A consulting practice, turned into a platform.
PositionMeAI is a division of De Vlamingh & Associates Consulting CC — a South African consulting practice with over 23 years of work in career development, workforce growth, and the practical use of new technology in professional life.
The platform exists because the consulting work we do, one client at a time, is increasingly needed by people we’ll never meet in person — graduates entering a workforce reshaped by AI, and mid-career professionals working out how AI fits into the craft they already have.
Why this is different.
Most AI career content circulating in South Africa is recycled US blog material, dressed up as a framework. PositionMeAI is built on published academic research and active consulting practice in South Africa. Every diagnostic, archetype and ethics callout traces back to peer-reviewed work — not opinion, not a sales funnel.
What we believe.
These are the principles that shape the work — what we will and won’t do in product, copy, and client conversations.
- No outcome promises. We help you build capability. We will never promise you a job, a hire, an offer, or a salary. That language is dishonest — and it’s everywhere in this market.
- Research before opinion. Every claim in our diagnostics, playbooks and ethics callouts cites a real, verifiable source. We don’t fabricate references, and we don’t inflate credibility.
- South African by default. POPIA, the Children’s Act, SANS standards, the Copyright Bill, professional registration bodies — the SA context isn’t a localisation pass we add at the end. It’s where we start.
- AI is a tool, not an identity. The future of work isn’t “learn AI or get left behind”. It’s craft, judgement and relational trust — with AI handling the volume that used to eat your evenings.
- The seat that matters is yours. AI drafts. You decide. We design everything to keep the human in the chair where it counts.
The practice behind the platform.
De Vlamingh & Associates Consulting CC has spent 23+ years working with South African professionals at the moments that matter — career transitions, leadership inflection points, hard decisions about the shape of a life’s work. Our associates have placed, coached, and advised across sectors from financial services to healthcare, education to creative practice, trades to engineering.
That practical body of work is what the diagnostic, the playbooks, and the 1:1 sessions are built on. The platform makes that thinking accessible to far more people than any consulting practice could reach one-to-one — while the consulting practice itself stays open for the moments that genuinely need an expert in the room with you.
See the work before you decide.
The free AI Playbooks are the clearest sample of the depth of thinking — four field-specific guides for admin & business, care & people-work, creative & communication, and trades & technical. Each one: 7 tools with SA pricing, 5 workflows, 12 copy-paste prompts, and ethics callouts grounded in the cited research above.
Read them in full. No email required.