It started with a shoebox of forgotten loyalty cards.
BargaiNest began with a very ordinary frustration.Co-founder Thelma Njolomole was juggling loyalty cards for the grocery store, the pharmacy, the fuel station, and half a dozen retail apps — never quite sure which one actually had the best deal that week, and regularly discovering that hard-earned points had quietly expired, unused. The tools that were supposed to reward her loyalty were, in practice, invisible.
That frustration became a question: what if all of that lived in one place — and what if it could think for you? Co-founder Vuyelwa Mlingo, who brings years of experience architecting digital payment solutions for major banks, retailers and payment providers, saw exactly how to answer it. Drawing on that technical background, and as the founder Anthill Solutions — the company behind BargaiNest — worked out how to leverage modern technology and AI to build not just a place to store your cards, but an intelligent assistant that tells you where to shop today, which reward to use, and how much you stand to save before you spend a cent.
That question is what BargaiNest is built to answer. We're not building another loyalty app. We're building the missing intelligence layer between shoppers and the fragmented world of loyalty programmes, rewards and promotions — turning everyday shopping from a guessing game into something genuinely rewarding.
Turning that answer into a real business needed a third piece: getting it in front of the people who'd actually use it. That's where co-founder Roxxi Clark comes in — bringing the commercial instinct and partnership-building experience to take BargaiNest from idea to market, forging the retailer and merchant relationships that make the whole ecosystem work.
- Founded by three co-founders in Cape Town, South Africa
- Built by Anthill Solutions (Pty) Ltd, registered a CIPC Registered company
- Mission: revolutionise everyday shopping by helping people save, automatically