AI portrait activations · South Africa
Every guest leaves with a portrait. You leave with the proof.
Signal Frame is a portrait station for conferences, launches, expos and year-end functions. Your guests get a styled portrait on their phone in under a minute. You get consented contact data, campaign-ready images, and a report you can put in front of your client.
From R12,500 excl. VAT · Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Limpopo and nationwide on request
Under 60s
Pose to portrait
On the guest's own phone, measured at the station.
45–60
Guests an hour
One station, one host, sustained across a shift.
98%
Station uptime
Across the contracted hours of an activation.
48 hours
To gallery, leads and report
From load-out, not from the day you chase us.
We sell measurement. So we publish ours.
See the standards we hold ourselves toThe transformation
The same person, styled — not replaced.
Left is what the camera sees. Right is what the guest receives, about ninety seconds later. Every style is tested on more than thirty faces before your event — across skin tones, hair textures, glasses and head coverings.
Navy and copper · Johannesburg skyline
How it works
Three steps, and none of them are yours.
Your team briefs us once. On the day, nobody from your side has to stand at the station explaining anything.
Capture
A host greets each guest, explains what will happen to their photograph, and takes consent before the shutter. One frame, controlled light, about twenty seconds.
Transform
The frame is styled to your campaign. The host reviews it on screen before the guest sees it — nothing reaches anyone unchecked, and a guest can ask for a retake.
Deliver
The portrait arrives by WhatsApp or email on a branded page. If you have taken the print option, it comes off the printer at the station while they wait.
What you keep
The portrait is for your guests. The rest is for you.
Most activations end when the last guest leaves and you are handed a folder of photographs. This is the part that is actually worth budget.
- 01
Consented contact data
Every guest opts in separately to receiving their portrait, to marketing contact, and to your use of their image. Exported in the shape your CRM expects, with the consent record attached to each row.
- 02
Campaign-ready images
Full-resolution portraits, cleared for the uses your guests agreed to, in a branded gallery your team can hand to an agency the same week.
- 03
An activation report
Guests engaged, throughput by hour, delivery rate, opt-in rate and station uptime — against the numbers we committed to in the proposal. Within 48 hours of load-out.
Your activation runs, whatever the grid does.
Load-shedding, a venue circuit that trips at 19:00, a conference Wi-Fi network shared with four hundred delegates — these are the ordinary conditions here, not the exceptions. The station is specified for them.
Own power
The station carries a battery sized for a full shift including the printer, and does not draw on the venue's supply. A stage change or a scheduled outage does not reach us.
Two networks
A primary connection and a second on a different carrier, failing over on their own. We never plan an activation on venue Wi-Fi, whatever the venue says about it.
Offline capture
If both networks drop, the station keeps photographing and queues the work. Guests are told delivery will be a few minutes, and every queued portrait sends when the line returns.
Packages
From R12,500.
Every package includes the station, a trained host, one styled look, digital delivery and the activation report. Quoted per event, not per guest, and always excluding VAT. Tell us the date and the headcount and the rest is priced in two working days.
Activation
A single event, one look, digital delivery.
From R12,500
excl. VAT
- 3 hours on stand
- One station, one host
- One styled look
- Digital delivery to every guest
- Consented lead export
- Activation report within 48 hours
Campaign
Most bookedA longer shift, two looks, branded gallery.
On application
Quoted in two working days
- 5 hours on stand
- One station, one host
- Two styled looks
- Branded delivery page and gallery
- CRM-shaped lead export
- Activation report within 48 hours
Flagship
Two stations, custom styling, prints on the night.
On application
Quoted in two working days
- 8 hours on stand
- Two stations, two hosts
- Styles developed for your campaign
- On-site printing
- Live gallery on venue screens
- Activation report within 48 hours
Private events — weddings, matric dances and milestones — are quoted separately from R7,500 excl. VAT. Ask about a private event
Talk through which one fitsThe range
One station, many rooms.
Conferences, expos, launches, year-end functions and retail floors — styled to the campaign, wrapped in your brand, delivered to the guest before they walk away.
Conference
Expo floor
Awards evening
Year-end function
Retail activation
Campus
Branded to your campaign
Branded to your campaign
Branded to your campaign
Branded gallery
Delivered in under a minute
Collectible print
Private events
Private events
Tell us the date and the headcount.
We will come back within two working days with a scoped proposal, the standards we will be held to, and preview renders in your campaign styling. If we are not the right fit for your event, we will say so rather than quote for it.
September and October are the tightest months of the year for event crew. If your date is inside six weeks, say so in the first message and we will tell you honestly whether it is still possible.