Most SA businesses are running their records like it's 2010. And it shows.
You'll recognise at least one of these. Possibly all three.
i.
Buried in paper.
Filing rooms overflowing. Staff wasting hours hunting for things. Documents misfiled, mislabelled, or quietly lost forever. The physical records problem hasn't gone away. It's just been ignored.
87% of South African businesses have no formal records system. None.
ii.
Records doing 2010 work in a 2026 business.
Shared drives with no logic. Documents nobody owns. Search that returns the wrong file or no file. Information your AI tools can't see, can't classify, and can't safely use. The systems that made sense ten years ago are quietly costing you now — in hours, in errors, in opportunities.
Knowledge workers spend up to 20% of their week just looking for things. A full day. Every week.
iii.
Compliance you can't prove.
POPIA, PAIA, FICA, sector codes — most organisations are mostly compliant, most of the time. They just couldn't prove it if the Regulator asked, the auditor knocked, or a lawyer started discovery. The risk usually isn't the law itself. It's not being able to show your work.
Maximum POPIA penalty if you can't show yours: R10 million.
What we do
Three pillars. One firm.
01
Document & Records Management
Documents and records, modernised.
Active documents that move through digital workflows. Records that find themselves. Storage that doesn't slow your team down. And the unfashionable specialist work — vital records protection, hard drive destruction, source code escrow — that the boring stuff still occasionally needs.
Document management systems that don't make people cry
Climate-controlled physical storage, barcoded and biometrically secured
Digitisation, OCR, and search that actually finds the file
Cleaned up, classified, governed, and safe for the AI tools your team is starting to use. So when you turn on Copilot, it makes you more productive — not more exposed.
Policies, retention schedules, an Information Officer function, and the quiet ongoing work that makes compliance feel like a habit, not a project. We watch the regulatory landscape so you don't have to.
POPIA, PAIA, and FICA, properly done
Information Officer-as-a-Service
Records retention schedules with proper legal citations
Sector codes of conduct, mapped to how you actually operate
24/7 breach response so a bad day doesn't become a worse one
Periodic reviews that keep everything current as the rules shift
Want all of this run for you, by one team, on one bill? That's not a fourth service — it's how you buy the other three. It's called Managed, and it lives on the Packages page.
Find your fit
Six tiers. Pick yours.
Start with The Baseline — a once-off that maps your records, closes the gaps, and gets you compliant. Then pick the monthly tier that fits. Or don't — The Baseline stands on its own.
i.
Essentials Lite
From R4,500/month. IO function, policies, and POPIA compliance — done properly.
The incumbents store boxes. Compliance consultants give advice. Nobody prices the way we do.
Six reasons. You can stop at three if you're busy.
in no particular order. we mean it.
01Four lines on the bill, never more. Governance, software, storage, and one-off jobs — one team, four lines, each priced separately. Don't use storage? You don't have that line. Most firms bundle a warehouse you'll never use into the monthly retainer. We don't.
02Modern by default. Local cloud, intelligent classification, automated workflows, AI-ready records. Not a clipboard and a fax machine.
03National. All nine provinces, one consistent standard of service. Same call, same answer, wherever your offices are.
04Compliance is the floor, not the ceiling. POPIA, PAIA, FICA — handled. Your records then go further than just staying legal.
05Prices on the tin. Bespoke included. Every tier has a number on the page — including Enterprise, from R55,000/month. No discovery call required to learn what we cost.
06We treat your stuff the way you would. If you wouldn't leave it on a colleague's desk, we won't leave it on ours.
We speak your language
Five sectors we know cold.
Each one has its own records reality. Mining records outlive the company. Patient records outlive the patient. Banking records are scrutinised by people whose entire job is finding what's missing. We've built our practice around the specifics.
Also serving:Education · Retail and FMCG · Manufacturing · Telecoms and Energy · NGOs and Faith-Based Organisations · Body Corporates and Estate Agencies · Pension Funds and Retirement · Construction and Engineering
Your sector not listed? We've worked across most of the South African economy. Tell us what you do, and we'll show you what's relevant. Tell us your sector →
We've moved
more records than we care to count
for South African businesses.
The actual numbers live on a Post-it.
We keep meaning to make a chart. We never do.
Where do you stand?
Thirty minutes. No slideware.
We'll tell you exactly where you stand and what to do next. No homework, no pressure, no sales pitch dressed up as a workshop.