NexusAI: Your Full HR & Legal Team For R950 A Month

Most South African businesses do not have an HR department. They have a director who handles it between quotes, a bookkeeper who signs off leave, and a WhatsApp group where policy gets decided.

That works right up until the day it doesn't. Until an employee is dismissed without a hearing. Until a supplier SLA turns out to have no exit clause. Until a CCMA referral lands and nobody can find a signed contract.

NexusAI closes that gap. Four assistants: Legal, HR, OHS and CCMA. All trained on South African legislation, all available 24/7, for R950 per month. Limited time. 50 seats only.

What NexusAI Actually Is

NexusAI is a South African AI platform that gives you professional-grade HR and legal guidance in plain English. Not a template library. Not an overseas chatbot that quotes American labour law. A system built on the Acts that actually govern your business: the BCEA, the LRA, the EEA, OHSA, POPIA, the CPA, PAJA and the PIE Act.

Ask it a question the way you would ask a consultant. Get an answer you can act on, grounded in the legislation, with the procedure spelled out step by step.

The four assistants included at R950

• HR Assistant: employment contracts, policies, leave, performance management, restructuring, POPIA-compliant employee data handling
• Legal Assistant: commercial contracts, SLAs, NDAs, company obligations, property and tenancy matters, consumer law
• OHS Assistant: Occupational Health and Safety Act compliance, appointments, risk assessments, incident procedure, committee structures
• CCMA Assistant: referral timelines, forms, conciliation and arbitration preparation, evidence bundles, what to expect in the room

Four assistants. One price. No per-seat upsell, no consulting hours ticking in the background.

HR Contract Creation: Get It Right On Day One

Section 29 of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act requires you to give every employee written particulars of employment when they start work. Not eventually. On commencement.

Most small businesses either use a contract downloaded a decade ago, one borrowed from a friend's company, or nothing at all. Each of those is a live liability. A contract that omits the correct notice period, working hours, remuneration structure, deductions or leave entitlement is a contract that will be read against you the moment there is a dispute.

What NexusAI does here

• Builds employment contracts carrying the mandatory BCEA particulars, drafted for the actual role, whether permanent, fixed-term, part-time, commission-based or independent contractor
• Flags the difference between a genuine independent contractor and a disguised employee before SARS or the CCMA does it for you
• Drafts fixed-term contracts with a justifiable reason for the term, which is where most fixed-term agreements collapse
• Writes probation clauses that match the LRA's Code of Good Practice, so probation is a real evaluation period and not a phrase with no legal effect
• Produces restraint of trade, confidentiality and IP clauses that stand a chance of being enforced
• Builds the supporting layer: disciplinary code, grievance procedure, leave policy, remote work policy, POPIA employee data notice

Every document comes with the reasoning. You understand what each clause does and why it's there, which means you can defend it later.

Disciplinary Processes: Where Most Businesses Lose

Under the LRA, a dismissal must be both substantively fair, meaning you had a valid reason, and procedurally fair, meaning you followed a proper process. Employers routinely have the first and lose on the second.

The pattern is familiar. The misconduct is real and serious. The employer is angry and acts fast. No written notice of the hearing, no chance to prepare, no representation, no record of the proceedings, no outcome letter. Six months later the CCMA orders reinstatement or compensation of up to twelve months' remuneration, and the merits were never the problem.

Most employers don't lose at the CCMA because they were wrong. They lose because they were right in the wrong order.

What NexusAI does here

• Walks you through the process in the correct order: investigation, notice of hearing, hearing, outcome, right of appeal
• Drafts the notice of disciplinary hearing with the charges properly formulated, so the employee knows the case they must answer
• Guides the hearing itself: the chairperson's role, the right to representation, how to record evidence, how to test it
• Helps you weigh the sanction against the LRA's Code of Good Practice, including length of service, previous record, and consistency with how you treated similar cases
• Drafts the outcome letter and appeal procedure
• Distinguishes misconduct from incapacity from operational requirements, because each demands a different process and using the wrong one is itself unfair

And when it does go to the CCMA, the CCMA Assistant takes over: referral timelines, the right forms, what conciliation involves, how arbitration differs, and how to assemble a bundle that tells your side properly.

Contract And SLA Review: Read It Before You Sign It

Commercial risk usually enters a business quietly, through a document somebody signed without reading properly because the deal needed to move.

Service level agreements with no defined service levels. Supplier terms that auto-renew for twelve months unless cancelled in a window nobody diarised. Payment terms that let the client pay you in 90 days while your obligations start immediately. Indemnity clauses that transfer risk entirely onto you. Termination provisions that let them walk and hold you in place.

What NexusAI does here

• Reviews contracts, SLAs, supplier terms and NDAs and tells you in plain language what each clause actually means for you
• Identifies the gaps: no exit clause, no cap on liability, no penalty for missed service levels, no IP ownership, no dispute resolution mechanism
• Assesses whether your own terms are enforceable and reasonable, including against Consumer Protection Act requirements where you deal with consumers or small businesses
• Drafts the amendments you should be requesting, and the wording to request them with
• Builds your standard agreements (service agreements, supplier terms, NDAs, quotations and terms of trade) so you stop signing on everyone else's paper
• Checks POPIA obligations where a contract involves handling personal information, including operator agreements

That screenshot is one prompt. Not a template you then have to decode, but a complete agreement with parties, effective date, scope, service levels and fee structure laid out, plus a note telling you exactly which parts need an attorney's eye before signature. That last part matters. A tool that never tells you when to escalate is a tool you cannot trust.

An hour spent here has saved businesses more than a year of legal fees.

Risk Mitigation: From Reactive To Prepared

Legal and HR risk in a small business follows one shape: nothing happens, nothing happens, nothing happens, and then everything happens at once and it is expensive.

NexusAI moves you from reacting to preparing. Practically, that looks like:

1. Fix the paper trail. Signed contracts for every employee. Signed terms for every supplier and client. Job descriptions. Policies issued and acknowledged. Most disputes are won or lost on documentation, not on argument.
2. Make process the default. Warnings issued in writing. Hearings held properly. Performance managed with records. Consistency across employees, because inconsistent treatment is a fairness problem all on its own.
3. Close the OHS exposure. Section 16(2) appointments in place, health and safety representatives where headcount requires them, risk assessments done, incidents recorded and reported correctly. OHSA carries personal liability for directors, which is the part most owners have never been told.
4. Comply with POPIA before somebody complains. Employee records, client databases, CCTV, marketing lists. Know your lawful basis, your retention periods and your operator agreements.
5. Diarise the deadlines. Contract renewals, notice windows, CCMA timelines, statutory submissions. Missed dates cost more than bad decisions.
6. Escalate early, not late. NexusAI tells you when a matter is routine and when it genuinely needs an attorney in the room. Knowing the difference is itself risk management.

Cover For Less Than A Cappuccino A Day

Run the comparison honestly. A single consultation hour with a labour attorney costs more than a full month of NexusAI. A labour consultancy retainer starts in the thousands per month and still bills separately for hearings. One CCMA arbitration you lose can cost up to twelve months of that employee's remuneration, plus your own time, plus the disruption. A badly drafted SLA can cost you a year of margin on a client you were glad to win.

Nobody agonises over that coffee. It is a rounding error in a business account. Yet the same thirty-one rand, spent here, is the difference between guessing at a disciplinary process and following one that holds up, between signing a supplier agreement blind and knowing exactly what you agreed to.

That is what you are actually buying. Not software. Peace of mind, bought daily, at a price you will never feel.

There is no business size at which this maths stops working. The smaller you are, the more exposed you are, because you are the one carrying the risk personally.

50 Seats. Then The Price Moves.

This is a launch offer, not a permanent rate. R950 per month gets you full access to all four assistants: Legal, HR, OHS and CCMA. No per-module charges. It is capped at 50 seats, and when those are taken, pricing goes up for everyone after them.

Existing seats keep the rate. New ones pay the new price. That is the whole mechanic, and it is the only reason to move now rather than in March. Claim a seat on the pricing page.