Generative AI development · Cape Town

Generative AI development company in Cape Town

Mobile-first, low-bandwidth products with mobile money built in, from a senior team on overlapping hours.

Clarigo Infotech is a generative AI development company that builds GenAI products for businesses: copilots for your team, content, image and document generation, fine-tuned models and private LLMs that run on your own cloud. We connect models to your data with retrieval and guardrails, so outputs are grounded and safe to use. A focused GenAI product usually goes live in 25 to 30 days.

South African companies most often hire us for fintech, healthcare software and AI automation.

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10+

Years of delivery

600+

Projects delivered

20+

Countries served

25-30

Days to a live MVP

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What matters to Cape Town teams

Mobile-first and built for real conditions

African businesses need products that work on any phone and any connection, with mobile money and local payments built in.

01

Works on any connection

Lightweight apps and sites that stay fast on slow networks and older phones.

02

Mobile money and local payments

M-Pesa, Flutterwave, Paystack and card payments integrated.

03

Overlapping hours

Two and a half to four and a half hours from India, so most of the day overlaps.

04

Cost-effective delivery

Senior engineers at offshore rates with full code ownership.

What we do

What our generative AI development covers

Copilots and assistants

In-app assistants that draft, summarise, answer and take actions for your staff or customers, grounded in your own data.

Content generation

Product descriptions, marketing copy, reports and emails generated in your brand voice, with review steps before anything is published.

Image and media generation

Product imagery, design variations and visual assets generated from prompts or templates, built into your existing workflow.

Document generation

Proposals, contracts, summaries and structured reports drafted from your templates and records, ready for human sign-off.

Fine-tuning

Models fine-tuned on your examples when prompting and retrieval are not enough, with evaluation to prove the gain.

Private LLMs

Open-source models such as Llama, Mistral or Qwen hosted on your own cloud, so sensitive data never leaves your environment.

In depth

How we approach Generative AI development

Prompting, retrieval or fine-tuning

Most GenAI products work best with good prompts plus retrieval from your own documents. We only recommend fine-tuning when you have enough quality examples and a clear gap that retrieval cannot close, because it adds training and maintenance cost.

Choosing the right model

We compare GPT, Claude, Gemini and open-source models on your real tasks for quality, speed and cost before committing. The architecture keeps the model swappable, so you can switch providers as prices and capabilities change.

Guardrails and review

Generated output goes through checks for format, tone, facts against your sources and sensitive content. Where accuracy matters, we add a human approval step and keep a log of every generation.

Private by design

We use API providers configured not to train on your data, or host open-source models on your own cloud. For healthcare work, our HIPAA-trained team builds to HIPAA requirements.

Working with us from Cape Town

Remote, but close to Cape Town

Time-zone overlap

South Africa is three and a half hours behind India, so our working days overlap for most of your morning and early afternoon.

The Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA)

We design to POPIA's conditions for lawful processing: purpose limits, security safeguards and data-subject access, with data hosted in South African cloud regions when required. We sign NDAs before work starts.

Billing

Invoices in South African rand (ZAR) or US dollars. Typical senior rates are $25 to $49 (USD) per hour, or a fixed price for a defined scope.

Sectors · Cape Town

Built for Cape Town's key sectors

Cape Town startups use us for SaaS, e-commerce and AI products, with a strong daily overlap in working hours and privacy designed to POPIA.

Mining

Mines invest in safety, monitoring and automation systems. AI here usually means faster reporting, fewer manual steps and better customer replies.

Financial services

Banks and insurers lead in mobile and digital channels. We start with one costly process and automate it end to end.

Retail

National chains expand e-commerce and loyalty programmes. We build AI agents, assistants and automation around these workflows.

Tourism and wine

Operators and estates sell to international visitors online. AI here usually means faster reporting, fewer manual steps and better customer replies.

Cape Town time · Johannesburg

How the hours line up

Our team's hours, in Cape Town time

06:30–16:00

Monday to Friday

Overlap with your working day

09:00–16:00

About 7 hours every day

Daily stand-up

09:30

Cape Town time, plus written updates every evening

Local setup

What we set up for Cape Town

Messaging channels

WhatsAppFacebook MessengerLinkedIn

Languages

EnglishAfrikaansisiZulu

Local payments

PayFastYocoOzow (Instant EFT)

Data hosting

AWS Africa (Cape Town), Google Cloud africa-south1 (Johannesburg) and Azure South Africa North, in your own cloud account, so data stays where your rules require.

Process

How it works

Week 1: discovery and design

A free call to understand your goal, then a written scope, a fixed quote and a clickable design you can test.

Weeks 2-3: build and integrate

Senior engineers build in short sprints, connect your systems and demo working software every week.

Week 4: test and launch

We test with real data, set up monitoring and deploy to your own cloud account, then go live.

After launch: support and grow

The same team stays on for support, improvements and new features, with guaranteed response times.

FAQ

Generative AI development company: questions from Cape Town

Do you work with companies in Cape Town?+

Yes. Clarigo Infotech works with companies across Cape Town, including Cape Town, Stellenbosch, as part of clients in 20+ countries. South African companies most often hire us for fintech, healthcare software and AI automation. We work remotely from India with one in-house team.

What time-zone overlap do we get from Cape Town?+

South Africa is three and a half hours behind India, so our working days overlap for most of your morning and early afternoon.

How do you handle the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA)?+

We design to POPIA's conditions for lawful processing: purpose limits, security safeguards and data-subject access, with data hosted in South African cloud regions when required. We sign NDAs before work starts.

Which currency do you bill in, and what does it cost?+

We bill in South African rand (ZAR) or US dollars. Senior engineers typically cost $25 to $49 (USD) per hour, and fixed-scope projects such as an MVP in 25 to 30 days are quoted after a free consultation.

Do you support WhatsApp?+

Yes. Customers in Cape Town often prefer WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger and LinkedIn, so we connect chatbots, notifications and support flows to them.

Do you work with mining companies?+

Yes. Mining is one of Cape Town's key sectors, and aI here usually means faster reporting, fewer manual steps and better customer replies.

What time are your meetings in Cape Town time?+

Our team works 06:30–16:00 Cape Town time, so we overlap with your day from 09:00–16:00. Daily stand-ups are usually at 09:30 your time.

Who owns the code?+

You do. You get full source-code ownership, and everything is deployed on your own cloud account.

Do you sign an NDA?+

Yes. We sign an NDA, and a data processing agreement where needed, before any work starts.