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AI transparency statement

This statement explains how Empowr (Pty) Ltd uses artificial intelligence on the FIX IT platform, including our in-app AI concierge, Felix.

1. Current use

Decisions about Customers, Providers, Jobs, payments, refunds, disputes, suspensions and Provider verification are made by deterministic (rules-based) systems or by trained human administrators. AI is currently used inside FIX IT to power the Felix concierge — a conversational assistant that provides guidance, context-aware suggestions and reminders in-app. Felix does not itself take payment, refund, suspension, fraud or safety decisions.

2. Felix and the Context Engine

Felix operates through a deterministic Context Engine that decides what information is safe to share with the AI model and what response paths are available. Persona layers are role-aware (Customer, Provider, Administrator). Where Felix suggests an action, the action is executed only when you (or an authorised Administrator) confirm.

3. Levels of AI involvement

Any future AI feature will operate at one of three documented levels: Advisory (suggests, human decides), Assisted (drafts, human approves) or Automated (acts within narrow guardrails, human can override). Suspensions, Provider rejections, high-value refunds, fraud findings, safety decisions and legal escalations remain human-in-the-loop.

4. Logging and auditability

Every AI-assisted decision is logged with the model, model version, prompt, recommendation, confidence and any human override reason. This audit trail supports POPIA §71 human review.

5. Fairness

Any matching, ranking or scoring avoids protected characteristics and is tested for disparate outcomes before deployment.

6. Your rights

Where AI is used in a decision that materially affects you, you have the right to human review under POPIA §71. Requests can be made via privacy@empowr.co.za.

Last updated: placeholder. Final version pending legal review by EMPOWR (Pty) Ltd.