About us
We exist to unlock the value sitting in your data
Lunak Solutions is a data consultancy in Pretoria, South Africa. We help organisations reach greatness by turning the data they already own into decisions they can act on, on the Microsoft Azure data stack.
Our story
Eighteen years of watching good data go to waste
Langford Manyau has spent eighteen years inside data platforms, from the first SQL Server warehouses to tables of billions of rows on Azure. Project after project, one pattern kept coming back: organisations owned enormous amounts of data, and yet the people making decisions still waited days for a report they weren’t sure they could believe.
The data was never the problem. It was crude: scattered, inconsistent and locked away. What was missing was the refinery, the engineering that cleans it, connects it and delivers it to the people who need it, in a form they trust.
Lunak Solutions was founded to be that refinery. We are deliberately senior and deliberately focused on Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Power BI and AI on Azure, so that every client gets deep expertise and an honest answer, and every project is measured by the value it creates, not the hours it takes.
Langford Manyau
Founder and Head of Data & AI
What we believe
Data is the oil of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Oil only became valuable once someone learned to refine it. Data is the same. Left raw, it fills storage accounts and spreadsheets. Refined, it powers forecasts, alerts, AI and the confident decisions that set great organisations apart. That refining is our craft.
How we work with you
We don’t sell you a platform. We CARE about your outcome.
We’ll never try to convince you to buy something you don’t need. We work to understand what you truly want, then show you, honestly, how we can help you get there.
Curious first
We ask before we advise. What keeps your team up at night, which decisions are slow, which numbers nobody trusts. The answers shape everything we propose.
Aligned to your outcome
We only recommend what moves your business forward, tied to a result you can measure in rand. If a simpler fix will do, that is what we suggest.
Reliable, and honest about it
We say what we can and can’t deliver, we don’t inflate estimates or promises, and we do what we said we would. Trust takes years to build and seconds to lose.
Excited about your future
We help you picture where your data can take you: answers in seconds, a team that acts instead of reconciling, and a board that sees the return.
What you can count on
The way we behave when nobody is checking
Plain speaking
No jargon to impress you. If something is a bad idea, we say so, kindly and early.
Ownership
A senior architect owns your outcome from the first call to handover, and stays reachable.
Craft
Pipelines that rerun safely, models that reconcile, code that is reviewed and documented.
Teaching
We share what we know: in every handover, and for free on our YouTube channel.
What could your data be worth?
Tell us what you’re trying to achieve. We’ll ask the questions, and give you an honest answer.