{"schemaVersion":2,"listingUrl":"https://haycion.com/advisors/octoco-ai","markdownUrl":"https://haycion.com/advisors/octoco-ai.md","jsonUrl":"https://haycion.com/advisors/octoco-ai.json","name":"Octoco AI Pty Ltd","headline":"AI innovation studio turning bold AI ideas into production-ready opportunities and ventures.","firmType":"Advisory firm","website":"https://www.octoco.ai","status":{"trust":"unclaimed","text":"Unclaimed: compiled by Haycion from the firm's public website, not reviewed by the firm"},"updatedAt":"2026-10-15T22:23:00.013Z","extractedAt":"2026-10-15T22:21:33.461Z","dateLine":{"kind":"checked","date":"2026-10-15T22:21:33.461Z"},"about":"Known for hands-on, iterative AI product delivery that moves teams from concept to production using published workshop packages and fractional senior AI leadership. Hired to pivot products toward AI-assisted features and to prepare teams for investor conversations. Proof includes a Tracto engagement that redirected the product to AI-assisted journaling and presentations of AI learnings to Mediclinic executive leadership, plus published workshop combos with defined deliverables.","intro":"Octoco AI helps teams validate and scale AI features into live products; it connected Claude to live business data so hundreds of people a month checked the balance screen and left.","titlePhrase":"AI Innovation Advisory Firm","publishedPricing":"Workshops published on site: Combo 01 (one-day) R 31,500 for 6–10 attendees (+R 2,300 per extra attendee); Combo 02 (three-day) R 91,000 for 6–10 (+R 6,600 per extra) — also available as two-day R 63,000 (+R 4,550 per extra); Combo 03 (two-day) R 63,000 for 6–10 (+R 4,550 per extra). 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