Small team. Big mission.
We are a small team of specialists who believe South African businesses deserve better than overpriced software and IT vendors who treat them like ATMs.
Because someone has to say it out loud
Every person on this team has the same story. We spent years watching businesses get taken for a ride. Vendors locking them into contracts they didn't need. Consultants billing for problems they created. Enterprise software priced for London and sold to Limpopo. It's not right, and we got tired of pretending it was normal.
So we built Imbertech. Not as a startup chasing funding or a consultancy chasing billable hours. We built it because we genuinely believe that a small team who actually cares can outperform a big firm that doesn't. Every one of us is here because we chose to be. Because we'd rather help a 20 person company stay afloat than pad an invoice at a corporate.
We built a free savings calculator that maps 200+ proprietary software products to open source alternatives with real ZAR pricing. Not because calculators are fun to build, but because "we can save you money" means nothing without the specific number. That calculator is the proof of the approach, and it costs you nothing to check.
We are small. We know that. But every person on this team is a specialist, not a generalist reading from a script. When you work with Imbertech, you talk to the people doing the work. No account managers sitting between you and the person who actually knows the answer.
Who We Are
A small team of highly specialized individuals who would rather lose a deal than oversell one.
Specialists, not generalists
Every team member has deep expertise in their domain. Cybersecurity, compliance, development, infrastructure. We don't dabble. We know.
Builders, not resellers
We deploy, configure, and maintain the systems ourselves. We don't just sell you a licence and disappear. If it breaks at 2am, we fix it.
Honest, not polished
If something won't work for your business, we'll tell you. We've walked away from deals that would have been profitable but wrong for the client.
Growing, not rushing
We are building Imbertech the right way. Hiring people who care. Taking on work we can deliver well. Growing because clients come back, not because we overpromised.
Sybrand de Kock
15 years in IT. Infrastructure, networking, security, development, compliance. I've deployed more open source platforms than I can list. The pattern is always the same: read the docs, stand it up, break it, fix it, production. If it's open source and it solves your problem, we can run it.
I started Imbertech in 2022 because I kept watching businesses drown in software costs they didn't need to pay. Good companies, run by good people, getting sold solutions that solved the vendor's revenue problem instead of theirs. I couldn't keep watching. So I stopped watching and started building.
How We Work
Every engagement follows the same five steps. No exceptions.
Assess
Audit your current setup: software costs, infrastructure, pain points, manual processes. Free for first engagement.
Recommend
Written recommendation with costs, timelines, and expected savings. No obligation. You decide what happens next.
Implement
Parallel running where needed. Your team keeps working while we build, migrate, or fix. No surprise downtime.
Support
Ongoing maintenance and support. You're not left holding a system nobody understands.
Measure
Track promises against delivery. We show you the actual number, not a vague claim that things improved.
How We Price
We don't bill by the hour.
Hourly billing punishes you when we're good at what we do. If we solve it in two hours instead of ten, you pay less, which means we'd be stupid to be efficient. That model is broken. We don't use it.
You pay per phase.
Every project gets split into phases. You pay for Phase 1. We do Phase 1. You check the work. Happy? Pay for Phase 2. Scope changes? We re-quote before moving forward. You always know what you're paying for and what you're getting.
You can stop any time.
If after Phase 1 you decide it's not worth continuing, you stop. You've paid for what you received and nothing more. No exit fees. No penalty. No awkward conversation.
What We Won't Do
We'd rather show you than tell you
30 minutes. We look at your setup. You get an honest opinion and a real number. No pitch, no pressure.