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Calm structure for complex work
Inokrate is Cobus van Deventer — a professional engineer who spent twenty-five years leading delivery in consulting engineering, and now works at both ends of it: operations leadership for founders and leadership teams, and mechanical building-services design and compliance.
Fractional COO
Operations
You are still the one holding the operation together — approving, chasing, unblocking — and it has become the limit on how fast the business can grow. I step in as the operations leader alongside your team, take accountability for it, and build the operating model, reporting and systems that let it run without me.
- Operational leadership
- Project & programme delivery
- Operating model & organisational design
- Technology, automation & AI
For founders, CEOs and leadership teams
OperationsPr.Eng · Mechanical
Engineering
Plans held up because the ventilation has not been properly designed, documented, or signed off by someone who can take responsibility for it. I do that part — the design, the drawings and calculations, the submission to the council, and the signature at the end.
- Ventilation design and drawings
- Council submissions and comments
- SANS 10400-O compliance
- The engineer who signs it
For architects, consultancies and developers
EngineeringAbout Cobus
I'm a professional mechanical engineer with twenty-five years in consulting engineering — most of it leading other people's delivery. As Technical Director at Zutari I led international MEP teams on projects like MISK Schools in Riyadh, Yas Mall in Abu Dhabi and Parramatta Light Rail in Sydney; at Royal HaskoningDHV I built and ran a multidisciplinary advisory business of up to 30 people, accountable for delivery, market development and financial performance.
Both halves of Inokrate come out of that. The operations work is what I learned running the delivery: priorities, people, P&L and the systems underneath them. The engineering is the work itself: design, ventilation compliance, the packages I can take responsibility for. I'm also co-owner of two ventures, Fiftyknots and GiGTRiBE, and run Inokrate on systems I built myself.
- Pr.Eng (ECSA)
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- B.Eng Mechanical
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- M.Eng, Project Management
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- GBCSA Accredited Professional
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- SAIMechE · CIBSE
Get in touch
Start with a conversation, not a commitment.
A business under delivery pressure, an engineering package, or a ventilation compliance question: a short call is usually enough to tell whether I can help.