Designers who learned to make things think.
Ionity Global grew from Antwerp Designs — a product-design firm since 2018. Today we serve the next era: Native-AI, AIoT, custom MCP, dashboards, digital twins, and the hardware to ground them.
A studio that became a system.
We started by designing products. We kept being asked to make them smarter, connected, measurable — so we grew into ecosystems: sensing at the edge, intelligence in the cloud, and audits to keep it all honest.
We're solutionists. The same team will design a mechanism, lay out a PCB, write the firmware, train the model and ship the dashboard — with real artisan knowledge across mechanical, electrical and IT.
- 2018
Antwerp Designs
Product design firm — the craft foundation.
- 2022+
Connected ecosystems
Designs gain sensing, edge and cloud.
- Today
Ionity Global (Pty) Ltd
A Native-AI company building & auditing for the next era.
AEDi — the fabric we build on.
Antwerp Ecosystem Designs Ionity · also Automated Ecosystems Designs Intelligence. AEDi orchestrates agents, MCP and data so what we deliver is native by construction. We use Claude, and we enjoy it.
Native-AI delivery
Models, agents and tools wired in from day one — not bolted on later.
Hardware-aware
AEDi reaches the edge: it knows about the devices, because we built them.
Evidence-first
Audit and forensics thinking baked into every system we ship.
Johan Wilhelm van Antwerp
Director & Founder, Ionity Global (Pty) Ltd. Building Native-AI, AIoT and audit practice — hands-on across disciplines.