Sandton, 2022 · Founders edition
We started Imbertech because
we got tired of watching businesses
get robbed.
Quotes for six-figure software renewals on tools nobody used. IT partners who took a cut every year. Recommendations that always pointed back to the same three vendors.
We left, and built the other side.
The Manifesto
Seven beliefs the firm is built on.
You should own what you depend on.
If a tool runs your business, you should be able to host it, audit it, and walk away with every byte of your data when the time comes.
Open source is the default.
The starting point. The first thing we set up. Proprietary follows only when it materially earns its place.
The senior is on the keyboard.
The person in your first meeting is the person on your project. Same name on every email, every commit, every invoice.
The advice answers to you.
Every recommendation is on the merits, judged against your situation. The income flows in one direction: from the client we serve.
Everything in writing.
Every assessment ends with a document. You can read it, share it, push back on it, take it to a competitor. The work is yours.
Fixed-price phases. Savings are yours.
Each phase has a number agreed up front. If we finish early, the money stays in your account. If we run long, that is on us.
Truth before comfort.
If your plan is wrong, we will say so on the first call. If we are the wrong firm for the job, we will say that too. Saving the relationship beats winning the project.
A letter from the founder
Sybrand de Kock · Founder · Sandton, 2026
Istarted this firm in 2022 after one too many conversations where a business owner showed me a quote for a six-figure software renewal. Tools they were using maybe a third of. The quote came from an IT partner who took a cut on every cent.
I'd been inside that machine for a decade. I knew exactly what those vendors were doing, and how easy it was for them to keep doing it. The buyer didn't have the technical depth to push back. The partner was paid not to.
So I built the other side. Small. Boring on the surface. Allergic to the playbook that got us here. The kind of firm I wish those business owners had been able to call before the renewal letter landed on their desk.
If you remember one thing from this site, remember this: we get paid to tell you the truth. The day we stop doing that, we deserve to lose you.
Sybrand
Sybrand de Kock · Founder & Principal
The Contract
What you can hold us to.
Six commitments we put in every engagement letter. If we ever break one, you have the right to walk.
- 01
We deploy what we recommend. Every tool on the list, we run ourselves.
- 02
We scope to your budget. If a spend isn't worth it, we say so before you ask.
- 03
We stay after go-live. Post-launch support is part of the engagement, included from the start.
- 04
We sell what we know. Outside our depth, we hand you to a specialist who handles it.
- 05
Retainers are renewed in writing each month, after the work proves it.
- 06
Your data leaves our systems when you do. The exit clause sits in plain view, written in your favour.
Sybrand de Kock
Founder · For Imbertech