AI strategy & audit
A clear, prioritised roadmap tied to business outcomes — not hype. We find the highest-ROI use cases and the ones to leave alone.
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POPIA-ready AI adoption for South African teams
Put AI to work in your business — the compliant way.
IRP Business Solutions helps South African payroll, HR and operations teams adopt AI that actually ships — governed, POPIA-aligned, and built around how your business really runs. We don't just advise. We've built and deployed the real thing.
Real AI products we've designed, built and shipped
PeopleGPT
XPSkool
AIVA
Sage 300 People WhatsApp
DIP
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AI products live in production
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Compliance built in from day one
What we do
End-to-end AI, grounded in your business
Strategy through to shipped software — plus the governance layer nobody else in the market leads with.
Knowledge assistants (RAG)
Assistants that answer from your documents and systems — sourced, accurate and current. This is PeopleGPT, applied to your knowledge.
See PeopleGPTWhatsApp & conversational automation
Meet staff and customers where they already are. Booking, self-service and support over WhatsApp — the way AIVA and our Sage self-service assistant do.
See AIVADocument intelligence
Turn contracts, forms and PDFs into structured, searchable, actionable data — extraction, classification and Q&A. This is DIP.
See DIPPayroll & HR AI integration
Deep Sage 300 People and payroll domain knowledge, fused with AI — automation and answers that respect how payroll and compliance actually work.
Why this is differentAI governance, POPIA & security
The pillar the rest of the market skips. Consent, data handling, retention and security designed in — so AI adoption doesn't become a compliance risk.
How we handle your data
The IRP difference
AI expertise × payroll & compliance depth
Shipped AI products
Payroll & HR domain
- AI consultancies don't understand payroll, HR or POPIA.
- Payroll firms don't build and ship real AI.
- As a subdivision of iRunPayroll, IRP is the bridge — and we can prove it.
Why teams choose us
We've already run your payroll. Now we bring the AI.
Most AI consultants hand you a slide deck. Most payroll providers hand you software. IRP does both — because we come from iRunPayroll, we understand SARS submissions, Sage 300 People, leave rules and the compliance stakes before we write a line of AI.
That means AI that fits your real processes, respects your data obligations, and gets adopted — instead of a proof-of-concept that never leaves the lab. It's the difference between advice and outcomes.
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Proof, not promises
AI we've actually built and shipped
While others show stock photos, we show working products in production. Here's a selection.
Live in production
PeopleGPT
Sage 300 People RAG assistant
Instant, sourced answers to HR & payroll questions — no waiting on a support ticket. Retrieval-augmented over your documentation, in plain language.
RAGSage 300 PeopleKnowledge AI
Live in production
AIVA
WhatsApp AI booking assistant
A conversational assistant that handles bookings and enquiries over WhatsApp — natural language in, confirmed actions out, no app to install.
WhatsAppConversational AIAutomation
Live in production
Sage 300 People WhatsApp Self-Service
Employee self-service over WhatsApp
Payslips, leave applications and HR requests handled straight from WhatsApp — self-service that reaches every employee, not just desk workers.
WhatsAppPayroll/HRSelf-service
Platform
XPSkool
Learning & community platform
A full web platform build — product, data and delivery — showing our range beyond assistants into complete applications.
Live in production
DIP
Document Intelligence Platform
Turns unstructured documents into structured, searchable data — extraction, classification and question-answering across contracts, forms and PDFs.
Document AIExtractionMulti-tenant
Capability
Trading & operations AI
CarlOps · CarlRecon · AI Tradebot
Operations tooling and an algorithmic trading assistant — evidence that our AI work spans well beyond HR into operations and finance.
OperationsAutomationFintech
Plus confidential enterprise work.
We're currently delivering a confidential enterprise procurement AI engagement. Details are under NDA — but it's a measure of the scale of problem we take on.
How we work
From audit to shipped, in three steps
Low-risk to start, governed all the way through.
1
Free AI audit
We map your processes, data and best-fit use cases, then hand you a prioritised, honest roadmap — including what not to automate. No cost, no obligation.
2
Governed pilot
We build a focused, POPIA-aligned pilot on your highest-ROI use case — real data, real users, measurable results — with governance and security baked in.
3
Ship & scale
We productionise, integrate and support it — then extend to the next use case. You get shipped software and local accountability, not a slide deck.
Credibility
Backed by a real payroll business
IRP Business Solutions is a subdivision of iRunPayroll — an established South African cloud payroll and compliance provider.
POPIA-aligned by design
Division of iRunPayroll
Sage 300 People expertise
Free AI audit
Find your highest-ROI AI opportunity — free
In a focused session we assess where AI will genuinely move the needle in your business, and where it won't. You walk away with a clear, prioritised roadmap — whether or not you work with us.
- A prioritised use-case shortlist ranked by ROI and effort.
- A POPIA & data-readiness check so you adopt AI without the compliance risk.
- An honest verdict — including what to leave alone. No hard sell.
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Questions
Straight answers
The things South African businesses ask us most.
Yes — governance and POPIA alignment are built into every engagement, not bolted on. We design consent, data handling, retention and security up front, keep your data appropriately isolated, and are transparent about any third-party processors involved. It's the pillar we lead with.
Our aim is to remove repetitive load — answering the same payroll questions, chasing forms, re-keying data — so your people spend time on work that actually needs a human. We're candid in the audit about what should and shouldn't be automated.
We start with a focused pilot on one high-value use case, so the lift is small and the value is visible fast. Because we know Sage 300 People and payroll systems first-hand, integration is far less painful than starting from scratch with a generic AI vendor.
No. Your data is used to serve your assistant and workflows. We don't repurpose your business or employee data to train general models, and we document exactly how data flows in every engagement.
Not at all. You don't need an enterprise budget or a data-science team. We scope to your size and start where the return is clearest — many of our products serve exactly this market.
The initial AI audit is free. Beyond that, we scope each pilot and build to your use case and budget and quote transparently before any work begins — no open-ended surprises. (Confirm final pricing model before launch.)
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