CTO at PropInvest — I build the systems entire companies run on: AI assistants at national scale, deep automation, and complete enterprise platforms — architected and shipped solo.
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I'm entirely self-taught — no degree track, no bootcamp, just 15 years of learning whatever the problem demanded. Today my working method is simple: I direct AI the way a conductor directs an orchestra. The architecture, the judgment, the verification, and the responsibility are mine; the typing is delegated. It's how one person ships what used to take a department — in production, with real money flowing through it.
New industry, new API, new physics — tell me about it today and I'll understand it well enough to build in it tomorrow. Learning fast isn't a phase I went through; it's the core skill.
I've spent years mastering how to drive AI tools to production quality — prompting, decomposing, reviewing, testing. The result: team-scale output from a single chair, without team-scale cost.
Everything on this page runs (or ran) in the real world — real clients, real transactions, real uptime requirements. Prototype speed, production standards.
I started in 2009 building websites from a smallholding outside Cape Town. Fifteen years later I'd run Pure Web Solutions for a decade and a half, served as CTO of GAS Marketing Automation and Technical Lead of PropInvest at the same time — a complete technology department of one, twice over — and shipped AI systems used by millions.
Today I'm CTO at PropInvest, where I've built the company's entire operations platform: CRM, deal capture, WhatsApp / SMS / email messaging, AI-driven ad generation, website and mobile-app CMS, stock control, automated invoicing, and reporting — one integrated system, one architect.
Next up: a first-of-its-kind SaaS platform for a new venture. Details under NDA. Watch this space.
Conversational AI at national scale — OpenAI and Claude assistants trained on custom datasets, deployed to real users. From Mo (MTN MoMo) to SAMI to in-house ops assistants.
End-to-end automation of lead management, data processing, and customer interaction — the invisible machinery that lets small teams operate like big ones.
Complete business systems — CRM, deal flow, invoicing, stock, CMS, reporting — designed as one coherent architecture instead of a patchwork of vendors.
WhatsApp, SMS, and email systems that talk back — property bots handling live inquiries, automated viewing scheduling, and omnichannel client communication.
Concept to deployment across the whole stack: web apps, mobile apps, APIs, databases, hosting and VPS infrastructure — 15 years of running it all myself.
Analytics, lead generation, and AI-generated ad creative — the marketing-automation depth of five years as an agency CTO.
Technical/AI lead on "Mo," the AI assistant publicly launched by MTN MoMo South Africa — built on OpenAI technology with fluent support for 200+ languages, deployed in production for one of Africa's largest fintech platforms.
Designed and built, solo, the platform PropInvest runs on: CRM, deal capture, WhatsApp/SMS/email messaging, AI-driven social ad generation, website & mobile-app CMS, stock control, automated invoicing, and reporting — supporting 10,000+ transactions.
Core AI builder on SAMI, GAS Marketing Automation's conversational agent — 20 months in the making — turning static lead forms into real conversations that qualify prospects and convert.
Real-time client communication for property investors — instant inquiries, automated viewing scheduling, and live deal updates, running where South Africa actually chats: WhatsApp.
Founded, ran, and grew a web solutions company for a decade and a half — websites, VPS hosting, and early OpenAI Assistant API integrations — before closing it to go all-in on the CTO chair.
A first-of-its-kind SaaS product for a new venture launching soon — everything I've learned building the all-in-one platform, rebuilt sharper, faster, and multi-tenant. Under NDA. Watch this space.
Avid collector and restorer of vintage consoles — Atari 2600, Famicom clones, Sega systems, and classic computers. 35+ years of gaming history.
Running a 5.5kW Sunsynk system with 10kWh battery storage and 5.4kW panels on my Cape Town smallholding.
Active DigiByte solo mining operation with Avalon Nano 3S miners. Custom dashboards and node infrastructure.
Vintage console repair, Raspberry Pi media servers, and hands-on electronics tinkering in a fully equipped workshop.
Open to collaboration, consulting, and conversations about tech, AI, and what one builder can ship.