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Operate as one.

Most companies have the right information somewhere and still make the wrong call. We connect the people, data, contracts, assets and workflows you already have into one operational truth, then turn that truth into governed action before impact.

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1 truth

Across every function

Weeks

To a live governed workflow

100%

Of decisions on the record

The Platform, Working

Every module, in ninety seconds each.

Short films of each part of the platform doing its job. Use the controls to jump to whichever one matters to you, or watch the full incident walkthrough to see how they behave together.

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Why We Exist

Industry digitised every function, and disconnected the company doing it

Each system can hold exactly the right information while the organisation still makes the wrong decision. Finance knows the numbers. Contracts knows the obligations. Reliability knows the asset. Nobody sees all three at the moment it matters.

Finance
Transactions
Contracts
Obligations
Assets
Condition
Safety
Risk
Workforce
Capability
ESG
Impact
Late decisions
Signals are seen after impact, not before it.
Value leakage
Cash, margin and obligations quietly slip.
Operational risk
Dependencies collide unseen, until they collide in reality.
Weak evidence
The organisation reconstructs the truth afterwards, from memory.
The enemy is not a lack of data. It is operational fragmentation.
What We Are

The intelligence and orchestration layer for business and operations

“AI” now describes almost everything, so a clear position matters. Here is what we do, and what we deliberately do not.

What we are
Connect
the systems and information your company already uses, without replacing them.
Coordinate
people, decisions and work across functions that currently operate separately.
Improve
performance, resilience and sustainability, measurably and on the record.
What we are not
Not a chatbot.
Not another dashboard.
Not a rip-and-replace system.
You keep your ERP, your historian, your CMMS. We make them work as one.
How It Works

See it, anticipate it, act, and prove it happened.

Intelligence is only worth something when it changes what the organisation does next. The order matters, and it is the same every time.

01
See the whole
Connect data, obligations, assets, people and risk into one operational picture instead of several partial ones.
02
Anticipate what matters
Identify developing failures, missed obligations and colliding dependencies before they cost anything.
03
Act as one
Route governed action to the right people, with clear ownership and approval. The platform proposes; your people decide.
04
Prove the outcome
Preserve every decision, its reasoning and its evidence in an auditable record you can replay.
Watch it happen on one real incident, end to end.
A burst pipe at 07:38. Ninety-three minutes later: 31 actions, 4 human approvals, and a signed record of every one. Eight minutes, narrated.
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Who We Serve

The same platform, entered from wherever you are.

What a founder needs is not what a mine general manager needs. The way in differs. What sits underneath does not.

01
SMEs & Founders
Run deals, contracts, cash and obligations with real control, without a legal department or a credit controller.
Lex-SME
Founder · CEO · CFO
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02
Enterprises
Portfolio visibility, revenue assurance and auditable governance across every contract, obligation and commitment.
LexSphere · ESG Beacon · NexusCore
CEO · COO · CFO · Commercial · Risk
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03
Critical Operations
Asset reliability, shutdown assurance, inspection, safety and workforce readiness, from pit to plant to port.
ReliCore · TurnSure · Inspecta · SHREQ360 · AssetVault · CrewOptix · MineIQ
Mine or Plant GM · Reliability · Risk
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The Platform

One engine underneath, grouped by the work it does.

Every module runs on the same intelligence engine and writes to the same shared record. Start with the problem that matters most today. The rest fill with usable data as you expand, which is why the second module is always easier to adopt than the first.

The Orchestrator · Across Every Module
AI Asterion
NexusCore, the brain behind your operation
One mind across every Asterion module
Every Asterion module is a specialist. NexusCore holds them together, watching every shutdown, inspection, work order, contract, incident, asset and crew shift as it happens, connecting the signals no individual team can see, and acting before they collide.
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Commercial Intelligence
Deals, contracts, obligations and the money that moves through them.
MODULE 01
Contract Intelligence — Pre-Award Review
LexSphere Pre-Award
Parses incoming bid documents and contracts into structured risk, classified clauses and mandate-aligned positions. Review goes from days to minutes.
AI-powered document parsing at scale
NLP clause extraction & classification
Automated risk scoring & deviation analysis
Mandate-alignment tracking before signing
MODULE 02
Contract Execution & Obligation Management
LexSphere Post-Award
Turns a signed contract into a live obligation register, deadline calendar, bonds tracker and evidence trail, in about four minutes.
Obligation register, split yours vs theirs
Notice deadline calendar with cascade alerts
One-click chase notices & closed-loop evidence
Eight sign-off gates, immutable audit trail
MODULE 03 SME EDITION EARLY ACCESS
SME Deal-to-Cash Control Tower
Lex-SME
A control tower for the small and mid-sized business: deal captured, checked, quoted, contracted, invoiced and collected, with Lex on hand at every decision.
Guided deal journey with Trust, Terms & Sign gates
Quotes clients countersign online, in real ink
Dunning ladder from reminder to letter of demand
Compliance vault + one-click tender packs
MODULE 04 IN PILOT
Contractor Intelligence & Commercial Assurance
MineIQ
Production telemetry and commercial assurance for outsourced mining. Every load cycle measured, every invoice line checked against the contract that priced it.
Load-and-haul telemetry: cycles, queues, rehandles
10 automated invoice assurance controls
Contract entitlement & pricing-schedule engine
Findings workflow with recovery benefits tracker
MODULE 05
Billing & Spend Assurance
RevenueIQ
Every invoice proven and every rand accounted for, starting with a reconciliation gate that fails closed on ambiguous data, then a configurable rule library across healthcare, mining, utilities and manufacturing.
Reconciliation proven before any rule runs
Analysis Packs per vertical, not generic logic
Clean-control reporting, coverage gaps disclosed
Findings and evidence in four languages
MODULE 06
Commodity Trade Desk
TradeIQ
From first contact to settled cash: a governed desk for gold, gasoil, sulphur and manganese ore, with a seven-gate pipeline derived from the deal’s own data and every price recomputed server-side.
Seven-gate pipeline, derived and never ticked
Pool-from-delta pricing, recomputed server-side
Settlement order enforced, supplier paid first
Immutable audit log on every commercial change
Also in this family: Asterwright, for instant brand kits, branded documents and film, linked to Lex-SME so every deal, quote and invoice can carry its own on-brand material.
Operational Intelligence
The physical operation: assets, reliability, shutdowns, inspection and crews.
MODULE 07
Asset Lifecycle Management
AssetVault
One register for every physical asset, covering hierarchy, criticality and the whole lifecycle.
Digital asset register & hierarchy modelling
Lifecycle tracking & criticality scoring
Engineering documentation management
15% maintenance cost reduction
MODULE 08
Reliability Engineering
ReliCore
Reliability analytics and predictive maintenance, built on the failure history you already have.
Failure event tracking & root cause analysis
MTBF reliability modelling
Predictive maintenance recommendations
5-15% predictive maintenance savings
MODULE 09
Shutdown & Turnaround Assurance
TurnSure
Governance for plant shutdowns and outages, from scope and planning through execution and the review afterwards.
Planning, scope definition & resource allocation
Schedule optimisation & risk simulation
Real-time execution monitoring
Post-shutdown improvement cycles
MODULE 10
Turnaround Assurance & Credibility
AssureIQ
An independent verdict on whether a shutdown programme is credible: a Readiness Verdict before the tools come out, and a Post-Turnaround Review once the plant restarts.
Deterministic CPM with reproducible runs
Monte Carlo finish-date risk simulation
Four-truths ledger, so disagreements stay visible
Joint engineer-and-client walkdown evidence
MODULE 11
Inspection & Integrity Management
Inspecta
Inspection scheduling, execution and reporting across every equipment class, so findings get closed rather than logged.
Workflow management & mobile capture
Defect identification & corrective action tracking
Compliance tracking & audit dashboards
Avoided regulatory penalties
MODULE 12
Workforce Optimisation
CrewOptix
Contractor and direct workforce deployment, with productivity measured on output and competency tracked before it lapses.
Workforce planning & deployment across sites
Competency & certification management
Productivity analytics & efficiency metrics
Optimised labour costs
Assurance Intelligence
Safety, environment and the evidence that proves both.
MODULE 13
Safety, Health, Risk, Environment & Quality
SHREQ360
Safety governance in one place: incident reporting, hazard management, permit to work, audits and safety competency.
Incident reporting & investigation management
Permit to Work workflow automation
Safety competency tracking
Reduced safety incidents
MODULE 14
ESG Governance
ESG Beacon
Pulls ESG data together from across the operation, for reporting that lines up with the frameworks you disclose against.
Emissions, energy & water monitoring
Workforce & community impact reporting
Compliance, risk & policy tracking
Improved sustainability governance
Interaction Layer
How the platform reaches people, on the channels they already use.
MODULE 15
Conversational Layer
SiteComm
Voice, chat, phone, message and meeting agents for every module, with sub-second response and the same governance as everything else.
Voice & chat with sub-second turn-taking
Inbound & outbound calls with full transcripts
SMS, WhatsApp and email, threaded across channels
Teams meeting agent: listen, facilitate or speak
Also in this family: AsterionVox, outbound AI calling campaigns built on the SiteComm foundation.
Integrated Intelligence Advantage

What the modules can do together that none can do alone

Each module works on its own, and does more once it can see the others. Data moves between them, so the picture gets better as you add to it.



See It In Action
LexSphere ReliCore
A contract obligation in LexSphere triggers a maintenance task in ReliCore automatically.
AssetVault Inspecta
An asset criticality score in AssetVault prioritises inspection scheduling in Inspecta.
TurnSure CrewOptix
Shutdown resource plans in TurnSure draw on workforce availability data from CrewOptix.
SHREQ360 ESG Beacon
Safety incidents in SHREQ360 feed directly into ESG Beacon sustainability reporting.
Platform Architecture

How the platform is actually built

Every channel your teams already use, the specialist modules, one canonical data layer and a reasoning engine on top, all running on the same enterprise rails: single sign-on, per-tenant isolation enforced at the database, and a signed, append-only audit ledger behind every binding action.

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How We Engage

Diagnose first, prove the value, then expand

A practical path from one urgent problem to continuous company-wide intelligence, designed to put a live governed workflow into daily use in weeks, not a multi-year transformation before value appears. Commercially it works the same way: diagnostic first, then per-module licensing. You license only what you deploy.

01
Diagnose
Find the value leakage, the fragmentation and the decision delay. We start with a structured review of where your operation loses margin and time, rather than with a software demonstration.
Operations Diagnostic Value Leakage Review Decision Delay Mapping
02
Establish truth
Create a verifiable baseline from the systems and records you already have: ERP exports, maintenance history, contract documents, engineering documentation, inspection records. One agreed picture before anything is configured.
ERP & Historian Extract Contract Ingestion Verifiable Baseline
03
Configure
Align modules, rules, roles, workflows and evidence to how your operation actually runs. Asset hierarchies, obligation registers, approval chains and competency gates are set to your standards, not ours.
Workflow Alignment Roles & Approval Chains Evidence Rules
04
Go live
Put the first governed workflow into daily use. One real process, running end to end, with the people who own it, proving the value before scope widens.
First Governed Workflow Live in Weeks Owner Handover
05
Improve
Track outcomes, learn, and expand across the company. Each module added deposits data the others can use, so every expansion starts further ahead than the last.
Outcome Tracking Capability Transfer Company-Wide Expansion
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Applied Operating Intelligence

The same approach, applied beyond industrial

Asterion's operating-intelligence patterns aren't only for mines, plants, and ports. Selected client engagements where the same architecture and approach were applied in different operating domains, each delivered as a dedicated, separately-branded product for the client.

Global Standards & Best Practice

The standards every module is built against

Every module is built against the international standards that govern industrial operations.

LexSphere Pre-Award
Contract Intelligence
FIDIC NEC ISO 37301 ISO 31000
LexSphere Post-Award
Contract Execution & Obligation Management
FIDIC NEC3/NEC4 JCT JBCC GCC IChemE
AssetVault
Asset Lifecycle Management
ISO 55000 ISO 55001 ISO 55002 PAS 55 ISO 14224 ISO 15926
ReliCore
Reliability Engineering
SAE JA1011 SAE JA1012 ISO 14224 IEC 60300 API RP 580 API RP 581
TurnSure
Shutdown & Turnaround Assurance
SMRP BoK CCPS API RP 754 PMI PMBOK
Inspecta
Inspection & Integrity
API 510 API 570 API 653 ISO 17020 ISO 9712
SHREQ360
Safety & Quality
ISO 45001 ISO 14001 ISO 9001 ISO 31000
ESG Beacon
ESG Governance
GRI SASB TCFD CDP IFC Performance Standards UN SDGs
CrewOptix
Workforce Optimisation
ISO 30400 ILO Frameworks PMBOK
SiteComm
Conversational Layer
ISO/IEC 27001 SOC 2 GDPR / POPIA WCAG 2.1 AA ISO 9241-110
MineIQ
Contractor Intelligence & Commercial Assurance
ISO 37301 ISO 55000 King IV ISO 9001
Lex-SME
SME Deal-to-Cash Control Tower
POPIA ECT Act B-BBEE Codes ISO/IEC 27001
NexusCore
Orchestration & Operating Intelligence
ISO/IEC 27001 ISO/IEC 42001 ISO 55000 NIST AI RMF SOC 2
Enterprise Layer
Governance & Architecture
ISO 9001 ISO 27001 COBIT TOGAF ISO 31000
Why We Build This

Stronger companies build stronger economies.

We are an African-born company, built to a global standard. That means designing for the conditions companies actually face, with the complexity and constraints that come with them, and holding ourselves to the governance, security and product standards serious organisations require anywhere in the world.

AI recommends. Accountable people decide. Every recommendation is explainable, every decision attributable, and every critical action governed. That is a product behaviour, not a promise on a poster.

The question we ask after every engagement
Is the company now stronger than it was before?
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Start with a diagnostic, and see the value before you commit

Every engagement begins with a sector-specific diagnostic: a structured assessment that establishes your operational baseline and shows what the platform is worth before full deployment.

Global Operations Serving asset-intensive industries worldwide
Engagement Model Consulting plus SaaS subscription, diagnostics first
Fast Time to Value Operational dashboards live within weeks, not months
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