Khayalo
Public & nonprofit pack

Serving the public, without losing Tuesdays to email.

Khayalo's public and nonprofit pack handles citizen queries, form guidance, and funder reporting. Multilingual across English, isiZulu, isiXhosa, Afrikaans, and Sesotho. Your team spends the day on complex cases, not the first hundred questions.

Pains we solve

Does any of this sound like your Tuesday?

Front-desk staff answering 'which form do I need for X' a hundred times a week.
Applicants giving up halfway through a form because nobody was available to help.
Grant deadlines missed because the reminder was in somebody's Outlook and they left.
Quarterly funder reports written from scratch every time, with the same numbers rearranged.
What's in the pack

6 systems, built and tuned for public and nonprofit organisations.

Citizen query handler

Services, hours, forms, eligibility. Answered via WhatsApp or web chat in the citizen's language.

Form guidance

Walks applicants through SASSA, RDP housing, business licensing, school applications. Flags missing information before submission.

Grant deadline reminders

Every grant on your calendar, with tiered reminders and a draft drawn from last year's successful application.

Funder reporting drafts

Quarterly and annual reports drafted from your programme data. Officer approves and sends.

Multilingual support

Replies in the citizen's language. English, isiZulu, isiXhosa, Afrikaans, Sesotho at launch. Others on request.

Appointment booking

Public services with appointment queues can book, rebook, and send reminders. Reduces walk-in congestion.

Typical outcome
80% of routine queries handled without a human touch

For a mid-sized municipal customer service office running the full pack.

Baseline ~5 000 queries a month with 20 FTE eaten by repetitive questions. Dropping to ~1 000 queries needing human touch frees ~15 FTE for complex cases and long-form responses. Illustrative, based on comparable engagements.
Plugs into what you use

We speak your stack.

GovChatEverlyticGrantAssistGoogle WorkspaceMicrosoft 365WhatsApp Business

Not listed? We integrate new tools on request, typically within two weeks.

Compliance & trust

Built to satisfy the regulators you already answer to.

POPIA

Citizen data stored on SA infrastructure. No cross-border processing. Consent captured on first interaction.

PAIA

Access to information requests surfaced to the right officer with the 30-day statutory timer running automatically.

PFMA / MFMA

Public-sector financial accountability preserved. System never initiates a financial commitment on its own.

Rollout at your pace

Four phases. You decide how long each one runs.

Our recommendation10-day watch window for this pack. You can go shorter or longer during onboarding.
Phase 1 of 4
Watch window

Query handler listens silently. Daily digest shows what it would have answered, in English first.

Phase 2 of 4
First wave live

Query handler goes live in English. Form guidance starts as drafts for officer review.

Phase 3 of 4
Half stack live

Multilingual support activated across isiZulu, isiXhosa, Afrikaans, and Sesotho. Form guidance goes live.

Phase 4 of 4
Full pack live

Appointment booking, grant deadline tracking, and funder reporting switched on.

Questions partners ask us

The honest ones, answered honestly.

Does it comply with PAIA?

Yes. Requests that qualify as access-to-information requests are surfaced to the designated officer with the statutory timer running from the moment of receipt.

How does it handle complaints or political questions?

Complaints, political views, and anything contentious route straight to a human officer. The system handles admin, not representation.

What languages are supported?

English, isiZulu, isiXhosa, Afrikaans, Sesotho at launch. Setswana, Sepedi, and Xitsonga on request. The model reads and replies in the citizen's language; staff see the translation in English.

Can nonprofits get a discount?

Yes. Registered NPOs (18A or NPO Act registered) get a material discount. Contact us with your registration number.

What about sensitive cases (GBV, child protection)?

Keywords and patterns trigger immediate human escalation and the system stops. These cases never wait in a queue. They go straight to a designated officer.

Start your watch window for public and nonprofit organisations.

Assessment takes four minutes. First drafts land in your daily digest within 24 hours.