About · One company, a group of productsFounded 2026

One company.
A group of products.

Ebenworks is an AI and technology company. We ship seven products in production, plus the platforms we build for our partners, for the people and markets the industry overlooks. One motto: Better Products. Better People. Better Tomorrow.

Aerial view of Cape Town with Table Mountain and Lion's Head behind the city
The company
Ebenworks · founded 2026 by Ebenezer Tarubinga
Product · 01
Imali · imali.ebenworks.co · WhatsApp business OS for Africa’s 6M+ informal merchants, proven first in SA
Product · 02
Chingu · chingu-ai.ebenworks.co · Korean voice AI for seniors living alone
More products
Phila (offline-first primary care), Bidwright (AI bids & tenders), Izwi Label OS, Tzohar Sites and A–Z Dates — all live. See all seven products.
We also build
Platforms for partners: the KAFCON 2026 tournament platform, the Zim–Korea Hub, plus open-source. See what we build.
Founder
Ebenezer Tarubinga · AI/ML engineer (MSc, Korea University)
Advisor
Blessing Siwonde · CEO of Statotech Systems, partner · MSc Computer Engineering, Ajou University
Where the work lives: Bulawayo, Johannesburg, SeoulBulawayoZWraisedJohannesburgZAImali’s home marketSeoulKRwhere the founder lives · Chingu HQ

The mission is the constant. The industry is the variable.

Built to ship. Proven in production.

01

Start with a population, not a category.

Every product begins with people the industry overlooks, informal merchants, seniors living alone, and meets them on a surface they already use.

02

Ship it, then prove it.

We put real software in production, deployed, tested, compliant, before we talk about it. All seven products are live; the claims on this site are checkable.

03

Build with the right partners.

When a build needs more hands, we work with Statotech Systems, our strategic partner. Together we built the KAFCON platform and the Zim–Korea Hub.

Ebenworks works hand in hand with a strategic partner in Statotech Systems and named advisors. The work is end-to-end, and the products are already running in production.

Pick the door that fits.

Investors and partners read /invest. Press and recruiters read /press. Everyone else just writes.