What we do, in depth.

ONIX 2.1, 3.0 and 3.1 done properly: schema, codelists, Schematron rules and the retailer's own dialect. Price and availability, Thema and BISAC, cover images — validated before they leave.

Every book record that reaches a shelf, a website or a library catalogue is a feed first. We have written, validated and delivered those feeds for the South African trade for three decades, and we still read the standard line by line.

• ONIX 3.1 · 3.0 · 2.1
• Thema & BISAC classification
• Four-gate validation
• Retailer-specific dialects

Secure collection, hash-verified archives and a governed merge that never loses what a supplier sent. Tens of millions of records, with field-level provenance.

Nothing sent is ever lost; descriptive fields are arbitrated by trust and recency, supply data is unioned with attribution, and every exported field can answer which source said it, when, and why it won.

• 55M+ title records
• Multi-supplier merge
• Field-level provenance
• Audit-grade ingestion

Elasticsearch-backed discovery over tens of millions of titles, tuned for how librarians, buyers and readers actually look for books.

A catalogue is only as good as the search in front of it. We design the mapping, run the index and keep it fresh with daily deltas.

• Elasticsearch 8
• Typed, strict mappings
• Daily deltas
• Faceted & hybrid retrieval

Classification, extraction and standards guidance from language models that may only choose from the licensed vocabularies — with a person confirming every change.

AI proposes. People confirm. Every field keeps its provenance and its confidence score, so an enriched record is never a guessed one.

• Constrained Thema / BISAC
• Extraction from PDF & EPUB
• Grounded standards Q&A
• Human-in-the-loop

Modern web and platform products, end to end: architecture, UI, APIs, data, deployment. ASP.NET Core, Next.js, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Azure.

We ship complete products, not prototypes: authentication, payments, multi-tenancy and operations included, reviewed at every phase.

• ASP.NET Core & .NET
• Next.js & TypeScript
• PostgreSQL · SQL Server
• CI/CD & observability

Discovery and book-procurement platforms used by South African universities, with holdings integration and approval workflows built for real institutions.

From search to order to invoice: the systems academic libraries use to find, approve and buy the titles their faculties need.

• University procurement
• OCLC holdings integration
• Approval workflows
• On-premises or cloud

Offline-first, multilingual learning platforms built for South African connectivity, with portfolios, sign-off and verifiable certificates.

Built for learners on phones, on poor connections, often reading in a second language. Progress survives load-shedding. Certificates are professional-development awards, not NQF-registered qualifications, and anyone can verify one by its code.

• Offline & print-first
• 7 South African languages
• Verifiable certificates
• POPIA-aware by design

Daily feeds to major South African online retailers, distributor stock files, aggregator exchanges and publisher onboarding — running every day without drama.

The unglamorous work that makes the trade move: the right file, in the right format, at the right time, with a delivery ledger to prove it.

• Retailer product feeds
• Distributor stock files
• SFTP & API exchange
• Publisher onboarding

Azure-native where it pays, on-premises where it must be — Key Vault, managed identity, scripted deployments and monitoring, operated by the people who built the software.

We run what we build. Secrets in vaults, identities instead of passwords, deployments that roll back on their own, and a monthly bill you can read.

• Azure (UK South · SA North)
• IIS & Windows Server
• Scripted, reversible deploys
• Cost governance