AI.design

From AI‑curious to AI‑first.

Overview

Our flagship practice. Most organisations know AI matters; few know where it pays. AI.design closes that gap end to end — we assess where AI creates real value in your business, build the systems that capture it, and train your people so the capability stays when we leave. Practical, vendor-neutral, and measured on outcomes, not demos.

What We Deliver

  • Fixed-price systems reviews & opportunity mapping
  • AI strategy & pragmatic build roadmaps
  • Agentic systems & workflow automation
  • Retrieval-augmented (RAG) assistants on your own knowledge
  • Data pipelines, scoring engines & decision dashboards
  • AI capability programs for founders, executives and operating teams
  • Fractional AI engineering & ongoing advisory

How We Work

We work in three moves: Scope — a fixed-price systems review that finds where AI creates value and what to build first. Build — production systems integrated into your stack: assistants, automation, pipelines and dashboards. Embed — hands-on capability programs so your team compounds the advantage instead of renting it. And we show our work: watch us build in public before you hire us.

Recent Work

BUILD

Putting AI to work for a leading SA founder community

A retrieval-augmented community assistant, a member health-scoring engine, and data pipelines that halved preparation time — now a productised AI practice.

DATA

Data platform for a livelihoods development programme

A production ETL pipeline feeding interactive dashboards that track SME growth and job creation across South Africa.

Client names withheld by design · more selected work →

Who Does the Work

No junior pyramid — engagements are delivered by the founders. Keshav Mohabir (UCT mechatronics engineer; ex-BCG and Bain) architects and builds the systems. Shulka Mohabir (ex-Citi, R100M+ in client financing unlocked; McKinsey Next Generation Women Leaders '23) runs delivery and the commercial side. Meet the founders →

Pricing

Fixed prices, agreed upfront. Scoped builds and systems reviews start at $15,000; fractional AI engineering runs from $7,500 per month. No hourly billing, no scope-creep charges — we agree scope and price before we start, and you keep everything we build.

Governance & Your Data

Built for your risk owners as much as your builders. Human experts stay in control of every consequential decision. Your data stays in your infrastructure — we default to private, self-hosted deployments over third-party services. And every system ships with documentation and audit trails your compliance team can actually read.

Ready to Put AI to Work?

Tell us where the friction is — a conversation costs nothing and usually saves months.

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