Built by someone who needed it first.

Hi, I'm Ruan.

By day I work as a Business Automation Engineer at an investment group, where I build and run AI agents for the finance, property and recruitment teams across the group. One recent build: an intake agent that reads a busy shared inbox and files every incoming document into the right folder, with a paper trail, before anyone has opened it.

Until July 2026 I managed Col'Cacchio in Bloubergstrand, Cape Town. Every Friday and Saturday during service rush, the phone rang non-stop. Bookings, menu questions, delivery enquiries, complaints. Many we could not answer in time. Every missed call was a customer who probably went somewhere else.

I got tired of it. So I built an AI receptionist against that exact problem. It books the table, answers the menu question, takes a message for the manager. South African accent. Switches to Afrikaans if the caller starts in Afrikaans. Today it answers Receva's demo line as Harbour Slice, a fictional Cape Town pizzeria with a made-up menu, and you can hear it on a live demo today. It never ran on the restaurant's own line: I left before wiring it in, and I would rather tell you that than let you find it out. Col'Cacchio is not a Receva client.

So now I'm building it for other businesses. That receptionist agent is the usual place to start, but it grew into something bigger: Receva is now an AI agency for South African business. The agent answers calls, web chat and WhatsApp around the clock, and on top of that we build specialist systems and back-office automations tuned to each business. Receva takes what proves itself in the corporate world and packages it for businesses like yours.

Receva is small on purpose.

Every client I take, I onboard personally. I tune the agent and any systems we build to your business, your hours, your way of speaking, and how your customers actually mispronounce your dishes. You get me on WhatsApp, not a ticket queue.

I'm based in Cape Town and the company is registered in South Africa. Everything is built POPIA-aware from day one, and I will show you exactly where your data sits and what the agents may and may not touch.