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.
Every release is scored against the SilkeAI SA Tax Benchmark: a growing bank of practitioner-reviewed South African tax questions, with results published.
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.