Design & engineering studio
We build the product. And the site that sells it.
Zaaka is a design and engineering studio. We turn ideas into production systems businesses run on, and build the brands around them. One team, from the first sketch to the thing your customers actually use.
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Case study
Locare
A property management platform that agencies run their entire business on — leasing, rent collection, trust accounting and maintenance in one system.
Invoicing reconciles automatically into a double-entry ledger. Owner payouts split and settle. Tenants and landlords get their own branded apps. It handles other people’s money, so nothing about it could be approximate.
Capabilities
What we make
Six things, and the seams between them. Most studios hand you a design and leave; we stay until it is running in production.
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Product & platform engineering
SaaS products, portals and internal tools. Architecture, front end, back end, and the unglamorous parts nobody demos — permissions, billing, audit trails, reporting.
02
Websites & digital experience
Marketing sites, campaign pages and content platforms — built so your own team can extend them for years without a developer on retainer.
03
E-commerce & payments
Storefronts, subscriptions, checkout flows and the reconciliation behind them. Money moving correctly is a design problem as much as an engineering one.
04
Integration & automation
CRMs, ERPs, payment providers and third-party APIs joined up so data lands where the work happens. Machine learning where it earns its place.
05
Design systems & brand
Identity, interface libraries and the documentation that keeps them alive — so the tenth screen and the hundredth page still look like the same company made them.
06
Performance & accessibility
Speed, Core Web Vitals, WCAG conformance and technical SEO — measured before we call anything finished, on new builds and rescues alike.
Case studies
Recent work
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Uberfi
A profit copilot for rideshare drivers. Reads an incoming trip request, prices it against the driver’s real running costs, and returns a…
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Locare
A white-label property management platform — leasing, rent collection, trust accounting and maintenance in one system, built for agencies that run on…
Who we work with
Different industries, same problem.
A business outgrows the tools holding it together — a spreadsheet doing a system’s job, a site that no longer matches the company behind it. We are usually called at that point.
Not on the list? The underlying problem is usually the same one. Tell us about it.
How we work
Small team. Short loops. No hand-offs.
Four stages. The same two people through all of them.
01
Understand
We look at the business before the brief. Often what you need and what you asked for are not quite the same thing, and it is cheaper to find that out now.
02
Design
Structure before surface. A system, then the screens — so the hundredth page still looks like someone thought about it.
03
Build
In the open, on staging, in short increments you can see and use. No four-week silences ending in a surprise.
04
Hand over
Accounts, source, documentation and training — in your name. If you never call us again, everything keeps working. That is the actual test of a good build.
Next
Tell us what you are trying to ship.
A brief, a rough idea, or a system that has stopped keeping up. We will tell you what we think before we tell you what it costs.