Compliance shouldn't require a law degree to understand
We started Obligance after watching the same organisations pay for the same regulatory interpretation, year after year, with nothing to show for it but a PDF. We build for the organisations that just want to know — and fix — where they stand.
2022
Founded
340+
Organisations onboarded
58
Team members
9
Industries served
Principles that shape every product decision
Execution over documentation
A finding nobody acts on isn't compliance work — it's a PDF. We build toward closed gaps, not reports.
Objective over interpretive
Compliance status should not depend on which consultant answered the phone. We model duties as binary, auditable facts.
Continuous over periodic
Regulations don't wait for your annual audit cycle. Neither does your exposure. Compliance state should always be current.
Access over gatekeeping
Every organisation — not just enterprises with a legal department — deserves to know exactly where they stand.
Built by people who lived the problem
Thandeka Mokoena
Co-Founder & CEO
Former compliance lead at a Top 4 bank. Spent a decade watching the same regulations get re-interpreted by a different consultant every year.
Michael Botha
Co-Founder & CTO
Built risk-scoring infrastructure for a pan-African insurer before turning the same systems thinking toward regulatory compliance.
Aisha Patel
Head of Regulatory Content
Admitted attorney specialising in data protection law. Leads the team that keeps every regulation in the library current and accurate.
Sipho Dlamini
Head of Customer Success
Spent six years inside enterprise compliance teams before joining to make sure the platform solves real operational pain.
Trusted by compliance teams at
Compliance teams, not compliance consultants
“We went from a 40-page POPIA gap report nobody owned, to 23 tasks with deadlines and names against them. Our compliance score moved from 34% to 91% in one quarter.”
Naledi Khumalo
Head of Compliance, Helios Logistics
“Our ISO 27001 recertification used to mean six weeks of consultant time. With Obligance it was three weeks, and our internal team understood every requirement for the first time.”
David Reyneke
CTO, Vantage Manufacturing
“The CFO dashboard alone justified the spend. We could finally see compliance cost and risk exposure on one screen instead of three spreadsheets and a lawyer's invoice.”
Priya Naidoo
Chief Financial Officer, Coastal Underwriters
“We lost a government tender two years ago over a missing OHSA appointment letter. We will never let that happen again — the platform would have caught it in minutes.”
Johan van der Merwe
Operations Director, Ferrum Industrial
We're hiring across product, engineering, and regulatory content
If you've lived the compliance problem from the inside, we want to talk to you.