A 2–3 week, senior-led engagement that turns "we should probably do AI" into a costed, prioritised, 12-month delivery roadmap — written for South African businesses, in ZAR, POPIA-aware, and tied to outcomes your CFO will sign off on.
If you've spent 6 months on a "GenAI proof of concept" that nobody uses, you're not alone. Here's the pattern we see almost every time.
Someone said "let's use ChatGPT" before anyone knew which P&L line it was supposed to move. POCs win demo day; they don't survive contact with reality.
The AI company you're talking to has one hammer — and surprise, your business is a nail. A vendor-neutral roadmap doesn't exist if your strategist sells you the tool.
SA businesses have different unit economics, different data sources, and POPIA. A roadmap built on Stanford case studies isn't a roadmap — it's a wish list.
No "we'll share findings verbally". Every output is documented, costed, and shareable with your board the next day.
Every use case mapped to a P&L outcome, scored on impact × effort × time-to-value × strategic fit, and ranked. Usually 12–20 candidates surface in discovery.
Phased build cadence with dependencies, owners, vendor decisions, and budget bands. Designed so each quarter can be defunded independently if priorities shift.
Spreadsheet you can poke. Inputs: licensing, build cost, ops cost, expected uplift. Outputs: 12-month and 24-month NPV. CFO-ready.
For each top-3 use case: a recommended LLM provider, infra pattern, integration layer, and data-residency plan. We're not on commission from any of them.
Hallucinations, data leakage, vendor lock-in, model deprecation, POPIA Section 71 — each risk with mitigation, owner and trigger.
The deck you'll actually present to your board or exco — pre-built, with talking notes. We can present it with you for an additional half-day if you want backup.
You'll spend roughly 8 hours of stakeholder time across the whole engagement. We do the heavy lifting; you bring context.
Six 45-min interviews with leaders across ops, sales, finance, support. We map the value chain and find the friction.
In-person or remote — your team + ours, whiteboard, espresso. We surface, score and prioritise every viable use case.
We write up the artefacts. You get a draft on Tuesday, a revision call on Thursday, final delivery Friday.
Every candidate use case is rated on four dimensions, then plotted on the opportunity matrix. The maths is on paper — you can challenge or change any input. Bring your CFO.
Quantified P&L move — revenue uplift, cost saved, hours freed. Always in ZAR.
Do you have the data, the skills, the integrations? Honest read, not aspirational.
Weeks to first measurable result. We prioritise things that earn quick credibility.
Does this compound? Or is it a one-shot trick that doesn't unlock the next opportunity?
Higher score = quicker quadrant placement. We don't auto-prioritise — you make the final call after we've walked through the maths.
Anonymised version of a roadmap we produced for a Gauteng-based logistics SME (R85m turnover). Names changed, shape preserved.
We're not on commission from any of these — we'll recommend what fits your team, your data residency rules, and your wallet.
Aggregated across recent engagements. Your numbers will be your numbers — the workshop is what gets you a realistic estimate of yours.
No "from R…", no scope creep. The workshop is one engagement, one price, one deliverable bundle. If you need a follow-up build, that's quoted separately and you're under no obligation to use us.
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One discovery call (30 min). Written quote in 24 hours. Kick-off as early as next week. Whether you start with us or not, you'll leave the call with three actions you can take this quarter.