Before asking what AI can do, ask what your people need.

Your business problem comes first. Technology comes second. It starts with understanding what’s actually slowing your team down — then turning that understanding into practical AI and Microsoft solutions, ready to build.

Human understanding. Intelligent design.

The work

Empathetic AI & solution consulting

This work sits between business, people and technology. The goal is to understand your business from the perspective of the people using your processes every day, find the opportunities hidden in the friction, and turn them into implementation-ready solution designs.

The focus is the thinking, design and architecture — the build stays with your team.

Where it helps:

The philosophy

Start with empathy

Technology is easy to focus on. People are harder. Before recommending an agent, an automation or an app, these are the questions worth asking:

What is frustrating your employees?
What takes too long?
What information can’t people find?
Where are people repeating the same work?
What are people doing by hand because “that’s just how we’ve always done it”?
What would make their working day genuinely easier?

These questions reveal better opportunities than simply asking “where could AI be used?” The goal isn’t to find somewhere to put AI. The goal is to find a real problem where AI can create meaningful value.

The process

From a conversation to a build-ready design

I

Listen

It starts with a conversation about your people, your processes and the challenges you feel. You bring the problem; the questions do the rest. No technical knowledge required.

II

Discover

Mapping the current process surfaces the real problem beneath the symptoms — bottlenecks, repetition, information gaps, and where automation or AI could genuinely help.

III

Ideate

Then comes what could solve it — Copilot, Copilot Studio, agents, Power Automate, Power Apps, SharePoint, Dataverse … or sometimes a simpler process and no new technology at all.

IV

Design

Once the direction is agreed, the concept becomes structured documents: functional requirements, solution design, and a high-level architecture your team can act on.

V

Handover

You leave with a clear problem definition, a defined solution, a documented architecture and a practical roadmap — ready for your developers, IT team or implementation partner.

FRD

Functional requirements, user journeys, business rules, roles and acceptance criteria.

SDD

Functional and technical design, components, integrations and implementation approach.

Architecture

How the Microsoft, AI and business components fit together at a high level.

AI Framework

Opportunities, data, agents, automation, governance, human oversight and scalability.

What makes this different

It doesn’t start with technology.
It starts with people.

Most AI consulting begins with “here’s what the technology can do.”

The approach begins with “what are your people struggling with?” — and works backwards from there.

People
What are they experiencing?
Problems
What’s causing the friction?
Opportunities
What could be improved?
Solutions
What could technology do?
Architecture
How should the solution work?
Implementation
How can your team build it?

Technology should serve your business — not the other way around.

Services & pricing

Ways to work together

Every engagement ends with something your team can act on. Choose the depth that fits where you are.

Indicative pricing, shown in your selected currency.

Discovery Session

AI Discovery Session

R4 000

A focused 90-minute session to uncover where AI or automation could create value.

  • 90-minute discovery session
  • Business problem exploration
  • Initial AI / automation opportunities
  • Recommendations
DeliverableWritten summary of findings

Best for teams who know something needs to improve but don’t know where to start.

Assessment

AI Opportunity Assessment

From R12 000

A structured assessment of your processes to identify practical, prioritised opportunities.

  • Discovery workshop
  • Current-state & pain-point analysis
  • AI & automation opportunities
  • Prioritisation & recommendations
DeliverableOpportunity & Recommendations Report

Best for finding the highest-value places to begin.

Blueprint

AI Solution Blueprint

From R24 000

For teams with a problem or idea who need to know what the solution should look like.

  • Requirements analysis & process mapping
  • Solution ideation
  • Microsoft / AI component recommendations
  • Security & governance considerations
DeliverablesFRD + SDD + Architecture

Best for turning a known idea into a defined design.

Complete

Complete AI Solution Design

From R40 000

A full discovery-to-design engagement, so the solution is fully defined before development begins.

  • Business problem analysis
  • Process mapping & AI opportunity assessment
  • Functional requirements & solution design
  • Architecture, AI framework & roadmap
  • Developer / implementation handover
DeliverablesFRD + SDD + Architecture + AI Framework + Roadmap

Best for going straight into a build with confidence.

AI Advisory Retainer

From R16 000 / month

Ongoing strategic support — opportunity discussions, solution and architecture reviews, Copilot & agent strategy, vendor and developer review, and monthly advisory sessions. No development commitment required.

Need something different?

Tailored

Not every business fits a package. If you have a specific problem, project or AI idea, your engagement is shaped around what you actually need. Share what you’re trying to solve — the next step becomes clear from there.

Who it’s for

Teams this works well for

Small & medium businesses

You know your business intimately, but you don’t have an internal AI architect or solution consultant.

Growing organisations

You’re beginning to explore AI and need help turning ideas into a structured strategy.

Microsoft 365 organisations

You already use Microsoft 365, SharePoint or Power Platform, and want to see how AI fits the ecosystem you have.

Teams with internal developers

You have people who can build the solution. You need someone to figure out what they should build.

Organisations with an AI idea

You’ve heard about Copilot, agents and automation — you just aren’t sure what would actually be useful.

In practice

What it looks like in practice

Two everyday problems — and the services that would meet them.

Use case 01 · Operations

The morning that starts with a spreadsheet

“By seven, the operations lead is already three tabs deep — messaging drivers for updates, copying statuses into a spreadsheet, forwarding the same answers to the same people. The work behind the work quietly eats the first hour of every day.”

What they need isn’t more software. It’s for the status to update itself — and to get the morning back.

Services that fit

Discovery Session Opportunity Assessment Solution Blueprint

A Power Automate and SharePoint flow that captures each update once and shows it everywhere — so no one has to chase it again.

Use case 02 · Professional services

The answer that lives in someone’s head

“A proposal is due, and the team rebuilds it almost from scratch — hunting for the latest template, re-asking the one colleague who always knows, rewriting what the firm has already written a hundred times. The knowledge exists; it just isn’t anywhere the next person can reach.”

What they need is for the firm’s own knowledge to answer back — quickly, and in their own words.

Services that fit

Discovery Session AI Opportunity Assessment Complete Solution Design

A Copilot experience over SharePoint that finds the right document in seconds — and drafts the first version from it.

Start with the problem.

You don’t need another AI tool just because everyone else is using one. You need solutions that make sense for your people, your processes and your business.