Web applications
Production-grade apps on a stack chosen to still make sense in three years. Fast, accessible, and instrumented from day one.
Software that proves itself.
The Reichmann Co. is a software studio in South Africa. We build web, mobile and desktop software for businesses. Everything we ship is checked by machines before it goes anywhere, and we've published every one of those checks by name.
What we build
Six things, built properly.
A focused set done well, not a list that claims everything. Whatever the surface, the standard doesn't change.
SaaS products
The parts that are easy to underestimate: authentication, billing, multi-tenancy, roles and permissions, and the infrastructure beneath them.
Mobile apps
iOS and Android that feel native, not a website in a frame. We'll tell you if a mobile web app serves you better and cheaper.
Desktop software
Windows-native tools that run at the speed of the machine and keep working when the line drops.
Cloud & backend
APIs, data and infrastructure built to stay up, scale cleanly, and never become a system nobody understands.
AI & integrations
Practical AI that does real work, not demos. If your idea doesn't need it, we'll say so instead of selling you a buzzword.
How it works
What we put in writing.
An unknown studio asks you to take a risk. These are the things we do to make that risk smaller, and they're commitments, not adjectives.
- You own it from commit one
- The code lives in your company's repository from day one, not ours. Hosting, domain and database accounts are registered to your business. If we stop working together tomorrow, you lose a collaborator, not your product.
- A written quote before a rand moves
- Scope, price and dates in writing. If the scope changes, the quote changes in writing before We build it, never after.
- Defect cover after handover
- If something inside the agreed scope is broken after handover, we fix it at no charge for ninety days. Not new features, only defects. We can offer that because of how it's tested before it ships.
- You can stop
- Fixed-scope work is billed in stages. Stop after any stage and you pay for what's done, and keep everything built to that point in a state another engineer can pick up. No termination penalty.
- You talk to the people building it
- No account managers, no game of telephone. The person who quotes the work is the person who writes it.
The product
Lumarix.
Lumarix is running today.
A South African ERP: bookkeeping, bank, selling, buying, stock, payroll and reports, all speaking to each other and all adding up to the cent. R250 per user per month, and the first month is free for your business.
What it is
One system where a quote becomes an order, an order becomes a delivery, and the invoice lands in the ledger without anybody retyping it. Seven parts, licensed separately, sharing one set of numbers.
Where it stands
Open, priced and taking customers. One account, one set of numbers, and the platform underneath it was finished and proven before the product went on top.
Why it is here
It is the first product on the platform below, and the argument for building that platform first. The foundation is older than the thing standing on it, which is the opposite of how this usually goes.
The platform
Dachshund.
We built the hard part first.
Before taking on client work we built the foundation our own products will run on. Accounts, companies, licensing, billing, software distribution and support, solved once and proven, so that no product we ship ever has to solve them badly under deadline.
What it is
One account across every product we make, licences held by the business rather than by an employee, updates that verify their own signature before installing, and support you reach from inside the software.
Where it stands
Built, running, and carrying a real product. Six phases finished before the seventh one shipped on top. You do not buy Dachshund; you get it underneath Lumarix, which is where the account and the licensing come from.
Why it is here
It is the strictest thing we have built, and the eleven checks came from it. It is on this site as evidence of how we work, and as the reason the product above it started on a finished foundation.
The standard
We don't ask you to trust it.
Every studio says it cares about quality. These three numbers come off Dachshund, the platform we built to run our own products on, and they are measured rather than asserted. The page behind them names every check individually.
11
automated checks every change has to pass, all of them, every time. Not a review at the end.
88/88
planted faults, every one of them caught. We hid each in our own code on purpose, one at a time, to find out whether the tests would notice.
0
actions that can happen without a record of who did it and when. That record can be read, and not rewritten. Not by staff, and not by us.
In plain terms: we built a machine that won't let us ship sloppy work on a bad day. It doesn't rely on us being disciplined. It relies on us being unable to skip it.
Start here
Tell us what you want built.
An idea, an app, a rough description. Enough to have a real conversation. WhatsApp reaches us directly, and every enquiry gets a reply within one working day.