Design, development and marketing · Johannesburg
Design, build, host and support from one senior team in Johannesburg. Most agencies hand over at launch. We’re the ones you still phone in year three.
What we do
Websites and online stores, brand and design, custom software, hosting and security. We keep the range so the recommendation can be honest, not so we can claim eleven badges. Tap any of them to see how we do it.
Fast, findable sites that convert.
See howOnline stores built for South African trade.
See howA real PrestaShop practice. We run our own store on it.
See howShopify, customised past the template.
See howSquarespace, taken past the template.
See howLogos, identity, and the design that carries it.
See howFind what is costing you sales, and fix it.
See howSystems that talk to each other properly.
See howLocal data centres, answered by the people who run it.
See howPlain-language security and POPIA.
See howHonest hardware buying, not reselling.
See howWhy us
Seven answers. Most of them you can go and check for yourself before you even phone us.
Over a decade
Randcore has been building for South African businesses for over a decade. Long enough to have watched platforms come and go, and to still be supporting what we shipped in year one.
Ask any studio how much of their year-one work is still running.
45+
Combined, our engineers go back to 1981, the year the IBM PC shipped. That’s the kind of judgement you can’t hire quickly.
It shows up in what we tell you not to build.
R 600
Nobody in this market publishes rand prices for serious engineering work. The big firms say "reach out". We put the number on the page and hold it.
Every rate and every starting price is on /pricing.
Core Platform keeps the live books of Randcore and of Omnitronix. Real invoices, real salaries, real bank statements. If it broke, we would feel it before you did.
Not a demo account. It’s how we get paid.
Design, build, hosting and support are all ours. No third party to blame and no handover where things get dropped.
We run the hosting ourselves. It doesn’t get handed on.
The code, the accounts, the domain and the passwords are yours from day one. Nothing is held back so that you can’t leave.
Ask us for the handover list before you sign.
If the honest answer is that your existing site is worth fixing rather than replacing, we say so, even when the bigger job pays us more.
We can afford to say it. Our own software sells to people who aren’t clients.
How we work
Twenty minutes on what is actually breaking. We tell you if we’re the wrong fit.
Agreed before anyone starts, so the number doesn’t move later.
It runs on a link you can open from week one, not at the end.
Hosting and support from the same people who built it.
We also build our own
A South African business suite where invoicing, accounting, stock and payroll share one ledger. We run our own books on it, which is the only reason we would ask you to.
Questions
Every job is quoted in writing before anyone starts, and the number doesn’t move afterwards. What it costs depends on what it has to do, and we’ll tell you on the first call if your budget and the job don’t match.
Yes. The code, the accounts and the passwords are yours. Nothing is held hostage and nothing stops you taking it elsewhere.
Usually. We look at it first and tell you honestly whether it’s worth fixing or worth replacing. Sometimes the honest answer costs us the bigger job.
No. Most of our clients are small and medium South African businesses. We take on a few at a time so nobody sits in a queue.
Rosebank and Linden in Johannesburg. Same time zone as you, and you’re welcome to come and sit with us.
Let's work together
Twenty minutes on what you’re trying to do, an honest answer about whether we’re the right fit, and a fixed price in writing before anyone starts.
