Most advisors hand you a slide deck. We hand you eight working platforms, and you can sign into
every one of them from this page before we ever talk about a retainer.
Built for South African and UK businesses running an IT estate they have outgrown: an ERP decision to
make, multiple sites to join up, or a systems landscape nobody owns end to end.
We designed, built and still run every one of them. DealerPulse is our flagship; the other
seven show the same approach in other industries. Switch screens below, then sign in and explore, or
go straight to the live demo hub.
Automotive retail · Flagship
DealerPulse
Sales, stock, forecasting and group reporting for every dealer, region and brand, live, down to the individual VIN, from one sign-in. In the demo you're running a 22-rooftop group across ten territories.
Insights: attainment, stock at risk and the dealers that need attention.
Retirement planning · Live
CostusWorx Retire
Monte Carlo retirement modelling for advisers. The demo carries six client plans, each with a projection produced by the real engine, including two that don't hold, because those are the ones worth showing.
Demo roles: sign in as any of themPractice AdminAdviserParaplanner
A client scenario: assets, allocation and 1,000-path Monte Carlo runs.
Retirement planning · UK · Live
Retire UK
The UK edition: HMRC bands and personal allowance in the simulation loop, State Pension captured from a gov.uk forecast, and funds classified by IA sector and SEDOL. Six sterling client plans, real engine output.
Demo roles: sign in as any of themPractice AdminAdviserParaplanner
A sterling drawdown scenario, run through the same engine.
Learning management · Live
Learn.CostusWorx
A training portal for when you have to prove your people are trained. Courses from PDF, video, PowerPoint or SCORM; quiz-gated completion; automatic certificates; and a compliance dashboard that answers who is overdue.
Demo roles: sign in as any of themPortal AdminTraining ManagerLearner
Portal Admin: learners, assignments and who is overdue.
Regulatory compliance · 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. In the demo you're the Key Individual on an FSP licence with sixteen people on it.
Demo roles: sign in as any of themKey IndividualRepresentative
Key Individual: the whole team's status, urgent items first.
Contracts & compliance · New
ContractWorx
Every contract, its signed copy and the date you must give notice by, plus the company's statutory obligations, from CIPC to POPIA, and who is formally appointed with each regulator. Owners, stakeholders, IT and Legal are emailed before it's too late, and the Assurance dashboard turns it all into attested packs for Exco, the auditors and each regulator. Eight industry packs add the dates for road freight, medical devices, medical practices, construction, private security, pharmacy, motor dealers and food, as drafts until an industry consultant has reviewed them. The demo runs a logistics company with eighteen contracts, a medical device distributor and a medical practice.
Demo roles: sign in as any of themAdministratorContract OwnerFinance Reviewer
Administrator: what ends, what needs notice and what is overdue.
Group travel · 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. Four roles, from agency owner down to the traveller.
Demo roles: sign in as any of themAgency OwnerManagerAgentClient
Agency Owner: every group and where its proposal stands.
Assessment & certification · Live
CentreForge
Online examination for certificates that have to mean something. Integrity is tiered per exam (open, monitored, or secure browser with camera enrolment) and flagged attempts go to a reviewer with the full event timeline.
Demo roles: sign in as any of themCentre AdminCandidate
Centre Admin: attempts, pass rate and the review queue.
These are screens from the public sandbox demos, so you're looking at demonstration data.
Why this matters to you
Advice from people who ship.
Those are eight live products. We designed, built, deployed and now operate every one of them, in
production, most with real customers, under real regulatory pressure. That changes what our advice is worth.
01
We've made the mistakes already
Vendor lock-in, an integration that looked fine in the demo, a migration that ran long. We've paid for those lessons on our own balance sheet, not on yours.
02
We're 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's 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.
You get senior technology leadership without paying for a full-time executive: strategy, oversight, execution and optimisation, scoped to what you need.
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.
SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards, Sage and CRM advisory: vendor selection, delivery governance and business adoption. Independent, with no licence margin on the outcome.
Tell us what's going on: an ERP decision, a cost that keeps climbing, a system nobody owns. We'll come back to you within one business day and tell you plainly whether we can help.
You tell us what's going on. We ask what you're running, what it costs and where it hurts, and we tell you plainly whether we can help. No sales deck.
Findings & proposal
A written view of priorities, sequencing and cost, with the trade-offs stated plainly. You'll know what we'd 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.
Straight answers
Questions buyers ask us first.
What is a fractional CTO?
A fractional CTO is a senior technology executive engaged part-time on a retainer rather than employed full-time. You get board-level technology leadership (strategy, architecture decisions, vendor governance and delivery oversight) at a fraction of the cost of a permanent CTO, which for most South African mid-sized businesses is the difference between having that capability and not having it.
How is a fractional CTO different from a virtual CIO or an IT consultant?
A virtual CIO is usually supplied by your managed service provider and focuses on running the IT you already have. An IT consultant is typically engaged per project. A fractional CTO sits on the leadership side: accountable for technology strategy, spend and direction over time, and independent of any vendor selling you hardware, licences or ERP.
What does a fractional CTO cost in South Africa?
Every engagement is scoped to the work, so we quote after a first conversation. A fractional CTO runs as a monthly retainer; IT transformation, ERP and CRM advisory and cost optimisation are scoped engagements. Start the conversation and we will come back to you within one business day.
Do you resell ERP, CRM or hardware?
No. CostusWorx is vendor-neutral. We advise on SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards, Sage and CRM selection and implementation governance without earning a licence or reseller margin on the outcome, so the recommendation follows the business case rather than the commission.
How do we get started?
Start the conversation with the form on this page, or call or email us. Tell us what's going on, whether that's an ERP decision, a cost that keeps climbing or a system nobody owns, and we reply within one business day. If we can help, we tell you plainly how we'd approach it and what it would cost before any work starts.
Where is CostusWorx based?
CostusWorx is based in Centurion, Gauteng, and works with clients across South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Can I see one of the platforms CostusWorx has built?
Yes. All eight platforms CostusWorx built have public demos you can sign into by role, with no sign-up, from costusworx.co.za/demo. DealerPulse, the flagship, runs a 22-rooftop dealer group across ten territories with live sales, stock and forecasting. We designed, built and operate every one of them ourselves.
A platform we run for a client
Cakes by Des, operated by CostusWorx.
Cakes by Des bakes cakes to order in Copperleaf Golf Estate, Centurion. It's the trading name of Desiree Lowe Catering. CostusWorx (Pty) Ltd built and operates its online ordering site and its WhatsApp line, Cakes by Des - CostusWorx on +27 12 668 1444. Customers choose a cake, book a delivery window and pay online.
