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SaaS · PowerWeb by Sitect

AI builds your website. AI talks to your customers.

Describe your business and PowerWeb's AI generates your full website and a chatbot trained on your services — live in under an hour. Connect your business database later and AI converses from your live data.

Live in < 1 hour · from conversation 5 SA languages · en · af · zu · xh · st .co.za domain + SA hosting
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I run Kasi Roastery in Centurion, we roast Ethiopian and Kenyan single-origin coffee. Sell online and have a small shopfront.
PW
Got it. I'll build you a coffee-shop site with online ordering, our-coffees showcase, find-us map, and a chatbot for customer questions. Generating...
Make it warm and earthy, not too corporate
PW
Palette: warm browns, cream, brand-blue accents. Vibe: artisan + welcoming. Building...
Generating website4 / 8 sections
Add a wholesale page for cafés...
kasiroastery.co.za
Live
Pretoria · Centurion
Kasi Roastery

SA-roasted single-origin coffee · Ethiopia · Kenya · House Blend

Shop our coffee Visit shop
Ethiopia
Sidamo
R285
Kenya
Kirinyaga
R310
House
Blend
R225
PW
Kasi Roastery Chat Hi! Ask me about our coffees, brewing tips or wholesale orders.
AI generates full site
Chatbot trained on your biz
Live in < 1 hour
DB connection · Q3 2026
The SA SME website problem

Most SA businesses are stuck without a real web presence

Most SA SMEs either don't have a website or have an outdated one nobody updates. Hiring a freelancer takes weeks and rands. Doing it themselves on Wix or Squarespace is hours of fiddling for a generic result that still doesn't have a chatbot. And the moment something changes — a new service, a price update, a new opening — the website is wrong again.

Cost 01

"We don't have a website at all"

Roughly half of SA SMEs operate without a real website. Customers Google your business, find nothing, and trust drops. Meanwhile competitors with a basic page win the click.

What it costs: customers you'll never know you lost — they Googled, found nothing, and called someone else.
Cost 02

"Our site is from 2019 and nobody updates it"

You paid a freelancer years ago. Then their email stopped working. Now prices are wrong, services are wrong, opening hours are wrong — and you can't log into the CMS. The site is actively hurting trust.

What it costs: every visitor sees outdated info and quietly assumes the business is the same.
Cost 03

"A freelancer wants R25k and 6 weeks"

The quote arrives. The deposit gets paid. Three weeks later there's still nothing live. By month two you've forgotten what was meant to be on it. By month three you don't have a chatbot, just a static brochure.

What it costs: rands, time, and the second-most-common SA founder complaint — "this should have been faster."
Cost 04

"Wix is hours of fiddling for a generic result"

You try Wix or Squarespace. The drag-drop is OK. You spend a weekend. The site looks like every other Wix site and there's no chatbot, no SA-specific support, and updates still feel like manual labour every time.

What it costs: a whole weekend gone, a generic result, and no AI helping you when something changes.
How PowerWeb works

From a 5-minute conversation to live website + working chatbot

No drag-drop. No template hunting. No CMS admin to log into. Just a conversation with the AI — describe your business, and a full site appears.

1

Tell the AI about your business

Type or talk — what you do, who you serve, what makes you different, what tone you want. 5 minutes.

Step 1
2

AI generates site + chatbot

Hero, services, about, pricing, contact, blog, FAQ — and a chatbot trained on your services. ~45 seconds.

Step 2
3

Tweak conversationally

"Make the about page more family-owned." "Add a wholesale page." "Change the green to navy." Done.

Step 3
4

Go live with .co.za

Connect your .co.za domain (or buy through us), publish — your website + chatbot are live on SA hosting.

Step 4
What the AI builds for you

Every section a real SA business needs — generated, not templated

Each section is written from your conversation, not pulled from a template library. Same builder, but every Kasi Roastery looks different from every Bokamoso Health.

Hero section

Punchy headline, sub-copy, two CTAs — written from your business pitch.

Services / Products

Grid of what you offer with icons and descriptions, drawn from your services list.

About

Your story written in your voice — family-owned, mission, where you're based.

Pricing

Tiered pricing tables in ZAR or POA — formatted clean and conversion-friendly.

FAQ

Accordion FAQ with the questions your customers actually ask, generated from your services.

Contact

Contact form, address, map, phone, WhatsApp link — wired up to your inbox + WhatsApp.

Blog

Blog with categories, post template, and the AI can draft your first 5 posts on request.

Booking widget

Slots, services, durations, prices. Customers book themselves; you get the calendar event.

Product catalog

Online store with cart, Yoco checkout, stock tracking. Customers buy without leaving.

Testimonials

Quote cards with star ratings, names + roles, photo placeholders ready for real reviews.

The AI chatbot

Trained on your business from day one

Every PowerWeb site ships with an AI chatbot already trained on the same conversation that built your site. It knows what you sell, what you charge, how you work — and it never sleeps.

Answers common questions

"What are your prices?", "Where are you based?", "Do you do weddings?" — all answered from your services, 24/7.

Handles bookings

The chatbot can take bookings end-to-end — service, date, time, contact details, confirmation email + WhatsApp message.

Qualifies leads

Captures budget, timeline, fit signals — then routes hot leads straight to your WhatsApp with a summary.

Captures emails

For visitors who aren't ready to buy, the chatbot offers a follow-up — and your email list grows on autopilot.

Deploys to WhatsApp

One toggle — your same chatbot now answers on WhatsApp Business, Instagram and Facebook Messenger too.

Connects to your database

The killer feature — plug in your live inventory, schedule or pricing data and the chatbot answers from real business state. "Do you have size 9?" — yes/no, instantly.

Updates by conversation

You never log into a CMS. You just talk to the AI.

Every change — content, design, structure, language — is a chat message. The AI applies it and shows you the diff. No more "I can't find where to edit that."

YouAdd a Pricing page with three tiers — Basic, Standard, Premium.
PWDone — added /pricing with three tiers, R-pricing, FAQ section underneath. Preview live.
YouChange the about section to focus on family ownership and 12 years of experience.
PWRewritten — leads with "Family-owned since 2014" and includes a quote from the founder. Preview live.
YouMake the brand colour navy instead of green.
PWSwapped — accent is now #1B2D6B, contrast checked across all 8 pages. Preview live.
YouTranslate the homepage to Afrikaans.
PWAfrikaans version live at /af. Added a language switcher in the top-right. Both languages indexed for SEO.
YouAdd a wholesale page for cafés ordering 5kg+ with a quote form.
PWAdded /wholesale with bulk-pricing copy, a 6-field quote form, and routing to your wholesale@ inbox.
YouThe hero feels corporate — make it warmer and more story-driven.
PWRewritten — new headline "Coffee that tastes like home" with a softer sub-copy. Two variants for you to pick.
YouTrain the chatbot to handle wholesale enquiries differently from retail.
PWAdded routing — chatbot now asks "Are you ordering for yourself or for a café?" and routes accordingly.
YouAdd our Instagram feed to the bottom of the homepage.
PWConnected your @kasiroastery account — last 6 posts now showing above the footer.
Built for South Africa

The defaults are SA-first, not American-first

PowerWeb assumes you're an SA business — .co.za domains, SA hosting on Cape Town, POPIA-ready privacy notices, SA payment rails, SA language support. None of that is an "international expansion" pack.

.co.za included

We register and manage your .co.za domain for you — included in Pro and Business plans. No DNS faff, no separate domain registrar.

SA hosting

Hosted on AWS af-south-1 (Cape Town) — your visitors get sub-50ms response times instead of cross-Atlantic 300ms+ delays.

POPIA-ready

Auto-generated privacy notice, cookie consent banner, data-request endpoint, retention policy template — POPIA-aligned out of the box.

Multi-language

Translate any page conversationally — your site can speak the languages your customers actually speak.

ENAFZUXHST

SA payment rails

Yoco subscriptions for your monthly PowerWeb plan. Your customers pay via Yoco / Payfast / Peach on your store. No Stripe-only nonsense.

SA support hours

Real humans on chat + email Mon–Fri 08:00–17:00 SAST. Pretoria-based, English / Afrikaans / Zulu spoken. No US-timezone wait.

Under the hood

The technology choices behind PowerWeb

Mature, well-supported, mainstream pieces — no exotic dependencies. Your team or any competent agency can pick this up tomorrow.

LV Laravel 12 Backend API · PHP 8.2
V3 Vue 3 / Nuxt Frontend · SSR
AI OpenAI GPT-4o Site generation + chat
AN Anthropic Claude Long-context reasoning
PC Pinecone vector store RAG · knowledge base
MS MySQL Primary datastore
AW AWS af-south-1 Cape Town hosting
CF Cloudflare CDN · DDoS · DNS
Plays nicely with

Connect the channels and tools you already use

One toggle each — no wiring, no webhooks, no developer needed. The AI handles the connection and the chatbot answers across all of them.

WhatsApp Business Deploy chatbot
Instagram Graph API + DMs
Facebook Messenger Page replies + DMs
OpenAI GPT-4o · embeddings
Anthropic Claude reasoning
Cloudflare CDN · DNS · DDoS
Yoco SA card subscriptions
Email inbox Form replies routed
PowerWeb plans — ZAR, ex VAT

From solo SME to multi-site operator

Monthly billing via Yoco. Cancel any time, your site exports as static HTML on the way out. 7-day free trial on every plan.

Starter

Solo founders & side hustles
R149 / month
7-day free trial
  • 1 website
  • AI site generation
  • Basic chatbot (web)
  • SA hosting · CDN
  • powerweb.co.za subdomain
  • 500 chat messages / mo
Start free trial

Business

Multi-site operators & franchises
R899 / month
7-day free trial
  • Everything in Pro, plus:
  • 10 websites · custom domains
  • 25 000 chat messages / mo
  • Database connection (Q3 2026)
  • Multi-language sites
  • Priority SA support
Start free trial

Enterprise

Brands, agencies, franchise groups
POA
Annual contract
  • Everything in Business, plus:
  • Unlimited websites
  • White-label option
  • Dedicated AI training
  • SSO · audit log · POPIA DPA
  • Account manager · SLA
Talk to sales
FAQ

The questions SA founders ask first

Ownership, export, editing, languages, custom domains, AI accuracy, POPIA, and the database-connection roadmap.

Do I own the website the AI builds?
Yes — fully. You own the content, the brand assets, the chatbot's training data, and your customer data. On the Business and Enterprise plans you can also export the entire site as static HTML/CSS/JS at any time and host it elsewhere if you choose. The AI generates; you own.
Can I export the site if I leave?
Yes. One-click export to static HTML on Pro and above — you get a ZIP with the full site, ready to host on any provider. On Starter the export is available on request. We won't hold your site hostage.
Can I edit the site directly without using the AI?
Yes. Every PowerWeb site has a classic block editor underneath the AI layer — so if you'd rather drag, type, and click for a specific change, that's there too. The AI is the default because it's faster, but you're never forced into it.
Which SA languages does PowerWeb support?
English, Afrikaans, isiZulu, isiXhosa and Sesotho are first-class supported on Pro and above — translations are conversational ("translate to Afrikaans") and the chatbot speaks the visitor's language automatically. Setswana, Sepedi, Tshivenda and Xitsonga are on the roadmap for Q4 2026.
Can I use my own .co.za domain?
Absolutely. On Starter you can connect any domain you already own (free) — we walk you through the DNS. On Pro and Business we include a fresh .co.za registration as part of the plan, managed by us so you never deal with the registrar.
What if the AI hallucinates information about my business?
We constrain it tightly. The AI is only allowed to reference what you told it — it can't make up services, prices, or claims. If it doesn't know something, the chatbot says "let me get someone to confirm" and routes the question to your WhatsApp instead of guessing. You can review every chatbot conversation in the dashboard.
Is PowerWeb POPIA-compliant?
PowerWeb is POPIA-aligned by default: auto-generated privacy notice, cookie consent banner, data-request endpoint, and a retention policy template you can customise. We host your data on AWS af-south-1 (Cape Town) — POPI Act data-residency-friendly. Enterprise customers get a signed Data Processing Agreement (DPA).
When does the database-connection feature ship?
Database connection — the chatbot answering from your live inventory, schedule, prices or stock — is on the roadmap for Q3 2026. It's the biggest single feature on our roadmap because it turns the chatbot from "smart FAQ" into a real customer-service agent. Business and Enterprise plans get it included; Pro plans can add it as a paid module.

Tell the AI about your business — walk away with a live website in under an hour.

Free 7-day trial on every plan. No credit card to start. If you don't have a live website at the end of the hour, we'll refund you and apologise.