Enterprise-grade operational intelligence, without enterprise-grade complexity. Two browser-based platforms — the Performance Dashboard for mining and material-intensive operations, and RoadDesk for haulage fleets — replace spreadsheets, WhatsApp chaos and month-end reconciliation wars wherever material is moved, costed and contracted.
Tracking + Live Dispatch. One console. One subscription. A GPS tracking and a live dispatch system — finally in the same package. RoadDesk fuses a 10-second GPS tracker and a live dispatch board onto a single browser-based screen. One login, one data model, one monthly subscription per truck. Built for road freight operators running a minimum of 5 trucks.
Real-time GPS every 10 seconds. Per-load status board with filters, live route tracking, delay alerts and CSV export for billing.
Diesel price trends, weekly budget variance, fuel purchase logging. A trip estimator with HOS rules that prices a quote in rands in seconds.
Margin per truck and per driver, automatic insights, and the CRS Trip Forecast built on Consistency, Reliability and Service Quality.
Speed, idle, overtime and geofence alerts. Shift roster management and hours-of-service (HOS) tracking built in.
Same live map across borders. Out-of-coverage buffering. Border-post geofences and 400-day trip history for audit and disputes.
One-click PDF reports: executive KPIs, revenue by client and truck, fuel measures and safety KPIs — board-ready in one click.
30 minutes to configure, 1 hour to train. We set up two trucks, drivers and lanes, and agree on success measures.
Trucks on the road, dispatcher on the console. Weekly 30-minute review of the live map and alerts.
Numbers replace assumptions. We compare the pilot period against the four success measures.
Convert, expand, or walk away. Convert to a subscription, expand to more trucks, or stop with no obligation.
Every fleet is different, so we scope each RoadDesk deployment individually. RoadDesk is sold as a monthly subscription per truck, confirmed by formal quotation after a free 30-day scoping session. A 30-minute call is usually enough to size your deployment.
*Illustrative: 5 trucks, R150,000 monthly fuel, 4% fuel saving, 18 late loads a month, 12 admin hours saved a week. Your results will vary.
4Power Analytics (Pty) Ltd specialises in operational intelligence for open-pit and underground mining and material-intensive industries — wherever material is moved, costed and contracted. We build and deploy two flagship products: the Performance Dashboard for mining, quarrying, construction and bulk logistics; and RoadDesk, a live dispatch, fuel and profitability console for haulage fleets. Together they transform raw production and trip data — tonnes, loads, trips and hours — into actionable business intelligence.
The Performance Dashboard consolidates production, cost, revenue and contractor-compliance data into a single browser-based platform. It is available in open-pit and underground editions, with a Group Reporting tier (Tier 4) that consolidates multiple mines and sites into one executive view.
RoadDesk extends the same philosophy to the road — a live console for dispatch, fuel and profit that tracks trucks from drivers’ phones, with no hardware to buy to start.
Simple, affordable operational intelligence for every South African manager, supervisor, contractor and fleet operator — live in weeks, with no months of IT overhead.
Production, quality, cost splits, yield, dispatch and fuel are native concepts — not bolt-ons.
Performance Dashboard live in 4–6 weeks. RoadDesk live in days.
Local support in local time, and Level 1 B-BBEE procurement recognition.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Registered name | 4Power Analytics (Pty) Ltd |
| Registration number | 2026/757137/07 |
| B-BBEE status | Level 1 Contributor |
| Tax compliance | Valid Tax Clearance Certificate |
| COID | Letter of Good Standing |
| Core focus | Operational intelligence — mining, material-intensive industries & road haulage |
| Flagship products | Performance Dashboard (open-pit & underground editions) · Group Reporting (Tier 4) · RoadDesk (NEW) |
| AI support | support@4poweranalytics.co.za |
| Call / WhatsApp | +27 78 834 0561 |
| 4Power Analytics (Pty) Ltd on LinkedIn |
The 4Power engine was born in mining — and it applies wherever material is moved, costed and contracted. One platform for operations that live on tonnage, rates and contractor performance — open pit or underground, single mine or multi-mine group. And for the road, RoadDesk gives haulage fleets their own live console.
Open pit and underground. Open pit: drill, blast, load, haul, crush, screen. Underground: development and stoping, panels and ends, delay analysis. Grade × tonnes × price × recovery, live contractor compliance with bonus/penalty, and the 4Power CRS™ reliability score.
Earthworks, concrete and plant hire tracked in m³, loads and machine hours per subcontractor — with live bonus/penalty that ends month-end payment disputes.
Tonnes, trips and fleet cost per contractor, per site, per period. With RoadDesk, track every truck live from the driver’s phone, score margin per truck and driver, and prove the fuel savings to your finance team.
| Mining term | Universal equivalent |
|---|---|
| Production (tonnes, grade) | Throughput (t, m³, loads, trips, quality) |
| Recovery % | Yield factor |
| R/tonne | Cost per unit — R/t · R/m³ · R/km · R/trip |
| CRS™ grade component | Quality component |
| Contractor targets | Subcontract / fleet targets |
A single browser-based platform that tracks what matters most on an operation — and turns it into decisions. For road haulage, see RoadDesk.
Tonnes, grade/quality and material movement per zone, area and contractor.
Per-unit costs, auto-split into diesel, explosives, labour, maintenance and other.
Quantity × quality × price × yield — profitability per material.
Contractor performance against contract targets, with live bonus/penalty.
Forecast-to-target pace, Contractor Reliability Score and data-freshness monitoring.
Board-ready PDF, email, WhatsApp, CSV export and full JSON backup.
Production vs target by material, cost per tonne, budget vs actual, contractor and mine scorecards, forecast-to-target pace, bonus/penalty exposure and CRS™.
Development vs stoping metres, grade vs plan (g/t), blasts fired vs planned, panel and end performance, delay analysis and gold-payable revenue and margin.
Consolidates production, fleet, commercial and claims, HSE and foundation reporting across multiple mines into one executive dashboard. Scoped per group.
| Module | What it delivers |
|---|---|
| Setup Wizard | Guided onboarding across 7 data areas with live population status and an exportable readiness report |
| Production Tracking | Zone, contractor, area, material, quality, quantity and cost per record |
| Multi-Period Analytics | Weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly views, filtered by zone, contractor, material and area |
| Cost Breakdown | Five configurable cost categories per material; cost matrix per contractor × material |
| Revenue Engine | Revenue and margin per material, contractor and period from price and yield assumptions |
| Contractor Compliance | Actual vs target with live bonus/penalty — eliminating disputes |
| Budget vs Actual | Actual quantity and cost against targets, per material, per period |
| Bulk Data Import | CSV template, field-level validation, error reporting and import preview before commit |
| AI Support | 24/7 email AI resolves ~75% of queries instantly; a ticket number is issued on every request |
| Built-In User Manual | Searchable, sectioned manual inside the product — no separate training dependency |
| Customisation | Dark, light and system themes, print-ready layouts, and demo data for evaluation |
Most dashboards look backwards. 4Power looks forward — showing where a contractor, material or month is heading while there is still time to act. The same philosophy powers RoadDesk’s fleet scorecard and automatic insights for hauliers.
Are we on course to hit the month’s target at the current run-rate?
Net financial exposure under contractor agreements, live.
Actual cost against budget per unit, flagged as it drifts.
How much of the material mix is actually making money.
Confidence indicator — how current is the data behind each number.
4Power CRS™ — one rating per contractor.
A composite rating that tells an owner, at a glance, which contractors deliver — and tells contractors exactly how to prove it. Read the full article on why weekly scoring matters →
| Component | Weight | What it measures |
|---|---|---|
| Attainment | 50% | Delivery against contractual target |
| Consistency | 30% | Week-to-week stability of output |
| Grade delivery | 20% | Quality performance against expectation |
| Rating band | Score | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Excellent | 80–100 | Reliable delivery; low risk |
| Watch | 65–79 | Trending off-target; monitor closely |
| Action Required | Below 65 | Intervene — performance at risk |
| Capability | 4Power | Spreadsheets | Generic BI |
|---|---|---|---|
| Domain-specific design (production, quality, cost splits, yield) | Yes | — | — |
| Revenue engine (quantity × quality × price × yield) | Yes | — | Limited |
| Contractor compliance automation | Yes | — | — |
| Multi-industry engine (mining, quarrying, construction, haulage) | Yes | — | — |
| Open-pit and underground editions + group reporting | Yes | — | — |
| RoadDesk — live truck tracking from driver’s phone | Yes | — | — |
| Operational Intelligence (forecast, CRS™, freshness) | Yes | — | — |
| AI support: 30-second response + ticketing | Yes | — | — |
| WhatsApp integration | Yes | — | — |
| B-BBEE Level 1 / South African support | Yes | N/A | — |
| No ERP required · deploy in 4–6 weeks (RoadDesk in days) | Yes | N/A | — |
South African small to mid-size operations have long been underserved by expensive, complex enterprise software — in mining and beyond. The 4Power engine — with RoadDesk on the road — serves them all.
| Where we sit | Positioning |
|---|---|
| Below international enterprise platforms | Siemens, Hexagon, Micromine and Weir cost hundreds of thousands per year. 4Power delivers the reporting that matters at a fraction of the price. |
| Above generic spreadsheet solutions | Spreadsheets lack domain-specific logic. 4Power makes quality, yield, cost splits and bonus/penalty native. |
| Alongside local software providers | A sharper focus on contractor reporting, compliance and revenue visibility — and a dedicated haulage console (RoadDesk). |
| Competitor type | Examples | 4Power advantage |
|---|---|---|
| International enterprise | Siemens, Hexagon, Micromine, Weir | Affordable, fast to deploy, built for SA contractors |
| Local mining software | Polysphere, AVA Solutions, SmartOps | Focused on contractor compliance and revenue visibility |
| Fleet tracking apps | Generic GPS / telematics vendors | RoadDesk adds dispatch, fuel costing & profit scorecard — not just dots on a map |
| Generic BI tools | Tableau, Power BI | Domain-specific; no set-up required |
| Spreadsheets | Excel, Google Sheets | Eliminates manual error and admin overhead |
Operations are moving from paper and spreadsheets to digital tools.
Owners and principals demand real-time performance data from contractors.
Diesel, labour and maintenance costs are rising — visibility is critical.
Regulatory reporting requirements keep increasing.
Browser-based tools are replacing installed software.
South Africa’s construction and logistics pipeline expands the addressable market.
| Model | Best for |
|---|---|
| Cloud-hosted (SaaS) | Recommended for 90% of clients. No servers, no IT staff. Performance Dashboard live in 4–6 weeks; RoadDesk in days. |
| On-premises | Operations with strict data-sovereignty requirements. |
| Hybrid | Cloud plus local cache for remote mines with poor connectivity. |
| Service | Description |
|---|---|
| Data audit & configuration | Materials, areas, contractors, targets, prices and cost splits (or, for RoadDesk, trucks, drivers and lanes) |
| Data migration | From Excel, CSV, ERP or weighbridge exports |
| User setup | Accounts, roles and permissions |
| Training | Admin, supervisor, manager and finance sessions |
| Go-live support | On call through the first week |
| Tier | Channel | Response | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI Email Support (primary) | support@4poweranalytics.co.za | 30 seconds or less, 24/7. Ticket (TKT-YYYY-#####) on every request | ~75% of queries resolved instantly |
| Human Support | Email / call / WhatsApp +27 78 834 0561 | 24–48 hours (4-hour priority on Enterprise) | ~25% of queries; escalated tickets tracked to closure |
| RoadDesk Onboarding | Email Support | Same-day during pilot | Driver phone setup, lane & truck configuration |
| On-Mine Support | Mine visit | By appointment | Scheduled and ad-hoc |
Every interaction is ticketed, logged and auditable. AI resolution rate, response time and escalation rate are measured and reported against these targets.
Board-ready PDFs with 4Power branding (client branding on Enterprise) · email distribution with auto-attached PDFs and client-managed SMTP · WhatsApp sharing with pre-filled message · CSV export · full JSON backup for complete data portability. RoadDesk adds a monthly fleet PDF report.
Every mine and every fleet is different, so we scope each deployment individually. Both the Mine Performance Dashboard and RoadDesk are sold as monthly subscriptions with a once-off setup fee, confirmed by formal quotation after a free scoping session. A 30-minute call is usually enough to size your deployment.
From first conversation to a live, trusted dashboard in four to six weeks — with no ERP and no IT department needed on your side. RoadDesk is faster still: live in days, with drivers tapping “Start trip” on their phones.
Data audit, configuration and user setup
Installation, data migration and testing
Training, documentation and go-live
Monthly check-ins; email and WhatsApp support
| Activity | Time required |
|---|---|
| Onboarding form | 1 hour |
| Data preparation | 2–4 hours |
| Training — admin | 2 hours |
| Training — supervisors | 1 hour |
| Training — managers | 1 hour |
| Go-live support | 2 hours |
| Total | 8–10 hours over 4 weeks |
| RoadDesk pilot setup | ~30 minutes (2 trucks, 2 drivers) |
Contract-dependent operations typically lose R1.7 million or more per year in hidden reporting costs:
Modelled on a conservative 30% recovery of the problem cost, against an illustrative annual subscription and setup fee:
| Annual saving (30%) | R531,600 |
| Annual investment (subscription + setup) | R203,750 |
| Net benefit, Year 1 | R327,850 |
Illustrative model. From Year 2 onward, investment is the annual subscription only — Year-2 ROI is approximately 195%. Actual results depend on site conditions, adoption and the client’s own cost base.
RoadDesk ROI (illustrative): for a 5-truck haulier with R150,000 monthly fuel, a 4% fuel saving, 18 late loads a month and 12 admin hours saved a week, RoadDesk models to about R250,000 in yearly savings — a Year-1 ROI well above 500%, before counting dispute reduction and customer retention.
Tender-ready performance reports.
Real-time compliance visibility.
Bonus and penalty calculated live.
Material-level profit and forecast-to-target pace.
20 hours a month of reporting down to 2.
Level 1 B-BBEE recognition for the client.
| Certificate | Details | Validity |
|---|---|---|
| B-BBEE Certificate | Level 1 Contributor | Annual |
| Tax Clearance Certificate | SARS-issued | Annual |
| CIPC Registration | 2026/757137/07 | Permanent |
| COID Letter of Good Standing | Workmen’s compensation | Annual |
| Professional Indemnity Insurance | Software / analytics services | Annual |
Alignment: POPIA (Protection of Personal Information Act) · ISO 27001 aligned (information security) · SOC 2 aligned (service controls) · MHSA — mine compliance remains the client’s responsibility. RoadDesk driver-phone tracking is opt-in and POPIA-compliant.
Field-level validation on every bulk import · pre-commit previews with error and skip reporting · full JSON backup and restore · client-managed SMTP for secure report distribution · complete CSV export, so there is no lock-in. RoadDesk live positions are stored only for the active trip and are purged on delivery.
Led by people with deep experience in mining operations and contractor management, software development and data analytics, the South African mining regulatory environment, and B-BBEE compliance and procurement. RoadDesk is driven by our dedicated haulage product team.
| Role | Responsibility |
|---|---|
| Account Manager | Client relationship and commercial management |
| Haulage Product Lead | RoadDesk product, pilot onboarding and driver setup |
| Deployment Engineer | Set-up, configuration and data migration |
| Trainer | Role-based user training |
| Support Agent | AI and human support; ticket management |
| Developer | Custom development and integrations |
| Outcome | How we deliver |
|---|---|
| 70% less reporting time | Automated data capture and calculation |
| Fewer contractor disputes | Live bonus and penalty calculation |
| Real-time profitability visibility | Revenue engine per material · RoadDesk margin per truck |
| Board-ready reports | One-click PDF export |
| Tender-winning proof | Data-driven performance reports |
| Live fleet visibility | RoadDesk — every truck, every trip, every rand |
Open-pit and underground mining & quarrying companies · Multi-site groups · Construction & civils contractors · Bulk haulage fleets (RoadDesk) · Operations of 50,000–500,000 t/month or equivalent · Owners who require real-time contractor performance data.
Mining Insights from 4Power Analytics — practical, data-led thinking on contractor performance, reporting and operational intelligence. Read online or download the PDF.
Why monthly reporting misses contract-mining risk, and how weekly reliability scoring closes the gap. Includes the five metrics worth tracking for every contractor and a worked example of the 4Power Contractor Reliability Score (CRS™).
By George Moloi, Founder of 4Power Analytics · 9 pages · PDF
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Book a live walkthrough of the Performance Dashboard with your own mines, contractors and materials — or a free 30-day RoadDesk pilot with 2 of your own trucks. See what your operation is really earning, on site and on the road.