Industrial Intelligence · Steel & Fabrication
AI for steel & fabrication businesses in South Africa.
Quoting from fabrication drawings. Cutting lists that generate themselves. Mill certificates captured, offcuts tracked. We automate the paperwork standing between your workshop and its margin.
The work is world-class.
The paperwork is from 1997.
The hidden machinery is always the same: spreadsheets, paper, WhatsApp threads, and your most experienced people doing data entry. In steel & fabrication, it looks like this —
Every quote starts with an estimator reading drawings by hand — and leaves the building days after the enquiry did.
Cutting lists are rebuilt manually for every job, from the same drawings someone has already read once.
Mill certificates arrive as paper and PDFs, then get retyped into the job file for traceability.
Offcuts and stock live in someone's head, or in a spreadsheet nobody fully trusts.
This is not a technology problem. It's a margin problem. And it is now solvable.
Applied Intelligence
What we automate for steel & fabrication
Quoting from drawings
Fabrication drawings and specs in, priced quotes out — reviewed and approved by your estimator, sent in minutes instead of days.
Cutting-list generation
Cutting lists generated from the same drawings that produced the quote. Read once, used everywhere.
Mill certificate capture
Certificates captured and filed against the job automatically — full traceability without the retyping.
Offcut & stock tracking
A live record of what's on the floor, so estimates draw on material you already own.
Diagnose first.
Automate what pays.
Four services, one system. Month-to-month, like everything we build.
AI Ops Diagnostic
We map how your business actually runs — quoting, invoicing, job tracking, customer comms — and hand you a report that prices your admin waste in Rands and ranks what AI can eliminate. No obligation to build anything. You keep the map.
For fabricators, the diagnostic maps quoting, cutting lists, certificates and stock — and prices what each costs you per month.
Process Automation
Automated quoting from drawings and specs. Invoice and delivery-note capture. Digital job cards. Tender document processing. Follow-ups that never forget. Your team approves; the machine types.
For fabricators this usually starts with quoting from drawings, then cutting-list generation and mill certificate capture.
WhatsApp AI Assistant
Your customers already live on WhatsApp. An AI agent that quotes standard items, answers product questions, gives live job status, and hands complex conversations to a human — 24/7, in the languages your customers use.
Standard-item quotes, live job status and collection updates for the customers who already WhatsApp your estimator.
Custom AI Systems
Production planning agents. Stock forecasting. Internal copilots trained on your drawings, price lists and history. Engineered bespoke when the shelf runs out.
Offcut and stock forecasting, production planning agents, copilots trained on your drawing archive and price lists.
The Flow
From Waste to Working Capital
One process at a time, measured against a baseline. No big-bang IT project. No year of workshops.
Diagnostic
We map your processes and price the waste. One report, everything in Rands.
Pilot
We automate the single highest-value process first. Live in weeks, not quarters.
Proof
We measure hours recovered against a baseline. If the numbers don't hold, you cancel. Month-to-month.
Scale
Automation by automation, until the admin runs itself and your people run the business.
Straight Answers
The objections, answered
“Our work is too specialised for AI.”
Good. Specialised is exactly where generic software fails and bespoke systems win. We build against your actual documents, price lists and processes — nothing off a shelf.
“My team isn't technical.”
If they can use WhatsApp, they can use what we build. The machine adapts to your people, not the reverse.
“We've been burned by IT projects before.”
So has everyone. That's why there are no lock-ins, no year-long contracts, and no invoice before you've seen the diagnostic. We've operated on month-to-month terms since 2017 for a reason: the work has to justify itself every month.
“What about our data?”
Your price lists, drawings and customer records stay yours, hosted on infrastructure we control in enterprise-grade environments. Nothing trains public models.
Building Legends
Find out what your admin actually costs.
One diagnostic. Every process mapped. Every Rand of waste priced.
START A DIAGNOSTIC