Building businesses through innovation.
What we do
In an age where innovation is key to successfully growing your business, starting a new venture or disrupting the status quo, you need a business partner that has experienced it all and is at the forefront of technological innovation. From incubating an idea, sourcing funding to rolling up our sleeves doing business on the ground, V&S has the experience to take on . So, you want to make that business idea a reality? Contact us and let’s create your business innovation.
How we work
Innovation
We believe in bringing ideas to life as quickly as possible by creating an minimum viable product of your idea. This is done through several workshops to understand the concept, the revenue model and executional plan. Once this is locked in the fun starts - our team develops a wireframe based off our understanding and we workshop that till it’s perfect. Into UX and we get our end state.
Your idea in its “bicycle” state can now be tested, clients signed up and users onboard.
Development
Once an MVP sees solid traction in market, by this we mean: a client signed up, users onboard and active & transaction taking place.
The team works with you to develop the bigger product. This involves additions to the model, removing of dead functionality and scaleability. Once we have your idea in the “VW” state we push it to market and continue to learn and adapt as the idea, now a business, starts to scale.
Execution
Your scaled idea is now looking to stake its claim and growing to serve an extensive number of clients. This means a relook at the basics to improve its server capacities, security and ability to scale across borders (currency/language). The final refinement of the application and business idea is the “BMW” state and has the capability to be a powerhouse in the technology market.
Our Work
Medicater
By collaborating with catering and hospital partners, we created a tablet-based system that meets hospitals' bedside ordering needs. It eliminates paperwork, calculations, and the time needed to manage tick sheets.
Canteenapp
DDeveloped to serve large office restaurants and factory canteens across SA, the Canteen app helps reduce queues, improve staff satisfaction, and give employees more lunch time. It has now entered its "VW" phase, adding boardroom ordering and support for multiple canteens at one site. The app integrates with major POS systems and uses our Hourglass payment system.
TapTuck
Created with Leanne Pechey, Taptuck offers cashless payments and pre-ordering to help school tuck-shops manage busy breaks. It also supports healthier food choices. Launched as a basic version in late 2017 at Virginia Primary, it has grown across KZN and all over South Africa. Taptuck was named one of the top 3 must-have apps for moms by News24.
Golden Spoon
Golden Spoon was created to fill the gap in digital ordering for retirement villages. As more seniors become tech-savvy, there was a clear need for an easy way for their communal restaurants to manage orders, deliveries, and catering. With a simple design and larger buttons for users, Golden Spoon is now available.
Place Order
In an age where the majority of online orders are going through external digital food ordering applications, V&S decided it was time to take back restaurants brands and help them stand out from the crowd and connect directly with customers with Place Order online ordering application. With integrated systems, all in one ordering, loyalty and delivery functions, customers get a great ordering experience which in turn results in increase loyalty to their brand, and as a result more money.
"Working with V&S we have been able to take our insurance business with disrupting innovation that has been proven time and time again. The team are fast, agile and always ready to help. ."
— Don Tocknell,
CEO, Monitor Administration
Building Taptuck with Tim and the team has been such fun, they are keen to try new thinks and push the boundaries. Always up to meet a client or visit a tuckshop to help.
— Leanne Pechey
CEO, Matriarch
The Team
Tim Strang
After graduating with a Bcomm from the University of Cape Town, Tim completed his studies with honours at The Red & Yellow School of Advertising. Advertising & building brands has always been a passion of his that he has been fortunate enough to experience locally and internationally; working with great brands like Lucky Strike & Rainbow Chicken in South Africa, and global brands in Ireland and London like Coca-Cola and Opel cars.
On Tim’s return to SA in 2005, he set up the marketing division of ProGrain Mills, where the seeds of the Spazapp vision were planted. The knowledge and understanding of the informal market gained over the 5 years as Marketing Director proved invaluable to him. Tim brings a wealth of both advertising and marketing knowledge to the team with great insights into the informal trading environment and consumers.
Byron Verreyne
Experienced Digital Expert, Programmer, Web Developer, Manager
With 9 years’ experience in digital marketing and corporate development roles Byron work’s hard to streamline development processes and perform with measurable results.Byron love’s technology and working with technical people, he is a problem solver, developer, team leader and architect.
Byron has worked with the likes of Nike, Diageo, Woolworths, Brandhouse, Estee Lauder and many more brands during his time managing the technical team in a digital marketing agency. Byron has managed and worked as part of large development teams in the telecommunication and call centre industry giving him a very broad skill set and easy choice as an entrepreneurial partner.
