Built to move people from stuck to oriented.

Everything Northstar builds and runs, organised by the problem spaces we return to deliberately. Each new product joins the space it belongs to.

Consumer

4 products, 1 project

Everyday tools for documents, files, housing and discovery.

FOLIO: A document open, with page thumbnails and every view tool at hand.
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FOLIO

The modern document workspace.

A free, open-source desktop app for working with PDFs: read, edit text and images, fill forms, annotate, organize pages, redact, run OCR and sign with certificates, without the weight of legacy PDF software. Everything runs on your own machine, with no account and no uploads.

Download Folio for Windows

Version 0.1.0, 198 MB, free. Windows 10 or later, 64-bit. The installer is not yet code-signed, so Windows may ask you to confirm. View the source.

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Scroll: A folder in a clean, tabbed window.
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Scroll

Your files, organized like thought.

A Windows file manager with tabs, two panes and light and dark themes.

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HabitatIQ: Search any suburb, city or address.
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HabitatIQ

Know what a place is like before you sign for it.

Six honest signals on every home and suburb, reported by the people who actually live there. No listing copy, no agent gloss.

Visit habitatiq.co.za (opens in a new tab)

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Snag: The bounty feed, filtered by category and reward.

Snag

Describe what you need. Fund it. The crowd does the rest.

A funded-escrow bounty marketplace. Post a task, fund the reward, and a crowd of hunters submits work to claim it.

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All Grace Properties: A new home for a Vaal property agency.
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Live

Project for All Grace Properties

All Grace Properties

More than property. It's possibility.

A residential property agency serving the Vaal. Buy, rent, invest or list, with personal service from first viewing to final signature.

Visit allgraceproperties.co.za (opens in a new tab)

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Professional

1 product

Infrastructure for careers, talent and professional opportunity.

Latch: The landing page, for graduates and mentors.

Latch

The gap after graduation is a network gap.

Mentorship for CS and IT graduates in South Africa. Latch matches each graduate with an engineer five to ten years ahead of them, and shows how every match was scored.

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Infrastructure

1 product

Trust, verification and identity, built in.

Verity: Check a website, number, email or business.
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Verity

Before you trust it, check it.

Look up any website, phone number, email or business against South Africa's shared scam intelligence, and see the evidence behind the risk.

Prototype screens, shown with fictional sample data.