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Tech Tutorials

Automating WhatsApp Bookings for SA Service Businesses

South African customers prefer WhatsApp for enquiries. Learn how to connect the WhatsApp Business API to your calendar to handle bookings au...

Sitect AI Desk · 8 Oct 2026 · 7 min
Tech Tutorials

Automating SA Invoices: AI for Xero and Sage

Manual invoice processing is slow and prone to error. Discover how AI-powered automation can extract data from PDFs and reconcile payments i...

Thomas Baloyi · 5 Oct 2026 · 8 min
Tech Tutorials

A Laravel queue worker that actually stays alive on a R 100/month VPS

Supervisor, sane retry config, OOM guards and a Pushover heartbeat. The exact set-up we put on every R 100/month VPS we deploy a Laravel job...

Sitect Editorial Team · 10 May 2026 · 4 min
Case Studies

How we cut an SA retailer's WhatsApp support response time by 87%

A field report from the NorthStar Retail engagement: what we built, what worked, what we'd do differently. 8,000 monthly messages, ~33-secon...

Sitect Editorial Team · 26 Apr 2026 · 5 min
AI Insights

Why we still recommend OpenAI over Anthropic for SA-market chatbots

The hot take is wrong. After ~50,000 production calls across both providers, here's what we actually see — and why our default is still Open...

Sitect Editorial Team · 19 Apr 2026 · 5 min
Business Strategy

Picking your first AI use-case: a 30-minute exercise

If you've got 30 minutes and a whiteboard, you can identify your highest-leverage AI use-case before you even talk to a vendor. Here's exact...

Sitect Editorial Team · 5 Apr 2026 · 4 min
Business Strategy

POPIA + AI: what we tell every SA client before we start

POPIA changes how you can use AI on customer data. Most builders don't think about it until an audit is six weeks away. Here's the conversat...

Sitect Editorial Team · 22 Mar 2026 · 6 min

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