For Ward Councillors

Stop scrolling WhatsApp for your ward's problems.

AWE listens to your community's WhatsApp groups, filters the noise with AI, and turns what's real into a routed, trackable report — with a live dashboard waiting every time you log in.

Free for ward councillors during onboarding · No app required for residents to be covered
Live Classification — Example AI AGENT ACTIVE
WhatsApp · Ward Community Group
Anyone know if the taxis are running near the school today?
😂😂 same thing happened last week
Water's been pouring down Church Street since this morning, whole corner is flooded
classified & filed
Service Delivery · Water Leak
Church Street — burst pipe, active flooding
Routed to: Water & Sanitation Head 47:58:12
Illustrative example — your ward's categories and SLA windows are configured to match your municipality.
A ward councillor reviewing WhatsApp reports, community app updates and email feedback on one connected screen

What You Get

Everything your ward already generates — finally in one place.

Your residents are already reporting problems. Right now it's scattered across group chats, calls and hallway conversations. AWE doesn't ask them to change anything — it reads what's already there and gives you the structure.

AI Agents for WhatsApp Groups

An AI agent reads your community's WhatsApp groups continuously, filters out chatter, and flags what's actually a reportable issue — with a confidence score, not a black box.

Automatic Incident Reports

Flagged messages become a structured report in your own customised community app — split cleanly into service delivery issues and safety & security incidents, no manual entry.

Municipal Escalation & SLA Turnaround

Every category — crime, water, roads, dumping, GBV, noise — has a named owner and a countdown clock. Vacant roles show up as a visible gap, not a silent failure.

Surveys & Polls

Put a real question to your ward — budget priorities, satisfaction, a specific proposal — and get back structured, attributable answers instead of a guess.

Newsletters & Automated Reports

Scheduled ward updates go out to residents automatically — weekly, monthly, or after any major incident — no formatting or sending required from your side.

Push Notifications

Residents get notified the moment their report is picked up, updated, or resolved — closing the loop that a WhatsApp group never could.

The Full Pipeline

From a citizen's phone to a closed-out ticket — one connected path.

Diagram showing the digital pipeline from citizen issue reporting via mobile app, WhatsApp bot or web portal, through AI classification and municipal integration with Joburg Roads Agency and Joburg Water, to ward councillor notification, escalation and final resolution

Once You Log In

A menu built around what a ward councillor actually needs.

Not a generic security dashboard with your name on it — a workspace laid out around your ward's real structure, ready to open before any council meeting.

Executive Dashboard
WhatsApp Intelligence
Incidents & Reports
Escalation & SLA
Surveys & Polls
Newsletters
Ward Organogram
Settings
Ward Executive Summary
312
Reports this month
91%
Resolution rate
6h 40m
Avg. SLA turnaround
2
Vacant category heads
Category Ownership
Crime & SAPS InterventionT. Nkosi
Water & SanitationP. Mokoena
GBV SupportS. Dlamini
Illegal DumpingVacant
Road MaintenanceM. van Wyk

Real SLA Windows

Not a placeholder timer — your municipality's actual turnaround times.

AWE's escalation clocks are configured against the service-level agreements your municipality already publishes. Here's a sample set for the City of Johannesburg.

Joburg Water

Burst water pipe12 hrs
No water1 day
Sewer leak / blockage24 hrs
Fire hydrant leak2 days

City Power

Dangerous situationImmediate
Illegal connection24 hrs
Street light out2 days
Power to area (98–100%)46 hrs

Joburg Roads Agency

Road collapse / dangerImmediate
Manhole cover missing24 hrs
Road trenches2 days
Potholes3 days

Pikitup

Animal carcass removal6 hrs
Illegal dumping cleanup2 days
New bin request7 days

City Parks

Fallen tree / branches24 hrs
Grass cutting (cemeteries)7 days
Pruning30 days

JMPD

Traffic violationsVariable
Noise complaintsVariable
Dumping / vagrancyVariable
Sample turnaround times shown for the City of Johannesburg's published service standards. AWE loads your municipality's own SLA windows during onboarding — these are illustrative, not contractual commitments from AWE.

Why It Matters

What most councillors work with today — and what one login gives you instead.

Right Now

  • A WhatsApp group nobody officially reads or archives
  • Complaints scattered across calls, DMs and hallway conversations
  • No record of which issues actually got resolved
  • Numbers pulled together the night before a council meeting
  • Finding out about a problem only once it's already a crisis

With AWE

  • Community WhatsApp groups monitored and classified automatically
  • Every report timestamped, categorised and routed to a named owner
  • A full audit trail from first report to final resolution
  • One dashboard, ready to open — or export — any time
  • Surveys, newsletters and push updates keep residents informed without extra work
Get Started

Bring this dashboard to your ward.

Register for councillor access and we'll configure your ward's categories, owners and reporting channels around what your office already has in place.