About Obligance

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.

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What we believe

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.

Leadership

Built by people who lived the problem

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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.

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Michael Botha

Co-Founder & CTO

Built risk-scoring infrastructure for a pan-African insurer before turning the same systems thinking toward regulatory compliance.

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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.

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Sipho Dlamini

Head of Customer Success

Spent six years inside enterprise compliance teams before joining to make sure the platform solves real operational pain.

Join us

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.