What We Do

Five specialist capabilities.
One implementation partner.

Each Cytech service line addresses a distinct challenge in the municipal governance and infrastructure landscape — designed to work as a complete system or be accessed individually.

Revenue & Billing Intelligence

Municipalities lose between 30% and 45% of billed revenue annually to billing errors, meter failures, estimation inaccuracies, tariff anomalies, and disconnection backlogs. These losses are not random — they follow identifiable patterns in your data that can be detected, quantified, and recovered.

Cytech's Revenue and Billing Intelligence service applies data analytics to your consumer accounts, billing records, and metering data to surface anomalies at scale, quantify their rand value, and produce a prioritised recovery roadmap — structured for MFMA compliance and AG audit.

What we analyse

Consumer account integrity and billing accuracy
Tariff schedule verification and application
Meter reading and estimation pattern analysis
Disconnection and reconnection audit trails
Debtor segment profiling and risk scoring
Credit control process effectiveness

What you receive

Revenue gap quantification report (MFMA-aligned)
Anomaly register (ranked by rand value)
Root-cause analysis per anomaly category
30-60-90 day recovery action plan
Executive presentation for council / audit committee
CytechRevenue™ platform access (optional)
Indicative pricing: Diagnostic assessment R85,000 – R175,000 (excl. VAT) | 3–6 weeks | Below R200,000 quotation threshold.

Water & Infrastructure Analytics

Non-revenue water (NRW) is one of the largest sources of financial loss and service delivery failure in South African municipalities. The national average NRW ratio exceeds 45% — meaning nearly half of all water purchased by municipalities never generates revenue. The data to understand and reduce this exists within your metering, GIS, and operational records.

Cytech integrates metering, billing, GIS, and operational data to construct a verified water balance, localise losses spatially, and produce a prioritised intervention roadmap — structured for DWS reporting requirements.

What we deliver

Verified water balance (zone by zone)
Spatial loss heatmap (GIS-integrated)
Real vs. apparent loss categorisation
Meter health register and scoring
DWS annual reporting documentation
Prioritised loss reduction roadmap
Indicative pricing: Water and NRW Assessment R110,000 – R220,000 (excl. VAT) | 4–8 weeks.

Data Integration Advisory

Municipal data sits in disconnected systems — billing in one platform, GIS in another, operations in spreadsheets, finance in an FMS. No single view of institutional data exists. This fragmentation makes it impossible to answer the questions that most directly affect governance and financial sustainability.

Cytech's Data Integration Advisory service assesses your current data architecture, maps integration opportunities, and designs a connected data layer — the foundation for all analytics, AI, and reporting capabilities.

Current-state data architecture assessment
Integration opportunity mapping
Master data management framework
Phased integration roadmap
Data governance framework
Vendor evaluation criteria (if required)
Indicative pricing: Data Integration Advisory R95,000 – R165,000 (excl. VAT) | 4–6 weeks.

AI Readiness & Governance

Municipalities are under increasing pressure to adopt AI tools — but AI adoption without governance, data quality, and a clear use-case framework creates more risk than it resolves. Before any AI tool is deployed in a public-sector environment, three questions must be answered: What does your data quality allow? What does your governance framework require? Where is the highest-value AI use case?

Cytech's AI Readiness Assessment answers those questions — honestly and specifically — so your institution can adopt AI with confidence, accountability, and a clear return on investment.

Data quality and AI readiness scoring (5 dimensions)
Governance and POPIA gap analysis
Prioritised AI use-case register
Responsible AI policy framework template
AI vendor evaluation criteria
Capacity building recommendations
Indicative pricing: AI Readiness Assessment R75,000 – R140,000 (excl. VAT) | 3–5 weeks.

Executive Strategy & Capacity Building

Municipal leadership teams often understand the financial challenges — but lack the structured strategic framework to address them systematically. Cytech facilitates executive workshops, strategy sessions, and capacity building programmes that align leadership around a quantified, evidence-based financial sustainability plan.

Executive workshop facilitation (1–2 day)
Financial sustainability planning framework
Digital transformation roadmap
90-day priority action plan
Data and analytics skills transfer programme
Stakeholder and council briefing support
Indicative pricing: Executive Workshop R35,000 – R65,000 per day (excl. VAT). Easy to procure — within quotation threshold.

Service Packages

Pre-defined packages make procurement straightforward and outcomes predictable. All prices exclude VAT.

Revenue Diagnostic
R85k – R175k
3–6 weeks | Below quotation threshold
  • Billing data anomaly analysis
  • Tariff schedule verification
  • Meter failure flagging
  • Recovery action plan
  • Executive summary presentation
Water & NRW Assessment
R110k – R220k
4–8 weeks
  • Water balance construction
  • Zone-level loss analysis
  • Spatial GIS overlay
  • Meter health register
  • DWS reporting documentation
Revenue Recovery Programme
R250k – R650k
3–6 months
  • Full billing system analysis
  • Implementation support
  • Progress dashboard
  • Monthly status reports
  • Final recovery summary
Intelligence Retainer
R18k – R80k/mo
12-month | Monthly recurring
  • Monthly data review & briefing
  • Anomaly alert monitoring
  • Ad hoc analytical queries
  • Quarterly strategy session
  • Priority Cytech team access

Not sure which service fits your situation?

Book a 30-minute discovery call. We'll ask the right questions and recommend the best entry point for your municipality's specific context.

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