
CodeFounder built a quote engine that reads the roof before the technician does.
A full-stack solar platform for a South African installer, covering three surfaces in one codebase: a marketing site, a customer energy portal, & installer tool
The story
CodeFounder started because the gap between a good idea and a working product had become absurd. Founders were paying for discovery phases, waiting on sprint cycles, and getting a staging link months later that no longer matched the market they had described at kickoff. We had spent years on the other side of that, running campaigns and platforms for brands where speed was the entire advantage, and the build layer was always the bottleneck.
We built the studio we wanted to hire. An AI-powered development team that treats a product spec the way a creative team treats a brief: fast, iterative, and judged on what actually ships.
Our mission at CodeFounder is enabling African business with tech where it was either too expensive or inaccessible due to cost or access to funds to build. We're helping businesses launch modern, high-performance websites, apps, digital systems quicker and cheaper using AI-assisted development workflows.
We chose Lovable because it collapses the part of the process that never created value. Architecture, auth, database, deployment, all handled in the same environment where the product is being designed. That means our team spends its time on the parts clients are actually paying for, the product logic, the integrations, the experience. A build that used to take a quarter now takes weeks, and the client is in the room watching it happen.
Lovable is not a shortcut for us. It is the infrastructure that makes our delivery model possible.

“Most agencies sell you a timeline. We would rather show you the product. Lovable is what lets us do that, because it removes every step between deciding what to build and having something real.”
Chae Francis, Founder & CEO
CodeFounder · Cape Town, South Africa

Client project
Skystream Solar Platform
Delivered for Skystream.
What the client needed
The client required a way to automate and integrate their existing tech stack, with their daily process for sales, back-office, the install team and customers wanting quick and next-to accurate costings without waiting for a site visit.
The outcome
Skystream Energy OS: a solar platform where an address returns a real roof. Google Solar API drives instant panel layouts, sun-flux and shade heatmaps, and a live quote, on top of a customer energy portal and installer field tool.
12+
Manual Hours Saved
37%
Deal Close Increase
18%
ROAS Increase
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Hire CodeFounderAbout us
CodeFounder is a development platform focused on helping businesses in emerging and mature markets launch modern, high-performance websites, apps, web apps and digital systems quicker and cheaper using AI-assisted development workflows combined with experienced engineering oversight. We are enabling African business with tech where it was either too expensive or inaccessible previously on a main-market level; we do this through training, consulting and through models we've built for market.
With this, we're also building enterprise grade MarTech and AdTech for Brands and Agencies, this also includes Automation, Brand Intelligence and Custom platforms for Agency ecosystems such as Creator Commerce, Influencer Discovery and Management, Campaign Automation and so much more.




























