Seidr Labs
Software that lasts.
The studio of Dewald du Toit — production software, embedded
electronics and industrial automation, grown and tended in South Africa.
Every branch of this tree is real, live work.
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Quote, schedule, invoice, follow up — a Telegram-and-web CRM for South African small businesses: shops, makers, services and trades.
Your day's work sits in one place instead of a notebook and a dozen chat threads. I host it, I maintain it, and I answer the support myself.
Face-scan time & attendance. Workers clock in by face or PIN; you get live timesheets and a payroll export.
No paper register, no clocking in for a mate who is still at home. Built POPIA-first, and it runs on infrastructure I operate.
A doorbell with no doorbell. A visitor at your gate opens a link and your phone rings on Telegram — see them, speak to them, decide.
Nothing mounted at the gate, nothing wired, nothing for them to install. Free to start, from R10 a month when you want more.
NovaSync turns any Minecraft server into a managed environment — live on EU hosts, holding real communities up.
Nova Quantum, a voice-controlled AI companion mod, is in active development beside it.
Electronics that live outdoors. ESP32 and LoRa hardware on rural plots, running for months at a time between visits.
A gate that opens from a phone call ten kilometres past the last signal — and sensors that keep reporting when the network does not.
Custom industrial machinery for agriculture and mining — bagging, screening and packaging plants designed, built and commissioned in the Free State. Co-founder and resident engineer.
SolidWorks design, Delta PLC ladder logic, the electrical build, on-site commissioning and the service callouts afterwards.
The office brain I built for our own engineering works. She reads supplier invoices straight out of the inbox and books the costs, keeps expenses and supplier records straight, and answers the workshop's questions in chat — asking a human before anything that matters.
Built and run in production for a real engineering company first. That is the standard every Seidr Labs build is held to — and you can commission one that knows your paperwork.
Websites, backends, dashboards, chat assistants and automation — scoped to a fixed ZAR quote, then designed, built, hosted and maintained end to end. You deal with the engineer, not an account manager.
MugShotter, an incident index for security firms, grew from exactly this kind of commission — and now it lives on its own branch of the studio's infrastructure.
Long-form engineering research — including a from-scratch investigation of whether quantum mechanics does any functional work in the brain: a structured review of the Orch-OR claims against what the evidence actually supports.
Written up honestly, sources cited, and a null result reported as plainly as a win. The quantum-brain verdict is one: not supported on current evidence — but not disproven.
Seiðr is the old Norse craft of seeing the threads and weaving them. Seidr Labs is the studio of Dewald du Toit — one engineer who designs, builds, hosts and answers for everything growing on this tree.
No account managers, no hand-offs, nobody to escalate to. That is the whole point of it.
You'll get a straight answer, a fixed scope and a ZAR quote — from the person who will actually build it.
Tell me what you're trying to fix and I'll tell you honestly whether I'm the right person for it.
Production software, embedded electronics and industrial automation — designed, built, hosted and answered for by Dewald du Toit. This is the calm view; the living tree is one click away.
Quote, schedule, invoice, follow up — a Telegram-and-web CRM for SA small businesses.
Live · Branch 02Face-scan clock-in with live timesheets and payroll export. POPIA-built.
Live · Branch 03A visitor at your gate opens a link and your phone rings on Telegram.
Live · Branch 04NovaSync managed servers and the Nova Quantum voice-controlled companion mod.
Field · Branch 05HekMotor gate control, Novacar tracking in dev, ESP32 + LoRa farm electronics.
Since 2018 · Branch 08Custom bagging, screening and packaging machinery — design to commissioning.
Live · internalThe office brain of our own works — reads invoices, books costs, asks before anything that matters.
Branch 06Websites, backends, dashboards, AI assistants — fixed ZAR quote, built end to end.
Branch 07Does quantum mechanics do anything in the brain? Plus scaling-law re-audits and long-form engineering write-ups.
The rootsOne engineer — BSc CS & Stats (NWU), Golden Key, co-founder of RND Automation.
The heartStraight answers, fixed scope, ZAR quotes — replies in SAST hours.