About Cybarete
Cybarete designs bespoke industrial and enterprise automation: from underground mining to knowledge-work workflows. We build systems that stay operable under noise, intermittent connectivity, and continuous operations.
What we do
We build automation systems for noisy signals, intermittent connectivity, constrained compute, safety requirements, and continuous operations. Our work spans industrial environments and enterprise workflows where off-the-shelf automation does not fit.
We do not sell a generic template. We partner with teams to design and deliver fit-for-purpose systems that integrate with existing operations, people, and constraints. That includes hardware, firmware, and enterprise software, plus consulting on technology adoption where it helps teams run the operation.
How we work
We bring a systems engineering mindset to automation: clear boundaries, explicit interfaces, and designs that remain stable as complexity grows. Where appropriate, we apply holonic principles, building systems as cooperating wholes and parts, to support resilience, delegation, and evolution over time.
In practice that means automation that stays understandable as it scales, keeps working when tags drop or the network blips, and connects what happens underground or on the shop floor to the people making decisions upstream.
Where we work
Based in Stellenbosch, South Africa and Colorado, United States, we work with mining and manufacturing operations and the enterprise teams that support them, especially where the environment is harsh, the constraints are real, and the system must run continuously.
Products we built on BASE
BASE is our agent-based platform. Bounded agents sense, decide, and act within explicit limits, with audit trails and offline resilience built in. We build our own products on it, so every deployment tests the platform against real operating conditions.
Minezone
Disconnected edge intelligence for underground mining. BASE agents run site-local sensing, processing, and alerting with store-and-forward resilience, surfaced through the ZoneView HMI.
Suru.work
An AI executive that triages email, Slack, and Teams into prioritised tasks and escalations. BASE handles the classification, routing, and human-in-the-loop approvals behind each decision.
Heliostat Field OS
An operating layer for concentrated solar heliostat fields. Each heliostat runs as a bounded agent that holds its aim point and coordinates with its neighbours when cloud, wind, or a fault changes the plan.
CrewPulse
Working with manufacturers, we kept seeing high-labour job shops run on paper timesheets and spreadsheets, finding out a job had overrun weeks after it closed. We saw an opportunity to help them digitise, so we built CrewPulse and set it up as a separate subsidiary.
CrewPulse tracks labour hours, attendance, and job costs on the shop floor, so supervisors see overruns before shift handover. Its AI components run on BASE.
Founded by
Dale Sparrow
Co-Founder & CEODale leads Cybarete with a focus on deep technical innovation. He holds a PhD in mechatronic engineering, with research in industrial automation. He sets technical direction, including holonic system design and the BASE Platform architecture.
Peter Kruger
Co-Founder, Business DevelopmentPeter leads business development and customer engagement, with a drive to bring serious innovation to traditional industries. He holds an MEng in industrial engineering, with a focus on innovation management.
In the field
Work with us
Tell us about your environment, constraints, and objectives. We will help you scope a system that fits how your operation actually runs.