Automate the busywork, keep the judgement.
SLK Projects is a Johannesburg studio that connects the tools South African businesses already run on and automates the manual work quietly costing you hours every week — reliably, and with your people still in the loop.
Indicative investment
R 38 000 – R 91 000
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Build my quoteMost South African teams lose a day a week to work a computer should be doing.
Not the interesting work — the copying, chasing and re-keying between systems that never quite talk to each other. It doesn't show up on an invoice, so it's easy to miss. It shows up as slower delivery, avoidable errors, and hiring for admin instead of growth.
- Your team re-keys the same data into two or three systems a day.
- The weekly report is still built by hand in a spreadsheet.
- Things slip through the cracks between sales, finance and delivery.
- You've hit the ceiling of what your off-the-shelf tools will connect to.
- Growth keeps meaning another admin hire, not another hire for the real work.
If two or three of those sound familiar, there's a clear automation case to be made.
Workflow automation (Make, n8n, custom)
API integrations between your systems
Internal dashboards & admin tools
Data pipelines & reporting
CRM, billing & ops automation
Monitoring, logging & alerting
Map the work
We map how work actually flows today — every handoff, every re-key, every place a person is quietly being a copy-paste bridge between two tools. The map is shared before anything is built.
Connect the stack
We wire the systems you already pay for into one flow — Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Xero, Sage, WhatsApp, your CRM, Paystack — using Make, n8n or custom code, whichever is cheapest and most reliable for the job.
Automate the busywork
The repetitive steps run themselves, prioritised by hours reclaimed versus effort to build. Anything that touches a customer or money keeps a human approval step — automation with the judgement left in.
Monitor & hand over
Monitoring, logging and alerting so you know it's working — not hoping. You get a runbook, a support window, and a system your team owns rather than one that owns you.
Hrs/week
Reclaimed from manual work
Fewer errors
From removed handoffs
One system
Tools that talk to each other
Business automation is using software to do the repetitive, rules-based work your team currently does by hand — moving data between systems, chasing approvals, generating reports, re-keying the same information. Done well it removes the busywork without removing the judgement: the goal is to give your people back the hours they lose to admin, not to replace them.
Let's build the system that runs your future.
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