AI Agents & LLM Systems
Secure agents on AWS Bedrock. RAG pipelines, knowledge bases and fine-grained entitlements keep private data private while making it useful.
Enterprise AI consultancy · Cape Town, global
Enterprise AI that pays for itself.
We design and deploy production AI systems: AI agents and data products. Our clients measure the result in business impact.
12+
AI, data and product builds shipped
+5%
Measured margin uplift delivered
5
SaaS products designed and built
7 yrs
Building applied AI systems end to end
Trusted by teams at
What we do
Capabilities, sharpened by production.
Every service below maps to a system we have already architected, shipped and measured in a live business.
AI Systems Recovery & Scale
Promising AI work can stall between pilot and production. Whether it was built internally or by another provider, we diagnose what is getting in the way, keep the parts that work and rebuild only what is needed so it can run reliably at scale.
Pricing & Revenue Intelligence
Price-elasticity models, promotion ROI audits and competitor benchmarking at national retail scale. We measure the margin impact and test whether it holds.
Predictive Analytics & Decisioning
Demand forecasts, geospatial models and decision tools that leadership teams can actually use.
Full-Stack AI Product Development
Next.js, FastAPI, PostgreSQL and cloud infrastructure. One team owns the path from architecture to a deployed, monitored product. No handoffs.
AI Strategy & Advisory
For teams still working out where AI fits. We identify use cases, model the ROI and separate what will pay from what is hype.
Selected work
Systems in production. Results on record.
We are judged on the numbers our systems move. This is a selection of work we are proud of.
ShopriteXRetail
Pricing engine at national scale
Co-engineered the pricing and promotions platform for one of Africa's largest retailers. The work covered elasticity across the catalogue and promotion ROI after cannibalisation and fully loaded costs.
+5%Statistically significant margin uplift
Pan-African BankBanking
Secure data-entitlements AI agent
Designed and built a private-data agent for a leading bank operating across Africa. It applies fine-grained entitlements before retrieval across Athena and unstructured knowledge bases, so each user only sees data they are authorised to access. The service runs on AWS Bedrock AgentCore with FastAPI on ECS, backed by Glue, S3, RDS and ElastiCache.
Fine-grainedEntitlements enforced before retrieval
The Building CompanyRetail
Competitor pricing intelligence
NLP product matching that reconciles internal SKUs with large-scale competitor data collected from the web. The pricing team gets an automated market benchmark for margin decisions.
Real-timeMarket benchmarking, automated
Education SectorEducation
AI grading platform
A SaaS grader combining AI and human expertise for faster, more consistent assessment. The work also included judging a national AI hackathon represented by more than 100 schools.
100+Schools represented nationally
FAROFashion retail
Demand forecasting for allocation planning
Building a production demand forecasting capability to help merchandisers make better allocation, markdown and seasonal planning decisions.
WeeklyForward demand visibility
Product studio
We don't just advise. We ship.
Our own SaaS products, designed, built and operated by us. The same standard we bring to client work, applied to our own software.
TakuVox
Real-time voice agents for natural conversations, multi-step work and connected business systems.
Voice AITakuSlides
An outline-first presentation workspace with rich editing and native, editable PowerPoint export.
Presentation AIAdhoc Insights
A conversational analytics workspace that turns plain-language questions into charts and clear takeaways.
Analytics AIClipbard
An AI storytelling studio for moving from a script to visuals, narration and a finished short-form video.
Storytelling AIData Studio
A visual workspace for composing, running and inspecting connected LLM workflows.
LLM ToolingHow we work
Proof before scale. Always.
A deliberately boring process. Boring processes deliver.
01
Discover
We find the highest-ROI use case in your business and define success in numbers before a line of code is written.
02
Pilot
A small, measurable build against real data. You see evidence, not a demo, before committing to scale.
03
Production
Then we deploy, integrate and harden it. Security, monitoring and CI/CD are part of the build, not an afterthought.
04
Scale
We measure what moved, improve the model, and expand what works across teams, regions and use cases.
Why Takuonline
A rare combination, on purpose.
Deep ML, not demos.
Six years of shipping pricing, NLP, RAG and voice models into production. We know the difference between a prototype and infrastructure because we run both.
One team, whole stack.
Strategy, models, backend and front end sit with one team. Nothing gets lost between the people advising and the people building.
Business first.
We do not build technology for its own sake. We start with the result the business needs, then design the system around it. More margin, less manual work, lower risk or a better customer experience. The work has to make a measurable difference.
The company
Cape Town roots. Global standard.
Takuonline (Pty) Ltd is an AI consultancy and product studio based in Cape Town, South Africa. We work with banks, retailers, educators and automation teams. We take AI from architecture to production and stay accountable for the result.
- Company
- Takuonline (Pty) Ltd
- Based in
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Working across
- Banking · Retail · Education · Automation
- Engagements
- Advisory → Pilot → Production → Scale
Have a hard problem? Let's talk.
Tell us about it. We will tell you honestly if we are the right people for the job, and what it would take.
Contact
A useful first conversation starts with the outcome.
Tell us what should improve: margin, speed, risk, forecasting accuracy or customer experience. We will come prepared to discuss the smallest credible path to value.
Outcome before architecture
We start with the business measure that needs to move.
One accountable team
Strategy, data, models and product engineering stay connected.
A straight answer
If AI is not the right solution, we will tell you.