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Selected work — 2024 to 2026

Systems that earn their place in production.

A small set of projects that show how KonteksWerke works in practice. Some are independent products, some are platform engagements, some are research prototypes that became something more. All of them deal with the same underlying problem: turning messy real-world information into something an organisation can actually use.

01  /  Platform

ARQ AI Platform

Institutional-scale AI platform for a Big Four professional services practice.

In production

Twenty-five containerised AI applications running on a shared Azure Kubernetes Service cluster with Knative scale-to-zero, a private PyPI registry, and a file-ledger service giving sub-10ms blob discovery across the platform. Built and operated as the platform engineer responsible for everything from local Docker Compose developer environments through to production observability.

The work spans IFRS 17 financial extraction pipelines, retrieval over accounting standards and audit working papers, voice processing and unstructured document intake, anomaly detection on financial transactions, and a knowledge-graph compile architecture that treats wikis as the source of truth and RAG as the retrieval layer.

Role
Platform & AI engineer
Stack
AKS Knative FastAPI Qdrant Neo4j Azure
Client
PwC South Africa (contract engagement)
02  /  Product

MTOS

Market Timing Operating System — institutional research and decision platform.

In build

A research and execution platform for systematic market timing, co-founded with a quantitative trader. The product combines macro signal extraction, market-profile tensor representations, and a reasoning layer that surfaces trade hypotheses with their underlying evidence trail intact.

Stage A business plan complete; Stage B in progress, covering MVP scope, technical architecture, AI system design, data strategy, and the trust and governance framework required for institutional use.

Role
Co-founder, technical lead
Stack
Python FastAPI RL Tensor models GCP
Domain
Quantitative finance · systematic trading
03  /  Product

ARQ Clinical

Voice-first clinical note capture for South African private practice.

Beta

A voice-first consultation platform that listens to the doctor-patient conversation, structures the clinical note, and hands the practitioner back the time they previously spent typing. POPIA-compliant by design, explicitly positioned as documentation support rather than a clinical decision tool.

Deployed on Google Cloud Run in the africa-south1 region, with Firebase Auth, a WebSocket voice pipeline streaming to Google Speech-to-Text V2, ElevenLabs TTS for read-back, and a Qdrant index for case retrieval. React + Vite frontend on a dark teal design system.

Role
Founder & full-stack engineer
Stack
Cloud Run Firebase React gRPC STT Qdrant FastAPI
Status
Closed beta with selected private practitioners
04  /  Product

BellBook

School communications, payments, and operations — built for South African schools.

In build

A progressive web app for school communications and fee collection, with a modular architecture that extends into adjacent operational domains. Phase 1 covers SMS and in-app messaging, Ozow and Paystack payments, Clickatell OTP, and QR / NFC-based learner cards.

A separate Clinic module is in design for the school nursing-care workflow. Integrations researched and specified for Sage, Xero, and Odoo on the accounting side, and the backend runs on the ARQ task queue with Cloudflare R2 storage and PostgreSQL.

Role
Founder & technical lead
Stack
PWA FastAPI PostgreSQL Cloudflare R2 Ozow Paystack
Market
South African independent & government schools
05  /  Research

Intelligence Platform

OSINT and entity-graph platform for investigative work on public information.

Research

A Python-based open-source intelligence pipeline for investigative casework. Playwright-driven collection, Trafilatura extraction, a South African geographic gazetteer for place resolution, and Claude as the entity-and-relationship extraction layer feeding a Neo4j graph backend with Cosmograph visualisation on the frontend.

A profile of a North West businessman appearing before the Madlanga Commission was built as a proof-of-concept end-to-end pipeline, showing how disparate public-record sources can be assembled into a single navigable entity graph in hours rather than weeks.

Role
Independent research & engineering
Stack
Playwright Trafilatura Neo4j Cosmograph Claude
Application
Investigative journalism, due diligence, anti-trafficking
Earlier & ongoing

Work not shown here includes a distributed-systems study guide covering twenty-three production algorithms, an Agentic RAG architecture exploration, the Claude Code “simon” subagent workflow for Workspace triage, IFRS 17 multi-agent financial extraction, and the institutional Cursor-and-Qdrant repo-ingestion pipeline.

Working with KonteksWerke

Open for select consulting engagements in 2026. Best fits are organisations with serious information problems — whether that is documents, voice, public records, or operational data. Start a conversation.