Services / AI App Development
Put AI to work on the jobs your team repeats every day.
I find the one job worth automating, build it with checks you can see, and stay accountable for the result.
Does this sound like you?
This is usually where the AI conversation starts.
- “Everyone tells us to use AI. Nobody’s told us where to start.”
- “We keep writing the same customer replies and the same pages, over and over.”
- “We want people, and AI answers like ChatGPT, to actually find us when they search.”
- “We don’t know what happens to our information once it goes into an AI tool.”
- “Someone built us something with AI, and I’m not sure it’s actually right.”
What I’d do.
Find the one job worth trying.
Tell me the paperwork, replies or searches eating your team’s time. We pick a single task to test AI on, not a whole department.
See it work on your own examples.
You get real output on real invoices, replies or documents, with your team checking every result before it’s trusted with more.
Keep a person in charge, after launch too.
Once it’s running, I stay responsible for it. You always know who checks the AI’s work and who to call if something looks wrong.
Proof.
These are the AI systems I run my own business on. I depend on them every day, so I know where AI helps and where a person still has to check.
AI finds the right businesses and drafts the email. I approve every one.
Prospector researches businesses that fit, reads what they already have, and drafts a message based on what it found. Nothing is sent until a person clicks Approve.
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My proposals are drafted and checked by AI, then released by me.
Truescope turns a client conversation into a priced proposal. It checks the sums, the scope and every promise before I see it, and nothing reaches a client until I release it.
- Newsnet AI Drafter, for a US news companyAI drafts the story from a live feed, and a journalist checks it before anything is published. See the project
- SEO AI ToolboxFinds what people are actually searching for, and helps pages earn a place in the results.
“Anton is very knowledgeable and great at explaining technicality in a straightforward way. I recommend a consultation with Anton before you get going so you can have a clear path of work.”
Ushi PatelFounder
How it starts, and what it costs.
You’re never committed to more than one piece.
- A free conversation.Tell me the business, who your customer is, and the job you want AI to do.
- The written plan.Which job AI should do first, what it will cost to run, where your data goes, and a fixed quote for that first piece. Fixed fee, agreed in writing before it starts, and credited against the first piece. The plan is yours to keep.
- One working piece, at a fixed price.What I quote is what you pay for the agreed scope. Every piece after it is quoted before it starts, and you can stop after any piece and keep what’s built.
Engagements are scoped after the consultation, never before.
I review every enquiry myself, and I’ll say so on the call if it isn’t a fit.
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How I build AI into a business
Each AI tool I build is a pipeline, not a prompt. It works in stages, with a check at every stage, a fixed set of facts it’s allowed to use, and a person approving the output before it goes anywhere. I run my own business on tools built this way, every day, so I know where AI helps and where it gets things confidently wrong.
- Retrieval over your own records: answers drawn from your documents, orders or customer history, not from whatever the model remembers.
- Structured extraction: the details pulled out of invoices, forms and emails into fields your systems can use, with the doubtful ones flagged for a person.
- Approval steps: drafts wait in a queue until someone on your team approves, edits or rejects them. Nothing reaches a customer on its own.
- Decided with you first: which model, what it costs to run, and where your data is stored, agreed before anything is built.
If a rule, a formula or a better form would do the job, you don’t need AI, and I’ll say so.
What I’ve built
- Newsnet AI Drafter, for a US news company: AI drafts the story from a live feed, and a journalist checks it before anything is published. See the Newsnet project.
- Prospector: researches businesses that fit, reads what they already have, and drafts outreach. Nothing is sent until I approve it.
- Truescope: turns a client conversation into a proposal and checks the sums, the scope and every promise. Nothing reaches a client until I release it.
- Site Intelligence, SEO AI Toolbox, and tools for marketing planning, financial and legal case assessment: each one handles a single job in my own business. See the AI apps I’ve built.
These are tools I use, not products I sell. There’s no signup and no licence. What I sell is the same way of working, built into your business: in your accounts, ownership agreed in writing, and it ships with a handover pack.
Background
26 years in IT, and software that has to actually run: e-commerce systems for WooCommerce and Shopify shops across South Africa, the UK, Europe, the US and Australia, and BX1X, my own business platform with 1,900+ endpoints across billing, e-commerce, inventory, bookings and CRM. Over ten years running my own IT businesses (2002 to 2013) means I see AI from the owner’s side too: what it costs, what it saves, and who deals with the customer when it’s wrong.
- 26years in IT
- 10+custom AI applications built
- 10years running my own businesses
- 1,900+BX1X platform endpoints
How the engagement runs
- The written plan: one job, the examples it will be tested on, what it costs to run, and a fixed quote for the first piece.
- The first piece: that one job working on your own examples, with your team approving every result.
- After that: more of the job is trusted to it only as the results earn it, one quoted piece at a time.
You deal with me from the first conversation to the handover. Your accounts are in your name from day one, and every project ships with a handover pack, as agreed in the scope.
Specialist terms
Also described as: AI app developer, AI pipeline developer, custom AI applications.
More background
- About Anton, the full story.
- Full project portfolio.
- Client reviews.
- Blog.
- General site FAQ.
Questions owners ask.
Is this just ChatGPT with a nice screen around it?
No. Each tool is built with stages, checks and a person reviewing the result. It’s engineered software that I use in my own business every day, not a weekend of prompting.
What does an AI app developer actually do?
I design, build and run AI tools as proper software, with stages, checks and a person reviewing the output. It’s software engineering and applied AI together, not just writing prompts.
Why can’t I just buy the tools myself?
They’re the tools I run my own business on, not products. There’s no signup and no monthly plan. What I build for you is the same approach, in your accounts, for the job your team repeats, with a person checking the output.
Is my information safe if we start using AI?
There’s no shared platform or public account your information sits inside. Which tools we use, and where anything is stored, is agreed with you before anything is built, and a person checks the output before it reaches your customers.
Will this actually help us show up in Google or in AI answers like ChatGPT?
It can help. I make your pages clear, honest and easy to read for people, for search engines and for AI systems. Nobody, including me, can promise a specific ranking or that an AI answer will mention you. We measure what actually happens over time.
How is this different from an SEO agency or a content writer?
I build a system, in stages, with proof at each stage, aimed at one goal at a time. No account managers, and no endless content treadmill.
Can you guarantee a first-page Google ranking?
No one can honestly promise that, and I won’t. What I can do is make your pages clear and honest for people, search engines and AI systems, and measure what actually happens.
What do you need from us to start?
A short description of your business, who your customer is, and the problem or search you want to win. We work out the rest on the first call.
What markets do you work in?
I’m based in Cape Town, South Africa, and I work with businesses here and internationally. The approach isn’t tied to one country, it’s tied to the problem you’re trying to solve.
Related help.
Tell me the job your team repeats most. I’ll tell you if AI should do it.
+27 87 150 9305Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 20:00 SAST. Or email info@antondevilliers.com.