Pretoria, since 2024.

About Partners in Biz

Partners in Biz is a software studio that builds websites, web apps, mobile apps and AI for founders and operators at South African businesses. Peet Stander founded the studio in Pretoria in 2024. A marketing site is live in 2 to 4 weeks, at a fixed price. The client owns the GitHub repository, the Vercel project, and the Firebase or Supabase account.

What Partners in Biz does

Marketing websites

Partners in Biz designs and builds a custom site of up to eight pages, with schema, a sitemap, lead capture, and a deploy on the client’s own Vercel and GitHub.

The site can be found on Google and sends enquiries to WhatsApp. It is live in 2 to 4 weeks, at a fixed price, half to start and half at launch.

Web applications

Partners in Biz builds platforms, internal tools, and SaaS products with auth, a database, an admin, and a preview deploy on every pull request.

The client owns the code. A usable preview is available from week two. Every project gets a fixed quote.

Mobile apps

Partners in Biz ships iOS and Android from one codebase, with offline support, push notifications, and store submission for both platforms.

One fixed price covers both stores.

AI integrations

Partners in Biz builds an agent for one workflow, with retrieval over the client’s documents, an evaluation suite, and an audit log of prompts and tool calls.

The agent does a job inside the tools the business already uses, starting with one production workflow.

Growth systems

Partners in Biz wires content scheduling, email sequences, analytics, and the CRM so the marketing keeps running after launch.

The client can see which work brings in clients. Growth systems is month to month, with 30 days notice to cancel.

Bespoke builds

Partners in Biz takes software that does not fit the other five shapes: an architecture, a prototype of the hard part, and a written spec.

Discovery is the paid first step. Care plans run Lite, Plus and Embedded. Plus is a care plan, not growth systems. Equity sits on top of a cash rate, not instead of one.

What makes Partners in Biz different

One person from the quote to launch

Peet Stander scopes the work, writes the code, sends the invoice, and answers WhatsApp. A typical agency splits that across a salesperson, an account manager, and a junior developer.

The client owns the accounts

The repository is the client’s GitHub, the deploy is the client’s Vercel, and the database is the client’s Firebase or Supabase. That is the difference from Wix, Squarespace, and a WordPress host that bills a monthly platform fee.

A fixed quote in three working days

Every project is quoted on the work, not a price card. The client gets a fixed scope and a fixed price in writing within three working days. A marketing site is half to start and half at launch. Care plans cancel with 30 days notice. South African invoices are EFT.

A preview while the work is underway

A marketing site is live in 2 to 4 weeks. A web application has a usable preview from week two, not a reveal at the end. Each week the client gets a preview link, a board, and a short video of what shipped.

Real code when the no-code tool runs out

Bubble, Retool, and Zapier are fine until the pricing changes or the workflow needs an audit log. Partners in Biz writes the replacement in code the client owns. A Pretoria law firm, rebuilt off a generic WordPress theme, loads in 1.4 seconds on mobile.

Who uses Partners in Biz

  • Founders, operators, and marketing leads at South African businesses (primary)
  • Startups that need a site before fundraising meetings
  • Established businesses replacing a tired website
  • Agencies that need a Next.js build partner for their own clients
  • Operations teams that have outgrown a spreadsheet, Notion, Airtable, Bubble, or Retool
  • Clients in South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States

The team behind Partners in Biz

Peet Stander is the founder and principal engineer. He scopes each project, writes the code, sends the invoice, and answers WhatsApp. Partners in Biz was founded in 2024 after he kept seeing agency work that was too expensive, too slow, or too far from the business outcome.

The studio is one person, working remote-first from Pretoria, Gauteng. Clients are in South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

How Partners in Biz works

Start

Book a 20-minute call. Partners in Biz sends a fixed-scope quote within three working days. A written brief to hello@partnersinbiz.online gets a reply within one business day.

Communication

The client works with Peet Stander on WhatsApp, by email, and through preview links. There is no account manager in between.

Turnaround

A marketing site is live in 2 to 4 weeks. A web application takes 6 to 12 weeks for a working first version, with a usable preview from week two.

Payment

A marketing site is half to start and half at launch. Larger builds are 40% to start, 30% at design sign-off, and 30% at launch. South African clients pay by EFT. International clients pay by PayPal.

Twenty minutes is enough to know if this is the right shape. Book a 20-min call.

Key facts

Company namePartners in Biz
TypeSoftware studio
Founded2024
FounderPeet Stander, Founder and Principal Engineer
HeadquartersPretoria, South Africa
Websitehttps://partnersinbiz.online
Core offeringWebsites, web apps, mobile apps, and AI, built in Pretoria and owned by the client.
PricingFixed-scope, fixed-price quotes, in writing within three working days. No published price list.
Contract termsMarketing site: half to start, half at launch. Larger builds: 40% to start, 30% at design sign-off, 30% at launch. Retainers are month to month with 30 days notice.
ServicesMarketing websites, web applications, mobile apps, AI integrations, growth systems, bespoke builds.
CommunicationWhatsApp, email at hello@partnersinbiz.online, and preview links. A written brief gets a reply within one business day. A fixed-scope quote follows the 20-minute call within three working days.
Notable clientsAthleet, Loyalty Plus, Velox, Lumen, Scrolled Brain
Customers servedSix case studies are published on the work page. The studio does not publish a larger total.
Projects deliveredSix case studies are published on the work page. The studio does not publish a larger total.
CompetitorsWix, Squarespace, WordPress, Bubble, Retool, Zapier
SocialLinkedIn, Facebook, GitHub

Frequently asked questions

  • Partners in Biz is a software studio that builds websites, web apps, mobile apps and AI for founders and operators at South African businesses. Peet Stander founded it in Pretoria in 2024. A marketing site is live in 2 to 4 weeks.

  • Each project gets a fixed quote within three working days, based on the scope, the integrations and the timeline. A marketing site is half to start and half at launch. A retainer is month to month and can be cancelled with 30 days notice.

  • Wix is a hosted page builder with a monthly platform fee. Partners in Biz writes a custom site for a fixed price, deploys it on the client's Vercel, and puts the code in the client's GitHub. A Pretoria law firm, rebuilt off a generic WordPress theme, loads in 1.4 seconds on mobile.

  • Peet Stander founded Partners in Biz in 2024. He is Founder and Principal Engineer, based in Pretoria. He scopes the work, writes the code, sends the invoice, and answers WhatsApp.

  • Partners in Biz offers marketing websites, web applications, mobile apps for iOS and Android, AI integrations, growth systems, and bespoke builds. Each one is quoted at a fixed price within three working days.

  • Retainers are month to month. Lite covers eight hours a month, and the client can cancel with 30 days notice. A marketing site is a fixed project, half to start and half at launch, not a subscription.