Your technology partner

I build what you can’t or shouldn’t buy off the shelf.

A frustrating process, systems that don’t connect, or an idea you’re ready to build.

I’m Ché. Two decades in software, much of it leading teams for large multinational clients. I left that to work with smaller businesses, where the right tool makes a bigger difference. You work directly with me, and I’m still here when it needs to change.

Let's talk

Free initial consultation. You don’t need a technical brief or a solution in mind.

Ché van Heerden

What are you trying to figure out?

Call me when…

You have an idea but don't know how to build it.

Whether it's a rough thought or something you've been planning for months, I can help you work out what it needs to do and build it.

You're paying for software that doesn't fit how you work.

You work around it, and still do half the job by hand. I build the version that fits your business, or connect what you have so it stops getting in the way.

Everyone has to ask the same person.

They're trying to do their own work, but the questions never stop. I capture what they know and make it available in a knowledge base where the team can search for information and ask questions.

You're copying the same information between systems.

You update one tool, then enter it all again somewhere else. I work with you to connect the systems where possible, reducing the copying and manual updates.

You want to use AI but don't know where to start.

I work through your actual tasks with you and your team, showing you useful ways to use AI and how to check the results.

You've made ChatGPT work, but only when you're driving it.

You copy between chats, paste one result into the next prompt, and hold the order in your head. I turn that into something that runs without you, keeping the judgment you worked out.

Your spreadsheet has become a job in itself.

Formulas break, versions multiply, and updates take too long. I simplify or fix what's there, or build something better suited to the work.

Your customer records are a mess.

Duplicate contacts, inconsistent entries, and outdated records keep getting in the way. I clean up the data, automate routine corrections, and put checks in place to help prevent the same problems from coming back.

Problems I’ve helped solve

I’ve watched her do it from the inside. She builds with purpose, communicates with clarity, and delivers things that actually get used.
Marelize Slabbert · Product Specialist · Former direct report

The Presence Practice

Four separate offers, and no obvious place to start.

I rebuilt the brand, brought the offers into one membership, and built Flow Studio, which recommends a meditation for how someone feels that day. Members now have a daily reason to return and a clear reason to upgrade.

About 90 minutes of production work per recording, down to 20, by the founder's estimate.

Read the case study

Anonymous, professional services

Capturing what one person knew, so a team could use it.

Expertise that lived with a single person, and a team that had to keep asking. The full account of the work is being written up.

Client details withheld by agreement.

Case study coming soon

Law firm, Clio reporting

The owner had to go account by account to see where cases stood.

I built an internal application connected to Clio that brings case information into one place. Staff keep working in Clio, and the owner can review deadlines across every case from one screen.

Read the case study

I watched what the right technology does to a team. Your best people stop being held back by the tooling and start compounding. The ones who are drowning get their heads above water, because the thing that was eating their week is gone.

That is hard to see in a large company and obvious in a small one, where a single good tool changes what a handful of people can do. So I took what I learned and brought it here.

I have sat in most of the seats: writing the code, running support and onboarding, leading the services team, and in the room when the deal was being closed. So I can hear a problem described in engineering language, or finance language, or sales language, and recognise it as the same problem.

Ché is as comfortable speaking to engineers as she is speaking with the C-Suite.
John Greer · Senior Manager of AI Strategy & Implementation · Former client

That is the part I am actually good at. Most people can tell you what they want. Fewer can say what it is really costing them, because the thing that hurts has usually been worked around for so long that it stopped being visible. The job in the first conversation is to find that, and then find the smallest change that moves it.

Ché is one of those unique individuals that can see the wood for the trees and distill a complicated problem into clear actionable steps.
Reino van Buitenen · CEO · Former direct report
years in technology
20
April 2006 to now
writing code
All 20
Including the decade I spent leading teams
years at one software company
10
QorusDocs, 2015 to 2025
countries
3
United Kingdom, South Africa, United States

What it’s like to work with me

Beyond her technical talent, Che is incredibly easy to work with. She is responsive, collaborative, and solution-oriented, consistently bringing ideas to the table that elevate the entire project.

Chelle Caruso
Founder, The Presence Practice · Former client

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Ché speaking to an audience from a lectern

Let’s talk about it

Tell me what’s happening or what you’d like to build. We can arrange a free initial consultation to talk it through and see how I can help.

Or email me at che@widestack.io.