About
Made in the Free State, for the farms around it.
HerdSense is a Zizian product. Small team, one phone number, and a founder who still takes the calls.
(01) The company
Built by Zizian (Pty) Ltd, in Bethlehem.
Zizian builds software for South African businesses that run on the ground: operations, payments, transport, and now livestock. HerdSense is the agriculture product. It is designed and built in Bethlehem in the eastern Free State, within sight of the farms it is for.
The idea came from a simple count. Ask a farmer how many head they have and the answer is usually a range. Ask how many were lost last year and the answer is a shrug. Stock theft, disease and slow weight loss take animals one at a time, and a paper book in the bakkie does not add them up. HerdSense started as the register that does.
The founder, Mpho Malcom Miya, runs the company and is its POPIA Information Officer. He answers the support line himself more often than not.
- Where
- Bethlehem, Free State
- Company
- Zizian (Pty) Ltd
- Founder
- Mpho Malcom Miya
- Built for
- South African farms and communal areas
(02) How we work
Records first, because that is where the value is.
Hardware is the exciting part and the expensive part. We put it second on purpose. A farm that keeps proper records for a season knows which animals to tag, and a farm that tags first and records nothing has an expensive map.
Everything is built for a phone in a kraal: large buttons, short forms, one thumb. The dashboard on a laptop is the same data seen from a chair.
Your records are yours. Export them whenever you like, and if you leave, ask and we delete the account.
How many animals do you have right now?
If you paused on that, start with the register. Fifty animals free, on the phone in your pocket, today.