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Technical search agency · Durban, South Africa

Search visibility,
engineered.

We are a small studio in Umhlanga that treats organic search as infrastructure. Server logs before slide decks. Forecasts with confidence intervals. One channel, understood properly.

  • Technical SEO
  • Content strategy
  • Local & multi-location
  • Measurement
+312%
Median organic growth across engagements, first 12 months
48
Brands supported across South Africa and the wider continent
R2.4b
Client revenue attributed to organic search since 2018
9.4
Average client satisfaction, reviewed quarterly

What we do

Six disciplines. One channel.

Each of these is a specialism in its own right. We run them as a single programme because in practice they fail as a single programme too.

All services

The work, made visible

Instruments, not impressions.

Every engagement runs against numbers you can inspect yourself. These are the three views we build first.

google.co.za / results
competitor.co.za › guides
Generic category guide, updated 2021

Thin coverage, no structured data, 4.1s to largest contentful paint on 3G.

Position 1
yourbrand.co.za › guides › topic
The page we build with you

Entity-complete, server-rendered, marked up, internally linked, and 0.9s to first contentful paint.

directory.co.za › listings
Aggregator listing page

Holding a position no publisher defends. The one we take first.

core web vitals / p75 field data
Largest Contentful Paint0.9 s
Interaction to Next Paint112 ms
Cumulative Layout Shift0.02
Time to First Byte180 ms

Indicative targets from a live retail engagement. Measured at the 75th percentile of real South African mobile traffic, not in a lab.

rank movement / 90-day window
QueryPositionClicks / mo
solar installer durban14 → 2+1,900
commercial law firm sandton31 → 4+880
medical aid rates 2026— → 6+12,400
deck builders umhlanga9 → 1+640

Composite of anonymised client movement. Individual results vary with market, domain history and implementation speed.

Selected work

Three engagements,
described honestly.

Including what was difficult. Full write-ups, with the reasoning and the numbers that did not move.

How we work

A programme in four phases.

Phase 01

Diagnose

Four weeks in the logs, the codebase and the data layer. We establish what is true before anyone proposes a fix.

Phase 02

Model

Opportunity is sized and sequenced. You see the forecast, the assumptions behind it and what happens if we are wrong.

Phase 03

Ship

We work inside your sprints — tickets, code review, QA. Where you have no engineering capacity, ours implements directly.

Phase 04

Compound

Monthly review against the model, quarterly re-forecast. The programme narrows toward what is measurably working.

The full approach

They arrived with server logs, not a slide deck. Six weeks later our engineers were arguing about crawl budget in stand-up. That is the change.

Chief Technology OfficerListed South African retail group

Evidence first

We start in the logs

Every engagement opens with your own data — server logs, Search Console, the codebase. Opinions come later, and only when the evidence runs out.

Legible work

No black boxes

You get the reasoning, the query, the spreadsheet and the ticket. If we cannot explain a recommendation to your engineering lead, it is not ready.

Narrow focus

Organic search only

No paid media, no social retainers, no brand workshops. One channel, understood properly, is worth more than five understood partially.

Long horizons

Built to compound

We optimise for where you will be in three years. That occasionally means recommending you do less this quarter than you had budgeted for.

Questions

Answered before you ask.

Technical fixes can move within four to eight weeks — indexation and Core Web Vitals respond quickly. Content and authority compound over six to eighteen months. We forecast both separately at the start so nobody is surprised in month three, and we tell you which category any given recommendation falls into.

Whichever suits you. Most engagements run through your existing sprint process: we write tickets, review pull requests and QA the deploy. Where clients have no in-house capacity, our engineers implement directly against a staging environment. We do not require a platform change to work with you.

Diagnostic audits start at R85,000 and run four to six weeks. Retained programmes typically sit between R45,000 and R160,000 a month depending on scope, site scale and how much implementation we carry. We publish the range because filtering early is better for both of us.

We are based in Umhlanga and work across South Africa, with clients in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Gqeberha, as well as engagements in Kenya, Nigeria and the UK. Diagnostic work is remote by default; we travel for kick-off, quarterly reviews and migration windows.

No, and any agency that does is either misunderstanding the system or misrepresenting it. We forecast ranges with stated confidence intervals and the assumptions behind them. If a forecast turns out wrong, we say so at the next review and explain what we got wrong.

More in the approach

Next step

Start with the evidence.

A four-week diagnostic tells you what is actually limiting organic performance — before anyone signs a retainer.

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