AI consultancy · South Africa
Applied AI, built into the way you work.
We help businesses worldwide put AI to work, with consulting and development around your people, data and existing systems.
Cape Town, South Africa
- Your documents
- AI prepares
- You review
- Your systems
One piece of work. Your people in control.
AI consulting and development
AI consulting and custom development for businesses worldwide, from our base in South Africa. Explore six kinds of system, built around your workflow and existing cloud.
Agentic workflows
Agents that carry a piece of work from request to done, inside the tools your people already use.
How we build itKnowledge assistants
Answers from your own documents, with the source attached, for your staff and your customers.
How we build itDocument intelligence
Documents read as they arrive, checked against your rules, and sent where they need to go.
How we build itGenerative content
On-brand images, video and copy in volume, checked against your brand rules before anyone sees them.
How we build itModernisation and integration
Old systems mapped and documented by AI, rebuilt one slice at a time, and proved against the original before anything switches.
How we build itGovernance and guardrails
The controls that let you put AI in front of customers, staff and auditors, and stop it when you need to.
How we build it
How we work Built around your business
From a useful idea to everyday work.
Understand the business. Prove the improvement. Put your team in control.
- 01
Understand
Find the right problem.
We look at the people, the workflow and the systems around the problem. Together, we find a useful place to start — and whether AI belongs there at all.
Separate the layers. Understand what depends on what.
What you leave with
- Opportunity map
- Feasibility review
- A clear recommendation
Explore the deliverables
Inside this stage
- Opportunity map
- A map of the workflow, its current costs and the opportunities worth investigating.
- Feasibility review
- A review of data, integration and team readiness, including simpler alternatives to AI.
- A clear recommendation
- A recommended first intervention, estimated effort and a clear proceed, rework or stop decision.
Working together
Time with process owners, relevant workflow documentation and representative sample data.
The decision
Is it worth building?
If the value is unclear or the necessary data is unavailable, we revisit the scope or stop before a build.
- 02
Prove
Demonstrate a useful improvement.
One bounded workflow, tested against the way work happens today. We evaluate it first, then move into a controlled live trial when it is ready.
Connect one useful intervention. Keep the controls in place.
What you leave with
- Working system
- Evaluation record
- Controls for live use
Explore the deliverables
Inside this stage
- Working system
- A bounded working system, evaluated on representative data before a controlled live trial when ready.
- Evaluation record
- Evidence against agreed measures of quality, review effort, operating cost and adoption.
- Controls for live use
- Human review, access controls, monitoring, cost limits and a rollback plan in place before live use.
Working together
Integration access, an accountable operational owner and feedback from the people using the workflow.
The decision
Is the improvement real?
If quality, cost or the experience of using it falls short, we improve the approach, narrow the scope or stop.
- 03
Embed
Make it part of everyday work.
We bring the system into daily use with clear ownership and an agreed way to run it. Keep a useful workflow small, improve it, or expand when there is a reason.
Bring the layers together. Your business, with a useful addition.
What you leave with
- An adopted workflow
- Ownership and runbooks
- Your support arrangement
Explore the deliverables
Inside this stage
- An adopted workflow
- An adopted workflow with clear responsibilities, training and an agreed operating arrangement.
- Ownership and runbooks
- Project repositories, system documentation and runbooks, with ownership and access made explicit.
- Your support arrangement
- An agreed handover or optional PI Square support arrangement, with improvement and expansion considered separately.
Working together
Participation from the people who use and operate the system, with an agreed owner for future decisions.
The decision
Who runs it from here?
Expansion is optional. Your team can operate the system, or choose PI Square support under an agreed arrangement.
Who you'll work with
Good work starts with the right people.
Meet the people behind the work.
Nikhil Misra
Nikhil Misra on LinkedIn (opens in new tab)Founder
Technical direction
Turning the right problem into a working system.
Sanjin Naidu
Sanjin Naidu on LinkedIn (opens in new tab)Chief Marketing Officer
Commercial direction
Connecting the work to business priorities.
Questions about working with PI Square
- What does an AI consultancy do for a business?
- An AI consultancy helps you identify where artificial intelligence can solve operational bottlenecks, evaluates data and workflow readiness, and designs reliable solutions. PI Square pairs AI strategy with custom development, integration and a plan for your team to operate the system.
- Which AI consulting services does PI Square offer?
- PI Square builds six core systems: agentic workflows, enterprise RAG knowledge assistants, intelligent document processing, governed generative content studios, legacy system modernization, and enterprise AI governance guardrails.
- Where is PI Square based, and who can work with you?
- PI Square is based in Cape Town, South Africa, and is open to engagements worldwide, including Africa, Europe, the United States and Australia. We agree collaboration across time zones, access requirements and data constraints when scoping the work.
- How does an engagement with PI Square run?
- Understand defines the workflow, constraints and success measures. Prove tests a working system against representative examples. Embed prepares your team to operate it, with agreed documentation, controls and support. Scope and pricing are agreed stage by stage, with combined engagements available.
- Where do the AI systems and business data live?
- Hosting, access controls, data retention and model-provider terms are agreed for each engagement. We can build in your cloud account where appropriate. Before using business data, we review which providers process it, where it is stored and what their terms allow.
- Who owns the code and intellectual property?
- We plan for client ownership and operation, with optional PI Square support. The written engagement defines the code, documentation and rights transferred to you, including any third-party components and their licences.
What happens on the call
Bring us one piece of work.
A process that takes too long. A system that gets in the way. An idea you want to test. Start there.
The work today
What happens, who is involved, and what a better result would mean.
Where it gets difficult
The bottlenecks, systems, data and constraints around it.
A useful next step
Whether there is a reason to explore further, and what we would need to learn next.
A first conversation
30 minutes
With Nikhil or Sanjin, depending on your enquiry.