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South Africa's automotive Tier-1 engine room

An AI chatbot for East London that
answers a PPAP query at any hour

In EL, the 03:30 procurement query from a Stuttgart buyer is normal. The supplier who answers first is the one the buyer remembers.

R299From /mo, Website Chatbot
30 minLive, any time
EN · AFOther languages best-effort
24/7Answers any hour
What does an AI chatbot cost in East London? A DoubleDown AI website chatbot for a East London business starts at R299/month (Starter), up to R2,500/month on Pro+. Setup is R250–R500 once, paid with the first month, or start with the free trial: 7 days and 50 messages, no card. It goes live in 30 minutes, any time, fully remote, answers in English and Afrikaans (other languages best-effort), and emails every lead it captures to your team.
How it works

How a East London business goes live in 30 minutes

Everything happens online, so it works the same in East London as anywhere else in South Africa: no meeting, no site visit, no 12-week project.

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Pick a plan
Starter at R299 a month, up to Pro+ at R2,500. Month to month, no contract.
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Sign up · minute 0
Pay the setup and your first month in one payment (R549 today on Starter), or start the free trial: 7 days and 50 messages, no card.
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We build it · minutes 1–20
It is trained on your website pages, prices and FAQs, so it answers from what your business actually says.
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You switch it on · minute 30
Add one line of code to your site, or use the WordPress plugin or the Wix app. Any time, any day, weekends and public holidays included.
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It works for you
It answers in seconds, day and night, captures each lead inside the chat, emails it to you, and hands the chat to a person when needed.
Built for EL

What it does for East London businesses

It is the same chatbot for every business: it answers from your own pages, prices and documents, day and night, and emails each enquiry to your team. What changes is what your customers ask. This is what it does for East London’s main sectors.

MBSA Tier-1 & Tier-2 Suppliers

Pressing, plastics, harness, seating and exhaust suppliers around the Mercedes-Benz SA plant. It answers part-number, lead-time and RFQ questions from the documents you give it, and emails each enquiry to your planner.

East London IDZ Tenants

Manufacturers and BPO floors in the East London IDZ. It answers capacity and supplier-registration questions from your information and emails every enquiry to the right desk’s address.

Beacon Bay & Vincent Specialist Practices

GPs, dentists, vets, optometrists and physios in Beacon Bay and Vincent. It sends each appointment request to reception with the patient’s details, and answers questions on your fees and the medical aids you accept.

Esplanade & Gonubie Hospitality

Beachfront hotels, B&Bs, surf schools and Wild Coast tour operators. It answers room and tour questions and sends each booking request, with the date, party size and contact details, to your front desk.

Sound like Buffalo City?

What's quietly costing EL plants & SMEs right now

If two or more of these sound like your week, a chatbot that answers at any hour is the cheapest fix to try first: from R299 a month, or the free trial: 7 days and 50 messages, no card.

A Stuttgart procurement manager messages your desk at 03:30 asking for a 5,000-unit delivery quote, and a Joburg competitor replies first
A Mdantsane customer asks a question in isiXhosa, gets a stock English template back, and buys elsewhere
December peak: the Esplanade hotel reception is drowning and the Gonubie B&B misses weekend messages
A Vincent specialist’s reception loses every Monday morning to medical-aid questions
Our Services

AI services for East London businesses

Every plan is set up for you and goes live online in 30 minutes, any time, wherever you are in East London. Support comes from our own team in South Africa.

Website Chatbot
Answers your website visitors, day and night.
Trained on your pages, prices and FAQs. It answers visitors, captures each lead and booking request in the chat, and emails them to your team.
R299/moStarting
From R250Setup
Email AI Bot
Your inbox, sorted and answered.
It reads and sorts your customer emails and drafts or sends replies from your own answers — you choose. Anything it should not answer goes to your team.
R349/moStarting
From R500Setup
See full pricing →
Why DoubleDown AI

Why EL plants pick us over global SaaS chatbots

A global chatbot platform is built for somewhere else: billed in dollars, sold on contracts, supported while East London sleeps. Ours is built, priced and supported in South Africa.

Priced in rands, month to month
From R299 a month on Starter, with a once-off setup of R250 to R500. No contract and no rush fees.
Live in 30 minutes, any time
Sign up and it is live half an hour later, any day, weekends and public holidays included. No site visit, no project plan.
English and Afrikaans
It answers in English and Afrikaans. isiXhosa and other languages are best-effort, and the quality varies, so test your customers’ language on the free trial (7 days, 50 messages).
A person when it matters
It hands the chat to a person when needed, and emails you every lead the moment it is captured. Our support team in Vanderbijlpark is on WhatsApp at +27 76 847 0371 on weekdays.
Languages

Your East London chatbot answers in English and Afrikaans

Mdantsane, King William’s Town, Bhisho and the Wild Coast communicate in isiXhosa first, and English is universal across industry. It answers in English and Afrikaans. isiXhosa, German and other languages are best-effort: it tries to reply in the language your customer writes in, but the quality varies by language, so test your own customers’ messages on the free trial (7 days, 50 messages) before you rely on it.

English Afrikaans isiXhosa · best-effort Other languages · best-effort
EL Coverage

Serving Buffalo City & the Wild Coast

It is all done online, so a East London business gets the same 30-minute set-up as one down the road from our office in Vanderbijlpark: no site visit, no travel fee.

East London suburbs we deploy in

Suburbs and areas we serve:

West Bank (Tier-1) Wilsonia (industrial) East London IDZ Beacon Bay (specialist) Vincent (medical) Vincent Park (retail) Nahoon (residential) Quigney (CBD/hospitality) Baysville (residential) Cambridge (mixed) Stirling (residential) Gonubie (hospitality) Hemingways (retail) Mdantsane (consumer) Berea (mixed) Selborne (professional) Southernwood (CBD-edge) Amalinda (residential)
FAQ

Questions EL owners actually ask

Straight answers to what East London businesses ask before they sign up.

Can the AI handle MBSA Tier-1 supplier RFQ workflows?
It handles the questions around them. Customers ask the same things: lead time on a part number, PPAP status, documentation. The chatbot answers from the lead times and spec sheets you give it and emails the part number and question to your planner. It does not read your ERP.
Will it work for an East London IDZ manufacturer or BPO?
Yes. It answers supplier, capacity and service questions from your information at any hour, and emails each enquiry to your team, so nothing waits for the next shift to see it.
Does the chatbot handle isiXhosa for our Buffalo City customers?
It answers in English and Afrikaans. isiXhosa is best-effort: it tries to reply in the language the customer writes in, but the quality varies by language, so test it with your own customers’ messages on the free trial (7 days, 50 messages, no card) before you rely on it.
Can it handle Esplanade and Vincent Park hospitality bookings?
As booking requests, yes. It captures the date, party size and contact details and emails them to your front desk, who confirm the booking.
What we build in East London

AI that works
in East London.

Where most East London businesses start

Nearly every East London business starts with an AI support assistant for your site. It answers every visitor within seconds, in English or Afrikaans (other South African languages best-effort), and captures the lead while a contact form would still be waiting until Monday morning.

From there, an email agent takes the shared inbox off your team, online bookings fills the calendar, and sales prospecting keeps the pipeline moving. Everything is built, deployed and supported remotely from our Vanderbijlpark base, so a business in East London goes live in the same 30 minutes as one down the road from us.

Plenty of East London businesses come to us for the back office first. invoicing and quoting gets the quote out on site and the invoice out the same day, an email agent stops info@ becoming a backlog, and email marketing keeps the list you already own earning. For reach, sales prospecting finds the buyers you have not met yet. We also build website design, and take on internal systems when the problem is not on anybody's price list.

If you want the detail first. Three pieces that answer the questions that usually come next: AI for hotels and guesthouses, the South African lead-response numbers, and the difference between a chatbot and live chat.

A Stuttgart procurement query will land at 03:30 tomorrow.

Sign up and it goes live 30 minutes later, any time, answering East London customers from your own pages and emailing you every lead. No site visit, no contract. Or start the free trial: 7 days and 50 messages, no card.

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