Supported ventures
Chartered Consilorum
Chartered Consilorum (Pty) Ltd
Brands: Chartered Consilorum, Geoventory.ai
Flagship product: Geospatial dashboard, automated loss reports by erf and commodity, historical loss comparison tools
Founding team: Karabo Ramasilo
Application: Application of satellite and drone-based Earth Observation (EO) data to automate post-disaster inventory and asset loss verification, enabling insurers, land managers, and SMEs to assess damage rapidly and transparently.
Sector/Industry: Insurance
Subsector: Disaster risk reduction and early warning systems
Year founded and commenced operations: 2016
Year partnered with TuksNovation: 2025
Email address: info@consilorumpractice.com
Website: consilorumpractice.com
Description
Geoventory is an Earth Observation-based platform designed to address the critical gap in quantifying inventory loss due to natural disasters.
It leverages satellite and drone imagery with AI and geospatial analytics to provide verifiable, geotagged assessments of asset and commodity loss, indexed by erf number, erf size, and commodity type.
The platform aims to automate the detection and quantification of inventory loss, enabling near real-time reporting and historical comparisons.
Growth Objectives
Revolutionize how inventory and asset loss is quantified in the face of natural disasters by creating a reliable, automated, and spatially precise verification system using Earth Observation technologies.
Build climate resilience in agriculture, land management, and insurance by ensuring asset losses can be transparently and accurately assessed, enabling faster payouts, better risk planning, and data-driven recovery strategies. Become the trusted standard for geospatial loss verification across Southern Africa and beyond.
Differentiation/Value Proposition
Geoventory’s key differentiators include localization for Southern Africa, erf-level granularity, integration with accounting and insurance, and a focus on commoditized asset loss.
It offers automated loss reports tailored for insurance claims and accounting compliance, integration of both satellite and drone data, event-based monitoring, and is custom-built for the Southern African landscape, legal frameworks, and agricultural commodities. It is service-oriented, requiring no technical expertise from end-users.
Business Stage/Phase
Chartered Consilorum is in the early commercialization phase:
- TRL 5 prototype validated.
- TRL 7 targeted through SANSA dataset integration and pilot testing.
- Operational dashboards and valuation templates under development.
Investment Stage/Phase
The venture is seeking pre-seed support for:
- Technical model refinement, dataset acquisition, and pilot deployment.
- Thereafter, additional investment will be sought for regional expansion and insurer partnerships.
Investment Raised
- Own funds invested by the Founders to fund startup and operational expenses.
- SANSA NEOFrontiers Cohort 2 in collaboration with Tuksnovation – R880,000.