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About · Jean-Luke Pretorius

I find the leak. I build the fix. I stay until it earns.

One operator, Cape Town based, working worldwide. I map where your operation loses money, build the system that closes it, and stay on a retainer that scales with the result.

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Built the same way I bill. By outcome.

I started Clear Cut Systems after watching capable businesses lose hours each week to manual work that a well-built system would do in seconds. Not because the people were slow. Because nobody had ever sat down and asked which parts should be automated.

I am not an agency with a team behind me. I am one operator who builds, owns, and runs the system from the first audit call to the last test in production. You always deal with the person who wrote the code.

My fee is tied to the result. If the system does not earn its keep, the bill does not grow. That is the only model that keeps me honest.

The stack
Claude APINext.jsVercelSupabaseResendCal.comGitHubTypeScript
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Three moves. Weeks, not months.

01Audit

Find the leak

Twenty minutes, free. I walk through how your operation runs and point to the one workflow leaking the most time and money. No deck, no pitch.

02Build

Ship the fix

A custom system on the stack you already use. You see it running on your real data inside the first week. You sign off, it goes live.

03Retain

Keep it earning

A monthly retainer, sized to the value it creates. If the system stops working, the bill stops. My income depends on it running, so it does.

What you would save is not the point. What your team would do instead, is.

Jean-Luke Pretorius, Founder
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Cape Town based. Building anywhere.

I run on Cape Town time but build for businesses anywhere. Most of it happens over screen share. You deal with me directly, the person building everything. No account managers, no middlemen.

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I share what I find, what I build, and what breaks. Notes from the work, as it happens.

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