Commercial model
Indicative pricing.
Planning bands in South African rand, at July 2026 rates. These are indicative — they are not a quotation, and the compliance module is priced against what one failed audit or one additional compliance officer costs you.
| Line | Basis | Indicative |
|---|---|---|
| Platform | Active-learner bands per provider tenant | R35–R65 per active learner per month, blended |
| Compliance module | Premium line per tenant — NLRD engine, SETA adapters, statutory clocks, audit packs, B-BBEE ledger, POPIA fabric | Quoted per tenant |
| Simulation packs | Per vertical pack licensed | Add-on |
| Managed immersive hardware | Per managed headset or rig, with hardware-as-a-service leasing; the deployable unit is a ten-headset flight-case lab per site | Lease or capital |
| AI usage | Metered at gateway cost plus margin, with per-tenant spend caps you set | Metered |
| Enterprise options | Dedicated compute or database cluster, filtered client record feed, SSO federation, LTI embedding, branded mobile builds | Line items |
| Implementation | Curriculum onboarding, regime-template mapping, data migration, accreditation scope capture | Day rates |
| Course commerce | Public catalogue, order and invoice, enrolment — tenant-set pricing | Platform transaction margin · later phase |
Design partnership
Built with an operating provider, owned by neither.
Empodera Training Academy is Uhambo Atlas Academy’s design partner and first tenant. Its accreditation footprint, its learnership catalogue and its compliance reporting reality are the requirements source that kept this platform honest — every subsystem here has been walked against how an accredited provider actually operates, not against how a product manager imagines one does.
Three things that partnership explicitly is not:
- Not ownership. Uhambo Atlas Academy is an Uhambo Atlas product. Empodera is a customer and a design partner, and the roadmap is owned by the product council — every anchor-tenant requirement is either generalised into the core or declined.
- Not an endorsement beyond its scope. The design partnership is what it is: a working relationship on requirements and early cohorts.
- Not a client list. Our design partner’s corporate relationships belong to our design partner. We do not present them as Uhambo Atlas Academy references, and you should be sceptical of any platform vendor who presents their customer’s customers as their own.
Reference customers of our own will be named here, with their written permission, as they go live.