Mixicom Consulting

Strategy, governance, risk, procurement and AI · since 2018

I design the system that finds your costly risks first, and lead your teams to run it.

Mixicom Consulting is the company I work through. Clients bring it in when audit findings, contracts, tenders or new AI rules pile up faster than anyone can rank them. I set the strategy, design the system on one page, and run the programme that gets your own people using it: an owner on every red item, a sign-off gate after each phase, one page of progress a month. When I leave, your team runs it. Then we point the same map at the work and revenue it uncovers.

336 → 43open audit findings, Arivia.kom
USD 220Mhidden debt found in a deal papers review
USD 36Mnew revenue from risks found at clients
USD 810MOneSKY programme procurement strategy

US dollars at the exchange rate of the year.

Send me the problemWhat you can hire
auditcontractstendersattritionAI rules one viewlikelihood x impact Fix nowowner · date Fix this quarterowner · date Watchchecked monthly Closedor turned into work
I designed this funnel for the Arivia.kom turnaround and the divisions ran it. Every item gets one owner and one date.

What you can hire Mixicom for

Four kinds of work

Each one starts with a problem in your words and ends with something you keep using after I leave.

For boards and audit committees The findings keep piling up and nobody can tell us which one matters.
You get
Every finding, claim and breach in one ranked view, an owner and date on each red item, and a one-page board report that shows it move.

At Arivia.kom open findings fell from 336 to 43 and the average fix time from 258 to 52 days.

For CEOs and owners in a turnaround We are losing money and every division says it is not them.
You get
A recovery strategy, the loss-makers named with your CFO, a programme your managers run month by month, and a second read of the big deals before you sign.

Arivia.kom went from a 2006 loss to its best-ever results in 2008 and 2009 on this system. A deal review found about USD 220 million of hidden debt the day before signing.

For buyers of big, scrutinised contracts This tender has to survive the auditors, the losing bidders and the press.
You get
A procurement strategy, an evaluation drawn phase by phase with a sign-off gate after each, probity, and contract management after award.

Procurement strategy for the USD 810 million OneSKY programme, with 120 evaluators trained.

For founders and teams shipping AI Which AI rules hit us, and by when?
You get
The rules that apply to your product, the gaps ranked by deadline and cost, and the human checks that let you keep using AI and still answer for it.

Built on AI Compliance Radar and the controls I run on my own 11 AI agents.

How an engagement runs

Five steps, and a gate after each

The same way I ran the OneSKY evaluation. Nothing moves to the next step until you have signed off the one before it.

  1. Step 1You send the problemAn audit report, a tender, a deal, or the AI product you are worried about. A few lines are enough.You
  2. Step 2I reply with a first stepWhether I can help, and what the first useful piece of work would be.Me
  3. Step 3Scope and price in writingWhat is in, what is out, what you get at the end, and what it costs.Both
  4. Step 4Design, then roll outI design the system on one page. Your team puts it in while I run the programme: every item ranked and owned, progress on one page each month.Your team, with me leading
  5. Step 5Hand overThe map and the monthly report stay with you, so the next finding lands in the right place.Your team

You deal with me directly, from the strategy to the hand-over. Your people do the work and keep the system.

Why Mixicom

Who is behind it

Johann Baard: strategist and programme lead. Former Head of Governance and Chief Audit Executive at Arivia.kom, and six years on probity and procurement strategy for OneSKY in Australia.

  • Lawyer, auditor and buyer in one personThe contract, the control and the tender get looked at together, so the gaps between them show up.
  • Done at scaleA 1,500-person ICT group, a USD 810 million civil and defence programme, outsource deals worth about USD 430 million.
  • I design it, your teams run itAt Arivia.kom I designed the risk funnel and the divisions ran it. On OneSKY I wrote the procurement strategy and trained 120 evaluators to carry it out.
  • Risk turned outwardAt Arivia.kom the same funnel, run over client environments, brought in more than USD 36 million in new work.

The full record, with dates and four case stories, is on johannbaard.com.

Contact

Send me the problem

Email the risk that keeps you up, and attach the papers behind it if you have them. I reply myself, with whether I can help and what a first step would look like.

Email [email protected]
Email
[email protected]
Phone
+27 (0)62 420 7346
Company
Mixicom (Pty) Ltd, trading as Mixicom Consulting
Reg. no.
2018/480916/07
Director
Johann A Baard
Based in
Cape Town, working in South Africa and Australia