SHAFT AI

About

Technology that works for the people who use it.

Shaft AI is a black-owned South African company that uses AI to design and build digital products.

Mission

Build technology that works for the people who actually use it.

Our story

We started building products for small businesses and the informal economy: booking platforms for salons, parcel networks for spaza shops. We learned to design for low connectivity, low-end devices, and users who rely on WhatsApp.

Now we're bringing those lessons to construction and mining, where adoption is hard, connectivity is unreliable, and people need tools that work offline and fit how they actually operate.

We use AI to accelerate our build, but product discipline, user research and rigorous testing make it reliable. We're a small senior team, and we only build what's worth building.

Where we are

Cape Town, South Africa

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