GEM JC
executiveteam@gem-jc.com

Software for the parts of business that are governed by statute.

GEM JC builds and operates a small portfolio of products for South African employers, landlords and operators. Each one sits on a specific piece of law — the Labour Relations Act, the Rental Housing Act, the Private Security Industry Regulation Act — and does the work that the law makes expensive to get wrong. Three are in service today.

6products in the portfolio
3live and in use
2people building them
1shared platform underneath

The register

Every product, its current state, and the statute it answers to. Nothing here is a concept — each entry is a codebase, and the live ones have customers.

Live

Draftly

Workplace discipline and HR documents for South African employers, written correctly the first time. Twenty employer-side document types and nine employee-side, from a warning through to a dismissal, each one generated against the facts of the actual case.

Grounded in the Labour Relations Act and its Schedule 8 Code of Good Practice. Multi-tenant, audited, and built so that no identity number is ever stored.

Tenantly

Rental management for landlords and agents. Leases, rent, meter readings, inspections, repairs and owner statements in one book, with the routine admin handled and the decisions left to a person.

Grounded in the Rental Housing Act. First unit free, no card.

Eishly

You have been handed a quote and you do not know whether it is fair. Eishly reads it and tells you where it sits, line by line, before you sign anything.

For anyone commissioning work who does not price that work for a living.

In build

Watchly

Compliance and payroll for private security firms. Officer registrations, firearm competency, grades and wage schedules tracked against their expiry dates, so a certificate lapsing is something the firm sees coming rather than something an inspector finds.

Grounded in the Private Security Industry Regulation Act and the sectoral wage determination.

In build watchly.co.za

Optimised Peptides

A storefront for research-grade peptides, sold strictly for research use. Built on our own stack rather than a hosted cart, because this category gets dropped by mainstream platforms without notice.

Research use only. Not for human or veterinary use.

Pipeline

Bedroom Trader Tycoon

A life-sim about learning to trade badly before you learn to trade well. In-game currency only, no wagering, and no luck stat — the market is the only thing that beats you.

Educational, not gambling. Nothing in it can be bought with money and nothing in it pays out.

Pipeline

How these get built

One platform, many fronts

The products share an engine — tenancy, authentication, audit, document rendering, billing. A new product is a new domain and a new body of law on top of plumbing that is already carrying live traffic, which is why two people can run six of them.

The law is the specification

We do not start from a feature list. We start from the statute, the code of practice and the forms a regulator actually accepts, and the product is whatever makes those come out right. It is a slower first month and a much shorter argument later.

Nothing ships on a claim we cannot show

Every figure on a page is checked against the code that produces it, and a number we cannot source does not go on screen. Prices, counts and compliance claims are held to the same bar as the documents the products generate.