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Selected work — 2024 to 2026

Systems that earn their place in production.

The projects below show how KonteksWerke works in practice. Some are products, some are public-interest research platforms, some are quiet operational tools. All of them deal with the same underlying problem: turning messy real-world information — testimony, conversations, adverts, news reports, bank statements — into evidence an organisation or an individual can actually act on.

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01  /  Public interest

Commission Transcript Intelligence

Making South Africa's commissions of inquiry searchable, mappable, and checkable.

Operational · open source

A reproducible pipeline that downloads official commission-of-inquiry transcripts, speaker-chunks the text, embeds every passage into Qdrant for semantic search, and builds an evidence-aware knowledge graph in Neo4j — served through a read-only FastAPI + React surface that walks from a search hit to its chunk, its mentions, and each claim's full provenance.

The data model enforces the principle that a mention is not a claim, a claim is not a finding, and a finding is not a fact. First corpus: the Madlanga Commission — 106 hearing days, 18,192 pages, 81,712 speaker turns, ~3.65M words, and roughly 49,000 LLM-extracted claims, every one traceable to its PDF page.

Role
Independent public-interest engineering
Stack
Qdrant Neo4j FastAPI React Claude SDK
Licence
Apache-2.0 code · CC BY 4.0 derived data
SOAP
02  /  Product

MedVoice

Voice-first clinical documentation for South African general practice.

Founding pilots

An AI scribe that listens to the consultation, structures the clinical note, and hands the practitioner back the time they previously spent typing. Positioned as documentation support — explicitly not a medical device — and built POPIA-compliant by design, with the practice as responsible party and MedVoice as operator.

Gauteng-first go-to-market with founding-pilot pricing for the first ten GP practices, backed by an ops repo where a coordinated set of AI agents — researcher, sales, marketing, engineering — run the company around the product from shared state.

Role
Founder & full-stack engineer
Stack
Cloud Run Speech-to-Text React Capacitor FastAPI
Market
South African private GP practices, Gauteng first
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03  /  Intelligence

Trafficking Intelligence

Web intelligence on human trafficking in South Africa, from news to knowledge graph.

Operational

A scheduled pipeline that discovers and crawls South African news and public sources, uses Claude for structured incident extraction, geocodes against a South African gazetteer, and assembles a Neo4j knowledge graph of perpetrators, victims, and routes — surfaced through a React dashboard with network and route analysis.

Built for the counter-trafficking domain KonteksWerke has served for years across face matching, advert analysis, and case-dispatch tooling for NGOs working on the ground. Alerting is wired in so a degraded pipeline announces itself instead of going quietly dormant.

Role
Design & engineering
Stack
Playwright Claude Neo4j NetworkX React
Application
Counter-trafficking research & investigations
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04  /  Intelligence

Social-Media OSINT

Open-source intelligence platform for investigative work on public web sources.

Active research

A plugin-based OSINT platform for extracting, enriching, and analysing individual and network details from public web sources. Playwright collection with real-time progress streaming, phone-number intelligence, and Cosmograph network visualisation over an async FastAPI + React stack.

The research lineage runs deep: advert clustering and ranking, suspicion scoring, social-network reconstruction, and entity graphs built from classified-ad ecosystems — capability that feeds directly into the counter-trafficking and due-diligence work.

Role
Independent research & engineering
Stack
FastAPI Playwright SQLAlchemy React Cosmograph
Application
Investigations, due diligence, anti-trafficking
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05  /  Tooling

Bank Statement Intelligence

From PDF bank statements to classified, queryable personal and tax ledgers.

In monthly use

A pipeline that parses PDF bank statements into transaction rows, normalises descriptions and derives merchants, classifies every transaction against a maintained pattern library, and stores the result in SQLite as the source of truth — with monthly pivots, budget summaries, tax exports, and a signed ledger on the way out.

Classification patterns live in a Google Sheet that non-technical users can edit; the pipeline pulls them in, applies them, and produces an HTML review report. A monthly runbook makes the whole cadence repeatable rather than heroic.

Role
Design & engineering
Stack
Python SQLite tabula-py Google Sheets Streamlit
Application
Personal finance, budgeting, tax preparation
signal · evidence attached
06  /  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
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07  /  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, with accounting integrations researched and specified for Sage, Xero, and Odoo, over a PostgreSQL backend with Cloudflare R2 storage.

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

Selected past engagements

Earlier contract work, now concluded, that proved KonteksWerke's approach at institutional scale.

Platform engineering · PwC South Africa

ARQ AI Platform

Twenty-five containerised AI applications on a shared Azure Kubernetes Service cluster with Knative scale-to-zero, a private PyPI registry, and sub-10ms file-ledger blob discovery — spanning IFRS 17 extraction, retrieval over audit working papers, and knowledge-graph architecture. Built and operated end-to-end as platform engineer.

Clinical voice capture · PwC South Africa

ARQ Clinical

A voice-first consultation platform on Google Cloud Run (africa-south1): WebSocket voice pipeline into Google Speech-to-Text V2, structured clinical notes, case retrieval over Qdrant, POPIA-compliant by design. The lessons from this build carry directly into MedVoice.

Earlier & ongoing

Work not shown here includes face-matching and case-dispatch tooling for counter-trafficking NGOs, corridor logistics chatbots, retrieval systems over private document corpora, and Tempo — an open focus-ledger daemon that gives agents and humans one truthful record of where the work actually went.

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.