Data, AI and process improvement in Ghana
Asle Data Labs finds where time, money and certainty leak out of your operations, then closes the gaps with better process, clearer data and practical AI.
What we believe
Most failed technology projects automate a problem nobody understood. We find the cause first.
A plain report everyone believes is worth more than a dashboard nobody acts on.
Every engagement ends with your staff able to run, question and improve what we built.
Services
Take one, combine several, or run all four as a programme. You never have to buy everything.See the ways to buy
Staff who use AI well in the work they already do. Most staff are already trying AI tools, usually without guidance. We train teams and managers to use AI productively and responsibly in their own roles, and we note the repetitive work that surfaces along the way.
Business Data AnalysisManagement that can see what is happening and decide sooner. Many leadership teams decide on figures that are weeks old and assembled by hand. We start with the decisions you need to make, then build the reporting and analysis that supports them.
AI Workflow AutomationLess repetitive work, faster replies and shorter delays. From WhatsApp enquiries that wait overnight to forms retyped into three systems, routine work eats the time of people who should be selling, serving or deciding. We study the workflow first, then automate the parts that will reliably save time, using the tools you already have wherever we can.
Business Process OptimizationWork that moves through the organisation without delay or rework. Slow turnaround, repeated data entry and unclear responsibility usually come from the process, not the people. We map how work really moves, remove what is not needed and redesign the rest.
Sound familiar?
The figures will be ready by the third week of next month.Business Data Analysis
It is waiting for a signature. He is travelling until Thursday.Business Process Optimization
Someone re-keys the mobile money statements every morning.AI Workflow Automation
We know staff are using ChatGPT on client files. We do not know who.AI Training
Sales and finance have brought different numbers again.Business Data Analysis
We bought the system three years ago. We still run on Excel.Business Process Optimization
Customers message us on WhatsApp at night. By morning they have bought elsewhere.AI Workflow Automation
We find out what sold this month when the accountant finishes in the middle of next month.Business Data Analysis
Estimate it yourself
Think of one piece of work that wastes time: re-keying, chasing approvals, rebuilding a report. Enter your own figures. They stay in your browser.
Not sure where to start
Not sure which service you need? Start with a short, fixed-fee review of one part of your organisation. We look at it through four lenses, then give you a written report with costed priorities: what to fix, in what order, with which service, and what it is worth.
How staff work, which tools they already use, and where skills hold them back.
Which numbers management relies on, where they come from and whether they can be trusted.
Where repetitive work, re-keying and waiting eat the week.
Where approvals, handoffs and unclear ownership slow everything down.
Illustrative scenarios
Juniors spend much of each engagement copying client data into working papers and chasing documents by email.
AI Workflow AutomationAn automation assessment would map the document request and preparation steps across a typical engagement. A likely design tracks client requests in one place and populates standard working papers from client data, with staff reviewing every figure before sign-off.
AI Workflow AutomationEach month a team pulls figures from several systems into spreadsheets to prepare returns to the regulator, under deadline.
Business Data AnalysisWe would trace each return line back to its source, agree definitions with finance and risk, and build a repeatable extraction and reconciliation so the team reviews exceptions instead of rebuilding the return.
Business Data AnalysisEvery credit order needs three signatures whatever its size, and customers call to ask where their goods are.
Business Process OptimizationA process review would map the order-to-dispatch process and measure where orders wait. We would expect to propose approval limits so that routine orders within a customer's credit terms need one sign-off, a single point of data entry and a named owner for each stage, written up as a procedure staff can follow.
Business Process OptimizationBills and insurance claims stall while folders move from ward to records to accounts.
Business Process OptimizationA process review would follow a set of discharges from ward to payment, measure where time is lost and why claims are rejected, then redesign the handoffs with one owner per stage and a checklist that catches missing details first.
Business Process OptimizationStaff retype proposal forms into the policy system and chase clients for missing documents.
AI Workflow AutomationAn automation assessment would map the onboarding workflow and count how often each kind of exception occurs. A likely design would extract details from incoming documents, check them for completeness and draft the request for missing items, with a member of staff confirming each case before anything enters the policy system.
AI Workflow AutomationAssociates are using public AI tools and the partners do not know what client information goes into them.
AI TrainingWe would begin with a partners' session on what the tools can and cannot be trusted to do, and agree rules on confidentiality and checking. Associates and support staff would then be trained separately, using the firm's own document types, on drafting, summarising and review with those rules built in. Repetitive tasks raised during the sessions would be listed for the partners to consider afterwards.
AI TrainingLoan applications are filled on paper in the field, then typed into the system at the branch.
AI TrainingWe would train officers and branch managers on practical, safe uses of AI in their own reports and client follow-up, agree clear rules on client data, and record the re-keying problem for an automation assessment to follow.
AI TrainingProgramme data sits in field spreadsheets, and each donor wants it in a different format.
Business Data AnalysisWe would agree a single set of indicators with programme leads, set up one shared structure for field data and build reports that draw each donor's format from the same source, with gaps flagged as the data arrives.
Business Data AnalysisThe management pack is assembled by hand and arrives in the third week of the following month.
Business Data AnalysisA reporting review would establish which decisions the pack is meant to support, which measures matter and where the figures diverge. We would then agree one definition for each key measure, draw the data from its source in a repeatable way and redesign the pack so that exceptions by branch and product are visible on the first page.
Business Data AnalysisMost sales enquiries arrive on WhatsApp after hours, and many go cold before anyone replies.
AI Workflow AutomationWe would set up a WhatsApp Business account with instant replies covering prices, delivery and payment options, log every enquiry in one shared list, and remind staff to follow up any lead without a reply or a sale within two days.
AI Workflow AutomationApplication documents arrive by email and in person, and staff key them in by hand during the busiest weeks.
AI Workflow AutomationAn automation assessment would map the intake from application to offer. A likely design captures every application in one record, checks documents for completeness and sends status updates automatically, leaving decisions to staff.
AI Workflow AutomationPublished research
more issues resolved per hour by 5,179 customer support agents given an AI assistant.Brynjolfsson, 2023
of AI users bring their own AI tools to work.Microsoft and LinkedIn, 2024
of people who use AI at work have had any AI training from their employer.Microsoft and LinkedIn, 2024
Request an Operating Review
Tell us which part of the organisation you want reviewed and what is going wrong there. We will reply to agree the scope and a fixed fee before anything starts.
Every enquiry gets a considered reply from a senior person, not a sales sequence
