Sector · Mining

Your AI flags the overdue safety check before the inspector does.

It reads shift reports and checklists to catch what's overdue, and turns readings into the daily site report automatically. Self-hosted document management meets the same compliance bar without the licence bill.

What your AI would do in Mining.

Concrete jobs an AI operating system set up around your business could take on, including the ones that catch a problem before it lands on your desk.

01

Reads shift reports and safety checklists and flags what's overdue before the inspector does.

02

Turns production and equipment data into the daily report for the site meeting.

03

Drafts the environmental and safety compliance paperwork from the readings your systems already collect.

04

Watches equipment run-hours against maintenance schedules and flags a unit due for service before it fails underground.

See it work.

A short, fictional scenario. Watch the AI handle it end to end.

Safety console: Ironstone Resources (fictional)
● Shift log, Section 4: Gas monitor calibration check logged as pending for 6 days

Ironstone Resources is made up. Watch the AI catch an overdue safety check.

Read what happens

Shift log, Section 4: Gas monitor calibration check logged as pending for 6 days Checking the MHSA calibration schedule for this equipment class Gas monitor GM-14: Due every 5 days, now 1 day overdue, last used on this morning's shift This monitor is overdue for calibration and was used on today's shift. This needs flagging before the next shift starts. Equipment | Last check | Status Gas monitor GM-14 | 6 days ago | Overdue You choose. Flag for immediate recalibration: Flagged to the shift supervisor and safety officer immediately. Logged in the MHSA compliance record. Note for the weekly review: Noted for the weekly safety review instead.

R 1.60M

Typical annual licence spend

Across 6 common mining tools

R 1.44M

Recoverable each year

After self-hosted OSS migration

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Sector pain points we cover

From licensing to compliance to access control

The mining stack, on the books

Tap a tool. See the open-source swap and the saving.

Bars show what the typical mining firm spends annually on each licence. The sage portion is what the hosted open-source equivalent costs.

Typical Mining stack

6 tools · R 1.60M/yr in licences

● Migrate to OSS · save 90%
Proprietary
Hosted OSS

Replace

SAP Business One

ERP · R 420K per year

With

Odoo ERP

Self-hosted on your infra

Annual savings

R 378K

After hosting · approx 90% reduction

See migration brief →

Current annual spend

R 1.60M

Estimated OSS hosting

R 160K

Annual savings

R 1.44M

Tap any tool to see the open-source replacement and the per-tool saving

Where mining time and money leak

What we hear on every mining discovery call.

01

Safety and compliance paperwork compiled after the fact

Safety checklists and compliance reports often get pieced together after a shift, not during it. An AI reads them as they're logged and flags what's overdue.

02

ERP and CAD seats priced per user, per year

SAP, SYSPRO, AutoCAD and SolidWorks licences compound across head office, surface operations and contractors.

03

Compliance reporting across regulators

MHSA, DMRE and environmental authorities each need their own audit trail. Self-hosted document management makes the paper trail cheap and defensible.

How we handle the mining edges

The sector-specific things we get right.

01 · Concern

MHSA and POPIA together

Worker safety records + personal information under POPIA. Dual regulator exposure. We configure controls that satisfy both.

02 · Concern

Environmental and ESG reporting

Immutable logs for water use, emissions, rehabilitation progress. Self-hosted stacks produce the audit trail that regulators and investors now expect.

03 · Concern

OT / IT segregation

Mine-site SCADA and ERP on the same network is a ransomware invitation. We segment properly and harden both sides.

What we bring to a mining engagement

The services your sector usually starts with.

Now it's real.

Four things stay true, whatever we build for you.

  • Your hardware or ours

    On your server, on ours, or on a machine in your office running an open model. Your call.

  • A person approves what matters

    Payments, deletions and anything going to a client wait for a yes from you or someone you choose.

  • Every action logged

    You can see what it read, what it did and why, for every task.

  • Built with POPIA in mind

    We set it up the way we set up any system that handles personal information, with the same care our compliance work gets.

Questions people ask

Does the AI pull equipment out of service on its own?

No. It flags what's overdue; the safety officer decides what happens to the equipment.

How does this help with MHSA and POPIA together?

We configure controls that satisfy worker safety records under MHSA and personal information under POPIA at once.

Can self-hosted document management handle ESG reporting?

Yes, immutable logs for water use, emissions and rehabilitation give the audit trail regulators and investors now expect.

What about separating the mine-site network from the office?

We segment OT and IT properly first. A ransomware path between SCADA and ERP is the risk we close before anything else.

Your numbers, not the industry average. Free audit, on us.

Send your licence list. We'll map it to what an AI and open source could take off your plate, and quote a migration window.