About

Most AI agencies sell promises. We sell things you can see running.

Autonomic builds applied AI systems for South African small-to-medium businesses: the R1.5m to R20m band where there’s real operational complexity but no corporate procurement machine to wade through.

Why we exist

The local AI market is full of agencies promising to “transform your business.” Most of it is stock stats, demo videos, and pricing hidden behind a “contact us.” For a business owner who’s risk-averse for good reason, that’s hard to trust, because there’s nothing real to check.

We built Autonomic around the opposite instinct: show, don’t claim. We publish our prices. We point at systems already running in real businesses. And the very first thing you experience, the audit, is itself AI-led, so you see what we build before you commit to a build. Every claim we make is meant to be checkable against something real.

We’re deliberately narrow, too. We don’t chase every AI use case under the sun; we start with the few patterns we can deliver well and prove fast, and grow from there with each client.

The team

Who’s behind it

Justin Underhill

Founder & Principal AI Consultant

Leads Autonomic's AI strategy and delivery end to end, from scoping what's worth building to shipping the system itself. A product management and project-delivery background (PRINCE2) grounds the strategy; hands-on AI engineering credentials back the build. The same person advises and builds, so nothing gets lost in translation between the two.

Credentials
  • AI engineering: Qualified AI Engineer, with Anthropic-badged Claude training including AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations, co-badged with University College Cork
  • Strategy & delivery: PRINCE2 Foundation and a product management background

Find out what AI could take off your plate.

The audit is R3,000, fixed scope, and tells you exactly what's worth building, before you commit to building anything.

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