Small businesses are the engine of the South African economy. They employ the most people, absorb the most risk, and operate with the fewest resources. Yet the tools available to them — if they can afford them at all — were designed for companies ten times their size.
We started Detoil because we believe that access to sophisticated operational support shouldn't require a R60,000-a-month head of operations. It should be available to any founder who's willing to engage with it.
The best businesses are run by people who focus on the work that matters — the product, the client, the team, the vision. Everything else should run itself. We're building that "everything else."
The best businesses are run by people who focus on the work that matters — the product, the client, the team, the vision. Everything else should run itself.
AI is most powerful when it serves a specific context, not a generic one. South African regulation is the perfect domain for applied intelligence.
Privacy and data sovereignty are not optional features — they are the foundation of everything we build.