VirtualEdge

// AI CONSULTING

AI agents doing real work inside Zambian businesses.

We find where the hours go, build the agents to take them, integrate them into how you already work — then run them. Engagements start at a single WhatsApp sales agent and run to multi-year agent operations for institutions. Every one is scoped, priced and bounded before it starts.

Every build includes 90 days of operation — hosted, monitored, tuned.

Audit fees credit in full against a build commissioned within 60 days.

Your data stays tenant-isolated. Only anonymised patterns improve our models.

// HOW WE WORK

We build it. Then we run it.

// CONSULTING

The build

Project work. We audit where the hours go, put a roadmap on paper, and build the agents and knowledge systems to match. Workshops and short sprints where that is all the problem needs.

// MANAGED AGENTS

The running

An agent is not something you install and forget. It needs monitoring, tuning, and someone to call when a customer asks it something it has not seen before. That is the work: hosting, daily monitoring, accuracy and response-time checks, changes as your business changes, and a named person to reach. Each quarter we review what else is worth automating.

// WHAT WE DEPLOY

What we deploy.

// 01 · SELL

WhatsApp Sales Agent

Answers customers, takes orders and follows up on WhatsApp, in the language they write in, at any hour.

Built for retailers, wholesalers and distributors who already sell by chat.

// 02 · GROW

Sales & Marketing Agent

Finds leads, qualifies them, and keeps following up while your team works on closing.

Built for businesses whose enquiry volume has outgrown their follow-up.

// 03 · SUPPORT

Customer Support Agent

Handles order status, hours, prices and stock questions immediately, so your people take the ones that need a person.

Built for businesses answering the same questions all day.

// 04 · KNOW

Internal Knowledge Agent

Your prices, policies, stock sheets and procedures, answerable by any staff member in seconds.

Built for businesses where the answers live in one person's head or a drawer of paper.

// 05 · RUN

Operations & Admin Agent

Takes repetitive back-office work — data entry, scheduling, reminders, routine reports — off your team's desk.

Built for businesses losing skilled hours to work a system should do.

// 06 · REACH

Campaign Operations Agent

Plans and runs your campaigns on your own channels, and reports what sold rather than what was clicked — spend connected to delivered orders.

Built for businesses that want campaigns run and measured without an agency retainer.

// FOR GROWING BUSINESSES

Fixed scope, fixed price.

Each package has a defined scope, a price in kwacha, and a date it goes live. Anything outside the scope is quoted separately before work starts.

// 01

WhatsApp Sales Agent

K1,500 setup · from K650/month

A sales agent on WhatsApp answering enquiries at any hour. Live in 7 days. Includes 90 days of Managed Agents.

Service level: enquiries answered within 5 minutes. Any month we miss it is not charged.

// 02

Rapid AI Audit

from K10,000

Two weeks. We map where the hours go and hand you a 90-day plan. The fee credits in full against any build commissioned within 60 days.

// 03

Automation Sprint

from K35,000

One process automated end to end, with 30 days of run-in support.

// 04

The 90-Day Transformation

K125,000

An audit, one workflow rebuilt, and an agent deployed and integrated. Includes 90 days of Managed Agents.

// 05

AI Workshops

from K650 per seat

Your team, working on your own material. On-site or at our offices.

Launch rates, held for the life of the engagement, for our first 25 engagements.

// MANAGED AGENTS

What running it costs.

We built the agent; this is the work of keeping it accurate as your business changes. Hosting, daily monitoring, tuning, and a named contact. Each quarter we review what else is worth automating.

// MANAGED AGENTS 01

K10,000–K15,000per month · by scope

One agent, hosted and operated.

// MANAGED AGENTS 02

K30,000per month

Several agents across sales, support and admin, run as one operation.

// MANAGED AGENTS 03

K75,000per month

A full agent operation, monitored and reported on, with priority response.

Every subscription includes hosting and uptime, daily monitoring, changes as your needs change, a quarterly review, and a person you can reach.

Launch rates, held for the life of the engagement, for our first 25 engagements.

// WHAT WE DON'T TAKE ON

The work we turn down.

A practice is defined as much by what it refuses. These are standing exclusions, not negotiating positions.

  • Clinical healthcare systems. No agent of ours makes or supports a diagnosis, triage or treatment decision.
  • Mining operations systems. Safety-critical industrial control is outside our competence and we do not bid on it.
  • Consumer education SaaS.
  • Advertising inside our own products. We will plan and run your campaigns on your channels. We do not sell placement inside Shop 'Em All, and no payment of any kind influences what our consumer agent recommends. Those are different businesses and we keep them apart.
  • Government engagements proceed only with a named procurement advisor engaged from the outset.
  • The intelligence substrate itself is not for sale. We build on it for you; we do not license it out.

// FOR INSTITUTIONS · OPS-X

Banks, telcos and government.

Institutional and cross-border engagements run under their own terms and price in US dollars.

OPS-X MANAGED
Agent operations run for you — from $4,500/month.
CUSTOM PROGRAMMES
Bespoke builds — from $10,000/month.
READINESS & STRATEGY
Assessment and roadmap — $8,000–15,000.

Advisory retainers sit alongside every institutional engagement. Agents in regulated environments run with full audit trails and human approval on sensitive actions.

// ENGAGEMENTS

Engagements are underway with Zambian businesses. We have not published reference stories yet; each one publishes when the client is live and has approved it.

// QUESTIONS, ANSWERED STRAIGHT

Before you ask.

What does Managed Agents cover?

The monthly work of keeping an agent accurate and available: hosting, daily monitoring, improvements as your business changes, and a person to call. We build the agent once; this is how it stays useful, without you needing technical staff.

Do I need to be technical?

No. If your team can use WhatsApp, they can use this. You will not touch a server, a setting or a line of code.

Who owns my data?

You do. Tenant-isolated, always. Only anonymised patterns improve our models, and that is in the contract.

What happens after the build?

Your first 90 days are included — hosted, monitored, and improved while your team settles in. After that it continues month to month, and you can stop with 30 days' notice.

How fast can we start?

The WhatsApp sales agent goes live in 7 days. An audit takes two weeks and hands you a 90-day plan. Larger builds are scoped inside the audit, so you have a timeline and a cost before committing further.

What if the agent makes a mistake?

It works inside limits you set, every action is logged, and a person is always reachable. When something goes wrong we correct it and tell you what happened.

Can you work in a regulated environment?

Agents can run with full audit trails, human approval on sensitive actions, and access confined to what the task needs. Institutional engagements run under OPS-X terms. We will tell you plainly where a control you need is something we have not built yet.

Do you price in kwacha or dollars?

Kwacha for Zambian businesses, settled locally. Institutional and cross-border engagements price in US dollars.

// START

Tell us what eats your team’s hours. We’ll tell you whether an agent can take it, and what it would cost.

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