Flowing currents of light revealing patterns in cool teal and subtle green

Keep it secure. Make data-driven decisions.

Monitor, refine, reinvent. The half of the engagement that begins after go-live and never ends: security, data agents, telemetry, and the ability to act on both.

Activity · Operate

Operate.

Run, support, secure, monitor. The day-to-day discipline of a system that someone is paying attention to.

What we build

Representative offerings.

How we work

The shape of an engagement.

01

Monitor

Where the data is, who owns it, what it is allowed to be used for. The unglamorous question that saves six months later.

02

Support

The lakehouse, the contracts, the dashboards, kept running with the people who depend on them.

Activity · Optimise

Optimise.

Refine, adopt, reinvent. Continuous improvement driven by telemetry and the conversations that telemetry triggers.

What we build

Representative offerings.

How we work

The shape of an engagement.

01

Measure

Calibrated to the actual decisions being made, not vanity metrics.

02

Iterate

A live data product is never finished. We stay close to the people using it.

our work

Our customer stories from your world.

Modernising enterprise service management with a SaaS-first, omnichannel platform

Fashion Retailer

Fashion Retailer

First Digital runs a major fashion retailer’s enterprise service management on Freshworks Freshservice, from Azure single sign-on to WhatsApp live chat, across roughly 1,400 agents.

Enterprise Service Management

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FreshserviceFreshchatJourneysSelf-service portal
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Taking public servants from Zero to Copilot Chat Hero

Multiple public sector clients

Our First Campus Zero to AI Copilot Hero programme, run with Microsoft, took public sector teams from AI fundamentals to confidently using Copilot Chat, Microsoft 365 Copilot and their own agents, with a managed-service follow-up so the adoption stuck.

Copilot Adoption & Enablement

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Zero to AI HeroCopilotCopilot ChatCopilot Agents
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Making Agri & Food teams go from Zero to AI Hero

Multiple agri & food clients

Our First Campus Zero to AI Copilot Hero programme, run with Microsoft, took agri and food teams from AI fundamentals to confidently using Copilot Chat, Microsoft 365 Copilot and their own agents, with a managed-service follow-up so the adoption stuck.

Copilot Adoption & Enablement

FDX - Train & Certify logo
Zero to AI HeroCopilotCopilot ChatCopilot Agents
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Bespoke Power Apps and Microsoft 365 training for a national hotel chain

National Hotel Chain

National Hotel Chain

We built and delivered training tailored to a national hotel chain’s own Power Apps and Microsoft 365 setup, and trained the team on Power Apps governance and best practice, so staff could use the tools the business had rolled out and keep the estate secure and maintainable.

Power Apps & Microsoft 365 Training

FDX - Train & Certify logo
Power AppsMicrosoft 365Governance & Best PracticeHands-on Labs
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Private inference, local currency, global impact

International Marketing Group

We moved an international marketing group’s generative-AI inference off public cloud onto our private NVIDIA GPU cluster, so their data and token generation stay local, they pay in local currency, and they run cheaper after hours.

Private AI Inference

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NVIDIA CUDAPyTorchOpen-source LLMPrivate GPU Cluster
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Private token, no per-seat cost, company wide impact!

First Technology

First Technology

We gave First Technology staff local AI chat and agentic desktop agents running on our private NVIDIA GPU cluster, so the data and token generation stay local, the bill is in local currency, and responses come back fast.

Private AI Inference

FDX - Apex (GPU) logo
NVIDIA CUDAPyTorchOpen-source LLMPrivate GPU Cluster
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Cutting a two-month NPC model training run down to size for Vector Gaming

Vector Gaming

Vector Gaming needed serious GPU horsepower to train a custom 350-million-parameter model for smarter game NPCs. We put our private GPU cluster behind their Vulkan-based distributed trainer and cut a two-month run down to a fraction of that.

Capability

Practice

Distributed Model Training

FDX - Apex (GPU) logo
C#Vulkan350M-parameter LLMDistributed GPU Training
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Mapping HR processes to prepare for automation

Property & Assets Group

We ran our Process Practice to map, optimise and govern a property and assets group’s HR processes in Nintex Process Manager, giving them the visibility they were missing and a clear path to automation.

Process Mapping & Optimisation

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Process MappingProcess GovernanceNintex Process ManagerAutomation
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Mapping deep-shaft HR processes for automation in Nintex Process Manager

Deep-shaft Mining Company

We mapped, optimised and governed a deep-shaft mining company’s HR processes in Nintex Process Manager, turning fragmented manual workflows into a navigable, automation-ready set of processes.

Nintex Process Manager

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Nintex Process ManagerProcess MappingProcess GovernanceDashboards & Reports
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First Digital creates a full digital experience for blood donors

WCBS

Over five years, First Digital turned Western Cape Blood Services into Africa’s first fully digital, end-to-end blood-donation ecosystem, a Microsoft-recognised, AI-powered platform that registers donors 60% faster and answers them around the clock.

Digital & App Innovation

.NET MAUIAzure OpenAIAzure Cognitive ServicesAzure
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A DevOps blueprint for a hospital group’s project teams

Hospital Group

A disciplined virtual team and a custom Azure DevOps blueprint that brought consistent delivery to one of South Africa’s largest hospital groups.

Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
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A Microsoft 365 Fast-Track rollout for the NHLS

National Health Laboratory

National Health Laboratory

A Fast-Track rollout of Microsoft 365 across the NHLS, getting a traditionally on-premises national lab service ready for secure remote work during the pandemic.

Microsoft 365 Fast-Track

Microsoft 365Exchange OnlineSharePoint OnlineMicrosoft Teams
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Listening to patients at Busamed with a Power Apps discharge survey

Busamed

A custom Power Apps solution that captures patient feedback at discharge across Busamed’s hospitals, with SAP integration and live Power BI insight for managers.

Power Platform

Power AppsSharePoint OnlinePower BISAP
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Automating policy creation for Assupol with Nintex K2

Assupol

A low-code Nintex K2 workflow that automates policy creation from end to end, with level-based approvals, reminders and escalations, across Assupol’s business systems.

Capability

Practice

Nintex Process Automation

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Nintex K2K2 SmartForms
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Tightening audit and governance with Nintex K2 and ServiceNow

International petrochemical

A Nintex K2 and ServiceNow integration that gave a petrochemical company a full audit trail of every change from development to production.

Capability

Practice

Nintex Process Automation

Nintex logo
Nintex K2ServiceNow
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Stabilising a retailer’s BizTalk integration layer

A South African retailer

An agile, structured rescue of a retailer’s BizTalk environment that cleared recurring integration errors and lifted system performance by a third.

Capability

Practice

Application Innovation

BizTalk ServerIntegration Services
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Modernising a complex retail integration landscape through a structured BizTalk uplift

Pharmacy & Retail Group

A phased BizTalk uplift that stabilised a national retailer’s legacy integration estate across point-of-sale, warehouse, finance and supplier systems, without disrupting daily trade.

Application Innovation

BizTalk ServerEnterprise Service BusOrchestrationAPI enablement
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A Microsoft Fabric data warehouse for Talksure

Talksure

A secure, scalable Microsoft Fabric data warehouse on Azure that gives Talksure a single, accurate view of their data to drive decisions.

Data & AI

Microsoft FabricPower BIAzure SQL
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A central data warehouse for Belgotex on Microsoft Fabric

Belgotex

A central, modelled data warehouse that pulls Belgotex’s scattered data into one place to report from, with room to take in factory IoT data later.

Power Business Decisions with Cloud Scale Analytics

Microsoft FabricAzure SQLPower BI
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Automating data enablement for GroupM

GroupM

An end-to-end pipeline that automates GroupM’s data gathering and reporting, so their teams spend their time on analysis instead of assembling spreadsheets.

Power Business Decisions with Cloud Scale Analytics

Power BIAzure Data FactorySSISAzure SQL
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A modern data warehouse for an agricultural supplier

Large food to fork biz

A modern, centralised data warehouse on Azure that gave an agricultural supplier a single, trusted source of data and a way off QlikView.

Power Business Decisions with Cloud Scale Analytics

Microsoft FabricAzure SynapsePower BI
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Trusted reporting for South African Parliament’s catering division

South African Parliament

South African Parliament

A governed reporting pipeline and Power BI dashboards that gave Parliament trusted, timely point-of-sale insight to manage its catering division.

Power Business Decisions with Cloud Scale Analytics

Azure SQLSSISPower BIOracle
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