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Featured · HBS Software Solutions · 13 Aug 2026

The Rand Tax: Why South African Businesses Need a Better Software Model

Software priced in dollars, euros and pounds leaves South African businesses with a bill that moves even when nothing else does. Why HBS built Dooable as a rand-priced, single-workspace answer to the rand tax.

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HBS Software Solutions · 13 Aug 2026

The Rand Tax on South African Software

A 20-person South African firm can carry more than R20,000 a month in foreign-currency software subscriptions. Working through what an eight-tool stack actually costs once the exchange rate is applied.

HBS Software Solutions · 12 Aug 2026

The Same Control Problem, Twice

How HBS Software Solutions built LearnerFlow by governing the development process and the product with a single framework