Built on site, not in a boardroom.
We're the team at the gate when a site goes live, handing over devices, walking the patrol route, and building the software that keeps the shift honest.
Device handover, new site going liveWe come from the industry we build for.
Atex started in 2020 inside South Africa's security and services industry, not next to it. We watched good operations bleed hours into paper registers, buddy-punched clock-ins and radios that died past the gate.
So we built the thing we kept wishing existed: one platform for attendance, patrols, radio and access, and a team that shows up, equips the site, and stays on the line long after go-live.
Today Shepherd runs hundreds of operations. And every feature still starts the same way: standing on a site, next to the people who'll use it.
Walking the route, every checkpoint taggedBoots on the ground
We install, walk the routes and train the teams ourselves. The ground truth designs the product, not the other way around.
Equip, then empower
Contract signed? We supply the devices, cameras and access control, delivered, installed and live before day one.
Answer at 02:00
Support is real people, around the clock. If a site is awake, so are we.
Five years, one direction.
From a clock-in fix for security teams to equipping entire sites.
Started inside SA’s security industry to fix fragmented workforce management.
100 000+ attendance records a month across hundreds of sites.
Patrols, PTT radio and access control joined attendance on one console.
The whole operation on one console, time & attendance free, forever.
500+ operations live; sites launched with devices, cameras and access control.