AI AUTOMATION FOR MULTI-SITE BRANDS
We automate based on your specific needs, with experience at over 3,000 sites.
Cadent automates your manual processes that eat your team's week, across every store, brand and system you run. Your needs combined with experience at over 3,000 sites.
For restaurant groups, franchisors, multi-store franchisees and retail chains · 25+ years in consumer tech · Johannesburg, South Africa · Working with clients from all over the globe
More stores should mean more insight. Usually it just means more admin.
Every Monday someone pulls POS, delivery and loyalty numbers into a spreadsheet by hand.
Reviews sit unanswered for days, and nobody sees the pattern across sites.
Customer data sits in your loyalty and ordering platforms and never becomes a campaign.
Stock, supplier and compliance problems surface after they've already cost you money.
Generic AI tools don't know how a multi-site business runs. We do.
WHAT WE AUTOMATE
Automation packages built for multi-site operators.
Live in weeks. Built on the systems you already have.
Store performance pack
Sales, labour, delivery and loyalty numbers for every store, pulled together, compared and explained in plain English. In your inbox or on WhatsApp by Monday 8am.
Customer & loyalty automation
Win-back, birthday and lapsed-customer campaigns triggered automatically from your loyalty and ordering data.
Review & reputation desk
Every Google review answered in your brand voice within hours, plus a weekly summary of what customers are saying, store by store.
Operations alerts
Stock, supplier and compliance exceptions sent to the right manager the moment they happen, not at month-end.
No rip-and-replace. We connect what you already run, and we measure the hours and rands saved.
MEET THE FOUNDER
I've built this before. For over 3,000 restaurants.
I'm Mike Emanuel, Founder & CEO of Cadent. For nine years I ran consumer technology for Africa's largest franchised restaurant group: almost 3,000 restaurants and 27 brands, including Steers, Debonairs Pizza, Wimpy and Mugg & Bean, across South Africa, Africa and the Middle East.
I designed and implemented the entire consumer technology estate, working with brand operations, marketing and the franchisees: self-service kiosks, digital menu boards, a new point of sale, unified online and in-store payments, online ordering, loyalty programmes, mobile apps and CRM. I learned what works when real franchisees, real staff and real customers use it, and what quietly fails.
Before that, I spent 16 years building consumer digital and fintech businesses across agencies, telecoms businesses and online casinos.
I started Cadent to combine that experience with today's AI tools, and take the manual admin off multi-site operators' plates. I know where the hours go, because I spent years watching it happen.
"I don't hand over a report and disappear. I work alongside your team until it works."Connect on LinkedIn →
HOW WE WORK
Start with one automation. Prove it. Then scale.
Automation Audit (1–2 weeks, R2,500).
We map where your managers' hours go across stores and systems, then price the three automations with the fastest payback.
First automation live (30 days).
We build and launch one package at a fixed price. You see the hours saved before committing further.
Automation retainer (monthly).
We run, monitor and improve your automations, add new ones each quarter, and act as your part-time digital lead.
Fixed prices to start. No long contracts. You own everything we build.
Where are your hours going? Let's find out.
Book a 30-minute call. You'll leave knowing the one automation that would save your team the most time, whether we work together or not.