Generative AI development · Johannesburg
Generative AI development company in Johannesburg
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.
10+
Years of delivery
600+
Projects delivered
20+
Countries served
25-30
Days to a live MVP
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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.
Works on any connection
Lightweight apps and sites that stay fast on slow networks and older phones.
Mobile money and local payments
M-Pesa, Flutterwave, Paystack and card payments integrated.
Overlapping hours
Two and a half to four and a half hours from India, so most of the day overlaps.
Cost-effective delivery
Senior engineers at offshore rates with full code ownership.
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.
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.
Built for Johannesburg teams
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.
Built for Johannesburg's key sectors
Johannesburg and Sandton companies in finance and insurance use us for platforms, integrations and AI automation, 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.
How the hours line up
Our team's hours, in Johannesburg 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
Johannesburg time, plus written updates every evening
Built for how Johannesburg works
Messaging channels
Languages
Local payments
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.
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.
See what we've built
Try it yourself, free
Free browser tools from our team. No sign-up needed.
Generative AI development company: questions from Johannesburg
Do you work with companies in Johannesburg?+
Yes. Clarigo Infotech works with companies across Johannesburg, including Johannesburg, Sandton, Pretoria, 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 Johannesburg?+
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.
What time are your meetings in Johannesburg time?+
Our team works 06:30–16:00 Johannesburg time, so we overlap with your day from 09:00–16:00. Daily stand-ups are usually at 09:30 your time.
Can you build in English and Afrikaans and isiZulu?+
Yes. We build interfaces and content in English and Afrikaans and isiZulu, and test them with native speakers before launch.
Where will our data be hosted?+
Usually in AWS Africa (Cape Town), Google Cloud africa-south1 (Johannesburg) and Azure South Africa North, or wherever your data rules require. Everything runs in your own cloud account, so you stay in control.
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.
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