About · Nu Ai (Pty) Ltd

South Africa's
AI-native business platform.

Built here. For here. By a team that believes the four-system tax small operators pay every day is solvable.

The entity

Nu Ai (Pty) Ltd

South African private company
Nu Ai (Pty) Ltd

Founded 2025. CIPRO registered. Building the AI-native business operating system that South African specialty operators, dispensaries, food & beverage tenants, and franchise groups run their businesses on.

Single product. Single platform. Tenant signs up, picks an industry, customises via wizard, runs their entire business from one integrated console — customer-facing website, operator portal, financials, inventory, HR, compliance, AI assistance.

Region   South Africa
Founded   2025
Stage   Pre-scale, three canary tenants live
Hosting   Vercel + Supabase eu-west-1
What NuAi is

An operations stack, not a feature collection.

NuAi is one product, one login, one brand per tenant. Customer-facing website plus operator console plus financials plus inventory plus HR plus compliance plus AI — wired through one shared data model and one identity layer.

The intelligence layer is the substrate. AI reads supplier invoices on ingest. AI watches margin drift. AI scores reorders. AI proposes stock transfers between stores. AI is not a chatbot bolted onto a CRUD app — it's the engine that runs the operations.

The platform

Production-tested. Multi-tenant by construction.

The platform is a single web application serving every tenant from a single Supabase project, isolated by row-level security. One DB, one auth surface, one AI gateway, distinct industry skins.

Industries

Four industry profiles

Cannabis dispensary (SAHPRA-led), food & beverage (HACCP-led), general retail, cannabis retail. Each industry has its own waterfall, its own compliance surface, its own visual identity.

Portals

Seven portals live

HQ Command Centre · Tenant Portal (industry-adaptive) · Admin Dashboard · HR Suite · Consumer Storefront · Staff Self-Service · Group Portal. Different audiences, shared design system.

AI substrate

One AI gateway

Every AI feature routes through one Edge Function. Document ingest, loyalty intelligence, F&B weekly briefs, geo analytics, ProteaAI assistant — all on one substrate, all observable.

Compliance depth

Eight regulatory regimes

SAHPRA Section 21 · R638 of 2018 · POPIA · IFRS · SARS VAT201 · HMAC document fingerprinting · BCEA labour · DAFF nutrition. Wired into the data layer, not bolted on later.

See the partner-facing platform deep-dive →

Production evidence

Built with three canary tenants.

No fake customer logos. No staged demo numbers. Just real production runs across multiple weeks of operation.

Three canary tenants on real production data

One cannabis dispensary, one food & beverage operator, one specialty retail tenant. Multi-week production runs across 14,000+ stock movements, 7,200+ orders processed, 206 SAHPRA-compliant dispensing events, IFRS-balanced books with auditor-grade general journal posting (Dr cash → Cr sales by revenue account → Cr VAT payable → Dr COGS → Cr inventories), trial balance reconciles to the cent.

Every number above is queryable from the live database. We are not pre-revenue — we are pre-scale.

No customer logos shown. No fake testimonials. The canary tenant evidence is the proof that the platform runs end-to-end on real operations.

Talk to us.

Whether you're a tenant evaluating the platform, a partner exploring an integration, or just curious what an AI-native business operating system actually looks like — we'd be happy to walk you through it.

Book a Demo → Partnership inquiry →