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Sean Robinson
Co-Founder & Director, South Africa
INVESTORS
Sixteen products. One engineering standard.
NextGen Intelligence is a senior engineering practice that builds production software for founders, and builds its own products on the same standard. We are raising, and we are open to co-investment in individual products in the portfolio.
THE THESIS
Why does an engineering practice own sixteen products?
NextGen Intelligence takes equity instead of fees when the economics suit both sides, so the practice accumulates ownership rather than only revenue.
Clients keep their code and their repo. There is no lock-in. Senior engineers build the product themselves and stay with the work.
Where an equity engagement fits, NextGen shares the risk with the founder instead of billing by the hour.
NextGen Intelligence is a senior engineering practice for founders who need production-grade software, operating across South Africa, the USA, Mauritius, Brazil and Sri Lanka.
AT A GLANCE
- Sixteen products built in-house, all live and documented on this site
- Seven sectors: healthcare, fintech, compliance, HR, medical practice, restaurant operations, professional services
- Four founders, all of whom have started and carried companies of their own
- Five-country operating footprint
- Equity-for-fee engagements available, so the portfolio compounds
THE PORTFOLIO
What is in the portfolio?
Sixteen products, each one a proof of the engineering and the economics working together.
VeriMed
Biometric identity verification at the point of care — fraud prevented, not chased.
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Shesha Pay
Cashless, biometric payments for the minibus taxi economy.
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ConsortAI
AI-powered tender response, compliance monitoring, and JV matching for South African public-sector bids.
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Firmara
Certification, run for you — ISO 27001, SOC 2, POPIA.
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Operna
Turn tribal knowledge into living SOPs — by talking, not documenting.
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PeoplePulse
AI HR support grounded in your own policies — instant answers, privacy by design.
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Calibre
AI hiring calibration for engineering teams — compliant by design, auditable by default.
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Lync Africa
Your in-market team on the ground in Africa.
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Websites engineered to be found — and made easy.
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Career guidance for every student, from Grade 8 to matric.
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Relay
Async communication infrastructure for distributed engineering teams.
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Capture, convert, keep — your entire growth engine in one platform.
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Certior
Identity verified in under 30 seconds — real customers in, fake IDs out.
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Specta
Interactive product demos that let buyers watch the walkthrough and ask the product anything.
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Kadela
Medical-practice booking that keeps each practitioner's rules, diary and patient history intact.
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Cuverta
Restaurant booking, deposits and a live floor plan built around service — not generic calendar slots.
View productCo-investment is considered product by product. Ask about a specific product in the form below.
THE MODEL
How does the equity-for-fee model work?
Fee
Standard engagement. The client pays, owns the code, and walks away whenever they like.
Equity
Where the economics suit both sides, NextGen takes ownership instead of part of the fee, and carries the risk with the founder.
Own products
Where NextGen sees the gap itself, it builds and owns the product outright. Sixteen so far.
WHY IT COMPOUNDS
What makes a portfolio built this way different?
The reusable engineering layer beneath every product has to handle load, failure, security, data integrity and maintainability. Those foundations do not stop mattering when the product goes live.
The sixteenth product costs less to build well than the first because the standard and the people are already in place. The work compounds through a shared engineering practice, not by lowering the bar.
THE PEOPLE
Who is behind NextGen Intelligence?
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Michelle Ruiz
Co-Founder and Director of Sales & Marketing, Africa
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Yannick Ruiz
Co-Founder and Director of Technology, Africa
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Anzel Schutz
Co-Founder & Director, Mauritius
Every NextGen founder has started a company and carried the risk of it.
NEXT STEP
How do I request the investor pack?
The pack is shared with qualified investors after a short introduction. Tell us who you are and what you are interested in.
[email protected]This page is provided for information only. It is not an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security, and it is not investment advice. Nothing here forms the basis of any contract or commitment. Any offer, if made, would be made only to qualified investors, only in jurisdictions where lawful, and only by means of definitive offering documents. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees. NextGen Intelligence LLC.
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