Stuck before it starts?Ready to build in five days.
You know what needs to happen. Nobody has the time to write it all down. Give us a few focused sessions and we'll turn it into a plan your board can approve and a team can build from.
- 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
Months on the list.Quotes you can't trust.
Your team is delivering everything else, and this one waits for someone with a free month to define it. Meanwhile the quotes that come in are all over the place, and nobody can say which estimate will hold.
“We could spec it ourselves. We just don't have the time or the people.”
“We spent months on requirements, and delivery still got stuck.”
“Every quote is different, and we can't tell who to trust.”
“If the estimate doubles halfway through, that's not going to work.”
Bring what you have, even if it's two pages of notes. We know what to ask, and we do the writing.
A few sessions from you.We do the writing.
You give us a few focused conversations: what you need, how it fits your business and your systems, and what success looks like. In between, our team turns it into a plan.
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Your sessions. Focused conversations with the people who know the business and the systems it touches. Nothing to prepare beyond what you already have.
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Our work in between. An experienced business analyst, architect and designer turn what you told us into options and one recommendation, with AI doing the groundwork and our people checking every line.
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Your sign-off. We play the recommendation back to you, close the open questions and agree the next step together.
One plan.Written so anyone can pick it up.
At the end of the week you have one pack, written for two readers: your board, with an overview they can approve, and your engineers.
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One recommendation, with the reasons behind it.
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The architecture, and how it fits your existing systems, thought through before anyone builds.
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An estimate and the team it needs, built from your scope, not a guess.
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A pod, activated, if we're building it with you: the team is chosen and ready to start.
Because it's all defined once, every decision after it is like for like: the options, the timelines and the numbers behind them. Apples with apples, not apples with bicycles.
Will the estimate hold?Here's how ours did.
A plan is only worth what happens after it.
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Jumpstart. We planned the work first, then rebuilt their platform screen by screen. Every one of the largest features came in under its estimate, 34% under in total.
Read the Jumpstart story → - 02
Egis. A one-week assessment set the course for a national infrastructure programme. Eight weeks later, all nine supplier packages were accepted at the gate.
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Lesaka. Our pods plugged into a listed fintech group's engineering team and owned delivery. The first major milestone landed two days early.
Read the Lesaka story →
Plan this week.Then build.
Discovery is how your team gets moving, with every decision still fresh.
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A Codehesion pod. The people who ran your week start building one to four weeks later. No handover gap, no starting again.
See how Innovation Pods work → - 02
Your own software department. They start from a plan written so anyone can pick it up, and we stay alongside to help.
Either way, the pack is yours.
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.
Not quite your situation?
What people ask us first.
How much of our time does it take?
A few focused sessions across the week. We plan them around your diary before we start.
Nothing's written down yet. Is that OK?
Yes, that's what Discovery is for. Bring what you have, even if it lives in people's heads and a few emails. We know what to ask.
Do we need a specification first?
No. Anything you have helps, but writing it properly is part of the week.
Who should take part from our side?
Whoever owns the project, and the people who know the business and the systems it touches. We'll suggest who to invite after the first call.
Is the pack ours?
Yes. It's written so any team can build from it, ours or yours, and you keep it whatever you decide next.
What happens after the week?
If a pod builds it, the same people start building within weeks. If your own team builds it, we stay alongside to help.
What does it cost?
It depends on what you need. We'll give you a clear price in the first conversation.
At the end of the week there's a plan in your inbox, with one recommendation and a number you can plan around. Within weeks, your team is building.
Stuck long enough? Let's plan your week.
Tell us what needs to get moving.