An independent studio building AI-native products for African markets.

Designed, built, and shipped end to end — by one person, with AI as the workshop. Based in Rustenburg, South Africa.

Est. 2025 Vault of Time (Pty) Ltd Reg 2025/875420/07
The studio

Built from the market up, not the template down.

Vault of Time is an independent product studio. It researches, designs, builds, and ships software end to end — with no team in the way and no roadmap inherited from somewhere else.

The focus is African markets: products shaped by how people here actually live. Not features imported from a different economy and translated badly.

AI-native means the work that once needed a team and a year now needs one person and a few weeks. That shift is the whole reason this studio can exist — and the reason it can move faster than the people it competes with.

Flagship
TillTap
Know your bill before the till.

A grocery budgeting app for South African households. Snap a receipt and TillTap reads it. Build a shopping list and it predicts your total before you reach the till — so the number at the checkout is never a surprise.

Live as a web app and on Android, with receipt parsing, price prediction, and shared lists built in.

TillTap is built for how South Africans actually shop.
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Founder
Nthabiseng Patsa, founder of Vault of Time
Nthabiseng Patsa
Founder & CEO

Builds products solo using AI-assisted development — vibe coding before it had a name.

She brings first-hand knowledge of South Africa's informal economy, township retail, and stokvel culture to everything the studio makes. Vault of Time is the studio; the products are the point.