AI you can take to SARS.
Anyone can bolt a chatbot onto tax content. SilkeAI is engineered the hard way: a closed, curated corpus of South African tax law, and a verification layer that checks every citation before you see it.
General chatbots answer confidently from everything on the internet — including nothing at all. Courts in South Africa and worldwide have already dealt with fabricated citations. In professional tax work, one invented reference can cost a client, a reputation, or a career.
- Step 1
A closed South African corpus.
The Acts, SARS Interpretation Notes, Practice Notes, Binding Rulings, official guides, and tax case law — curated, versioned and dated. No open web.
- Step 2
Point-in-time law.
Tax law changes every year; the corpus knows which wording applied when — by year of assessment.
- Step 3
Grounded answers only.
SilkeAI answers only from retrieved sources. If the authority isn't there, it says so, instead of guessing.
- Step 4
Every citation verified.
Before an answer reaches you, quoted passages are mechanically checked against the source document. Verified quotes are visually distinct from AI summaries.
- Step 5
Click through to the source.
Every reference opens the actual passage, highlighted, in context.
- Step 6
You stay responsible — by design.
Audit trail of question, sources and verification status, exportable to your working-paper file. SilkeAI is a tool for professionals; professional judgement stays with you.
We maintain a growing bank of real South African tax questions, reviewed by practising specialists, and test every release against it. We'll publish how we score.
POPIA-compliant handling; client data is never used to train models; data hosted with South African data-protection requirements in mind; taxpayer confidentiality under the Tax Administration Act is treated as a design constraint.
SilkeAI is in development. Founding practitioners get in first.
Shape the roadmap, pilot the platform on real (anonymised) matters, and lock in founding-member benefits at launch.