ZenTech · software studio

See your idea built — free.

Describe your business, sit with Zen, and watch a live, clickable prototype get designed in front of you. The prototype costs nothing — you only pay if you love it and want it built for real.

🆓 the prototype is always free💳 no card, no calls⚡ ±2 minutes🇿🇦 Worcester, South Africa
Zero risk: free prototype for everyone · pay only for the real build · founding clients (first 10): 50% off
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Watch Zen build

From one sentence to a working app.

This is the actual process — no actors, no mockups. A business owner describes the problem; Zen designs the tool.

the brief
A business owner says:
Understanding the business…
Designing the tool…
Wiring the buttons…
Done — live & clickable ✦
Tannie Elsa's Bakes
Order book · Worcester
LIVE
14
orders
R2,860
this week
0
missed
🎂 Lemon cake — Anika
Collection Sat 10:00 · paid deposit
CONFIRMED
🧁 24 cupcakes — Sipho
Delivery Fri 14:00 · Riverview
BAKING
🍪 Rusks, 3 tins — De Wet Farm
Monthly standing order
RECURRING
💬 Reminder sent — Anika's collection is tomorrow 10:00
What we build

The tool your business is missing — shipped in days.

Not templates. Real software, built for how you actually work, priced for a small business, not an agency.

01

Booking & reminders

Clients book themselves; the system chases the no-shows so you don't.

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02

WhatsApp assistants

Orders, FAQs and quotes answered instantly — day or night.

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03

Quoting & invoicing

A job becomes a priced quote in seconds instead of an evening.

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04

Dashboards & tools

See your numbers, or kill the admin that eats your week.

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05

Online ordering

Your own menu and orders — without the marketplace's 30% cut.

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06

Trading robots

Your MT5 strategy automated exactly as you trade it — from R999, in your hands in 72 hours. Your rules, your risk limits, a kill switch.

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07

Your business here

The first founding client's story lands on this tile — real tool, real numbers, named.

Claim the spot — start free

Every demo above is real — tap through it. Zen designed and built each one the same way he'll build yours.

Concept lab

Ideas we've already built.

Our own concepts — full working prototypes for the kinds of local businesses we want to serve, built before anyone asked. Open any of them; every screen works. This is the standard your project gets.

Built in-house · running right now

We ship for ourselves first.

Not portfolio screenshots — systems that are live and working while you read this. This is the engineering standard behind every quote we give.

● LIVE ON THIS PAGE

The prototype builder

This site builds apps while you watch — describe a business above and get a working prototype in about two minutes. We built the builder. It quotes from our real rate card and files every lead automatically.

Use it now — free
● LIVE · AUTO-PUBLISHED

The Trial & Honesty Engine

Our own trading research, judged by rules frozen before the data. Every verdict is hash-chained in a public ledger, and the progress counter below updates itself from our server — 17 of 40 trades — no human edits the number.

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● IN THE WORKSHOP

Zen, the build system

Our in-house automated engineer. It drafts the proposals on this page, designs the prototypes, files the leads, and publishes the Trial numbers — the machine behind the machine. Every delivery is reviewed and signed off by a human.

You're watching it work
How it works

From a sentence to something you can click.

STEP 01

Tell Zen about it

One or two sentences about your business and the friction. No forms, no jargon.

STEP 02

See it, live

Zen designs a real, clickable prototype and a plain-language plan with an honest price.

STEP 03

Love it? Then we build

The prototype is yours free either way. Say yes and we quote the real build per project — you only pay for what you approved.

Build with Zen · live

Describe your business.

A sentence or two about what you do and what's slowing you down. Zen will sketch a clickable prototype and a real plan — right here, right now.

A hair salon drowning in WhatsApp bookings A plumber who quotes jobs by hand every night A small restaurant that wants online orders
Hard to put into words? 🧭 Plan it with Zen first — a guided two-minute brief →
Understanding your business…
Your clickable prototype — tap around
Founding clients

The prototype is free for everyone. The first 10 also build at half price.

We're proving what a new kind of software studio can do. Everyone gets their clickable prototype free — that's the deal, always. The first ten founding clients also get 50% off the build of the real thing. See exactly what you're getting before you commit a cent.

Start with the free prototype
◦ prototype: free, always · founding build discount: first 10 only
Straight answers

The questions everyone asks.

Who actually builds my app?
You deal with a person. ZenTech is owner-run — you talk to a human on WhatsApp from first hello to final delivery, and a human signs off on everything that ships. The heavy engineering runs on Zen, our in-house automated build system — that's why we're days-not-months and half an agency's price, without cutting corners. Person on the phone, machine in the workshop.
What does it really cost?
The clickable prototype is free, always — that's the only cost promise we need to make, because it's the only cost until you say yes. If you love it, the real build and hosting are quoted per project, in plain rand, in your written plan — before you commit a cent. Founding clients (the first ten) get 50% off their build. Payment is a simple EFT: 50% deposit to start, the balance only when you're happy. Don't want the build? Keep the prototype and walk away — no hard feelings, no invoice.
How long does a build take?
Days, not months. A small tool is typically live inside a week; a bigger app in two to three. You get something to click on day one — you're never waiting in the dark.
What if I want changes?
Changes during the build are part of the build — we shape it together until it fits how you actually work. After launch, small tweaks ride on an affordable monthly maintenance plan or a fair once-off quote, priced per project. You'll never be charged for something you didn't agree to first.
Is my idea safe with you?
Yes. Your idea and your data stay yours. We don't resell your concept, and what you build with us belongs to your business. We're building a reputation in public — check The Trial to see how seriously we take being honest.
Can you build my trading robot?
Yes — MT5 Expert Advisors (MQL5), from R999, in your hands in about 72 hours. You bring the strategy you already trade; we turn it into a robot that executes it exactly — entries, exits, position sizing, hard risk limits and a kill switch. Custom builds: Starter R999 · Pro R2,499 · Elite R4,999+ — or rent our ready-made ZenTrade robot from R299/month (founder keys). Full details on the ZenTrade pricing page. To be straight with you: we automate your strategy — we don't sell signals or profit promises. Backtested edge — demo-verify before live. The strategy and the risk stay yours.
Why so much cheaper than an agency?
An agency bills you for people-hours — meetings, managers, margins. Here the engineering is automated at a fraction of the cost, and the founding discount exists because we're trading price for proof: your success story is worth more to us right now than full rates.
Proof, not promises

We grade our own work in public.

Before we build for you, see how we build for ourselves. The Trial is our own trading strategy, running live with the verdict locked before we saw a single result. We publish the losers too. If that's how honestly we judge ourselves, imagine what we'll do with your project.

0 / 40
qualifying trades
Sept 2026
verdict, locked
100%
results published
Read the Trial →
Live demo
Every tap works — a real prototype, built by Zen. Get yours free →
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