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Buy a business
Interested in owning a digital business? Talk to Brian about acquisition opportunities within Rocky Beach.
Discuss an acquisitionSoftware & data engineering
Build a business. Make yours work better.
We build and run digital businesses. We also help business owners decide what to improve, build the software they need, and get their systems working together.
Led by Brian de Klerk, software and data engineer with six years of experience.
Or email brian@rockybeach.ai
6 years
Engineering experience
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Products we own and run
29
Clinical calculators live
1 month
Marketplace to launch
Work with Rocky Beach
What brings you here?
An acquisition, a project, or a product you want to use. Start with what you have in mind.
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Improve your business
Get technical advice and hands-on help with a business or project you already run. From deciding what to change to building the software that makes it work.
Talk about your business03
Explore our products
See the products we have built and operate, across healthcare, education and heavy machinery. Try them for yourself.
Explore the productsConsulting that carries through to delivery. Software development, data engineering, integrations and workflow automation. We can lead the work or join your existing team.
Our products
Products built and run by Rocky Beach.
Data platform
00Architecture complete, open to inspection
Titiqaqa
Your own data platform, built for you and handed over.
A complete, governed data platform stood up in your own cloud account, built around your business, and handed to you to run. Every number on every dashboard follows one definition and can be traced back to the records it came from, and every store, secret and key is yours from the first day.
Live and in use
Healthcare · Owned product
0129 calculators
Paracelsus
Clinical calculators for everyday practice.
Referenced calculators and guided work-ups, designed for doctors on a phone. Offline, no sign-up, and no patient data stored.
Education · Owned product
02Saves hours of prep each week
Prime Education
The platform a teaching business runs on.
Teaching materials, student tasks and lesson bookings in one place. Built for a working teaching business, saving hours of preparation each week.
Heavy machinery · Owned product
03Live in 1 month
What The Truck
A marketplace built to move heavy machinery.
A marketplace for heavy machinery dealers, with listings, search and seller tools. Built and launched in one month.
Have a similar challenge in your business? Tell Brian what is getting in the way.
Talk to Brian
Who you work with
Work directly with Brian.
Rocky Beach is led by Brian de Klerk, a software and data engineer with six years of experience across commodities, logistics, and digital products. He brings that experience to both the products Rocky Beach owns and the businesses it helps.
You work directly with Brian, from the first conversation through delivery. Additional specialists join when the project needs them.
- Accountable
- One named lead, start to finish
- Staffed
- Specialists added as scope requires
- Based
- Remote, working with clients anywhere
How we work
Practical from the beginning.
We start by understanding the business, agree what is worth doing, and keep you involved as the work takes shape.
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Find the real problem
Understand what is slowing you down, what you want to achieve, and where technical work can help.
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Build the whole product
Turn the agreed plan into working software, with the interface, data and integrations connected.
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Use AI with judgement
Use AI where it improves the result. Choose the tools around the problem and the people using them.
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Keep it running
Agree the support you need after launch, then improve the product as we learn from its use.
Experience behind Rocky Beach.
Trafigura
Commodities trading
Live tracking in place of logistics spreadsheets
Truck checkpoint scans and vessel GPS brought together in one tracking system, across hundreds of trucks and vessels and roughly a dozen ports, replacing the spreadsheets the operation ran on. While at Trafigura, Brian designed the system and ran the project, working with the contracted engineers who built it.
Higher Planes
AI for prediction markets
A platform for building AI agents
Users build AI agents for prediction markets on it, with the data pipelines, backend engines, interface and deployment workflow all behind one platform. Brian built it end to end while at Higher Planes.
Prime Education
Education
Teaching material from a single source
Notes, worksheets, tests, memos and books, all produced from one source. Brian built it end to end for his wife's teaching business, where it saves several hours of preparation every week.
Start here
What do you have in mind?
Tell Brian about the business you want to buy, the challenge you need help with, or the product that caught your eye. A few sentences are enough to start.
First
A short conversation about what you have in mind. No technical brief needed.
Then
We work out whether there is a fit and agree a useful next step.
From there
For consulting work, we agree the scope, cost and responsibilities before work begins.