Live on your date.Built so any good team could take it over.
We build custom web, mobile and business software that's planned properly, checked at every step and easy to change for years, so it stays an asset, never a liability. You own every line.
- 100+
- products shipped
- 3 in 100
- applicants make the team
- 3×
- voted SA’s best software development company (MyBroadband, 2024–2026)
- Lesaka
- Tiger Wheel & Tyre
- Romans Pizza
- City Lodge
- Absa
- Old Mutual
- DP World
- Peermont
- Hyundai
- Nestlé
You know what you want to build.You need it done right.
You've got a goal, a date that matters and a business ready to move. What you can't afford is software that launches well and turns into a liability a year later: slow to change, and understood only by the people who wrote it.
“We can't afford to build it twice.”
“It has to be live by the date we've promised the board.”
“It has to handle the growth we're planning, not hold us back.”
“We want to take this digital transformation head on.”
“We know what we want to build. We don't have the team to build it.”
On time, and never a liability. You can have both.
Every project is builtto pass the handover test.
One question tells you whether software is an asset: could another good team take it over tomorrow? We build so the answer is always yes.
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Planned before it's built. Requirements, architecture and a sprint plan, agreed with you before the first line of code.
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AI does the groundwork. Experienced engineers decide. Our AI agents draft requirements, code and tests to our standards. An experienced engineer reviews and signs off everything they produce.
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Every change checked. Each change is reviewed by an engineer who didn't write it, tested before your users see it, and linked to a ticket you can follow.
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Documented, and yours. You own all the code and IP from day one, with documentation another team could pick up straight away.
Getting it right the first time is also what makes it fast.
Your developers, or ours.It works either way.
Some of our clients have developers. Some don't. We fit in either way, to create impact and help you innovate.
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No development team? We're your whole team: analysis, design, engineering, testing and a project manager you talk to.
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Developers of your own? We work alongside them, in your codebase and to your standards, and they pick up our way of working as we go.
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Want it in-house one day? We plan the handover from the start, so your team can take over when you're ready.
Live on the date.Still going years later.
194 features delivered against 112 scoped, for 56 hotels across 4 brands.
See the City Lodge story →Integrated Tailings SolutionsFrom a blank page to production in 5.5 months.
See the Integrated Tailings story →Peermont6+ years of weekly sprints, and still growing.
See the Peermont story →Who is Codehesion?
Codehesion is a software development company of 65+ engineers, designers and analysts, founded in 2017 and based in Centurion, Gauteng. We build, rescue and modernise software for companies like Lesaka, Tiger Wheel & Tyre, Romans Pizza and City Lodge. MyBroadband readers have voted us South Africa's best software development company three years running.
Start with a plan you can check.
A Discovery week turns your idea into requirements, an architecture and a realistic plan for your first release, in five days.
Not quite your situation?
What people ask us first.
How fast can you build it?
It depends on what you're building, but faster than most teams, because AI does the groundwork and experienced engineers check it. A Discovery week gives you a realistic plan and a first release you can get live sooner.
How do you use AI without risking quality?
We plan properly first, so AI works to an agreed design. Our agents draft requirements, code and tests to our standards, and an experienced engineer reviews and signs off everything. Every change is then reviewed, tested and approved by you before release.
Is our code or data used to train AI?
No. Our AI tools run on commercial licences, and your code and data are never used to train AI models.
Who owns the software?
You do: all the code and IP, from day one. Our AI skills stay with us; everything they produce for you is yours.
What do you build with?
Modern, widely used technologies chosen for your product, so other developers can work on it later: .NET and Blazor, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, React, Vue.js, React Native and Flutter, on Azure or AWS, and many more underlying frameworks.
Can you connect it to the systems we already use?
Yes. Most of what we build talks to something: ERP, accounting, CRM, payment gateways, or hotel and booking systems.
Can we start small?
Yes, and we recommend it. Discovery shapes a first release you can get live and learn from, then we build on it.
Will we see progress?
Every two weeks: a demo of working software and a projected finish date. You approve features before they go live.
What does it cost?
It depends on what you're building and the team it needs. A Discovery week gives you an estimate before you commit.
What happens after launch?
We stay on if you want us, with support at agreed response times or a smaller team to keep improving it. Or we hand it over to your own developers, with documentation.
What does a long-term engagement look like?
Software that keeps growing with the business. At Peermont, a loyalty app grew into a whole ecosystem, with 15+ integrations, over weekly sprints that are still running.
Picture it live on the date the business needed, new features still landing in weeks, not months, and a codebase another team could pick up tomorrow.
Software that passes the handover test. Let's build yours.
Tell us what you need built.