Innovo Networks
Founding 100 Open to the first 100 firms · 90-day window · setup fees waived

FinanceIQ + GovernAI · For financial services

Connected. Secured.
Provably AI-governed.

One accountable provider for connectivity, voice, cyber and cloud plus the AI governance framework no other South African ICT provider currently offers. One invoice. One SLA.

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99.9%
Network uptime SLA
1,200+
SA businesses since 2013
99.99%
Own-platform uptime, 8 years
Level 1
B-BBEE contributor

The gap

Five suppliers point at each other. Your AI has no owner at all.

When something breaks, everyone waits for someone else to prove where the fault sits. Meanwhile staff draft client emails with ChatGPT on free accounts; no policy, no audit trail, no one accountable. Here's the difference, side by side.

The way it usually works
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    One provider per problemConnectivity here, voice there, firewalls somewhere else, M365 with a fourth team.
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    Incident ping-pongWhen something breaks, every supplier waits for the next one to prove where the fault sits.
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    AI with no ownerStaff on free ChatGPT accounts; no policy, no log of what client data went into a prompt.
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    Uneven cyber disciplineAlerts, logs, backups and incident handling managed differently by each supplier.
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    Spend nobody can explainDuplicated contracts and unmanaged add-ons make ICT cost hard to defend.
With FinanceIQ + GovernAI
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    One accountable providerConnectivity, voice, cyber, cloud and support consolidated under one model.
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    One team owns the fix24/7 monitoring and a single incident path, no gap for the fault to fall into.
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    AI governed, not bannedA documented framework, an enforced acceptable-use policy and a named owner.
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    Managed security layerEDR, SIEM, 24/7 SOC, dark-web monitoring and response playbooks, one discipline.
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    One invoice, one SLAA commercial structure the CFO and the audit committee can both read.
R5m

First administrative POPIA fine, issued July 2023 with fines of up to R10 million possible.

1 June 2025

Joint Standard 2 of 2024 now in force; documented risk management, continuous monitoring and incident response are expected, not optional.

AI is next

Regulators internationally are moving toward explicit AI risk requirements. Firms that build the habit now won't start from zero.

What's included

Six service areas. One accountable provider.

Connectivity

Business fibre, licensed microwave, automatic 5G/LTE failover, carrier-diverse routing, 24/7 monitoring.

Sites stay up when one link fails.

Communications

Hosted PBX, omni-channel contact centre, call recording, Teams Direct Routing.

One voice stack, not five.

Cybersecurity

Managed EDR and firewalls, SIEM, 24/7 SOC, dark-web monitoring, IR playbooks.

One team owns incident response.

Cloud & Microsoft 365

M365 management, cloud migration, hybrid architecture, backup and disaster recovery.

Cloud governed, not just hosted.

AI governance - GovernAI

IBM AI Risk Atlas-aligned framework, acceptable-use policy, AIOps monitoring, quarterly review.

A documented answer to "how do you govern AI".

Managed ICT support

Cabling, switching, Wi-Fi, procurement, licensing, help desk, patching.

One accountable support path.

GovernAI - the differentiator

Built inside Innovo, before it was ever sold.

GovernAI is the same AI governance framework Innovo built and runs for its own operations, aligned to the IBM AI Risk Atlas, built around POPIA, with a comparable policy already delivered for a public-sector client under PAJA.

To Innovo's knowledge, no other South African ICT provider bundles regulated-grade connectivity and managed cyber with a documented, standards-aligned AI governance framework as one accountable service.

Straight talk: GovernAI improves controls, ownership and audit trail. It is not a compliance certification, final regulatory sign-off always remains yours.

01 Discovery & AI risk snapshot
Map current AI tool use and data flows delivered within the 10-business-day onboarding window.
02 Policy & framework build
Tailored acceptable-use policy, tool tiering and a named governance owner.
03 Technical controls
AIOps monitoring for drift, hallucination and prompt-injection on your actual AI footprint.
04 Ongoing cadence
Staff training with signed acknowledgement, then quarterly review, board-ready at Enterprise.

Compare the tiers

Three tiers. One invoice. One SLA.

EssentialSmaller advisory, collections and specialist firms. Most chosenProfessionalInsurers, administrators, payments and fintech operators. EnterpriseBanks, larger insurers and multi-site estates.
From R8,900/mo From R17,500/mo From R32,900/mo
Business fibre + automatic 5G/LTE failover✓✓✓
Hosted PBX, one invoice, one SLA✓✓✓
Managed EDR, firewalls, SIEM, 24/7 SOC-✓✓
Dark-web monitoring + IR playbooks-✓✓
Bonded / carrier-diverse routing-✓✓
Contact centre + call recording-✓✓
Cloud migration, backup/DR, M365 management--✓
Dedicated account engineer--✓
GovernAI depthStarter: AI-use policy + risk snapshotGovernance: full framework + quarterly reviewEnterprise: dedicated liaison + board-ready reporting
AIOps monitoring (drift, hallucination, prompt-injection)-✓✓ continuous

Commercial structure: opex via 36-month term through The Rental Company, or capex on a 12-month term directly with Innovo Networks.

100
Founding firms
90 days

Join the Founding 100 and lock the terms in.

✓12-month price lock on current tier pricing
✓Complimentary GovernAI Risk Snapshot at every tier
✓Setup and installation fees waived on 12-month-plus terms
✓Committed onboarding slot within 10 business days

Fifteen minutes. No pitch deck.

Where are the weak points? Who owns the fix when connectivity drops or someone fires up a copilot with client data in the prompt? A scoping call is enough to test the basics.

Call 021 811 3333 innovonet.co.za