“Anticipating the future is an art. Creating it in today’s world is a science. Knowing how to do both is the X-factor. It’s in our name: Celagenix.”
For over a decade we have helped 150+ organisations across 17 countries turn governance from an obligation into an advantage. In 2026 - the year King V takes effect and AI reaches the boardroom agenda - that work has never mattered more. This profile shows you how we do it, and how the pieces connect.
Martin Louw
Head of Strategy and Enablement
- What we are
The governance infrastructure your organisation runs on.
Celagenix®, established in 2014, is the governance group that organisations build on. Our advisory, software and learning cover strategic advisory, board evaluation, analytics and reporting, data privacy, a professional development academy and practical governance tools - so that governance stops being a function to manage and becomes a capability that drives performance.
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2014
Established
Celagenix® Corporate
Governance, sustainability and AI governance consulting. The group’s advisory practice.
To inspire trust for a more resilient corporate world.
Our purpose
Be Kind - do the right thing.Be Honest - keep your word.Be Smart - make things better.
Vision
Maximum societal and environmental impact through corporate resilience. Strong leaders create healthy organisations. Healthy organisations create sound communities. Sound communities raise strong leaders. This is the cycle of true sustainability.
Mission
We cultivate boards and businesses of distinction - guiding leadership teams through strategies that promote exemplary governance and foster enduring sustainability, for the benefit of humanity.
- The moment
King V is here. AI is in the boardroom. The bar has moved.
On 1 January 2026, King V came into effect - bringing outcomes-based disclosure, a standardised Disclosure Framework, and for the first time, explicit board accountability for AI governance. Boards can no longer point to policies; they must produce evidence.
At the same time, AI is reshaping how organisations operate, decide and compete. The boards that thrive will be those that govern with the same intelligence they are being asked to oversee. Celagenix exists for exactly this moment: we are AI-enabled in how we work, so when we advise on AI governance, we speak from experience.
2014
2026
Celagenix founded
King V effective · AI on the agenda
Board evaluation · King V
“Board evaluation is the keystone of King V. Boards that cannot evidence a structured evaluation cycle are unlikely to be applying most of the Code in substance.”
- How it connects
The Celagenix® family, four capabilities.
Most governance advisory ends with a report that disappears into a filing system. Ours doesn’t - because our recommendations connect directly to an evaluation platform, a training programme, and practical tools that make implementation possible.
We don’t just tell organisations what good governance looks like. We give them the infrastructure to build it.
Together, the four make up the Celagenix® family of governance products and advisory. Its software: BoardEvaluator™ (live), PopiGuard for data privacy (live), SynNotate for communication (beta), CelaAudit® analytics and reporting (prototype) and BoardPlan (planned: a calendar and tracker for the company secretary, with Succession Planning as a prototype part of it: board register built, succession functions planned). Its learning: Celagenix® Academy (live) and SynTifika (beta). Clients start with one and add others as they need them.
Advice and the tools to act on it, built by the same group.
Advise - senior practitioners on your hardest governance challenges
Evaluate - BoardEvaluator™ turns evaluation into evidence
Develop - the Academy builds the skills the evaluation reveals you need
Build - Celagenix Digital designs, builds and runs our software
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Celagenix® Advisory
Senior practitioners on your hardest governance challenges.
Strategic Governance & Board Advisory
Harness technology and data-driven insight to elevate your organisation’s governance capabilities. From navigating the regulatory intricacies of King V to developing strategies for peak board performance, our adaptive governance programmes are tailored for tomorrow’s leaders - and every engagement is led by a senior principal with direct practice experience.
Governance Capability Building
Corporate Resilience
Leadership Development
Strategy Facilitation
Reimagine organisational success with a modern approach to corporate governance.
AI Governance & Data Privacy
Unlock the potential of AI while ensuring ethical implementation and responsible use - from robust AI policies to transparent oversight systems, aligned to King V Principle 10 and international frameworks (NIST AI RMF, OECD, ISO/IEC 42001).
And because trust runs on data: our POPIA and data-privacy practice transforms regulatory complexity into streamlined frameworks that enable business rather than blocking it.
Shape responsible innovation through human-centred AI governance.
In practice - try it free
AI Governance Oversight Checklist
A scored, King V-grounded self-assessment for boards.
Elevate your vision and adopt new insights to support your organisation’s sustainability efforts, built on our proprietary ESGOR™ framework - designed to systemise and accelerate the integration of sustainability into business strategy and operations.
Unlock the true value of sustainability with ESGOR™.
A Celagenix® brand - the intelligent board evaluation platform, King V-aligned, trusted for high-stakes board oversight.
Your board’s effectiveness directly impacts organisational performance. BoardEvaluator™ is our evaluation platform, hosted securely in the cloud with encrypted connections (details on request): quantitative scoring, senior-advisor qualitative interviews, automatic response tracking, and disclosure-ready, King V-mapped outputs - evidence, not just feedback, without the manual complexity.
Greatly improve your board evaluation effectiveness.
BoardEvaluator™ scales from a single board cycle to multi-entity group programmes, always scoped to the board’s structure and context. For boards preparing for their first King V cycle, our 90-day King V Readiness Sprint moves a board from scored self-assessment to a completed, disclosure-ready evaluation.
One 30-minute conversation is all it takes to scope a cycle.
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Scoped self-assessment
Baseline scoring across the board’s chosen modules.
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Senior-advisor interviews
Qualitative depth behind the quantitative scores.
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Disclosure-ready reporting
King V-mapped outputs the board can evidence.
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Development loop
Findings feed the Academy and the next advisory cycle.
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Celagenix AcademyBRAND ACCENT · ACADEMY GOLD
Training, certificates of completion & the Director’s Toolkit.
Celagenix Academy is the group’s training and learning arm - governance programmes spanning King V, the Companies Act and the Pension Funds Act, delivered online at celagenix.academy.
The Academy encodes our advisory methodology into structured learning for both enterprise boards and SME leadership teams: what our consultants practise, your directors can now learn.
Develop exceptional governance talent for a rapidly changing world.
KING V
Outcomes-based governance, principle by principle
CO. ACT
Directors’ duties under the Companies Act
PFA
Trustee governance under the Pension Funds Act
TOOLKIT
The Director’s Toolkit - below
Celagenix Academy · The Director’s Toolkit
Governance tools directors use between meetings.
A suite of interactive, browser-based governance tools - scored, practical, and King V-grounded - published in jurisdiction editions (a South Africa edition and a Namibia edition; Namibia is a planned market). Distributed and bundled through the Academy.
Try the thinking before you buy the engagement.
AI Governance Oversight Checklist
Director Induction Checklist
Reserved-Matters Matrix
Model Board Calendar
Personal 90-Day Action Plan
EDITIONS: SOUTH AFRICA · NAMIBIA (PLANNED MARKET)
FREE FOR EVERYONE
Two tools are free to everyone as scored assessments on celagenix.com - the POPIA Readiness Assessment and the AI Governance Oversight Checklist.
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Celagenix DigitalBRAND ACCENT · DIGITAL PURPLE
The build engine of the Celagenix Group.
AI strategy and AI assurance
Two AI practices are contracted through Celagenix Corporate and use Celagenix Digital’s tools. StratDash® AI is a five-stage AI strategy sprint that finds where AI actually pays off in a business and ends with a clear first move. Celagenix AI Assurance builds the controls that catch confidently wrong AI output before it reaches a customer, a regulator or a board paper.
Both rest on the same portfolio: the tools come from software Celagenix Digital has built, shipped and runs every day. Two free tools from its Sovereign Idea Execution Framework, ClarityForge and IdeaForge, are open to anyone.
Celagenix Digital designs, builds and runs the software across the Celagenix® ecosystem. Each product is shown with its status: Live, Beta, Prototype or Planned.
It also produces the Academy’s training content, which, on our own figures, now takes about a tenth of the human time it once did. For clients who want tools built around their own board processes, the same team builds by invitation.
AI-enabled developmentSaaS productsTraining content production
BOARD EVALUATION
BoardEvaluator™
Live · boardevaluator.com
ANALYTICS & REPORTING
CelaAudit®
Prototype · not yet in client use
DATA PRIVACY
PopiGuard
Live for residential estates · popiguard.co.za
NOTES & COMMUNICATION
SynNotate
Beta · synnotate.com
BOARD PLANNING
BoardPlan
Planned · not yet available
YOUR OWN ACADEMY
SynTifika
Beta · syntifika.com, the Academy platform under your own brand, with Celagenix’s production line behind it
- Where we work
Deep sector knowledge, continental reach.
Sectors
Banking & Financial Services
Retirement Funds
State-Owned Enterprises
Statutory Bodies & Regulators
Mining
Agriculture
Retail & Manufacturing
Health & Pharmaceutical
SANDTON AND PRETORIA OFFICESGABORONE SATELLITE OFFICE150+ CLIENTS · 17 COUNTRIES · SATELLITE / REMOTE GLOBALLY
Sustainability is ingrained in our core values. Our Code of Ethics & Professional Conduct governs how we work.
