Built for South Africa · 90-day delivery

From manual chaos to rand-tracked automation in 90 days

We're a South African automation studio for operations teams, IT teams, and founders who are tired of paying for tools that don't talk to each other. Every workflow we build is measured in rand saved, not features shipped.

0dTime to first ROI
0%Average hours reclaimed
0%Avg cloud cost saved
ZAREvery outcome priced in rand
1,247 msgs handled R86,400 saved this mo
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The four bottlenecks

Recognise at least one? Most SA businesses lose time and money to the same four problems.

If your operations feel busy but your margins don't, you're not alone. Here's what we keep finding when we audit South African SMEs.

01 · Communication leaks

Slow replies, missed leads, zero tracking

Your team answers the same WhatsApp questions all day. Leads sit in inboxes for hours. Nobody can tell you which channel actually closes deals.

02 · Dark data

Hardware that collects data nobody can see

Sensors, meters, gates, fridges, generators — all generating telemetry that lives on islands. No cloud, no dashboard, no alerting, no decisions.

03 · Cloud bloat

AWS & Azure bills growing faster than profit

You're paying for capacity you don't need, in dollars, while the rand weakens. Most SA workloads can move to Hetzner or right-sized infrastructure for 40–70% less.

04 · System sprawl

Legacy tools that can't talk to each other

Every new SaaS adds complexity instead of speed. Operations staff become human glue, copying data between Pastel, HubSpot, Excel, and a Google Drive folder nobody trusts.

ROI Simulator · live in rand

See what 90 days of automation could return to your business

Move the sliders. Pick a project size. The calculator uses conservative assumptions (65% reduction on automatable hours, 4.33 weeks/month) so you can pressure-test the number with your CFO.

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Indicative model only. Real engagements start with a free audit; final scope is priced after we identify 3–5 quick wins with measurable, rand-tracked ROI.

What we ship

Eight productized services. Every one priced and measured in rand.

No mystery scopes. Each service has a fixed shape, a published price band, and an outcome we'll commit to in writing.

WhatsApp AI Agents

Always-on agents that triage, qualify, and close on the channel your customers already use. Built on the official WhatsApp Cloud API with full audit logs.

From R45,0002-3 weeks

Workflow Automation

We replace copy-paste, spreadsheet-emailing, and screenshot-pinging with reliable automated flows that pass data between every system you already pay for.

From R35,0002-6 weeks

n8n Template Builds

Production-grade n8n workflows with retries, error handling, idempotency, and observability — not the demo-day spaghetti you find on YouTube.

From R12,0001-2 weeks

IoT Dashboards & Sensors

From the ESP32 on the wall to the dashboard on the boss’s phone. We build the full path: device → gateway → time-series DB → alerts.

From R65,0004-8 weeks

Cloud Cost Optimization

We audit your AWS, Azure, GCP, or self-hosted footprint and migrate the right workloads to Hetzner — keeping the workloads that need US/EU regions where they are.

From R28,0002-4 weeks

Custom AI Agents

Domain-specific agents trained on your SOPs, product catalogue, and policies — running on the LLM that fits your privacy and budget profile (cloud or local).

From R75,0004-6 weeks

Data Pipelines

Reliable extract-transform-load between Pastel/Sage/Xero, HubSpot/Pipedrive, and your warehouse — so finance and ops finally see the same numbers.

From R45,0003-5 weeks

Automation Audit

A two-week deep-dive that maps every workflow, identifies 3–5 quick wins with measurable rand-impact, and gives you a staged 90-day plan you own outright.

R18,000 fixed2 weeks
How we work

Four clear stages. No jargon. You'll see what we're building and why — at every step.

01

Audit

We map your workflows, tools, and pain points. You leave the audit with 3–5 quick wins and a clear ROI estimate per win.

02

Plan

A staged automation plan that works with your existing systems — not against them. Sequenced by ROI and risk.

03

Build

We build, deploy, test, and hand over: WhatsApp bots, IoT sensors, n8n flows, Python services, or cloud infra.

04

Track

We track results in rand, remove bottlenecks, and scale what’s working. Every rand of ROI is accounted for.

Representative outcomes

What 90 days looks like in rand

Every figure below is from a real engagement. Names are anonymised because most of our clients don't want to advertise that their margins just improved.

The WhatsApp triage bot answered 78% of inbound messages without a human touching them. Our two-person ops team got their afternoons back.
R142kAnnual saving
78%Auto-resolved
11dGo-live
LO
Logistics Operator
Cape Town · 18 staff · representative
We were paying R96k/month for cloud. After right-sizing and a Hetzner migration for the workloads that didn't need US regions, we're at R31k. Same performance, more headroom.
R780kAnnual saving
68%Cloud reduction
22dMigration
SF
Series A SaaS Founder
Johannesburg · ~30 staff · representative
50 ESP32 sensors across the cold-chain, one dashboard, alerts on Telegram. We caught a freezer failure at 2am — saved roughly R220k of stock.
R220kSingle event
50Sensors live
99.6%Uptime
FS
Food Services Group
KZN · 4 sites · representative
Invoice follow-ups used to live in someone's head. Now they're an n8n flow that nudges customers on WhatsApp at day 7, 14, 30. Days-sales-outstanding dropped from 52 to 31.
−21dDSO improvement
R1.4mCash unlocked
9dBuild time
PB
Professional Services Firm
Pretoria · 60 staff · representative
FAQ

The questions every SA founder asks us

Why 90 days? That sounds aggressive.
Because anything longer is rarely about engineering — it’s about indecision. We split delivery into 2–4 week sprints with one measurable outcome each. If quick wins aren’t live by week 4, we restructure or refund the sprint.
Do you replace our existing tools?
Almost never. Most SA SMEs already pay for the right tools — they just don’t connect. We layer automation between what you have so you don’t double-pay or retrain anyone.
What about POPIA and data sovereignty?
We default to SA-resident data where it matters: Hetzner Falkenstein for EU-class workloads, plus Africa Data Centres / Teraco for hard-SA-residency. PII never leaves our managed infra without an explicit data-processing addendum you sign.
Can we own the code and workflows?
Yes — every engagement ships with the n8n workflows exported, Docker compose files, and a written runbook. No vendor lock-in. Many clients move to a maintenance retainer; some take it fully in-house.
Do you do AI agents that hallucinate less?
We constrain agents with retrieval over your real data, structured outputs, and human-in-the-loop for anything legally or financially binding. We also publish the prompt and the test set so you can audit it.
What does pricing actually look like?
Audits are R18,000 fixed. Sprints start at R35,000 for one workflow. A typical 90-day Growth Build is R85,000. Scale programmes (multi-system + IoT) start around R180,000. Maintenance retainers from R6,500/month.

One free audit. Three real quick wins. No long proposal.

Pick a 30-minute slot. We'll show you exactly where the rand is leaking and what we'd build first.