Fractional CTO · AI & automation
AI that does real work, not demos.
I map where your team loses time to repeatable document and data tasks, decide what’s worth automating, and build workflows that run reliably in production.
What it is
Not chatbots. I audit how your operations actually run, find where manual effort creates risk or delay, and automate it: document processing, data extraction, approval routing, compliance checks and report generation.
I use Claude’s API for the language-heavy steps and connect it to the systems you already have. Every workflow ships with logging and error alerts.
What I lead or deliver
AI adoption roadmap
A prioritised, costed plan for bringing AI into your operations: what to automate, when to build or buy, and how to manage the change internally.
Operations audit
A structured review of your workflows to find the automation candidates with the best return, by time saved, error rate or compliance risk.
Document intelligence
Extracting, classifying and routing PDFs, forms, invoices and compliance documents without manual data entry.
Approval and data pipelines
Trigger-based workflows and scheduled data pipelines that keep your systems and reports up to date.
Visibility in AI search
Structuring your content so ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google’s AI Overviews cite you when prospects ask.
A short example
Accordium: food safety compliance, automated
Real-time IoT sensor data, automatic HACCP log generation, corrective-action routing and audit report export, replacing manual paper logs and fridge checks.
Read the Accordium case studyTell me what you’re working on.
Every conversation starts with understanding your business. No pitch, no pressure.
1 hour · R850, or 45 minutes · R550 · remote or in person, same price
or email henry@erzo.co.zaSouth African time (SAST, UTC+2). I reply to every message myself, within 24 hours.
