AI & technology company · Founded 2026
Most products skip the developing world. We don’t.
Ebenworks is an AI and technology company. We ship production-grade products and platforms for the people and markets the industry overlooks, plus the craft products that keep the practice sharp — engineered end to end, running in production today.
One company — everything we’ve built.
Seven products live. Here’s where they stand.
Current numbers across the portfolio, June 2026.
- Live products
- 7
SA · Korea · worldwide
- Languages
- 8
EN · isiZulu · isiXhosa · 한국어 · Afrikaans · Sesotho · FR · ES
- Countries live
- 5
Imali · SA · BW · NG · KE · ZW
Built POPIA-, PIPA- and GDPR-aware from day one. 1,400+ tests passing; no known dependency CVEs.
Seven live products. Built for real use.
All products →
- Informal SMEs
- 6M+
- Pricing (SA)
- R0·R29·R99
- Countries
- 5
The WhatsApp business OS for Africa’s 6M+ informal merchants, proven first in South Africa’s 1.6M.
Track income, expenses, invoices, inventory, taxes, all through a WhatsApp message. Live in 5 African countries. English, isiZulu & isiXhosa in South Africa.
- Addressable
- 2.3M
- Target
- ~700ms
- Tests
- 230+
“Chingu-ya.” One word is enough. (Korean: 친구야, “hey friend.”)
Korean-native voice AI checks on seniors living alone every day, and notifies welfare workers and families the moment something changes. Deployed in production; recruiting its first municipal pilot.
- Care settings
- 3
- Languages
- 5
- Export
- FHIR
Primary care that works with no signal, from a phone to a clinic.
WHO-adapted triage, on-device screening and encrypted records. A registered clinician makes every decision — not a medical device.
- Jurisdictions
- 13
- Languages
- 3
- Export
- Word
Paste the tender. Get a compliant draft.
Detects the jurisdiction, builds a compliance checklist, and drafts a proposal in the RFP’s own language — citing only what the tender names, never inventing it.
- First label
- ESØTËRIC
- Royalties
- Per track
- Each label
- Own site
A full label back office, for any independent label.
A public site, a fan store, and the back office: catalogue, contracts, royalty splits and payouts. Every label gets its own. ESØTËRIC Ones is the first.
- First site
- Ebstar
- Features
- Pick any
- Languages
- Up to 5
Your site, built by the people who ship.
Beautiful personal websites and portfolios for creatives, founders and professionals. You pick the features; we build, launch and look after it. Ebstar is the first.
- Cities
- 45
- Countries
- 14
- Per city
- 26 · A–Z
26 dates a city. A to Z. No filler.
Hand-picked date ideas, one for every letter, across 45 cities — led by the 2026 World Cup hosts. Real addresses, maps and insider tips. No AI, no listicles.
What we know how to ship.
in production, not in slides
How we work.
Start with the person
We start with the person the software ignores, and the constraint they actually live with.
Build it together
We shape the product, the system, and the compliance together, not bolted on after.
Deploy and improve
We deploy to production and keep improving under real load.
Deep AI/ML engineering. The entire stack, shipped.
Ebenworks builds useful technology for the people most software ignores. The user is the constant; the industry is the variable.
- Background
- AI/ML engineer · MSc, Korea University
- Roots
- Bulawayo → Johannesburg → Seoul
- Recognition
- Forbes BLK member (2024)
- Ships
- Imali, Chingu, Phila, Bidwright, Izwi, Tzohar & A–Z Dates, end-to-end
Loneliness shrinks when someone is next to you. Technology can hold that seat, at least until a human can.Ebenezer Tarubinga, on building Chingu
Platforms we’ve built for our partners.
All our work →
Better Products.
Better People.
Better Tomorrow.
The brief is the same in every product. Only the people we build for change.
Or just email us at contact@ebenworks.co. We read everything that comes in.