AI adoption for Southern African businesses
Put AI to work in your business. Keep your people in charge.
Oraclis helps mid-sized companies find where AI pays off, set it up on the systems they already use, and train their teams to use it well. Our training can count toward the B-BBEE skills-development spend you already plan for.
Based in Panorama, Cape Town · Working across South Africa
Why now
AI is already in your business. The results often aren’t.
Teams are trying AI tools on their own, but few companies have turned that into measurable savings or a plan. The gap is rarely the technology. It is knowing where to start, and having people who can use it well.
52%
of South African small businesses use AI tools daily or weekly.
Xero, State of South African Small Business 2026
56%
want help understanding how AI applies to their own operations.
Xero, State of South African Small Business 2026
50%
of Western Cape businesses rate education and skills a serious constraint, rising to 73% of large firms.
Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Business Environment Survey 2026
What we do
Four ways we help
Start with a fixed-price sprint, then build, run and train at your own pace. Each step stands on its own.
01
AI Readiness Sprint
In three weeks, we map your processes, find the three uses of AI with the clearest payback, check your data and POPIA position, and hand you a 90-day plan.
02
Build
We set up the chosen tools and automations inside software you already pay for, such as Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Xero or Sage, and test them with your team.
03
Run
A monthly service that keeps your AI tools working, improves them every month and reports the time and money they save.
04
AI Academy
Practical courses for staff and leaders, built around your own tools and tasks, with the records your skills-development file needs.
Skills funding
Pay for AI skills from the budget you already have
Larger companies aim to spend 6% of their leviable payroll on skills development to earn full points on the B-BBEE scorecard, and every employer with a payroll above R500 000 pays the skills development levy. Our Academy is designed to fit that spend.
What you get from us
- Courses planned into your Workplace Skills Plan before the 30 April deadline
- Attendance and assessment records for your Annual Training Report and B-BBEE file
- A route to accredited occupational qualifications for staff who want to go further
Your verification agency decides how training is recognised on your scorecard. We give you the records it needs.
Who we work with
Built for established companies with 50 to 500 people
Big enough to feel the cost of manual work, too small to run an in-house AI team. We know these industries best:
Hospitality, tourism and events
Bookings and enquiries, guest communication, rostering, event logistics and reporting.
Manufacturing and agri-processing
Production planning, quality records, maintenance, procurement and compliance paperwork.
Professional services
Proposals, document review, client onboarding and finding knowledge fast.
Who you’ll work with
Experience you can lean on
Oraclis is led by Victor Kotze, who has spent more than 35 years putting technology to work in South African businesses: telecoms and process control, the first integrated ERP system at South Africa’s largest cement producer, Africa’s first cellular-based tracking service, and event technology for the hospitality sector.
He is also a management coach and futures practitioner, which is why every Oraclis project pays as much attention to people as it does to tools.
Responsible by design
AI you can explain to your board
Your data stays yours
We work inside your own systems wherever possible and sign a POPIA operator agreement before we touch personal information.
People stay accountable
AI drafts, sorts and suggests. Your team checks and decides, and every project includes an AI usage policy.
Honest advice
If AI isn’t the right answer for a problem, we’ll tell you, and we report results as measured.
Find out where AI will pay off in your business
Book a free 30-minute call. We’ll ask about your operations and tell you plainly whether a Readiness Sprint makes sense.