tekolo
accounting
khwarizmi · johannesburg · est. 2026
completing
the square.
the technical partner south african operators bring in when the data has to hold up under audit, the ai has to actually shift how the team works, and the build has to survive being handed over.
~ every engagement is a square missing a corner ~
where the corner
is missing.
eight verticals · one method. three pillars · one engagement
complete · hand over ·
run.
a three-month build. a three-week hand-over. then we leave. the work keeps running because the team owns it.
01 · data
data that holds.
working papers, ledgers, audit trails — designed to survive the audit.
02 · ai
ai that shifts the work.
not a demo. a tool the team uses on a tuesday, then forgets we built it.
03 · hand-over
a build that survives hand-over.
three weeks of pairing. documented. then we leave. it keeps running.
seven engagement surfaces
the work, named.
one method, seven shapes. pick the one that matches the corner you are trying to complete.
01 · fractional
→embedded technical leadership.
we sit inside your team as cto / head of data, two or three days a week, for a fixed term.
02 · ai enablement
→ai that the team actually uses.
eight-week programmes. the tool ships on day forty. the team owns it on day fifty-six.
03 · platform builds
→project-based platform & data engineering.
a fixed-scope build of the data layer, the warehouse, the api, the audit trail.
04 · compliance
→compliance & data-trust engineering.
popia, audit, sovereign hosting, halal-compatible commercial structures. the trust surface.
05 · productised
→fixed-scope offers.
six packages with priced sows. the audit-ready ledger. the popia kit. the working-paper template.
06 · advisory
→technical advisory & due diligence.
an investor needs a second opinion. a board wants the architecture read. we write it up.
07 · research
→ commissioned research.
a working paper on your sector, your data, your question. published or held — your call.
~ the seven shapes the work takes ~
we sit inside the team for three months. then we hand it over and they run it without us.
— founder · khwarizmi § method · v1.0 · 2026
7engagement surfacesnamed, priced, scoped.
8verticals servedhealthcare to property.
5products shippedeach carries the parent corner.
3months · weeks · weeksbuild, pair, leave.
the product family
products we
ship.
five marks · one parent. each product carries the parent corner at twelve percent — visible attribution.
phoenix
pos · bi
km repo
knowledge graph
hayāt
telemedicine
de-ics1
audit engine
a corner missing?
tell us where.
a thirty-minute call. no slide deck. you describe the square; we sketch the corner.