Codeswop is a product engineering studio for software. Our engineers talk to your users, decide with you what is worth building, ship it end to end and measure whether it worked.
Product scoping call
Free · 30 minutes · No commitment
You'll speak with Regardt or Dean, the engineers who'd build it.
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Most agencies pass your idea down a chain: account manager, designer, developer, tester. Context gets lost at every handoff. Our engineers own the whole loop, from the user's problem to the result in production.
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Codeswop
We join user calls and read support tickets, so we build from real problems, not guesses.
Interface, backend, data and deployment. The engineer who scopes a feature is the one who ships it.
Small releases reach users quickly, so feedback arrives in days, not quarters.
Every feature launches with the analytics to show whether it worked.
We refactor as we go, so the tenth feature ships as easily as the first.
Keychat · WhatsApp commerce
End-to-end food commerce for restaurants, all inside WhatsApp: customers browse, order and pay without opening another app.
Biblo.tv · Music licensing
Independent African music, cleared for licence. Natural-language search lets agencies find tracks the way they brief them.
Peer-to-peer delivery
Nationwide peer-to-peer delivery across South Africa: packages matched with verified drivers already travelling the route. Senders get an instant quote; drivers turn empty boot space into earnings.
View project: PackHitchSelf-checkout kiosk
Self-checkout kiosk for a marine retailer, built on Shopify as the single system of record: NFC card identity, per-vessel B2B pricing, and stock moved to the kiosk's location the moment an order closes.
Tax compliance
Tax compliance status for an accounting firm's whole client portfolio, pulled from SARS eFiling and kept current, instead of logging in client by client. A working prototype was in their hands in two weeks.
Fibre signup on WhatsApp
The entire fibre signup journey handled inside WhatsApp, with no forms and no branches. Built for customers that traditional, credit-gated flows turn away.
View project: Blu Dot SAEvery release adds complexity. Left alone, teams start shipping whatever is cheapest instead of what users need, until a rewrite looks like the only way out. Product engineers keep that curve flat, so decisions stay about the product.
AI writes code fast. Our engineers direct it and review every change, so the design stays clean and each new feature is as easy to add as the last.
Effort per feature
of AI code tasks introduced a security flaw in tests Veracode reported in July 2026.
Veracode: 2026 GenAI Code Security Report (opens in a new tab) · July 2026 · Tests of 100+ AI models on 80 coding tasks
of teams surveyed have shipped AI code that later failed in production.
SmartBear: 2026 State of Software Quality and Testing (opens in a new tab) · September 2026 · Survey of 1,436 US and UK leaders and practitioners who use AI in development
of AI-generated code reaches production before the team fully understands it, say the engineering leaders surveyed.
Undo: Overcoming the limitations of coding agents in complex software systems (opens in a new tab) · September 2026 · Survey of 300 senior engineering leaders in the UK and US
Survey figures come from companies that sell testing, debugging and security tools. We show each date and sample size so you can judge them.
A small senior team that owns your product, or one part of it.
We work as the engineers who own a product area. We talk to your users, set priorities with you, ship small releases and check each one against the numbers. You get a product team without hiring one.
We talk to your users and map goals, scope and risks before anyone writes code. You get a plan: what to build first, what can wait and how we'll know it worked.
When off-the-shelf tools don't fit, we build the interfaces and the systems underneath, instrumented so you can see how they're used.
Your tools, platforms and partners joined up, so each record is entered once. Every connection handles errors and retries, so one failed call doesn't become a lost order.
Your AI-built app, made safe to change again. We audit what you have, stabilise it and flatten the complexity curve, without a rewrite.
Free · 30 min
We map your goals and users, and find the problem worth solving first.
Strategic Decision Framework
Each objective is treated as a hypothesis. Evidence decides which ones stay.
Ship & measure
A small, focused release gets real feedback fast. We measure how it's used and let the evidence pick the next step.
Ongoing
With each release we talk to users, then refactor and simplify, so new features stay as easy to add as the first.
The decision to build stays yours at every step.
Start with a free call“Codeswop is part of the team. I feel like I have super powers with them by my side.”
“Dean and Regardt helped us build a prototype within two weeks. They understood the problem deeply and in our first prototype iteration, we could already see massive savings on tasks that have historically been blockers to scaling our business.”
“Moving fast with vibe coding tools is great, but at some point I needed my prototyped ideas to become real functional software systems that can work in production for real users.”
Codeswop was founded in 2016 by Regardt Nel and Dean Harber. Ten years later, both still talk to our clients' users and work in the code on every project.
Director
Works across strategy and delivery. He scopes what a build actually needs, then stays in the code while it ships.
LinkedIn: Regardt Nel
Director
Sets the engineering standards the studio holds itself to, and contributes more to Codeswop's systems than anyone else.
LinkedIn: Dean HarberThirty minutes with Regardt or Dean. You'll leave with the user problem to solve first, a first release scope and an initial budget range. No commitment.
Prefer email? info@codeswop.com
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30-minute sessions, Monday to Friday. Times shown in South African time (SAST).
Tuesday 6 October · available times