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+