14 projects, and what actually happened on each

OPL — digital lending infrastructure

One form. Seven lenders. Four seconds.

A single loan application that fans out to seven separate lender APIs, normalises seven different sets of nonsense, and returns a ranked list of real offers before the applicant loses interest.

Lender APIs integrated

7

Median full-panel response

~4s

Uptime since launch

99.95%

Jobabroad (jobabroad.co.za)

A paid product with no login, no checkout, and no chargebacks.

An information service for South Africans looking for work overseas, sold over WhatsApp to a market that has learned the hard way not to trust a payment page.

Accounts, passwords, checkouts

0

Sections in every pathway guide

6

Research notes behind one guide

224

Woolworths · Flume Digital Agency

A gift card system with one immovable deadline.

A custom PHP gift-carding system built for Woolworths' Mother's Day campaign — high-volume, time-boxed, and impossible to ship late.

Deadline — Mother's Day

Fixed

Downtime during campaign

0

From brief to live

1 week

Will management platform — later acquired

Built it in six months. Maintained it for four years. They sold it.

A full will drafting, storage and executor-handover platform in PHP and Angular. Six months to build, four years under my maintenance, then sold to an insurance consortium as a working asset.

Concept to production

6 months

Maintained without a rewrite

4 years

Sold to an insurance consortium

Acquired

SA Wills Database — estate-readiness platform

The model gathers the facts. It never writes the will.

A POPIA-resident platform for drafting, registering and releasing South African wills, where the legally binding text comes from deterministic rules and an approved clause library rather than from a language model.

Where every byte stays

af-south-1

Legal clauses written by an LLM

0

Lines across web, core and AI service

~57k

EdenFinTech — equity research pipeline

The reviewer never sees the score.

A fundamental screening and scoring pipeline for US-listed equities, with a three-role LLM review stage where the information each role receives is enforced by the type system rather than asked for in a prompt.

LLM SDKs imported by the core

0

Agent roles behind typed contracts

3

Real run batches, not lab-only

22

WECOZA — adult education and training

A WordPress plugin with forty-three Postgres tables behind it.

An operations platform for a South African training provider, where WordPress does the admin screens and a 43-table Postgres schema does everything that has to still be true if WordPress goes away.

Tables in the Postgres schema

43

Months of continuous development

14+

Business invariants enforced in PHP

0

Nimue Skin Technology · Flume Digital Agency

A skincare store that has to diagnose before it can sell.

Lead developer on a WooCommerce build with two audiences in one store — a consumer skin-classification journey, and a gated professional and stockist portal. Hand-coded template, no page builder, no premium theme.

Page builders used

0

Audiences, one codebase

2

Custom template code

100%

Triple E Training (eee.co.za)

Turning 12,000 training sites into one clear enquiry.

Adult literacy and numeracy training delivered on-site at over 12,000 workplaces. The website's job is to convert an HR manager's vague intent into a qualified callback request.

Training sites served

12,000+

Enquiry paths, one inbox

3

Of client history to structure

30 yrs

41 on Sloane

Six kinds of office, one booking decision.

Serviced office space in Bryanston — private offices, shared space, boardrooms, training rooms, virtual offices. Built so a prospect can find the one they need and book a tour without phoning to ask what anything costs.

Space types, separately sold

6

Pricing shown, not hidden

All-in

From page to booked tour

1 step

BuildCBS

Quoting construction work without a quote form.

Construction and renovation along the Garden Route. Premium timber decking, renovations, custom builds — sold on evidence of finished work rather than on a form nobody fills in.

Registered — stated up front

NHBRC

From gallery to quote request

2 taps

First — where the traffic is

Mobile

Wild Peach Schnapps — DBG

A drinks brand that has to check your age before it says hello.

A cocktail-led brand site for a South African schnapps, built around a compliant age gate that doesn't destroy the first impression.

Cocktail recipes as landing pages

6

Age gate, once — then remembered

1

Campaign carried through the build

#LifeIsPeachy

SignalTrace (signaltrace.wiki)

Fourteen research wikis out of one repository.

A multi-wiki research site where every claim links back to the primary document, built by running one static-site generator fourteen times from a single repo.

Independent research wikis

14

Lines in the orchestrator that does it

43

Array entry to add the next one

1

EdenFinTech (edenfintech.com)

Fifty thousand filings a year, one to three worth reading.

The public surface of the scanner — a free weekly watchlist that reduces the year's fifty thousand US insider-purchase filings down to the handful where senior executives put their own cash in.

Form 4 purchase filings screened a year

~50k

Setups published per week

1–3

Cluster threshold before it counts

$500K+