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- cloud calls
- 961
- cloud spend
- $7.81
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AI agent · automation · hardware · South Africa
An AI agent for business and home.
Built to earn its keep.
Groundset sets up AI agents, automation and connected hardware for South African businesses, homes and workshops, then keeps them running.
Admin done by handDone by the agent, on your hardware
Groundset agentWhatsApp · 17:55 · 1/6
Inbox
Show my latest emails.17:55
Here are your most recent emails: 1. Statement, from your billing system. Billing, 4 h ago. 2. New ClientZone login, from your host's support desk. 1 d ago. 3. RE: New ClientZone login. Billing, 2 d ago. Draft reply ready. 4. Track your electricity spend, July report. 4 d ago.17:55
Real exchanges from our own WhatsApp log, over an illustrated backdrop.
The agent already runs our own business
Every service we sell has run for us first. Measured on our own stack on 13 September 2026.
22
services running at snapshot
22 796
agent runs since December 2025
362
fixes applied without a phone call
R0
the agent's cloud AI bill. All its calls run on local models
What the agent does
Four things, in the order they land.
Step 1 of 4
01 · automate
Automate the office
The agent reads the inbox, answers staff on WhatsApp and replies to every lead. A person approves anything that goes out.
- 01
Lead response
A new enquiry gets an acknowledgement and a scoping email within the hour, any time of day.
- 02
Inbox triage and draft replies
Every email read, filed and answered in draft before you open your laptop.
- 03
Team WhatsApp assistant
Staff ask a question on WhatsApp and get an answer from your own records. No new app.
Illustration: the machine we set up in your building - 01
02 · know
Know what is happening
One screen shows the day. Reports arrive on schedule. Your own paperwork answers questions, with the source shown.
- 04
Document vault and search
Invoices, contracts and statements go in once. A question gets an answer with the source.
- 05
One-screen reporting
One screen for what is happening and a report on schedule, instead of five logins.
Illustration: deliberately unreadable. The real screen is the console below - 04
03 · connect
Wire the building in
Sensors, switches and energy monitors on your own network. When the part does not exist, we build the board.
- 06
Site sensors and switches
Power, temperature and equipment status read every few seconds. Switches you flip from your phone.
- 07
Custom sensor hardware
When the part does not exist on the shelf, we design and build the board.
Illustration: a sensor node beside a distribution board. The readings below are real Our Home Assistant at snapshot79 entities · 34 sensors- Office light off
- Sonoff switch on
- Air pressure 973.54 hPa
- Backups idle
- Updates waiting 5
- 06
04 · maintain
Keep it running
We watch what we built and fix known failures by playbook. You hear from us before you notice.
- 08
Watch and fix
We watch what we built and fix known failures by playbook, before you notice.
Illustration: the figures on the screen are ours, measured at snapshot - 08
What we set up
What we set up.
We put an assistant on a machine in your building. It reads your inbox, reminds, reports, and switches things on and off. Your data stays with you. There is no monthly cloud bill. When something breaks, the person who built it fixes it.
- 01
Lead response
A new enquiry gets an acknowledgement and a scoping email within the hour, any time of day.
Live on this site since 5 September 2026. Every lead lands in our own inbox with a message to our phone.
No agent talks to your customers. It writes the draft; you decide what goes further.
Once-off - 02
Inbox triage and draft replies
Every email read, filed and answered in draft before you open your laptop.
Runs on our own inbox: 206 emails filed and 94 replies drafted in the 30 days to 13 September 2026.
A person sends. The agent never does.
Setup, then monthly - 03
Team WhatsApp assistant
Staff ask a question on WhatsApp and get an answer from your own records. No new app.
The same agent answers us on WhatsApp, Telegram and by voice: 22 796 runs since December 2025.
Read-only from chat. It cites the record or says it does not know.
Setup, then monthly - 04
Document vault and search
Invoices, contracts and statements go in once. A question gets an answer with the source.
Our own vault indexes every upload on local models. Nothing leaves the machine.
Scoped to the document types we agree on. Every answer shows where it came from.
Setup, then monthly - 05
One-screen reporting
One screen for what is happening and a report on schedule, instead of five logins.
The console on our home page is that screen. Three panels, refreshed from the stack before every deploy.
Every report states its source and the time it was true.
Setup, then monthly - 06
Site sensors and switches
Power, temperature and equipment status read every few seconds. Switches you flip from your phone.
79 entities and 34 sensors on our own network, with energy monitors we built into the distribution board.
Alert thresholds agreed in writing. A licensed electrician signs off any wiring in a board. Nothing safety-related switches on its own.
Per site, plus hardware - 07
Custom sensor hardware
When the part does not exist on the shelf, we design and build the board.
ESP32 boards and purpose-built PCBs run in our own monitoring today.
Priced as a project. Lead time is weeks, and we say so up front.
Project - 08
Watch and fix
We watch what we built and fix known failures by playbook, before you notice.
Sentinel has applied 362 fixes on our own stack without a phone call.
Known failures only, with response times agreed per contract. No blanket promise.
Monthly add-on
Our own console
Three screens from our own stack.
Every figure measured on our own systems on 13 September 2026.
23k
automated runs since December 2025, 5 of 9 agents live
- Atlas Financial Analyst19 312
- Forge Autonomous Executor1 072
- Cipher Email Intelligence590
- Alfred Chief of Staff446
- Sage Deep Research30
206
emails read and sorted in 30 days
- replies drafted
- 94
- sent, approved
- 12
- threads watched
- 718
Actionable mail by category
- Billing 46
- Other 36
- High Priority 30
- Legal Documents 20
How we work
Consult, build, run.
01
Consult
We learn your business first. What are your people doing every day that they should not have to? We map it and scope only what is worth building.
02
Build
The agent, the workflows and any hardware go on your infrastructure, configured for how you actually work.
03
Run
We monitor it. You forget it is there. Support comes from the people who built it, not a helpdesk that has never seen your system.
How we think
How we think
No licences, no kits. We build systems, run them in our own business first, then offer them.
Start with the problem
No scope before we understand what is actually costing you time.
Run it ourselves first
Nothing ships to a client until it has run in our own business.
Your hardware, your data
Local models, local storage, your network. Nothing leaves unless you say so.
A person stays in the loop
Nothing goes out to a customer and nothing switches in a board without a person saying so.
Who it is for
Two ways in.
For businesses
Lead response, inbox triage, a WhatsApp assistant for staff and one screen for the day.
- 02Inbox triage and draft replies
- 03Team WhatsApp assistant
- 05One-screen reporting
For homes and workshops
Sensors and switches on your own network, boards we build when the part does not exist, and someone watching it.
- 06Site sensors and switches
- 07Custom sensor hardware
- 08Watch and fix
Start with a 30 minute conversation.
Tell us what is taking up your time. We say what is worth automating and what is not.