Software costs are rising 5× faster than inflation.

Stop renting
your software.

Every month you pay per-user licence fees for software that already has a free, open-source equivalent. Same job. Self-hosted. Yours to own. We've mapped hundreds of replacements and we run the migration.

Based in Johannesburg. Working worldwide.

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The Numbers

THE OPEN SOURCE REALITY

The world already runs on open source. Yours probably should too.

OPEN
SOURCE
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How a migration runs

Four stages. The same way, every time.

01

Discover

Read your stack cold.

Data first. Every licence, every system, every dependency. Mapped, costed, ranked.

  • Stack audit
  • Cost map
  • Lock-in inventory
  • Risk register
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What we do

Twelve disciplines, one principle: you should own what you depend on.

Every service below holds to the same standard. Open-source by default. Documented in writing. Handed over so you can run it without us.

01AnalyticsDataDashboards, KPIs, data warehousing. Numbers your team can trust, refreshed automatically.02Artificial IntelligenceIntelligenceRAG pipelines, private LLMs, agent workflows, OCR. AI that earns its keep.03ComplianceRiskPOPIA, ISO 27001 paperwork, controls, and evidence. We close the gaps that fail your audit.04ConsultingStrategyAudit your stack. Rank every tool by ROI. Written recommendations, plain English.05CybersecurityDefencePen tests, vulnerability assessments, and security audits. We find the holes before someone else does.06DevelopmentBuildWeb apps, APIs, automations. The things your business runs on.07IoTHardwareSensors, dashboards, automation. If it can be measured, we can monitor it.08IT OperationsInfrastructureMonitored 24/7, fixed before you notice. No more IT fires on Friday afternoons.09IT SupportOperationsSLA-backed, flat monthly fee. One number for the whole stack. Permanent fixes.10Open SourceReplacementSalesforce, M365, Zendesk, Tableau. We replace them, migrate your data, and maintain the lot.11TrainingPeoplePhishing drills, secure practices, compliance training your staff will remember.12WebsitesFull-StackLanding pages, e-commerce, web apps, and migrations. Hand-built code on a stack you own.

Built on

PostgreSQLMariaDBClickHouseRedisTimescaleDBpgvectorDockerKubernetesNixOSHetznerCloudflareCaddyHAProxyTraefikNginxWireGuardTailscaleAutheliaVaultPrometheusLokiGrafanaOpenSearchWazuhResticBorgMinIOBackblaze B2NextcloudMattermostJitsiSuiteCRMOdooMetabaseApache SupersetPenpotPlausibleVaultwardenOutlineMauticRocket.ChatOllamaLlama 3.1n8nMistralNext.jsAstroFastifyPostgreSQLMariaDBClickHouseRedisTimescaleDBpgvectorDockerKubernetesNixOSHetznerCloudflareCaddyHAProxyTraefikNginxWireGuardTailscaleAutheliaVaultPrometheusLokiGrafanaOpenSearchWazuhResticBorgMinIOBackblaze B2NextcloudMattermostJitsiSuiteCRMOdooMetabaseApache SupersetPenpotPlausibleVaultwardenOutlineMauticRocket.ChatOllamaLlama 3.1n8nMistralNext.jsAstroFastify

Why Imbertech

One small Joburg team. One relationship. The senior on the keyboard.

We learn the business first, point at what to fix first, and stand behind the work for years afterwards. The aim is a long relationship, not a quick deal.

12
Service lines
Under one roof, one team to call
Hundreds
Tools mapped
Each one paired to an open-source equivalent
100%
Code handed over
Every repo, pipeline, and credential, yours when we leave

Proof of work

A real migration, on a real deadline, on the right side of the cloud.

Every Imbertech engagement ends with the client owning the system. No licence fees. No call-home telemetry. No vendor on the other side of the keys.

This site is open source. The work we deliver is too.

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STOP GUESSING
HOW MUCH YOU'RE
LOSING

30-minute call. We look at your setup, find where you're bleeding money, and tell you what would actually save you. Just numbers, in writing, yours to keep.