AI works differently for every business. Find out exactly how it works for yours.
Most businesses know AI should be helping them. Few know where it actually fits. The Cipher diagnostic tells you which one you are — and what to do about it.
What I do
Three ways I make AI real for businesses
The Cipher Diagnostic
A 22-question diagnostic that tells you your business archetype, scores you across six AI competencies, and gives you one clear recommended next step. Not generic advice — a precise answer for your specific business.
Workshops and Training
Hands-on sessions built around your actual workflows, delivered through TeknaLabs. Your team leaves with working habits, not slides. For businesses that know where they need to go and need help getting there.
Consulting Engagements
For well-funded businesses with real complexity. We map your highest-value AI opportunities, build the operating habits to capture them, and stay involved until it works. Engagements from R50k.
Where I've done the work
Built inside real businesses
Property and Real Estate
Working inside MakeReady Central as Solutions Architect, I've seen firsthand how property businesses sit on enormous operational complexity — maintenance workflows, tenant communication, reporting — that AI can quietly transform without disrupting what already works.
Market Research and Data
Data-heavy businesses are often the last to use AI for their own operations. I've spent time inside a market research firm watching how the same intelligence they sell to clients could be applied to how they work — and mostly isn't.
Entrepreneurs and Founders
Early-stage businesses move fast and can't afford to waste resources on AI that doesn't immediately earn its place. I work with founders who want a precise answer — not a six-month transformation programme — and implement what fits right now.
MakeReady CentralTeknaLabsStudents for a Better FutureChrysalis AcademyMADLF
The diagnostic