Forward-Deployed AI Engineering — ZA
Every business
can buy AI.
The edge is how
you deploy it.
We embed forward-deployed engineers in medium and enterprise businesses — taking one messy, expensive workflow at a time from audit to trusted production system, with the run logs to prove it.
Actual run log — live client deployment
The Gap
Most AI projects
die as pilots.
Ours ship.
The gap in the market isn't intelligence — it's deployment. Someone has to hold both the business context and the technical judgement, and stay until the system is trusted in production.
The Method
AI Opportunity Audit
It starts with a 10-minute call. We map your workflows, cost the manual effort, and pick the single highest-ROI target. Not ten vague ideas — one workflow worth automating.
Process Architecture & Redesign
We design the AI-native version of the workflow and define the evals, failure handling and human checkpoints before anything is built. If it can't be measured, it doesn't ship.
Production Deployment
The system goes live inside your existing stack — run logs, human-in-the-loop controls, rollback plan. Not a demo. Not a pilot. A system your team trusts.
Ongoing Optimization
We monitor eval pass rates and cost per run in production, tighten the system, and move to the next workflow. Compounding, not one-off.
The Evidence
We don't ask you to trust AI. We hand you the numbers that make trust unnecessary.
- →Run logs: every item processed, skipped or flagged
- →Eval pass rates against your real cases
- →Failure categories, mapped and handled
- →Cost per run — measured, not estimated
- →Rollback plan and human-override controls
Specimen format — every engagement ships one with real numbers
Deployments
RegTech · Financial Services
A multi-tenant compliance platform for SA financial services
FICA onboarding and sanctions screening, FAIS compliance and billing, municipal payment processing, board packs — one configurable platform serving multiple institutions, with a central automation engine running every tenant's scheduled compliance, billing and reporting jobs. Deployments are zero-touch and cryptographically signed; secrets live in a vault, never on hosts.
Blazor / .NET · Dataverse · Postgres · Azure Key Vault · Docker
Legal · E-Discovery
117 000+ mailbox items consolidated by an autonomous engine
A legal-archive consolidation with zero tolerance for silent data loss. Resumable across multi-hour runs, checkpointed per message on immutable IDs, MIME-fidelity copies that preserve original timestamps for e-discovery — and every copied, skipped or failed item accounted for in the run log.
TypeScript · Microsoft Graph · SQLite ledger
Knowledge · Search
A company's entire email history, searchable in plain English
Staff ask questions like they'd ask a colleague — the system answers with sources. Hybrid semantic-plus-keyword retrieval over the full archive, AI department classification on ingestion, and an agentic search pipeline built on infrastructure the client already ran, at near-zero added cost.
Claude · pgvector · Supabase · n8n · MS Graph
Marketing Operations
One marketer, the output of an entire team
An AI-first marketing operating system: 19 encoded expert skills, per-client agents reachable by Telegram, human approval gates before anything publishes, automated publishing to seven channels — and agents that do real business: CRM quotes and invoices with VAT, daily ad-spend reports delivered at 07:00.
Claude · Next.js · Supabase · n8n · FastAPI · Meta API · Vtiger
Regulatory Intelligence
An autonomous agent that mapped a paid alert service to its sources
We parsed a compliance team's entire regulatory-alert corpus, traced 174 alert categories back to the primary government sources — Gazette, SARS, FSCA, SARB, FIC and more — and built a self-hosted monitor of those sources with a daily digest and per-source health dashboard.
Node.js · 18 source monitors · SQLite
Accounting · SaaS
Bookkeeping where AI does the typing
Upload a PDF bank statement; AI extracts every transaction for the bookkeeper to review — then the system generates the P&L, cash flow and VAT201, and runs payroll against current SARS tables. Multi-tenant, so one bookkeeper serves many clients.
Claude · Next.js · Supabase RLS · Dinero.js
Further deployments
Where We Deploy
Finance & Compliance
FICA / KYC onboarding · sanctions screening · FAIS · billing · VAT & statutory reporting · payments
Sales & Revenue Operations
Lead response · CRM hygiene · quotes & invoicing · follow-up sequences · ad-spend reporting
Customer Ops & Communications
Email & WhatsApp triage · plain-English search over company knowledge · status updates at scale
Documents & Data
Migration with audit trails · document generation · regulatory monitoring · archive consolidation
Questions
What actually happens on the 10-minute call?+
You tell us which workflow eats the most time or money. We ask pointed questions about volume, systems and failure cost. Within a day you get a one-page audit: what we'd automate first, roughly what it saves, and how we'd prove it works. No slideware, no obligation.
How is this different from hiring an AI consultancy?+
Consultancies hand you recommendations; your team still has to build them. We embed a forward-deployed engineer who ships the system into production and is measured on run logs and eval pass rates — evidence, not advice.
Will this work with our existing systems?+
That's the point of forward deployment. We build into the tools you already run — email, ERP, CRM, accounting, WhatsApp, internal databases — rather than asking you to migrate to something new. The deployments above span Microsoft 365, Dataverse, Supabase, Vtiger, Sage, Odoo and Meta's business APIs.
What about our data and POPIA?+
Systems run in your environment under your access controls. Every action is logged, human checkpoints gate sensitive steps, and strict no-PII logging rules apply — we build compliance platforms for financial-services clients, so this is home ground.
How fast do we see something working?+
A working agent on your real workflow inside the first week of an engagement; an evaluated, production-deployed system in 30 days. See the 30-day deployment page for the checkpoint-by-checkpoint breakdown.
What does it cost?+
Engagements are scoped after the audit, priced against the manual cost of the workflow we're replacing. The audit call and one-pager are free — deliberately: we'd rather show you the ROI than assert it.
07 / The Ask
Ten minutes.
One call. We identify your highest-ROI workflow, you get the audit one-pager — whether or not we ever work together.