AI AUTOMATION STUDIO · CAPE TOWN, ZA
Custom AI agents, WhatsApp bots and automation workflows for South African businesses — designed, built and run end-to-end by one engineer. No handoffs, no account managers, no black boxes.
BUILT ON OpenAI · Anthropic · n8n · Supabase · WhatsApp Cloud API
ACTIVE AGENTS
WHAT I BUILD
Every engagement is bespoke, but the raw material is the same: models that read and write, APIs that act, and your business logic holding it together. These are the shapes it usually takes.
Software teammates that read context, make judgment calls and act inside your tools — triaging inboxes, qualifying leads, drafting replies, chasing documents. Built on your playbook, with human approval gates exactly where you want them.
Event-driven pipelines across your stack: when the quote is signed, the invoice is raised, the folder is created, the kickoff email goes out — and the CRM knows about all of it. If it happens twice a week, it shouldn't be manual.
Your CRM becomes the single source of truth instead of the place data goes to die. Two-way sync with the tools you actually use, automatic enrichment and de-duplication, and pipelines that update themselves from real activity.
Conversational automation on the channel your customers already answer. Booking, support, qualification and follow-up in natural language — with a graceful handover to a human the moment it matters.
Fast, precise marketing sites, portals and internal tools — like the one you're reading — hand-built, measured in kilobytes rather than megabytes, and designed to be maintained by one person and understood by everyone.
Tell me the messiest process in your business. I'll tell you honestly whether automation pays for itself there.
Start with a free consult →HOW IT WORKS
I don't just install a chatbot and leave. I map the bottleneck, build the automation on your real data, then run and improve it — end to end, one pair of hands.
THE 4 A.M. PROOF
A deployed system does the same careful work at 4 a.m. that it does at noon — same density, no one asked. You close the laptop; it keeps its shift.
04:00 · 0 HUMANS AWAKE · SYSTEM RUNNING · NOTHING CHANGED
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Real systems, real clients, real outcomes, from AI agents and custom software to integrations, dashboards and workflow automation. POPIA aware, with clear boundaries and human approval where it matters.
Every system above runs with clear boundaries, human approval where it matters and POPIA aware data handling. Specific client metrics available on request under NDA.
AI strategy, automation, analytics, integrations and custom AI systems, designed for business outcomes and built by the one engineer who implements them. We help leadership identify where AI creates measurable value, then design and build the workflows, agents, integrations and dashboards needed to make it operational — designed and built by the engineer you actually talk to.
Opportunity mapping, governance, ROI priorities and a practical 30/90-day rollout plan.
Workflow automation, agents, approvals, CRM, admin, finance and process automation.
Model selection, private or local AI options, risk boundaries and pilot architecture.
Dashboards, reporting, trend detection, competitor insights and management visibility.
APIs, CRM, WhatsApp, email, accounting, documents, internal tools and legacy systems connected into one operating layer.
We connect AI agents to your tools, data, inboxes, accounting, documents, CRM, tickets and internal software, then surface the work in dashboards your team can actually run from. When off-the-shelf automation is not enough, we build the custom layer.
From WhatsApp and Gmail to SA payments, payroll, accounting, CRM, ERP, dashboards and bespoke internal software, if it has an API, database or screen, we can connect to it.
New AI tools arrive every week. We test them, understand where they fit, train your team, connect the right pieces and build custom systems when off-the-shelf software is not enough.
We can build private AI systems, local model setups and custom agents that work with your data, tools and approval rules. The goal is simple: useful AI that belongs to your company and helps real work get done.
We build AI agents, custom software, integrations and dashboards with human approval, clear access rules, POPIA-aware handling and practical escalation paths, so the system supports the team without becoming a black box.
Quotes, sensitive replies, payments and edge cases can pause for a person before anything is sent.
Workflows are scoped around who can view, approve, edit or receive each action.
Key actions can be logged so teams know what happened, when it happened, and what triggered it.
We design data capture, storage and handover points with South African privacy expectations in mind.
AI can route uncertain, urgent or high-value conversations to the right person with context attached.
Start with one high-value workflow, prove it works, then expand the system with fewer surprises.
When context matters, we can come to your business, meet the people doing the work, and map the real process before we automate it. Then we train your team and support the system as it goes live.
Some workflows only make sense when we see the real counters, inboxes, handovers, approvals, files and team habits in person.
Your people learn how to use the AI, dashboards, automations and human approval steps, so the system becomes part of daily work.
After go-live, we stay close to fix gaps, improve the workflow, adjust prompts and keep the automation aligned with the business.
On-site visits are offered where practical and useful for the workflow. Remote support remains available for faster follow-up and ongoing improvements.
We only want to build when automation can create real operational value. This is the honest filter before a consult.
Answer a few quick questions. Each answer saves as you go, so if you leave before the end we still know what workflow you wanted help with.
Public profiles, review platforms and business listings that help verify AI Automated Solutions before you book a consult.
KNOWN GROUND
Quotes chased, jobs booked, invoices followed up — while you're still on the roof. Every missed call becomes a WhatsApp conversation, not a lost job.
Client intake, document chasing and matter updates handled automatically — so fee-earners bill hours instead of doing admin. POPIA-aware by design.
Portal leads answered in seconds, viewings booked straight into diaries, mandates and follow-ups tracked without a single spreadsheet.
Appointment reminders, rebookings and patient FAQs answered on WhatsApp — fewer no-shows, and a front desk that never puts anyone on hold.
THE ENGINEER
I'm Evert Vorster. I scope the work, write the code, run the systems and answer the messages. There are no juniors to hand you down to, no telephone game between what you asked for and what gets built — and no invented team photos on this page.
THE ANSWER ENGINE
The questions South African businesses actually ask about AI agents, WhatsApp bots, CRM integration and automation — answered plainly, by the engineer who builds them.
Custom AI agents, automation workflows, CRM integration, WhatsApp bots and web development — designed, built and run end-to-end from Cape Town for South African businesses. Recent builds include a WhatsApp-native CRM, AI proposal and quote generation, KYC document automation, ERP delivery bookings and stock-take OCR.
Yes — on the official WhatsApp Business Cloud API. The bot replies in seconds, answers from your own business information, qualifies the lead, writes everything to your CRM, and hands over to a human the moment a conversation needs one. No lead sits unread overnight again.
Scope decides — a single WhatsApp flow and a full agentic CRM are very different builds. Every engagement starts with a free consult and ends that stage with a fixed written quote, and you pilot before you scale, so you never pay for a system you haven't watched working. Client-specific numbers are shared on request under NDA.
GoHighLevel and WhatsApp-native CRM builds are the bread and butter, with stacks running on n8n, Supabase, OpenAI and Anthropic models. Beyond that: accounting packages, ERPs, Google Workspace, spreadsheets and custom REST APIs. If it has an API — or even just an export button — it can be automated.
Every system is POPIA-aware from day one: human approval gates on sensitive replies, access rules scoping who can see and trigger what, a full audit trail of what happened and why, and clear escalation paths. AI that touches customer data is built with controls, not bolted-on apologies.
You get a written timeline with the quote, and a working pilot ships before anything scales — so the first proof arrives early, not at the end. Small automations move in days-to-weeks territory; deep multi-system builds are phased so each stage pays its own way.
No — that's the point. The AI layer connects the tools you already use: your CRM, your accounting package, your inbox, your WhatsApp number. Automation should remove the copy-paste between systems, not force a rip-and-replace project on top of it.
It says so and escalates to a human — by design. Handover rules, approval gates and escalation paths are part of every build, so the system knows the edge of its own competence. An honest "let me get Evert" beats a confident wrong answer every time.
Based in Cape Town, building for all of South Africa. Consults, builds, handover and support all run remotely over WhatsApp, video calls and screen-shares — Johannesburg, Durban, Gqeberha, a farm in the Karoo with signal. Time zone: yours.
The person who scopes your system is the person who designs it, builds it, and answers when it misbehaves. No handoffs, no account managers, no telephone game between sales and delivery — and nothing gets promised that the builder can't build, because they're the same person.
No canned answer for that one — which means it's a good question.
Ask Evert directlyOPEN A LINE
Describe the messiest process in your business — the one held together by memory and goodwill. You'll get an honest read on whether automation pays for itself there, and what I'd build first.
MESSAGES ARE READ BY THE ENGINEER, NOT A BOT. YES, THE IRONY IS NOTED.
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COLOPHON
A short maker's note. Everything here — the layout, the live dashboard, the animated background, the words — was designed and built by Claude, Anthropic's AI model, as a working demonstration of what AI Automated Solutions builds for its clients. No templates, no frameworks, no page builder.
THE BRIEF
AI Automated Solutions already has a strong identity: electric violet on near-black, bold condensed headlines, a live-dashboard motif, WhatsApp-green calls to action. The job wasn't to invent a new look — it was to take that language and execute it at the level of the best software brands: sharper type, real motion, a hero that proves the product instead of just describing it.
The exact brand tokens were lifted from the live site so nothing drifts: primary violet #8f0df3, light accent #caa7ff, and one green reserved for live and success states only.
THE CRAFT
There isn't a single photograph or icon file on this page. The hero background is a live particle flow-field on a canvas — dozens of points advected through a curl-noise vector field, drawn with additive blending for the glow. The dashboard numbers count up on scroll, the revenue chart is generated from seeded maths, the growth-engine flow lights up node by node, and the 24-hour "4 a.m. proof" is an SVG built in code.
The result is a page that performs the capability it is selling: it doesn't claim to be well-engineered, it demonstrates it in front of you.
THE MATERIALS
Type is Inter Tight and Outfit for the heavy display headlines, Inter for body, and JetBrains Mono for the labels and figures — the same families the live site uses, self-hosted as eleven woff2 files.
THE ENGINEERING
Hand-written HTML, CSS and vanilla JavaScript. No framework, no build step, no dependencies. The whole page weighs less than a single hero photo on most sites.
One canvas flow-field, count-ups, an auto-cycling growth engine, and SVG traces — all pausing when off-screen or when the tab is hidden, so an idle page costs nothing.
The 4.9/5 rating and 17 reviews are real and on Google. The dashboard figures are clearly an illustrative demo. There are no invented clients, team photos or case studies — one engineer, stated as one engineer.
Semantic landmarks, keyboard navigation, focus states, and full prefers-reduced-motion support — nothing animates, nothing rotates, everything arrives in place.