue.
Watch a PowerPoint become a structured, trackable course. Modules, assessments and progress are generated from the slide hierarchy.
0%
Modules created0from slide hierarchy
Assessments0auto-scaffolded
Completion rate0%0 of 0 learners
Slide → module conversion
RegTech · Live
CompliPath
Competence and CPD tracking for regulated businesses. Every deadline is derived from the representative's date of first appointment, so the register recalculates itself rather than relying on somebody remembering.
Every card carries an owner, a due date and an audit trail. That is the difference between a compliance register and a compliance system.
Compliance score0%weighted by risk
Overdue obligations0past regulatory due date
Audit events logged0immutable trail
FAIS reps in scope18fit & proper tracked
Outstanding 0
In progress 0
Compliant 0
TravelTech · Live
HeyMandy
Group travel from enquiry to signed proposal — briefs, day-by-day itineraries built against graded venues, and a pipeline that shows which groups have gone quiet before they go cold. Grades are earned from booking outcomes, not self-declared.
Grades are earned from booking outcomes, not self-declared. Suppliers who slip drop out of the network — that is what "quality-assured" has to mean to be worth anything.
Suppliers matched0meeting your standard
Network average0service score
Below threshold0excluded from results
Median response0hto agent enquiry
Assessment · Live
CentreForge
Online examination for certificates that have to mean something. Integrity is tiered per exam — open, monitored, or a locked-down secure browser with camera enrolment — and flagged attempts go to a reviewer with the full event timeline.
Higher sensitivity catches more, but flags more honest candidates too. Choosing that trade-off deliberately is the whole job.
Integrity flags0requiring review
False-positive rate0%honest candidates flagged
Sittings cleared0%no anomalies detected
Lifecycle stages6authoring to certification
Examination lifecycle
Run the sweep to analyse this sitting.
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Why this matters to you
Advice from people who ship.
You just used seven products. We designed, built, deployed and now operate every one of them — in production, with real customers, under real regulatory pressure. That changes what our advice is worth.
01
We have made the mistakes already
Vendor lock-in, an integration that looked fine in the demo, a migration that ran long. We have paid for those lessons on our own balance sheet, not on yours.
02
We are nobody's reseller
We take no licence margin on SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards, Sage or any CRM. When we recommend a platform, the recommendation is the whole business case — there is nothing behind it.
03
We can tell you what it really costs
Because we run the servers, carry the support load and pay the cloud bill ourselves. Estimates from people who have never operated a system are guesses in a spreadsheet.
What we do
Five ways we take the technology off your desk.
Senior technology leadership without the full-time executive cost — strategy, oversight, execution and optimisation, priced openly.
IT Transformation & Digital Strategy
Cloud migration, smart infrastructure, transformation roadmaps and modernisation aligned to business goals and measurable return.
What this covers →ERP & CRM Implementation Advisory
SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards, Sage and CRM advisory — vendor selection, delivery governance and business adoption. Independent, with no licence margin on the outcome.
What this covers →Cost Optimisation & Vendor Audit
IT spend reviews, supplier rationalisation, contract renegotiation and operating cost optimisation to cut waste and improve technology value.
What this covers →African Market IT Expansion
Infrastructure, connectivity, compliance, integration and operational readiness for businesses expanding across African markets.
What this covers →Free IT Audit
A clear view of your technology risks, cost opportunities and transformation priorities — before you commit to anything. It is how every engagement begins.
How it runs
From first conversation to measurable outcomes.
Free IT audit
We look at what you are running, what it costs and where the risk sits. No obligation, no sales deck — you keep the findings either way.
Findings & proposal
A written view of priorities, sequencing and cost, with the trade-offs stated plainly. You will know what we would do first and why.
Execution & oversight
We stay accountable for delivery — vendor governance, architecture decisions and the board-level reporting that keeps technology on the agenda.
Start with the audit
You have seen what we build. Now see what we would change.
A free IT audit gives you a clear view of technology risk, cost opportunity and transformation priorities — and no obligation to do anything about it with us.
What the audit covers
- What you are running now, and what it actually costs to keep running
- Where the risk sits — single points of failure, unsupported systems, key-person dependency
- The three things we would change first, and why, in priority order
You keep the findings whether or not you engage us. No obligation, no follow-up sales sequence.
Prefer to talk first? Call +27 82 650 9098 or email bruce@costusworx.co.za.