A website design agency in Midrand that publishes what most agencies hide.
About Dube AI, in one line: we build websites, rank them, wire assistants into them and keep them running. That much every agency claims. What follows is the part that is harder to say: where we are, who does the work, what we charge, what we will not promise you, and how to check any of it before you spend a cent.
What Dube AI is, and what it is not
There are three kinds of supplier in this market and it helps to know which one you are talking to, because the honest answer changes what you should expect from us.
A freelancer
Cheapest option, and genuinely fine for a simple build. The risk is what happens in month fourteen when they have taken a full-time job and your site needs a security patch. There is nobody to call.
A large agency
Real capacity and real process, with an account manager between you and whoever does the work, and a retainer that includes their overheads. Correct for a corporate. Expensive for most South African businesses.
A small senior team
Specialists who do the work themselves and stay after launch. You speak to the person building your site. The trade is that we are not built for fifty-person enterprise programmes, and we will tell you when that is what you need.
As a website design agency in Midrand we serve Gauteng directly and the rest of the country remotely, which in practice makes no difference to the work. The full service list and pricing is on website design company in South Africa.
What Dube AI does, and why it is four disciplines rather than one
Most businesses end up with a designer, an SEO person, a hosting company and nobody responsible for the assistant. When something breaks, all four blame the other three. Dube AI exists because one accountable supplier for the whole chain is genuinely better, and because the four are more connected than the industry admits.
Web design and development
WordPress builds structured for search from the first page, not decorated afterwards. Fixed prices, published. The build decisions we make in week one are what decide whether the SEO in month six is possible at all.
Website design packages →SEO and AI search
Getting found on Google and cited inside AI answers. Judged on enquiries rather than impressions, reported monthly in plain language, cancellable on thirty days because a lock-in mostly protects the agency.
SEO services →AI automation
The reason for the name. Assistants that answer at 2am, qualify the enquiry and hand you only the ones worth calling back, plus the quoting and invoicing workflows behind them.
AI automation →Hosting and maintenance
Where most agencies disappear. Isolated hosting, weekly patching on staging, tested off-site backups and monitoring every sixty seconds, so you hear about problems from us rather than from a customer.
Care plans →Things Dube AI will not claim
Every item below gets claimed routinely by agencies in this market, and by more than one website design agency in Midrand. We do not claim any of them, and we would rather lose a job than start one on a promise we cannot keep.
Six things you will not hear from us
- Guaranteed position one on Google. Nobody controls the index. Anyone guaranteeing a position is either lying or targeting a phrase nobody searches for.
- A special relationship with Google. There is no privileged access to buy. Everything we do on the search side comes from Google's published SEO starter guide, which you can read yourself.
- The Google Partner badge. That is an earned status inside the Google Ads programme. We have not earned it, so we do not display it, and you should check anyone who does.
- Results in thirty days. Technical fixes move quickly. Competitive rankings take three to six months, and faster usually means tactics that get you penalised later.
- A fifty-person team. We are a small senior team. If your project genuinely needs an agency of scale, we will say so rather than take the deposit and stretch.
- Client logos we cannot back up. Most of our work sits under confidentiality. Rather than a wall of borrowed logos, we name the two brands we can and open live data on a call.
That list costs us work and we publish it anyway, because a website design agency in Midrand that will not name its limits is asking you to find them out at your own expense.
Six rules Dube AI does not break
Every website design agency in Midrand has a values page. These are commercial commitments instead. Each one is checkable, and each one costs us something, which is what makes them worth publishing.
The client owns everything
Domain registered in your name at the registrar, standard WordPress, database and files exportable, every login handed over at launch. You can leave tomorrow without asking us.
Prices are published
Every rate we charge is on this website. If our numbers do not suit you, you find that out in thirty seconds rather than after two meetings and a proposal.
The quote is fixed in writing
Scope, price and timeline agreed before work starts. If we run late that is our problem, not a reason to invoice you more.
No lock-in contracts
Care plans cancel on thirty days. A twelve month minimum term protects an agency that is not delivering, and we would rather keep clients on the work.
We say when you should not buy
Sometimes the honest answer is a free plugin, a competitor's product, or fixing a process rather than building anything. That sentence appears in our roadmaps regularly.
Nothing is offshored
The people who scope your project are the people who build it. No handover to a team you never meet, which is also why we can answer detailed questions on a call without checking.
Dube AI work you can open right now
These are live websites from our own group of companies, which means we can name them rather than hiding behind an anonymous case study. Open either one, check the speed, then search for the services it sells.
National security brand, ranked across ten city pages, schema injected sitewide.
Regional investigations brand across three provinces, profile-led rather than paid.
More detail, including a WooCommerce store and a rebuild that held its rankings through launch, is on the portfolio. On a call we will open Search Console live on a client property rather than sending you a screenshot.
A website design agency in Midrand, working across the region
Dube AI operates from the Intellepark Building, 546 16th Road, Constantia Park, Midrand, Gauteng, 1685. A real address between Johannesburg and Pretoria, not a PO box and not a virtual office. Visits are by appointment, because most of the work happens by video call and shared documents regardless of where anybody is sitting.
Coverage
- Gauteng directly. Johannesburg, Sandton, Midrand, Centurion, Pretoria and the surrounding areas, where we can meet in person if you want to.
- The rest of South Africa remotely. Cape Town, Durban, Gqeberha, Bloemfontein, Polokwane and everywhere between, on the same prices and the same process.
- Six regional markets, each priced in its own currency: Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Kenya, Zambia and Tanzania.
- POPIA applies to what we build for you, since the enquiries your site collects are personal information you are accountable for under POPIA. Consent capture and retention limits are built in as standard.
Questions about Dube AI
Who is behind Dube AI?
A small senior team of specialists across web development, search, AI automation and infrastructure, some with more than fifteen years in the field. The people who scope your project are the people who build it. Nothing is offshored and there is no account manager sitting between you and the work.
Where is Dube AI based?
The Intellepark Building, 546 16th Road, Constantia Park, Midrand, Gauteng, 1685. As a website design agency in Midrand we sit between Johannesburg and Pretoria, so Gauteng clients can meet in person by appointment. Everyone else works with us remotely on the same terms.
How big is the team?
Deliberately small and senior. That is a genuine trade rather than a marketing line: you get the person doing the work on the phone, and you do not get the capacity of a fifty-person agency. If your project needs that scale we will tell you rather than stretch.
Why is it called Dube AI?
Because the automation side is the part most agencies in this market cannot do. Plenty build websites. Far fewer can put an assistant on it that answers in isiZulu at eleven at night, qualifies the enquiry and pushes it to your phone with the history attached.
Can I see client work?
Two live sites are named on this page and on the portfolio, from our own group of companies. Most other client work sits under confidentiality, which is normal in security, legal and medical. We describe that work without the name rather than break an agreement.
Do you work with businesses outside Gauteng?
Yes, and location changes neither the work nor the price. Everything runs by video call, WhatsApp and shared documents. We have clients across South Africa and take on projects in six other African markets, quoted in each country's own currency.
What industries do you build for?
Security and investigations, legal, medical, construction, logistics, retail and e-commerce, manufacturing and professional services. If we have not built in your sector we will say so rather than stretch a case study from another industry to cover it.
Why do you publish your prices?
Because price is the first question everybody has, and making people book a call to hear it wastes their time and ours. It also keeps us honest, since a published number is much harder to quietly inflate once work has started. Full list on website design packages.
What happens if I want to leave?
You take everything. Domain, files, database, hosting account and logins, all already in your name. Care plans cancel on thirty days with no exit fee and we help you move. We would rather keep clients because the work is good than because leaving is painful.
How do I start a conversation?
WhatsApp is fastest and it is where most of our enquiries arrive. Message 060 780 7159, or use the contact page if you would rather write it out. You get a written scope and a fixed price back within 24 hours.
The rest of the site
Everything Dube AI sells is priced openly. Start from website design company in South Africa for the overview, or go straight to whichever of these sounds like your problem.
Now you know who you would be dealing with.
Tell us what the business does and what you need built. You get a written scope and a fixed price back within 24 hours, and if we are not the right fit we will say so rather than quote you anyway.