AI consulting for South African businesses that want practical, not hyped
We spend time inside your business, look honestly at where hours are being spent on repetitive work, and identify the two or three places where AI can save real time or improve real output.
Half the AI conversations in South African business right now go one of two ways. Either an owner has read three LinkedIn posts and now wants "AI everywhere", or they have tried one tool once, been disappointed, and written the whole space off. Neither position is useful.
What AI consulting covers
- Workflow audits — a structured review of where your team spends time and which tasks are repetitive enough to automate
- AI opportunity mapping — a prioritised shortlist of where AI can produce the highest ROI
- Implementation support — deploying the tools, integrating with your stack, training your team
- Lead handling automation — auto-response, qualification and routing systems
- Reporting automation — pulling data from all platforms into a single monthly report
- AI governance guidance — what your team can and cannot use AI for, how to handle client data safely
- Ongoing support — a monthly or quarterly retainer for continued sparring
Pricing
R1,500 per hour for advisory and implementation work billed in blocks of five or ten hours.
Scoped sprints are quoted as fixed-price projects — typically R15,000–R60,000 depending on complexity.
Scale (R30,000/pm) includes 2 hours per month of AI consulting alongside the full retainer.
No retainers required. No ongoing commitments. Just work, done, and value you can measure.
Who this is for
- Business owners drowning in admin who want to reclaim their week
- Marketing and operations teams whose reporting takes days when it should take an hour
- Sales teams losing leads because responses are too slow after hours
- Companies that have tried AI tools ad-hoc and want a proper strategy
Who this is not for
- Businesses looking to fire staff and replace them with AI — that is the wrong framing
- Teams unwilling to change how they work
- One-off "can you make me a chatbot?" requests without a business case
Why BurnesSEO
We do not sell AI theory. We run the same automations we recommend inside our own studio every day — content, reporting, lead handling, research. That is how a three-person team in Meyerton services clients across Gauteng and beyond. See how we actually work →
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Ready to talk about what AI could actually do?
Book a free 30-minute discovery — we’ll listen more than we talk, and come back with a shortlist of two or three places worth starting.