Sure Drive solves a payment and trust problem for repair workshops. A straightforward repair savings fund would have run into South African lay-by and financial-services rules, so I designed the product differently. Customers pay through the payment gateway and receive Sure Bucks (R1 = 1 SB), a digital credit they redeem for workshop services such as repairs, washes and polishes. Because it is structured as prepaid credit and not a savings or credit product, it avoids the obligations those products carry.

I designed and built the whole system myself:

A customer dashboard showing live Sure Bucks balance and available rewards

An admin dashboard for the workshop covering repair intake, progress tracking and reward redemption

Payment integration, with money handled through the gateway and the customer-facing balance held as credit

Cloud-hosted infrastructure that reduces cash handling and gives the business more certainty on advance payments

The interesting part of this project was the problem definition. I had to work out which legal category each version of the idea fell into, then design the lightest structure that still delivered the same value to the customer.

I built it with AI-assisted development (Claude and Claude Code) as my core working method, and I direct, review and test every change.