How retailers and distributors use AI across stock, sales, customer messages, and the day-to-day of running a counter or a warehouse.
A quick demonstration: a badly-lit, angled photo of a carbon-copy delivery note, turned into clean typed data in seconds. Stage 2 works on real paper, not just tidy files - with one thing you must always check.
Comparing supplier quotes by eye is slow and easy to get wrong - different formats, hidden extras, different units. Upload them and get one clear table in two minutes. A simple, repeatable stage 2 win.
A walk through writing a whole product catalogue with an AI assistant - the messy input, the prompt that worked, the output, and the ones we had to fix. This is stage 1: AI as a fast, capable assistant you brief and check.
We build the systems we write about - for retail, clinics, workshops and property businesses across Africa. Tell us what you run, and we will tell you honestly where AI would help and where it would not.
