About · One company, a group of productsFounded 2026

One company.
A group of products.

Ebenworks is an AI and technology company. We build software for the people the industry overlooks — our own products, and the platforms we build for our partners. Founded 2026, on one motto: Better Products. Better People. Better Tomorrow.

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The company
Ebenworks · founded 2026 by Ebenezer Tarubinga
Product · 01
Imali · imali.ebstar.co · WhatsApp business OS for SA’s 1.6M informal merchants
Product · 02
Chingu · chingu-ai.ebstar.co · Korean voice AI for seniors living alone
We also build
Platforms for partners: the KAFCON 2026 tournament platform, the Zim–Korea Hub, plus open-source. See what we build.
Founder
Ebenezer Tarubinga · AI/ML engineer (MSc, Korea University)
Advisor
Blessing Siwonde · CEO of Statotech Systems, partner · MSc Computer Engineering, Ajou University
Where the work lives: Bulawayo, Johannesburg, SeoulBulawayoZWraisedJohannesburgZAImali’s home marketSeoulKRwhere the founder lives · Chingu HQ

The mission is the constant. The industry is the variable.

Built to ship. Proven in production.

01

Start with a population, not a category.

Every product begins with people the industry overlooks, informal merchants, seniors living alone, and meets them on a surface they already use.

02

Ship it, then prove it.

We put real software in production, deployed, tested, compliant, before we talk about it. Imali and Chingu are live; the claims on this site are checkable.

03

Build with the right partners.

When a build needs more hands, we work with Statotech Systems, our strategic partner. Together we built the KAFCON platform and the Zim–Korea Hub.

Ebenworks works hand in hand with a strategic partner in Statotech Systems and named advisors. The work is end-to-end, and the products are already running in production.

Pick the door that fits.

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