Built in South Africa, for South African business.

Ty Panaino

Founder

I started We Own Leads to do for South African SMEs what most local agencies still don't do properly. The work has three sides to it. The first is a website that actually ranks in the searches your customers run, in your suburb, in your category. The second is the AI automation that picks up the inbox, the missed calls, the follow-ups, and the review requests your team never gets around to. The third, for operators ready for it, is bespoke AI systems that take expensive in-house functions out of the P&L without losing the work behind them.

Before coming home, I spent eight years in digital marketing across international energy, smart-metering and industrial brands. The systems I built and still run for ZLink, Livoltek, Hexing Group, and Evo Industries have driven 660,000+ paying customers to the businesses behind them. The work that compounds best, I learned, is the work the business owner ends up owning outright, rather than a retainer that bills every month whether or not it earned its place.

That is what We Own Leads is in South Africa. Once-off website builds from R2,500, AI automation layered on top when the inbound volume justifies it, and bespoke AI systems for operators ready to replace the cost of expensive functions with automation that does the same work at a fraction of the cost. Everything is built so you still own it the day we walk away.