Flat Rock Solutions

Software built for fintech, healthcare and retail

Founded in 2011, Flat Rock Solutions works from Cape Town, South Africa, as an independent software development business. Its engineering, design and business skills are applied to products for enterprises, design agencies and start-ups across the world. The firm says it creates software and systems for sectors including fintech, healthcare, retail and logistics, and that its custom solutions are built to be commercially sustainable and to work reliably in use.

The firm describes its engineers as the core of its offer. It presents its team as an engineering-led group that integrates with a client's own team, so that work is planned and delivered together rather than handed over from a distance.

Innovation and development as a service

The firm's innovation service helps clients evaluate, test, design, develop and scale digital products across the whole product life cycle. It also helps clients choose among global platforms that meet their technology needs, acting as an independent adviser rather than tying the client to a single vendor.

Its development service adds engineering capacity to a client's team. The firm says it can add that capacity whether the client is a start-up, an established company or a design agency that needs developers for a project.

Cloud-native architecture and infrastructure support

The firm designs scalable, secure, cloud-native architectures that are meant to evolve with a client's business, and the firm says this is the basis of its long-term growth and stability work. Its infrastructure-as-a-service offer is aimed at clients whose teams spend most of their time fixing faults, and the firm says it takes on that work so that the client's team can focus on building the product.

Engineers working in fluent English with client teams

The firm says its engineers are South African and that it works with clients in fluent English, with real-time collaboration that makes problem solving faster. Its examples include a global payroll platform that it says automates processing through intelligent automation, a commodity logistics system with real-time fraud detection for trade value, and a retail group's app that unifies more than seven million users across 15 brands.

The firm says the aim of its approach is high-quality execution, faster delivery and better outcomes for each client, with no gap between the client's goals and the way the software is built.