Market intelligence you can act on. Technology you can run on.

PROUDLY SOUTH AFRICAN · JOHANNESBURG · CAPE TOWN
RESEARCH · PAYMENTS · DIGITAL ASSETS · APPLIED AI
WHO WE ARE G2D Consulting runs two desks out of South Africa: a research desk covering macro, currency and digital assets for institutional readers, and an engineering practice that builds the cloud, payments and tokenisation systems that act on it.
MARKET INTELLIGENCE( 01 )

We watch the market because we have to build in it.

Four areas the research desk covers. Each one changes something we build — the region we choose, the rail we integrate, the cost we design around.

( 01 )

Digital asset market structure

Depth, venues and how settlement really behaves.

WHY WE WATCH ITBecause we build custody, settlement and tokenisation rails.

( 02 )

Payment rails and schemes

What the local rails support, and what just changed.

WHY WE WATCH ITBecause we integrate them, and they change without asking.

( 03 )

Platform and cloud in-country

What is actually available here versus an offshore hop.

WHY WE WATCH ITBecause it decides the region, the service and the latency.

( 04 )

Applied AI and model economics

What inference costs and where it can honestly run.

WHY WE WATCH ITBecause it is a line item in the architecture, not a demo.

WHAT WE WATCH IS HALF OF IT NEXT — WHAT WE ACTUALLY TESTED

One team writes the research; the same team ships the systems. Deployed in-country — AWS Cape Town and Azure South Africa North.

AWS CAPE TOWN · AF-SOUTH-1AZURE SOUTH AFRICA NORTHGOOGLE CLOUD PLATFORM
MARKET INTELLIGENCE — WHAT WE TEST( 02 )

We test it here first.

Everyone will sell you this. Here is what held up under load shedding, weak signal and the phones people actually carry.

WHAT WE PUT IT THROUGHAgent-initiated payments on a live rail, interrupted mid-flow on a 3G handover.
WHAT HELD UPMandate and limit checks held. Nothing settled twice.
WHAT BROKERecovery after a dropped session needed work we had to write ourselves.
WHAT WOULD CHANGE OUR MINDA rail-level idempotency guarantee we do not have to build around.
WHAT WE PUT IT THROUGHFour-hour outage with writes queued on-device, then a mass reconnect.
WHAT HELD UPQueued writes survived. Conflict resolution stayed predictable.
WHAT BROKENothing at this scale. Larger payloads still need chunking.
WHAT WOULD CHANGE OUR MIND
WHAT WE PUT IT THROUGHMid-range Android, no network, cold start after a power cut.
WHAT HELD UPSmall models answered fast enough to feel local.
WHAT BROKEMemory pressure on older handsets pushed us back to the API.
WHAT WOULD CHANGE OUR MINDA meaningful drop in model size at the same quality.
WHAT WE PUT IT THROUGHOlder Android handsets typical of field and retail staff.
WHAT HELD UPWorked cleanly on current hardware.
WHAT BROKEToo many of the devices our clients actually issue could not enrol.
WHAT WOULD CHANGE OUR MINDEnrolment support reaching the handsets already in the field.
WHAT WE PUT IT THROUGHCold starts on the first request after a scheduled outage window.
WHAT HELD UPFine for bursty background work. Still is.
WHAT BROKEThe first user after the power returned paid the cold-start cost.
WHAT WOULD CHANGE OUR MINDCold starts low enough to sit on a user-facing path here.
WHAT WE PUT IT THROUGHMetered data budgets and intermittent connectivity.
WHAT HELD UPInstall and data cost beat a native build for the same job.
WHAT BROKEDeep hardware access still sends us native.
WHAT WOULD CHANGE OUR MIND
PROVISIONAL — VERDICTS AND FINDINGS AWAITING CONFIRMATION OPEN A ROW TO READ THE TEST  ·  FULL BOARD →
CONSULTING & ENGINEERING( 03 )

Enterprise engineering and consulting. One delivery team.

( 01 )

Macro & Digital Asset Research

Macro and currency dashboards plus digital-asset data, built for South African investment committees.

( 02 )

Marketing Strategy

Corporate growth planning and client outreach, driven by original data from our in-house research desk.

( 03 )

Business Consultancy

How your business runs day-to-day: where the cost sits, what to automate, and what to leave alone.

( 04 )

Web Development

Integrated corporate sites and internal portals built for slow connections and clean client handovers.

( 05 )

Mobile Development

Android and cross-platform apps for field teams, engineered for low data usage and offline reliability.

( 06 )

Cloud Services

Migration and cloud cost management on AWS Cape Town and Azure South Africa North — data resident, spend visible.

( 07 )

Payments & Agentic Payments

PayShap, card and EFT integrations, plus automated payments that run safely within set limits, fully logged.

( 08 )

Digital Asset & Tokenisation Engineering

Linking systems to digital vaults and building the clear data trails that keep your asset records exact.

WHY G2D( 04 )

Intelligence built for action.

Smart data and software, built for South African business.

( 01 )

Original market data

You get fresh, original data built from the ground up, not copied from other reports. That gives you a clear edge when making big choices for your business.

( 02 )

One accountable team

The team that plans your strategy also builds the software. You avoid messy handovers between different companies, and that saves you time and money.

( 03 )

Built for South Africa

We know the local challenges. We build systems that stay online during load shedding and run fast even when signal is weak and mobile data is expensive.

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Work you can trust

You always know how we reached an answer. Software is handed over with full, simple manuals, and your team gets a direct line to ours for support.

Put the desk to work.

Send us the decision you are trying to make. We will tell you whether it needs research, engineering or neither — in one call, at no cost.

PHONE+27 64 678 4067
EMAILinfo [at] g2dconsulting [dot] co [dot] za