AI readiness for mining contractors

Find out what your data can carry before you spend on AI.

Neart helps engineering and contracting businesses that supply South African mines get their inspections, documents and quotes into shape, then put AI to work on them.

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Data foundations first. AI second.

Most contractors are told to buy AI. Few have the clean, connected data it needs. Inspection records sit on paper, certificates sit in inboxes, and the person who knows how quoting works is the system. We fix that first, so anything you build on top actually works.

Built for the people doing the work

A system nobody uses is worth nothing. We design for workshop and site staff: a QR code on the machine, a two-minute form on a tablet, records that file themselves. Management gets a clear view without chasing anyone.

Case study

Built and running at Calibre Engineering & Construction, Welkom

May 2026live in daily use since
20assets on digital inspection and defect tracking
700+machine inspections logged and searchable
1AI assistant answering management from live data

Operators scan a machine's QR code and complete its inspection on a tablet. Safety-critical defects lock the machine out and alert management. Every order carries a QR label that opens its document vault. The piping division quotes and tracks jobs from the same foundation.

Every inspection, defect and lockout is timestamped, attributed and retrievable in seconds.

CalAI on a phone answering 'Which machines have been checked today?' with a table of assets, operators and defects, and a note on the forklift's fuel level.
Management asks in plain language. CalAI answers from the live inspection log.
Spreadsheet of daily pre-use inspection responses for a truck, with timestamp, driver, odometer reading and checklist results.
Every pre-use inspection lands in one log: timestamped, attributed, searchable.
Automated lock-out alert email for a hydraulic press brake, listing the defect ID, defective item and the instruction not to operate the machine.
A safety-critical defect locks the machine out and emails management automatically.
Drive folder list of numbered traceability folders, one per order, inside the Calibre Traceability vault.
Each order gets its own traceability folder, opened from the QR label on the material.

The AI-Readiness Diagnostic

Three weeks to map how your work, inspections, quotes and documents really flow, test how usable your data is, and tell you plainly what to digitise and automate first.

  1. Week 1
    On site
    Walk-throughs with management, foremen, workshop and admin.
  2. Week 2
    Analysis
    Your systems, spreadsheets, forms and records, and where they break.
  3. Week 3
    Roadmap
    Written report, readiness scorecard and a 90-day plan ranked by effort and return.
Fixed fee · 3 weeks
From R45 000 excl. VAT

Fully credited against a Neart build if you go ahead within 60 days.

Book a 30-minute call Brendan Barnes hello@neart.co.za 083 377 8237

You own everything we build

  • Built in your own accounts from day one.
  • Every file, script, form and login handed over in full.
  • No lock-in, no licence we control.

Who we work with

Engineering, fabrication, piping, civil and plant-hire contractors that supply the mining houses, with a workshop or site crews and a growing pile of compliance paperwork.