Product studio in Cape Town

We have shipped at scale.
Now we build our own.

Bouncing Owl is a Cape Town product studio. We are building our own B2B software, drawing on years spent delivering for some of the largest and most heavily regulated businesses in the UK and South Africa.

What we build

In the making, under wraps.

We are an early studio, building deliberately. Our first product is in active development, and we are keeping the details quiet until it is ready to meet the world.

In active development

When it is ready, you will find it here. Until then, we would rather build quietly than promise loudly.

How we work

A small studio, by design.

A few principles shape everything we make.

01

The hard parts first

We design for the edge cases and failure modes early, because that is where products actually break.

02

Built for scrutiny

We come from heavily regulated markets, so security, privacy, and compliance are part of how we build, not a bolt-on.

03

Quality over noise

We ship when something is good, not when it is loud. Substance comes before launch hype.

The background

We know the markets that are hard to win.

We are not new to this. We have spent our careers building software for large, heavily regulated businesses, the kind of markets where trust is hard to earn and easy to lose. We know how enterprises buy, how they weigh up risk, and what it takes to ship something they will rely on.

Twelve years in enterprise software, combined
Enterprise track recordWe have led teams and delivered implementations for some of the largest names in insurance, banking, and retail, across the UK and South Africa.
Architecture to full-stackBetween us we cover solution architecture, solutions engineering, and hands-on full-stack development.
Security taken seriouslyOne of us found and responsibly disclosed a national data breach that had left the personal and banking details of millions exposed.
Get in touch

Say hello.

Building something, exploring a partnership, or just curious what we are working on? We would like to hear from you.

We also take on the occasional solution-architecture or engineering engagement, mostly when it lines up with what we are building.


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Based inCape Town, South Africa
StatusBuilding our first product