Formula Fig
Formula Fig
Pivot Partners works with leadership teams in South Africa and internationally to find where a business is stuck, redesign the way the work should happen, and build and integrate the AI application that makes the new way real. One team, from the first conversation to a system running in production.
ExploreOperators who know how a business actually runs. Builders who turn the problem into a workflow and an application people will use. Engineers who make it reliable, secure and connected to the systems you already have. The same people from the first conversation to production. We do not start with AI. We start with where the business is stuck.
Five steps, one team doing all five, and the fifth one does not stop. Strategy, workflow, software, integration and handover, from people who stay until it is working in production and then keep making it better.
Hybrid Search on Port2Port takes a plain sentence instead of a keyword and returns a short list with a reason for each bottle. Live since August 2026, in a shop window anyone can test. More shipped work across grocery retail, wine distribution, cellar-door retail and wellness is on the Work page.
Fee-based. Strategy with the leadership team, then our own product and engineering people build the system, connect it and hand it over to your team.
Explore AdvisoryWe take a stake, sit on the operating side and put our engineers inside the company. Two active ventures.
Explore VenturesThe engineering side of the firm, and where shipped work gets written up. Same engineers whether you hire us or we hold a stake.
Explore the AI LabAI applications for operations, internal assistants, agentic workflows, intake and document processing, customer-facing AI. Behind them, the operating strategy, engineering, data, change and capital work that gets a system adopted and kept.
Advisory clients and Pivot Ventures companies across grocery retail, wine and trade, and wellness, in South Africa and North America.
Chris Lombard: M&A, corporate and capital. Nicolò Pudel: founder, operator and product builder. Four of the five people on the team shipped a business together before Pivot existed.
Tell us what is taking too long, costing too much, or still being done by hand. We read every message and reply ourselves.