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Field notes, reviews, and ideas from the Spiritus team — frontier AI for SADC business, written by the people building it.
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Request an articleAI Updates7 min read
How GPT-4o Is Reshaping SADC Supply Chains
Frontier multimodal models are no longer a Western luxury — we break down exactly where GPT-4o is creating leverage in Southern African logistics and procurement workflows.
M
Mako
Founder & AI Architect
Reviews9 min read
Claude 3.5 Sonnet Reviewed: Enterprise-Ready for Southern Africa?
We put Claude 3.5 Sonnet through its paces on real SADC business documents — contracts, RFPs, cross-border compliance forms. Here is what held up and what surprised us.
J
Jerome
Lead Engineer
Use Cases6 min read
Automating Vendor Onboarding with AI Agents
Manual vendor onboarding costs finance teams days per new supplier. We walk through the agentic workflow we built that cuts that to under two hours — no human in the loop for routine cases.
D
Donnovan
Solutions Engineer
Case Studies11 min read
Field Notes: Building an AI Workflow for a Zimbabwean Logistics Firm
Low bandwidth, inconsistent connectivity, mixed document formats. A look at the constraints we actually faced deploying an agentic system in Harare — and how we solved them.
J
Jolo
Product & Strategy
Ideology8 min read
Why Agentic AI Will Define the Next Decade in Africa
Africa’s infrastructure gap is not a liability for AI adoption — it is an accelerant. The regions that leapfrogged landlines for mobile will do the same with automation. Here is our thesis.
M
Mako
Founder & AI Architect
AI Updates10 min read
The State of AI Regulation in Southern Africa
SADC governments are moving — some faster than others. We map the current regulatory landscape, the gaps that matter for enterprise deployments, and what to watch in the next 12 months.
J
Jerome
Lead Engineer
Reviews12 min read
Gemini 1.5 Pro vs GPT-4o for Document Processing
Two frontier models, one task: extracting structured data from messy SADC trade documents. We ran 500 real documents through both. The results are not what you would expect.
D
Donnovan
Solutions Engineer
Use Cases8 min read
Deploying AI for Cross-Border Trade Compliance
SADC trade corridors involve up to nine document types per shipment. We built an agent that validates, flags, and routes compliance issues in real time. Here is the architecture.
J
Jolo
Product & Strategy
Case Studies14 min read
Lessons from Our First Enterprise Agent Deployment
Twelve weeks. One large client. More edge cases than we planned for. This is an honest account of what we learned shipping our first production agentic system into a Southern African enterprise.
M
Mako
Founder & AI Architect