AI automation · South Africa

Systems that do the work.Audit-ready documentation to prove it.

Join the businesses turning manual work into systems that run themselves.

The flagship

Automated expiry tracking for the documents your business trades on.

Certificates, licences, permits and staff certifications, tracked in one register. Escalating reminders long before every date, and a record of who was told and when. So when the audit comes, you already have the answer.

Watch the register catch an expiry →
Compliance registerlive
COIDA letter of good standing14 Oct 2026on track
Operating licence · NL 4421902 Sep 202636 days
PrDP · S. Dlamini08 Aug 202611 days
Audit trail
28 Jul 06:00 · reminder sent · ops manager + MD · delivered
Where businesses start

Three ways businesses start with us

Each one replaces a process that today depends on somebody remembering.

Could an expired document cost you a tender, a site, or your licence to operate?

The 14-Day Compliance Install

Every expiring document in your business on one register in 14 days, reminders that escalate to the boss, and a monthly audit trail you can hand to anyone who asks.

See it working

Is your front desk on the phone while patients wait, and closed when they call at night?

The 10-Day WhatsApp Front Desk

Patients book, reschedule and cancel in a WhatsApp chat, any hour, straight into your calendar. Built, live, and running in a real practice today.

How it works

Do you only find out a learner's file is incomplete when the moderator does?

The Academy Operating System

Every learner, document and certificate tracked from intake to certification, with gaps visible before the moderation visit, not during it.

See the system
The cost of one missed date

Right now those dates live in Excel. And in one person's memory.

When that person goes on leave, resigns, or simply has a busy week, this is what a single missed date looks like.

expiry_dates_FINAL_v3.xlsxLast opened 4 months ago
BBBEE Certificate14/11/2026
Operating Licence GP 44-10203/09/2026
COIDA Letter of Good StandingEXPIRED 12/06
PrDP · B. Sithole27/07/2026
First Aid Level 1 · T. Naidoo??
Kept up to date by one person. Checked when someone remembers.
R500 000+

The tender you can't bid on

A lapsed BBBEE certificate or tax clearance disqualifies your submission outright. Nobody phones to warn you. You find out when the tender closes.

Weeks of blocked revenue

The site you're barred from

An expired COIDA letter of good standing can keep your team off a client site and hold up payment until it's reinstated.

A fleet standing still

The licence that grounds a vehicle

An expired operating licence risks impoundment and puts you in breach of the contracts that vehicle serves.

A repudiated claim

The permit nobody checked

A driver on an expired PrDP is illegal on the road. If something goes wrong, your insurer can walk away from the claim.

None of these need new software to prevent. They need something that never forgets, never goes on leave, and writes down everything it does.

How it works

Three things, running every day, without anyone remembering to do them.

Step 1

Your register builds itself

Send us the spreadsheet you already keep, or let staff photograph certificates and upload them. Anything that can't be read clearly is flagged by name and never guessed.

Step 2

Reminders that escalate

Alerts go out 90, 60, 30, 14, 7 and 1 day before anything expires. The urgent ones copy in the boss. Renew an item and the ladder resets itself for the new date.

Step 3

The audit answer

A monthly report of every item, every alert, who was told and when. When the auditor asks who knew what and when, this is what you hand over.

To be clear about what this is: Foundry automates the tracking and the alerting. Your team stays responsible for the renewals and the decisions. We make sure nothing slips past unseen.

Live demo

Watch one certificate travel the whole pipeline.

Enter a real expiry date from your business and see the register entry, the full reminder ladder, and the reminder email itself. Nothing you type is stored or sent anywhere.

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Who this is for

We'd rather lose the wrong client than disappoint the right one.

This is not for you if

  • You want a chatbot for your website
  • You need e-commerce or online store automation
  • You want content generated at volume
  • Your business is outside South Africa
  • You're after the cheapest templated tool on the market

This is for you if

  • You run a South African business, from one person to 200 and more
  • Certificates, licences, permits or audits are part of your world
  • One person currently owns the tracking, in a spreadsheet
  • A missed date costs you tenders, site access or fines
  • You want a few things done properly, not many things done cheaply
Melissa, founder of Foundry Digital AI
The person behind it

Built by an operator, not a vendor.

Foundry is run by Melissa. Before building automation, she spent more than twenty years inside the operations, supply chain and compliance teams of real South African businesses. She has been the person responsible for the spreadsheet with the dates in it. She knows exactly how it slips.

Foundry is deliberately small. A few clients, deep engagement, and one person who knows your business answering the phone. Every system is built around how South African regulated industries actually operate, not adapted from an overseas template.

20+ years in SA operations SABMiller Estée Lauder Pep Stores
Running right now

What's running and what's being built.

Live demo

Compliance register

The system on this page, running against a demo company. Try it with a real date from your business and watch the reminder ladder build.

Try it yourself
In production

WhatsApp booking agent

Taking bookings around the clock for health practices. Appointments, reminders and rescheduling, handled on WhatsApp.

Live

Resident maintenance tracker

WhatsApp intake, automatic follow-ups and a live dashboard for a sectional title scheme. Nothing reported ever goes quiet.

In build

Training content converter

Turns a training provider's PDF manuals into interactive eLearning modules through a chat interface. Built multi-tenant from day one.

In build

Recruitment agent

Screens CVs against live job specs, books interviews and drafts placement emails for recruitment agencies. One pipeline from spec to placement.

That's the honest list. No invented case studies, no borrowed logos. Every figure on this page is the cost of the problem, not a claimed client result.

Pricing

One plan. Published, so you don't have to ask.

The Partner Plan
R8 500PER MONTH
+ R12 500 ONCE-OFF ONBOARDING
  • Month one: your compliance register, built and running
  • One new automated workflow every month after that
  • Hosting, maintenance and support included
  • A monthly report showing what the system did and what it saved
  • Direct access to the person who built it

Three-month minimum. A standard workflow means a single trigger with up to two integrations, delivered within five business days. Complex builds are scoped separately for partners.

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What expires in your business?

A free 30-minute call. You talk, we map what expires and who tracks it, and you get an honest answer about whether this fits.

Book a free discovery call