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An AI workforce for South African small businesses.
7
specialist AI agents
R349–R9,999
per month
native
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What you get
Alex — AI WhatsApp inbox & customer service
Chase — automated 5-stage debt recovery
Care — staff wellbeing check-ins
Doc — contract & invoice document intelligence
Insight — daily AI business brief & analytics
Pen — on-brand email drafting studio
Langa — AI business mentor (isiZulu)
SA payroll + EMP201 · Sage sync · valuation & cashflow
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Inside the Product
Not mockups — the live product, as it ships today.
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A South African small business runs on six to eight disconnected tools, a WhatsApp group, and a spreadsheet one person is afraid to touch. The software they are sold was built for a business in another country — it doesn’t understand load-shedding, eleven official languages, POPIA, or an economy where chasing an unpaid invoice is a survival skill.
AdminOS started from a different question. Not “what features does business software need?” but “what would it take for one founder to run a real business as if they had a whole back-office team behind them?”
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Under the Hood
For the curious and the technical — the engineering underneath, in plain sight.
132
API routes
83
database tables
7
named AI agents
~30
background jobs
One Postgres database serves every business, with row-level security on every tenant table. Isolation is enforced by the database itself — not by application code that can forget.
Seven specialist agents share one orchestrator and a single Claude calling layer — with audit logging on every call, exponential-backoff retries, and prompt-injection sanitisation as standard.
A router sends routine, high-volume work to Haiku, standard reasoning to Sonnet, and reserves Opus for premium board-packs and valuations. Per-tenant token budgets, prompt caching (~85% saved), USD→ZAR cost logging and abuse detection keep the unit economics honest.
Around thirty Inngest workflows run the business while no one is watching — a 05:00 daily brief, wellness and debt-recovery fanned out across every tenant, queues that retry and resume exactly where they left off.
Inbound messages arrive through the Meta WhatsApp Cloud API webhook with HMAC-SHA256 verification; outbound templates are localised across English, Afrikaans, isiZulu and isiXhosa.
A progressive web app with a companion Expo mobile build — because the power, and the signal, are not guaranteed.
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The Hard Parts, Solved
Alex runs the WhatsApp inbox; Chase recovers overdue invoices through a five-stage sequence; Care checks in on staff wellbeing; Doc reads contracts and invoices; Insight writes the daily brief; Pen drafts on-brand email; and Langa is an AI business mentor that speaks light in isiZulu, grounded in the tenant’s live data with a persistent memory of the business.
Contracts, invoices and statements — PDF, Word, Excel — are parsed, classified and extracted into structured data. The paperwork that used to sit in a drawer becomes something the system can actually use.
Business valuation from sector revenue and EBITDA multiples, cashflow forecasting, and a live health score — the kind of strategic instrument usually reserved for businesses that can afford a CFO.
Payroll runs, payslip generation and distribution, and EMP201 for SARS — built for South African tax reality from the first line, not retrofitted onto a foreign template.
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AdminOS replaces a six-to-eight-tool stack with one system a single person can actually run. The measure of success isn’t a feature list — it’s the founder finally stopping the work the software should have been doing all along.
It is live and multi-tenant, built to scale from a solo trader to a full team without a rebuild — the same row-level-secured foundation underneath both.
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution — in Africa
The Fourth Industrial Revolution usually arrives in Africa as someone else’s tool — priced in dollars, assuming infrastructure we don’t have. AdminOS inverts that. The automation is genuine: autonomous agents, durable workflows, document AI, valuation models. But it is built for the conditions it actually runs in — WhatsApp, because that is where South African business happens; offline-aware, because the power goes out; POPIA in the schema, not the brochure; isiZulu, because a mentor should speak your language. Not imported. Indigenised.
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Ubuntu
Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu — a person is a person through other people. A one-person business is never really one person; it is a web of customers, staff, suppliers and family. AdminOS is built to honour that web: it takes the chasing, the filing, the reconciling, so the human is freed for the human work. Technology that builds capability, not dependency. That was always the point.
Pricing
AdminOS replaces the spreadsheet-and-WhatsApp stack every South African SME is held together by — with an AI workforce. Seven specialist Claude agents do the work: Alex runs your WhatsApp inbox, Chase recovers overdue invoices through a five-stage sequence, Care checks in on staff wellbeing, Doc reads your contracts and invoices, Insight writes your daily business brief, Pen drafts your emails, and Langa is your AI business mentor — speaking light in isiZulu. Underneath sits full SA payroll with EMP201, Sage accounting sync, business valuation and cashflow forecasting, an AI academy, bookings, loyalty and more — multi-tenant, WhatsApp-native, and POPIA-compliant. Plans from R349 to R9,999 a month.
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