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Cybernetics Engineering & Designs unifies hardware, firmware and software delivery under one company plan with ClickUp

Industry: Manufacturing (connected hardware and software engineering) | Employees: 5 co-founders (wider team size unconfirmed) | Use case: Company-wide planning and hardware, firmware and software delivery in one workspace

Cybernetics Engineering & Designs builds connected products end to end from Gqeberha, South Africa, hardware, firmware, cloud and mobile, with five co-founders and no shared office between them. Founder & CEO Lihle Mayila moved the whole company off WhatsApp groups and Google Sheets into one ClickUp workspace for engineering teams, where every quarterly objective carries a single owner and a single date, and every board revision keeps its fixes and test results attached to the task.

Lihle Mayila, Founder & CEO, Cybernetics Engineering & Designs, Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Hear from our ClickUp Ambassador at Cybernetics Engineering & Designs

“ClickUp took a small team spread across chats and files and turned us into one company working from one plan.”

Lihle Mayila, Founder & CEO, Cybernetics Engineering & Designs

AT A GLANCE

Six board revisions, all of them still readable

CED runs leadership, hardware and firmware, software, commercial and operations from one workspace, which is ClickUp for engineering teams at its plainest. Every engineering change carries an ID and its linked evidence, so the sixth revision of the flagship tag did not take its fixes and test results into somebody's notebook. Engineers flag a slipping hardware date while it can still be moved, rather than explaining it afterwards.

5 functions, one workspace

Leadership to commercial, saLeadership, engineering, software, commercial, operations

1 owner, 1 date

On every quarterly key result

Before ClickUp : The Q4 target with three or four different numbers

Five co-founders build CED's connected products without a shared office, coordinating in WhatsApp groups with plans and trackers in Google Docs and Sheets. When they sat down to plan Q4, their own documents disagreed: the same target carried three or four different values depending on which plan, deck or OKR sheet you opened. Agreements made in a group chat never reached the plan, and lessons from one board revision stayed in an engineer's notes. Dates slipped unflagged, and time went on working out which version was true.

After ClickUp : The plan and the tracker became the same document

Lihle plans the quarter as tasks. Each objective is a task, its key results are subtasks, and every one of them carries one owner and one date. The Monday sync, the monthly review and the quarter-end scoring all run off that same set of tasks, so nobody keeps a separate status report. Engineers flag a slipping hardware date as “at risk” or “update required” before it moves, which matters for a team quoting client engineering work in stages while shipping its own product. CED runs it on the free plan, with lists, statuses and subtasks instead of custom fields.

Off-Script with ClickUp

What's the thing you'd miss most if ClickUp disappeared tomorrow?

“Seeing every product on one timeline while each engineer works in their own view of the same tasks. That's the difference between running a company and chasing updates.”

Lihle Mayila, Founder & CEO, Cybernetics Engineering & Designs

About Cybernetics Engineering & Designs

Cybernetics Engineering & Designs is an engineering company in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, that designs and builds electronics, firmware, software and the connected systems between them, taking work from a first sketch to a tested prototype for clients across South Africa. The company also makes its own product, KhuselaGuard, a livestock-monitoring system engineered in-house and sold to paying farms, which reached a field-ready tag after six board revisions.

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