An honest read.
Then where AI helps first.
Audits, fractional leadership, due diligence, vendor work, and where your own AI would save the most hours. Independent advice, paid for by you alone.
Independent. Paid by you alone. Walks away when done.
60%.
of leaders worry their organization's leadership lacks a plan and vision to implement AI
What your AI does about it:
It asks three questions about your email, reports and customer queries, then ranks where AI would save you the most hours first.
56%.
of South African small businesses are seeking more support to understand how AI fits their specific operations
What your AI does about it:
You get it in writing: which jobs to hand to your AI first, what it may connect to, and what it should never touch.
Imagine it. Here it is.
Three taps. An honest ranking.
Answer three quick questions about how your business handles email, reports and customer questions today. The radar fills in, and the AI ranks where it would save the most hours first.
How do you handle email today?
How do your reports get made?
How do customer questions get answered?
Inside a consulting day with us
Six lines of work.
How a consulting engagement is shaped
Four formats. One fits.
Three calls where the honest read changed the outcome
How the honest read paid off.
Logistics group · 38% AWS savings
30-day auditMid-market freight company · 200 staff
What was on the table
Five years of AWS cruft: idle reserved instances, abandoned dev environments, no tagging strategy.
Where it landed
Spend down 38% after an 8-week audit, with zero functionality lost and alerts stopping it creeping back.
Retail acquisition · diligence saved the deal
Diligence sprintPE firm acquiring a SA retailer
What was on the table
The seller's tech file claimed a clean handover. Diligence found a 14-year-old AS400 and one engineer holding the keys.
Where it landed
The deal was restructured: 18% off the asking price plus a 6-month transition contract for that engineer.
SaaS founder · CIO before the Series B
Fractional CIOB2B SaaS · 11 engineers
What was on the table
A founder-led team with no CTO, and investors wanting a maturity story before the next round.
Where it landed
A board-ready governance pack, a closed security audit and vendor consolidation. The round closed at target.
How a consulting engagement runs
Five movements. Then we leave.
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.
IT consulting and AI readiness: questions owners ask
How do you decide where AI would help a business first?
We look at how you handle email, reporting and customer questions today, and rank each one by how many hours an AI would save. The highest-gap area goes first.
What does an IT consulting engagement cost in South Africa?
A 30-day audit is fixed scope and fixed price, agreed before we start. Fractional CIO work is billed monthly for two to four days a month.
Are you paid by software vendors for what you recommend?
No. We're paid by you alone, so a recommendation isn't tied to a commission. If open source or a smaller vendor fits better, that's what we say.
What's the difference between an audit and a fractional CIO?
An audit is a fixed-scope report: findings, options, a recommended call. A fractional CIO is ongoing exec-level oversight: board reporting, vendor negotiation, hiring, month after month.
Do you help with technical due diligence before an acquisition?
Yes. We read the contracts, audit the stack and talk to the team before the deal closes, so the buyer knows what they're actually getting.
Related services: analytics, your own AI operating system, cybersecurity and training.
Built for: financial services, manufacturing, professional services and IT departments.