AfriDroids Robotics · South Africa

Sawubona. Molo. Hallo. Dumela. Avuxeni. Lotjhani. Hello. Sawubona. AI that onboards
your people
in their own words.

af·ri·droids /ˈæf.rɪ.drɔɪdz/ noun

Workplace AI built for how Africa actually hires. Our first product, AIVA, turns a three-hour paper onboarding into a ten-minute conversation — in eleven languages, on the phone already in your worker's pocket.

Speaks 11 official South African languages, by voice and by chat.
Built on Gemynd · Powered by Google Cloud & Gemini
The flagship · AIVA

One assistant, the whole first day.

AIVA meets a new hire where they are — in the field, on their phone, in their language — and walks them from "first hello" to "signed and in the system" without a single form in a binder.

11 languages, natively

isiZulu, isiXhosa, Afrikaans, Sesotho, Setswana, Xitsonga and more — spoken and typed, not machine-translated afterthoughts.

Scan an ID, skip the forms

Gemini vision reads ID documents and qualifications, then auto-fills every field. The worker confirms; they don't transcribe.

Signed, sealed, compliant

Every signature carries a date-and-time stamp to the second, with a POPIA consent trail — audit-ready from day one.

Lives in WhatsApp

No app to install, no kiosk to queue for. Onboarding happens in the chat app every worker already has open.

Why this matters

The paperwork doesn't scale. The harvest doesn't wait.

A single operation can take on hundreds of seasonal workers in a few weeks. On paper, in one language, that's a bottleneck. With AIVA, it's one conversation that ends in a signed contract.

Paper, one language 3 hours
AIVA, in their language 10 minutes
  1. 01

    Hello

    A new hire opens WhatsApp in the field, and AIVA greets them in their own language — by voice or by chat.

    0:00
  2. 02

    Scan

    They photograph their ID. Gemini reads it and fills every form field — they confirm the details, they don't retype them.

    ~4 min
  3. 03

    Signed

    They review and sign. The contract is timestamped to the second and stored with a POPIA consent trail.

    10 min ✓

800+ hires in a single season  ·  11 languages, each in their own  ·  0 paper forms or re-typed data

The bigger picture

AIVA is the first droid. Not the last.

AfriDroids starts where the friction is loudest — the front door of employment. From there, the same playbook (AI that understands African workplaces, in African languages) extends across the working day: from onboarding, to field service, to the physical robots that will work alongside the people they help hire.

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Now

Onboarding Live

AIVA — multilingual hiring, deployed in the field.

Next

Field operations

AI assistants for service, dispatch and frontline work.

Soon

Document intelligence

Capture and automation across the back office.

Then

Embodied robotics

Physical droids for workplaces that need hands, not just answers.

Why us
30+
years inside African workplaces

“Three hours of paper becomes ten minutes of conversation — in eleven languages, signed and compliant before the day's work begins. We didn't import this and hope it fit. We built it from inside African workplaces, for how the continent actually hires.”

AfriDroids Robotics
Built on 30+ years inside African workplaces
Compliance-ready

Built for the LRA, BCEA & CCMA

AIVA is designed around South African labour requirements from day one — not bolted on after. Every onboarding interaction is logged, timestamped, and auditable. Multilingual delivery means compliance is never lost in translation.

Audit Trail

Every step timestamped and stored. Tamper-proof onboarding records ready for CCMA or Labour Court.

Multilingual by Default

Policy acknowledgements, contracts, and warnings delivered in the employee's own language — isiXhosa, Zulu, Afrikaans, and more.

E-Signature on Contracts

Digital sign-off with date, time, and seconds — compliant with SA electronic communications legislation.

LRA · BCEA · POPIA · EEA · CCMA Schedule 8

Get started

See AIVA onboard a real hire in ten minutes.

Book a live walkthrough and we'll run a new starter end to end — ID scan, signed contract, into your HR system — in the language of your choice.

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