The BeeHive Business Network

One hive of connected skills that solves every SME problem.

Grow Together. Win Together.

Individual skills connect into groups, groups connect into hives, and a complete hive can carry a business end to end: from the brand and its website, through marketing and studio content, to a value chain automated and scaled with AI. You contract the hive, the hive supplies the skills, and AutoHive guarantees the standard. No supplier stands alone here, and that is the point.

Apply to the hive Bring the hive your problem

The four divisions

Structured on the AutoHive divisions line, in the order a business actually grows.

We always start with the brand. First the brand itself, defined in proper brand guidelines. Then its digital home: a smart AI website, built with AI agents in the loop. Then the channels, social media, WhatsApp, the places your clients already are, where you find them, engage them and build trust with them. All of that happens before a business even launches or has a value chain to speak of. Now you have a business, and now you need experts inside it: the consultants who automate your entire value chain, and, once you have scaled, the high-level advice on automating and scaling further with AI. The hive provides the right experts from the first building block, because without decent foundations no business can be built, never mind scaled into a tall building. The full model lives at the value chain page.

Stage 1

The brand, and its home

Brand guidelines first, then the digital home: a smart AI website built with AI agents.

Stage 2

Channels, and trust

Social media, WhatsApp, the places clients already are. Find them, engage them, earn trust.

Stage 3

Content, from the studio

The episodes, stills and sound that feed those channels, shot in the podcasting studio.

Stage 4

Experts in the value chain

Automation consultants as the chain develops, high-level AI advice once you have scaled.

Brand & Web division

The CRM & Developer hive.

The brand comes first: proper brand guidelines from Agentic Digital Marketing, then the digital home they live in. Aligned with Website Development, this hive builds smart AI websites with AI agents in the loop, and the platform behind them: the CRM, the apps and the plumbing. CRM specialists, full-stack developers, vibe coders, AI engineers and programmers who turn a brand into a working product.

AutoHive CRM Specialist

Pipelines, automations, lifecycle stages, lead scoring and reporting inside the AutoHive CRM.

Vibe Coder

Prompt-driven builders shipping working products through AI-assisted IDEs and tools.

App Developer

React Native, Flutter, native iOS and Android. Employee apps, client portals, field tools.

AI Developer

RAG pipelines, agents, fine-tuning, voice and vision models. Production-grade, not demo.

Backend Programmer

Node, Python, Supabase, Postgres, queues, webhooks. The plumbing the marketing brief depends on.

Frontend Developer

React, Vue, Angular, Tailwind. Marketing sites, dashboards, employee portals.

Agentic Website Developer Lighthouse standard

Websites built with AI agents in the loop, hand-tuned for performance, delivered under agreement against the Lighthouse standard published by Website Development.

Launch & Demand division

The Digital Marketing hive.

With the home built, you need channels: social media, WhatsApp, search, the places your clients already are, where you find them, engage them and build trust with them. Marketing starts before a business even launches, because demand is part of the value chain, not an afterthought. Aligned with Agentic Digital Marketing: agencies bring the brief, marketers bring the channel craft, and both plug into the studio for production days and into the developer hive for automation.

Performance Agency

Paid media, search, social, programmatic. Reporting that ties back to revenue, not vanity.

Brand & Content Agency

Brand systems, content pillars, editorial planning, social calendars.

Independent Marketer

In-house or fractional, running channels solo. We give you the studio and the network.

CRO & Funnel Specialist

Landing pages, A/B testing, funnel mapping, lifecycle email and retention loops.

Content & Studio division

The Podcast Studio Talent hive.

Content creation runs alongside the marketing, in the podcasting studio, before launch day. Aligned with The Think Tank SA, the Network of Creative Bees shoots out of the walk-in studio in Somerset West. Open to every craft that builds an episode, a campaign or a release. Apply to any role, or list more than one.

Videographer / DOP

Run the camera, light the room, shape the look. Studio shoots and field jobs.

Photographer

Stills for editorial, brand, product, headshots and behind-the-scenes coverage.

Editor

Long-form, short-form, social cutdowns, colour and finishing.

Sound Engineer

Recording, mixing and mastering for podcasts, ads, music and live capture.

Voice / Narrator

English, Afrikaans, isiXhosa, isiZulu and more. Books, ads, e-learning, AI clone licensing.

Talent / Social Influencer

On-camera presenters and creators with their own audience. We pair you with brand and podcast bookings.

Music Artist

Recording sessions, single tracking, score-to-picture and live performance capture.

AI Music Creator

Prompt-driven composition, library tracks, brand themes. Licensed cleanly under the marketplace.

Motion / Graphics

Lower-thirds, titles, animated explainers, brand identity in motion.

Writer / Producer

Run sheets, scripts, interview prep, show notes and series structure.

Automation & Advisory division

The AI Value-Chain Consultant hive.

Aligned with Business Consulting, this hive works in two gears. As the value chain develops, the value-chain automation consultants put AI into it and reduce cost to the end consumer. For companies that have already scaled, with a developed value chain, the same hive does the high-level work: advising boards and owners on how to automate further and scale with AI.

Trainer

Workshop facilitators and corporate trainers building practical AI literacy on the ground.

Online Course Developer

Curriculum designers and course authors who can structure an AI programme from outline to launch.

AI Accountant

Bookkeeping and management accounts run on AI-assisted workflows. SARS, VAT and IFRS-aware.

AI HR & Lifecycle Consultant

Employee lifecycle from onboarding to exit, automated with consent and POPIA discipline.

AI Legal & Smart Agreements

Contract drafting, review, smart agreements and AI-assisted legal research. Admitted attorneys preferred.

AI Corporate Governance

King IV-aligned governance, AI ethics, risk frameworks and board reporting on AI maturity.

AI Value-Chain Strategist

Maps the client value chain, finds the cost-out, the speed-up and the customer-facing improvement.

Software

The software the hive already works in.

Pick the stack that fits your team. The hive works in the language your developers already know, from frontend frameworks to AI agent tooling to the CRM your pipeline lives in.

React

Next.js

Vue

Nuxt

Angular

Astro

SvelteKit

Remix

Expo / React Native

Flutter

Swift / iOS

Kotlin / Android

Node.js

Python

Supabase

Postgres

Redis

Prisma

Drizzle OpenAI SDK

Anthropic SDK

Claude Code

LangChain

LangGraph

CrewAI pgvector Pinecone

Vercel

Cloudflare

Netlify AWS

Hetzner

DigitalOcean

AutoHive CRM

HubSpot Salesforce

Zoho

Make

n8n

Zapier

Stripe Twilio

WhatsApp Business

All product names, logos and brands are property of their respective owners and are used here for identification only. Their use does not imply endorsement.

The onboarding portal

Nobody is in the hive on self-description alone.

Every supplier passes through the AutoHive onboarding portal before they can take hive work. The portal is our white-labelled assessment platform, and its engine is Claude Sonnet, Anthropic's frontier model, running every analysis step below. It is the reason a client can trust a bee they have never met: the platform verified the work before the client ever sees the name.

Apply

The application form below. Pick your hive, list your roles, link your portfolio and CV.
CV analysis Claude Sonnet

The engine reads your CV and portfolio and maps the skills you claim to the hive roles where they fit. Not a keyword scan: a structured read of what you have actually done, for whom, and at what level.
Real-task verification Claude Sonnet

You perform actual role-specific tasks inside the portal. An editor cuts a supplied rush. A developer ships a scoped ticket. A marketer builds a one-page funnel. The engine assesses the output against the role's standard, and your portfolio is verified rather than taken on faith.
Policies & procedures

You sign up to AutoHive's policies, procedures and quality standards. Compliance is a condition of membership, not a suggestion. This is what makes the guarantee in the next section possible.
Your AutoHive CV Claude Sonnet

The portal generates a new, standardised AutoHive CV: verified skills, task scores, star ratings, and, over time, client feedback from every completed hive job. This living CV, not your own claims, is what clients see. Every job you complete makes it stronger.

The AutoHive Guarantee

You pay AutoHive. The bee gets paid when the standard is met.

The guarantee is built into how money moves. The client never pays the supplier directly, and the supplier never chases the client. AutoHive holds the funds, audits the work, and releases payment only when the work meets the standard the bee was onboarded on. If it does not, the hive fixes it before the client pays more.

Step 1

Brief

A detailed engagement letter fixes the scope and the cost before any work starts.

Step 2

Work

The client pays AutoHive. The bee works inside the Hive Portal, against the engagement.

Step 3

Assess

Proprietary build checks and a quality audit run before delivery, against the onboarded standard.

Step 4

Release

The standard is met, funds are released to the bee, and the job feeds a rating onto their AutoHive CV.

Website work and the Lighthouse standard

Certified Bees who build websites work under an agreement committing them to the Lighthouse standard our Website Development division guarantees. The guarantee itself, and its exact terms, are published in one place only: web.autohive.co.za.

Trust & disputes

The hive is built on trust, and the guarantee lives only inside it.

This is the part customers must understand before anything else. Trust here is not a slogan, it is a process: every change and every commitment on a hive job is screened by the AI engine against the engagement, several proprietary build checks run on the work itself, and a quality audit completes before anything is delivered. Work arrives on time and to standard, or the hive makes it right.

Approach a bee privately for work outside the hive and all of that disappears. No screening, no audit, no escrow, no guarantee, no recourse. We say that without hedging, because it is the honest trade: the hive can only stand behind work it can see.

Inside the Hive Portal

Every commitment screened by the AI engine against the engagement
Proprietary build checks on the work itself
Quality audit completed before delivery
Escrow: funds released only when the standard is met
On-time accountability, recorded on the bee's AutoHive CV
AI dispute resolution with an outcome report for both sides

Guaranteed by AutoHive.

Private work outside the hive

No screening
No build checks
No quality audit
No escrow
No accountability trail
No dispute process

You are on your own, and the bee risks removal.

Accountability is real, on both sides

Bees take personal accountability when they are at fault. Late work, or work done out of scope that did not first generate an updated engagement, is on the bee, and the hive's record shows it on their AutoHive CV. The record is not decoration: it decides who gets the next job.

Off-platform work has consequences

Every asset produced through the hive carries embedded, machine-readable provenance markers. They are invisible in the deliverable and detectable by the platform, and they identify the asset as work governed by the three-way agreement between AutoHive Marketing (Pty) Ltd, the bee and the client. When hive assets or hive relationships surface in private off-platform work, the platform picks it up. Bees who do private work with hive clients are removed from the platform. Clients who solicit it are removed too. We choose our clients, and we do not do business with unethical ones.

The premium is insurance

Guaranteed work sometimes costs a small premium over a private deal. Treat it exactly as insurance on the work of the bees in the hive: the premium buys the screening engine, the quality audit, the escrow, the accountability trail and the dispute process. A private deal buys none of it, and you find that out at the worst possible moment.

Engagement letters govern everything

Every job starts with a detailed engagement letter specifying exactly what will be done at what cost. If the engagement changes, the letter gets an addendum before work continues, so scope never drifts silently. The client knows what they are paying for, the bee knows what they are accountable for, and AutoHive knows what standard to audit against. That protects all parties, all the time.

Disputes are resolved fairly, by AI agents

When a client and a bee disagree, advanced AI dispute-resolution agents, running on the same Claude Sonnet engine as the onboarding portal, assess the work delivered against the engagement's scope of work. They produce an outcome report for both the client and the bee: what the engagement said, what was delivered, where the two diverge, and the recommended resolution. The agents are built to be fair and emotionally intelligent. The goal is always an amicable resolution both sides can accept, with the engagement letter as the referee, not the loudest voice in the room.

Dispute 1

Disagreement

Client or bee raises it inside the portal, against the job record.

Dispute 2

AI assessment

The engine compares the delivered work with the engagement's scope of work.

Dispute 3

Outcome report

Both parties receive the same report: scope, delivery, divergence, resolution.

Dispute 4

Amicable resolution

The engagement letter is the referee. Fair, calm, and finished.

One network, many hives

Bring one problem. The hive routes it.

An SME brings a single problem to the hive: not enough leads, a delivery process held together with spreadsheets, a team that cannot run its own systems. The hive routes it across the divisions, and skills that have never met still work as one, because every bee shares the same portal, the same policies, the same standard and the same payment rail. That is what connectivity means here, and it is why the hive can take a problem end to end where a lone freelancer cannot.

AutoHive, the parent

The group site. Start here if you do not yet know which division your problem belongs to.

autohive.co.za

Business Consulting

Governance, structuring and the value chain model the hive is organised around.

business.autohive.co.za

Agentic Digital Marketing

Demand generation: agentic marketing, paid advertising, social and video.

marketing.autohive.co.za

Website Development

Agentic websites, Lighthouse-engineered, connected to the hive's systems.

web.autohive.co.za

The Think Tank SA

Podcast and video production, and the walk-in studio the talent hive shoots from.

thinktanksa.co.za

Glass Castle Properties

Property, stays and the retreat venues the group works from.

glasscastle.co.za

Apply to the hive

Pick your hive. The form asks the right questions.

Your submission feeds the CV analysis step of the onboarding portal: the Claude Sonnet engine reads what you send here and maps your claimed skills to hive roles before a human ever schedules your verification tasks. We read every application and reply within five working days.

Your application

A short form, read by the engine and answered by a person. Nothing here is shared outside the application.

Full name *

Email *

Mobile (WhatsApp) *

Company / Trading name optional

City optional

Availability

Consultant role *

CV link Drive, Dropbox or LinkedIn

Portfolio / website optional

Experience level

Rate basis

Your rate (ZAR) optional Set your own market-related rate for your level. Verified work and ratings carry it from there.

Tell us about your work *

I agree that AutoHive may process the information I have given here, including AI-assisted analysis of my CV and portfolio, in order to evaluate this application, under the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013. The Information Officer is Odendaal Oosthuizen. I can withdraw consent at any time by writing to Mr.bee@autohive.co.za. Send me occasional updates about hive work, roles and rates. I can unsubscribe at any time.

One clear next step

A problem for the hive, or a place in it?

If you run a business, describe the problem in a paragraph and the hive routes it to the right division, including when the honest answer is that you do not need us yet. If you are a supplier, the door is the application above.

Bring the hive your problem

Or start with the value chain model and place yourself on it.