Sovereign by design
Your data does not leave without your permission. PII scrubbing, sovereign models for the most sensitive work, intelligent routing for everything else. Compliance becomes architecture.
AI strategy and implementation for 15–500-person firms in the UK and South Africa
Most AI projects fail on plumbing, not technology.
Your team wants to use AI on the work that matters: client files, board packs, the processes you've spent years refining. Your contracts, your data and your systems won't let them. We map how your business really runs, fix what's underneath, then put a private AI platform inside the Microsoft 365 you already use. Sometimes the right answer is to fix the ERP first. We'll tell you.
1,800+ hours a year back for the HR team of a 3,400-person group · Invoice cycle cut from 11 days to 3–5 for a 35-person repair business
Why Edaiga
A safe place to do the AI work that matters.
Most AI failures are not technology problems. They are plumbing problems dressed up as technology problems. We start with the layer underneath, and we do not centre ourselves in your story.
Vendor-agnostic model routing
The SIE sits behind an intelligent routing layer. When a better model ships next quarter, we swap it in without you rewriting a single workflow. You keep the workflows you have built; only the model behind the gateway changes.
Humans in the loop
Every automated workflow has approval gates. Every AI-generated draft is flagged for human review before it reaches a client. The platform supports the judgement of your people, it does not substitute for it.
Alongside your team
We will not assume your team is the problem. They almost never are. The aim is durable capacity in your team, not a dependency on us. How we work.
Our Work
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Seven engagements. Same pattern: fix the foundation, then add AI where it pays.
Aviation MRO
When the plumbing came first.
180-person Southern African aviation group, 80% of parts quotes bypassing the system. We ran the assessment and walked them to a Pentagon2000 selection before AI got anywhere near it. 12,368 hours a year reclaimed (projected).
Enterprise HR
From perpetual heroism to systemic capacity.
3,400-person UK technology services group, sixteen disconnected systems, a 200-employee data discrepancy nobody could close. We attacked the highest-volume manual tasks first and reclaimed 1,800+ hours in Phase 1 alone.
About Edaiga
Who's behind Edaiga
We work with 15–500-person firms in the UK and South Africa that want AI on confidential work without handing that work to someone else. We fix the plumbing first, then put a private AI platform inside the Microsoft 365 they already run.
Jean Pierre Kloppers has spent the last decade building and running technology companies and advising the leaders of others. He is the author of Start With AI, and founded Edaiga with Ryan Harington. Ryan scaled Divergence Capital from 100 to 300 clients without a single client loss, and was COO of BrandsEye through its growth and acquisition.
Insights
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Field notes.
Field notes
What every business is actually wrestling with
Most weeks, Ryan and I sit on a call with a leadership team that has been thinking about AI for the better part of a year and is still no closer to a settled answer. The script barely changes.
ApproachHow we partner
Overview of how we partner: listen first, map the real workflows, then build where it pays. Canonical detail lives on our Methodology page.
PlatformOur solutions: the Sovereign Intelligence Engine
Overview of the Sovereign Intelligence Engine: private AI inside your Microsoft 365. Full detail on the SIE service page.
Featured Read
What every business is actually wrestling with.
Most weeks, Ryan and I sit on a call with a leadership team that has been thinking about AI for the better part of a year and is still no closer to a settled answer. The script barely changes.
Underneath the differences, every business we sit with is wrestling with roughly the same four things at once. None of them are the things LinkedIn fixates on.
If you cannot easily find your data, classify your data, or trust the rails it runs on, you do not have an AI problem. You have a plumbing problem dressed up as one.
JP's Book
Start With AI
The Essential Playbook for Leading in an AI-Driven World. Built around A.I.D.E., grounded in real cases.
Buy on AmazonNot sure whether your problem is AI or plumbing?
Book 30 minutes with Ryan. He'll ask how work moves through your business, where it sticks and what you've already tried, then tell you straight whether we can help. If we can't, we'll say so and suggest who can.