# AI Assistant — aiassistant.co.za

> AI agency for self-improving agents, automation, and training. A business unit of MComm Technologies (Pty) Ltd, licensed WASP since 2013. We build self-improving AI agent systems using Hermes Agent, MCP, Ollama, Docker, and open-source tools.

## Pages

- [Home](https://aiassistant.co.za/): AI agency overview, services, methodology, consulting pricing, training, contact
- [About](https://aiassistant.co.za/about.php): Company background, MComm Technologies parent, differentiators, methodology summary
- [Corporate Training](https://aiassistant.co.za/corporate-training.php): 2-5 day training for enterprise teams. Modules, formats, pricing, booking
- [Portfolio](https://aiassistant.co.za/portfolio.php): Production case studies across fintech, healthcare, e-commerce, manufacturing, agency, professional services, retail, education, logistics
- [Use Cases](https://aiassistant.co.za/use-cases.php): Industry-specific AI agent use cases. Six verticals with concrete agents and the outcomes they unlock.
  Industries & example agents (see the page for the full list of agents per vertical):
  - Fintech & Financial Services — KYC/AML acceleration, fraud signal triage, client-onboarding summaries, debt-counselling automation.
  - Healthcare & Pharma — patient-intake summarisation, prior-auth letter drafting, clinical-trial matching, claims follow-up.
  - E-commerce & Retail — catalog enrichment, returns triage, review-sentiment labelling, dynamic merchandising briefs.
  - Professional Services — document-first-draft, client-intake questionnaires, deadline and engagement-letter tracking.
  - Manufacturing & Logistics — quality-control image triage, supplier-email triage, shipment-exception handling.
  - Agencies & Marketing Teams — brief-to-first-draft creative, multi-channel reporting, lead-to-meeting handoff.
  Featured workflow (top of page): "Snap a business card. Get a sales brief." — agent OCR extracts the contact, updates CRM, researches the prospect, and produces a follow-up brief in minutes, not days.
- [Insights / Blog](https://aiassistant.co.za/blog.php): Articles on agent development, MCP, multi-agent systems, security
- [Pricing](https://aiassistant.co.za/pricing.php): Pricing includes Business Consulting (from $895 setup + $275/month) and standalone corporate training (from $460/delegate)
- [Contact](https://aiassistant.co.za/contact.php): Contact form and details
- [Terms](https://aiassistant.co.za/terms.php): Terms and conditions
- [POPIA](https://aiassistant.co.za/popia.php): South African data protection compliance

## Key Facts

- Featured homepage use case: sales automation from a business card. Agent OCR extracts contact details, updates CRM, researches the prospect, and produces follow-up insights.
- Core positioning: self-improving agents that get smarter every day through ongoing skill upgrades, feedback loops, and real operational usage.
- Corporate training: per-delegate pricing — $460 (2-day), $710 (3-day), $1,140 (5-day) per delegate. Minimum 4 delegates per booking. Separate from consulting.
- Contact: sales@aiassistant.co.za, +27 (0)10 140 1490
- Offices: Johannesburg, Cape Town, South Africa
- Parent: MComm Technologies (Pty) Ltd — ICASA ECS 1777/CECS/JAN/2021, ECNS 1777/CECNS/JAN/2021

## Tech Stack

Hermes Agent, MCP (Model Context Protocol), Ollama, OpenRouter, Docker, Telegram, Supabase, Obsidian RAG, GitHub CLI, ComfyUI

## Methodology (5 phases)

1. Discovery — workflow audit, opportunity map
2. Design — architecture, model selection (Artificial Analysis benchmarks)
3. Build — 1-week sprints, custom skills, MCP servers, multi-agent
4. Deploy — Docker/VPS, free cloud hosting, monitoring
5. Optimise — performance tuning, cost optimisation, handoff

## Differentiation

- Production over demos
- Open-source first, no vendor lock-in
- Free cloud hosting with every build
- Multi-agent expertise
- Security baked in (POPIA/GDPR, jailbreak defence)
- Team training included

- Launch vs Business: Launch is 1 focused workflow + light automation + 2h/month; Business is up to 3 connected workflows + custom skills/integrations + 4h/month + priority support.
- Business Consulting packages: Launch ($895 setup + $275/month, 2h/month), Business ($1,820 setup + $585/month, 4h/month), Operations ($3,050 setup + $1,140/month, 8h/month). All include an MComm-hosted self-improving agent harness and ongoing skill upgrades from real usage.

## Use Cases (detailed)

The Use Cases page ([/use-cases.php](https://aiassistant.co.za/use-cases.php)) goes deeper
than the home page and surfaces concrete agents for each of these industries. Each agent on the
page is described in terms of the workflow it replaces, the inputs/outputs, and an outcome metric.

- **Fintech & Financial Services** — KYC and AML acceleration, fraud-signal triage, client-onboarding summaries, debt-counselling automation.
- **Healthcare & Pharma** — patient-intake summaries, prior-authorisation letter drafting, clinical-trial matching, claims follow-up.
- **E-commerce & Retail** — catalog enrichment, returns triage, review-sentiment labelling, dynamic merchandising briefs.
- **Professional Services** — document-first-draft generation, client-intake questionnaires, deadline and engagement-letter tracking.
- **Manufacturing & Logistics** — quality-control image triage, supplier-email triage, shipment-exception handling.
- **Agencies & Marketing Teams** — brief-to-first-draft creative, multi-channel reporting, lead-to-meeting handoff.

Featured (top of page): "Snap a business card. Get a sales brief." OCR extracts the contact
from a photographed card, pushes it to the CRM, researches the prospect and produces a
follow-up brief in minutes.