⚡ Applied AI

AI Tshebetsong, Build real things with AI, practical lessons from the FabAcademic talks. Each one: the real problem, the skills you learn, where to use them, and what it can earn you.

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AI Accounting for Informal Traders

How the AEGL platform uses AI to bring simple bookkeeping to spaza shops and informal traders the formal banking and accounting system overlooks.

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AI Agents for Township Businesses

Practical, no-code ways for township and small businesses to put AI agents to work — handling customers, marketing and admin without hiring anyone.

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AI Agents that Shop & Do Tasks for You

An introduction to the new wave of AI agents that compare prices, plan shopping and handle everyday tasks for you — and how South Africans can start using them.

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AI as a Knowledge Equalizer

How everyday South Africans without money, connections or formal training can use free and low-cost AI tools to access skills, information and real opportunity.

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AI for Better Writing & Research

How to use AI as a thinking partner that strengthens your own writing and research instead of replacing it — sharper arguments, better sources, clearer work.

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AI for the Visually Impaired: Spectacles4TheBlind

A promise an 11-year-old made to his blind grandmother in Zwelitsha became Spectacles4TheBlind SA — AI smart glasses, shortlisted in the global Top 150 startups, that help visually impaired people move through the world on their own.

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An AI Assistant that Finds Jobs & Scholarships

How to build a personal AI assistant that hunts for jobs, bursaries and scholarships on your behalf, and helps you actually apply for them.

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Build a Digital Assistant for Your Admin

A hands-on look at using an AI digital assistant like Claude to take over the boring, repetitive admin that eats your day, so you can focus on the work that matters.

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Building an AI Tender & Procurement System

A 20-year-old built an AI system that finds, prepares and helps win government and business tenders — turning a confusing, paperwork-heavy process into something a small supplier can actually navigate.

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From Learning to Building with AI

How to cross the line from being a consumer of AI to a creator who builds real things, and why that shift matters most in an AI-native economy.

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Hands-On Data Analytics with AI

A hands-on, no-jargon guide to using AI tools to clean, analyse and visualise data so you can turn everyday numbers into smart decisions and a sellable skill.

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Learning New Skills Faster with AI

Advanced, practical techniques for using AI as a personal tutor and practice partner to learn new skills in weeks instead of years.

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Real People Building with AI: the STACU Story

Real stories of ordinary South Africans building useful things with AI through the STACU platform, and the mindset shift from watching AI to becoming a builder.

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The No-Code AI Builder's Journey

A 21-year-old's story of building real, paying AI products on no-code platforms — proof that you can ship a product without a computer science degree.

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Tshepo's Journey: From Learning AI to Building STACU

Tshepo from Lebowakgomo went from sitting in these sessions as a learner to launching his own AI platform, STACU. His story shows the path from learner to builder is shorter than you think.

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Using AI to Solve Real Operational Problems

You don't need to be a programmer to use AI for real work. This session shows how ordinary people build AI solutions that fix the everyday operational headaches inside businesses and organisations.

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Your Personal AI Skill Coach

How to build your own personal AI coaching agent that keeps you accountable, plans your growth and mentors your career — the kind of support that used to cost a fortune.

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