Fifteen products.
Six months.
Two engineers.
What Kuumba designed, built and shipped between February and September 2026 — measured from the repositories themselves, and compared with what the same work usually takes.
What the repositories say
How everything connects
Solid arrows: code, models or data flow into. Dashed: built on top of. Click a node to open its ledger entry.
What was built when
Grey bars started before February and were carried into the window. Most builds ran in parallel.
AFST & AGF
Bar length is lines of code. Click a project to see what it contains and what a 25-person team would typically need.
Cliniq and the dental stack
Click a project to see what it contains and what a 25-person team would typically need.
Six more builds
Click a project to see what it contains and what a 25-person team would typically need.
Fire detection on the cameras you already own
Most fire-detection products need specialised thermal cameras. Advanced Detection watches ordinary CCTV feeds and flags fire and smoke — every camera a site already has becomes a fire sensor.
Training images
Time to a first model
An ML engineer plus annotators sourcing, cleaning and labelling ~80k images, then training and serving. Hardware-based detection adds thousands of rand per camera; this runs on the existing estate.
A drone designed to PDR in about a week
An indoor inventory drone that flies warehouse aisles reading RFID tags: protected 450 mm carbon X-frame, lidar and optical-flow navigation, compact mission shell, rear-loading battery cassette. Controlled mass 1,657 g against an 1,800 g limit. The design is code — the whole package regenerates from scripts.
Design time to preliminary design review
Mechanical, electrical and systems engineers producing a design basis, CAD, drawings, BOM and validation — before anything is built.
A custom email client and an ERP sync engine in ten days
Two pieces of infrastructure companies almost always buy. Kuumba Mail is a complete mail platform — receiving, sending, threading, search, real-time sync — written from scratch. SAP Sync keeps the operations tool and SAP in step with mapping, reconciliation and an audit trail.
Email client · time to first usable release
Open-source mail clients have taken decades and hundreds of contributors to mature.
ERP connector · typical integration project
One platform, two clinics
Cliniq runs a practice's day with role-aware views for clinicians, reception and accounts. It inherits a year of dental research and the operations platform beneath the industrial tooling — which is why a two-month-old product already carries 1.56 million lines, 437 migrations and 779 test files.
General practice
- Patients & practice diary
- Visits, records, communication
- Role-aware Home, Calendar, Patients
- Reception and accounts workflows
Dental
- Radiograph viewer with AI detection
- Dental coding & imaging workflows
- Intraoral camera integration
Practice platform · time to comparable breadth
What this output usually costs
Drag the sliders. Team-equivalent = lines ÷ (lines per developer-day × 220 days × team size).
Against mature products in each category
| Category | Kuumba build | Delivered in | Mature comparison (public, approximate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Email client / mail platform | Kuumba Mail | 5 active days | Established open-source mail clients: 20+ years, hundreds of contributors |
| Practice management / clinical records | Cliniq | 2 months + 1 yr dental R&D | Leading open-source practice systems: 15–20+ years, hundreds of contributors |
| Fire & smoke detection | Advanced Detection | ≈ 2 months | Camera-based vendors: dedicated hardware per camera, multi-year product cycles |
| Warehouse inventory drone | Stock-take drone (Rev D PDR) | ≈ 1 week of design | Specialist inventory-drone companies: teams of 50–150, several years to a flying product |
| Ransomware protection for SMEs | NULL-veks | Base built, Feb 2026 | Backup-and-recovery vendors: thousands of staff, enterprise pricing |
| Booking & membership | The Arch · Parque | 4 weeks | Commercial studio-booking platforms: product teams in the hundreds |
| Distributor portal & warehouse fulfilment | AGF Portal · Warehouse | 3 months, part-time | Modular ERP suites: 15+ years, thousands of contributors |
| SHEQ / compliance | HSEC AI | ≈ 3 months | Enterprise EHS platforms: companies of several hundred |
How the numbers were produced
Counting
Every repository was scanned on 8 September 2026. Lines are non-blank lines of source. Dependencies, build output, lockfiles, generated files, datasets, model weights and vendored code are excluded. The operations platform and Cliniq include an adopted open-source foundation that Kuumba extended and adapted.
History
Commit counts and active days come from git history. Model metrics are from training-run logs. Drone figures come from the Revision D validation manifest. Timelines follow the dates the work started.
Team estimates
Per-project team estimates use 50 net lines per developer-day at the slider default, 22 working days a month, and the stated team size. Role lists describe the shape of a conventional team for that kind of product; they are indicative, not audited.
Boundaries
The drone package is marked not for flight or manufacture until engineering gates are closed. Vision-model metrics are first-pass results. Status labels reflect the state on the scan date.
4 million lines.
Fifteen products.
Seven months.
Built by two engineers and a fleet of AI agents — and the pace is still rising.