7 SA Operators Doing Insane Things with AI | The Open Letter Live

Live stream /Cape Town /Thu 4 June 2026 /17:30 SAST

7 SA Operators
Doing Insane
Things With AI

South Africa leads Africa's AI adoption. But the most interesting work isn't making headlines. It's happening inside the operations of founders quietly building with it every day. On Thursday, they take the stage in Cape Town, and you can watch every minute live.

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The lineup

The Operators Actually Shipping With AI

These are founders and operators building real things with AI inside real SA businesses, the kind of work you don't usually get to see. Here are some of them.

Philip Joubert

Co-founder, Magic Safari

Built SuperDojo, where you hire AI versions of top strategists, marketers and product leads and deploy them as your team. And that's just the side project.

Nick Mills

Founder, Community Wolf

A safety platform in an industry with almost zero infrastructure. AI lets his small team do the work of one 10x the size.

Simon Ellis

Founder, Jem HR

Last week, 73% of Jem's engineering support tickets closed autonomously. His sales team runs 5 AI agents in parallel, pulling live data across HubSpot, Notion and Google Calendar.

Dr McElory Hoffmann

CEO, Praelexis

Builds Intelligene, which turns your genetic profile into lifestyle recommendations that update as new research drops, and Ria, a voice-first app that turns elders' life stories into biographies their families can read.

Dirren Subbiah

Head of Data Ecosystems, ShopriteX

Helped unlock substantial value from AI-driven price discovery at one of Africa's largest retailers.

Alex Shabala

Group Head of Data Science, Capitec

Played a key role in deploying Capitec Pulse AI.

Hosted by

Renier Kriel

Renier used AI to double ARR in one part of his business and built a platform where SA ventures trade R100k+ in a single day. He puts all of them on one stage and pulls out what usually stays behind closed doors: the workflows, the failures, and the numbers behind the numbers.

2xARR in one part of the business, using AI

R100k+traded in a single day on a platform he built

No fluff. Just real use cases, practical insight, and a room full of people building.

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Receipts, not hype

Real use cases, real numbers and real failures from people actually shipping with AI.

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