Audit-first data engineering · Cape Town
Everything AI needs is already in your business. It just isn’t connected yet.
It sits in the systems you have already bought and the processes your team built around them. Veld finds where it is, builds the data layer that joins it up, and keeps it running.
The audit is free. You keep the report and the mockup whether you build with us or not.
Veld Readiness Index · illustrative profile
What we hold to be true
Three things most AI projects get the wrong way round.
The data layer pays before the AI does.
Connected, trusted numbers change how a business runs on their own. AI only becomes useful once it has that to stand on.
You should see it working before you pay to build it.
Our audit ends in a mockup running on your real workflows, not a slide. If it does not earn a build, you have lost nothing.
The engineers who build it should still answer for it a year later.
One team through audit, build and run. We are still answering for systems we put in years ago.
The audit
See it working before you pay to build it.
Two weeks with our engineers inside your business. Four things come out of it, and all four are yours to keep. No charge.
Every system, process and tool you run, and how your team actually works with each one. Where the work flows and where it quietly stalls.
| System | Used by | Owns the record? | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Xero | Finance | Customer · Invoice | Source |
| Shopify | Sales, ops | Customer · Order | Duplicate |
| HubSpot | Sales | Customer · Deal | Duplicate |
| Meta Ads | Marketing | Spend | Not joined |
| Bookings sheet | Front desk | Booking | Manual |
One document that puts the objective, the value and the sequence in front of the whole team, so the decision to build is not one person’s hunch against the room.
One customer record. Then everything else.
Six axes, one shape: data maturity, process structure, technology stack, team capability, commercial opportunity, risk and compliance. The shape is the diagnosis.
- Data maturity0–5
- Process structure0–5
- Technology stack0–5
- Team capability0–5
- Commercial opportunity0–5
- Risk & compliance0–5
Interactive, built on your workflows, running the way the real system would. Your team clicks through what better data means in their week.
How we work
Audit. Build. Run.
We map what you run and where it disagrees with itself.
You get the report, the Readiness Index and a working mockup.
We connect the systems you own and build only what is missing.
To the standard we hold inside a bank. You approved the mockup; this is that, in production.
We keep it working as the business grows.
The subscription rewards a clean, healthy system: we do better when it needs less of us.
Our work
A three-person team performing like a twenty-person one.
“Veld has been the reason we’re able to perform like a 20-person media business with a headcount of only 3.”
Fifty tools, no shared data layer. Within a fortnight of kickoff, Meta and Google Ads data was landing in their own cloud every six hours.
A placeholder site replaced with a POPIA-aware application wizard on their own domain. Priced as a share of turnover.
Five ways to take a booking, four records of one item. One customer record designed underneath two brands, now in build.
Questions
What owners ask before the call.
How is this different from just using ChatGPT or Copilot?
Those tools answer questions. They cannot see your orders, your ledger or your bookings, and they cannot fix the fact that three systems disagree about one customer. We build the data layer that makes them useful, and the tools then run on it.
What does the audit cost, and what is the catch?
Nothing, and there is no catch. You keep the report, the Readiness Index and the mockup whether you build with us or not. We do it because businesses that have seen the mockup usually want the build, and we would rather earn that than sell it.
What do we need to give you access to?
Read access to the two or three systems that matter most, usually the accounting system, the sales or e-commerce platform and whatever holds customers. We name them on the first call. Nothing is changed during the audit.
What if we do not build with you afterwards?
Then you have a report, an Index and a mockup you can take to anyone. We would rather you built the right thing with someone else than the wrong thing with us.
Who actually does the work?
Senior data engineers who have designed, built and run production systems inside South African banking, logistics, e-commerce and retail. The engineers who run your audit are the engineers who build, and who answer for it afterwards.
Request the audit
Tell us what should be easier.
No form. Write to us the way you would write to anyone, and we reply within one working day.
- WhatsApp081 709 5098
- Emailphilip@veldai.co.za
Your self-scored Readiness Index is added to the message so we can talk about it on the call.
What happens next
- 01We reply within one working day.
- 02A 30-minute call. No deck, no pitch. We ask about the business and what is in the way.
- 03We name the two or three systems we would need read access to.
- 04Two weeks later you have the report, the Readiness Index and a working mockup. Then you decide.