I build software companies from Cape Town, South Africa.

I’m building Lowkey — AI agents that do real operational work inside companies. It’s early, and this site is where I work things out in public: a blog about what I’m building, what breaks, and what I learn.

Before this I co-founded kasi.money, a bank for gig workers in South Africa. We grew it past 100,000 users, partnered with Mastercard and Bolt, and I’ve since exited. Before that I spent about a decade as an iOS engineer inside banks and insurers — Standard Bank, Old Mutual, Discovery. Everything I build now sits somewhere between those two educations: regulated money and shipping fast.

Now: running a private beta of Lowkey’s agents, taking on a small number of consulting engagements, and writing here more. (August 2026)

Things I’m interested in

• Africa’s economic ignition. What would it actually take for African economies to industrialise and become technologically state-of-the-art — not leapfrog stories, but steel, energy, chips and software built here? Building kasi.money showed me how much latent demand sits outside the formal economy; the question is what unlocks the supply side.
• Economics. Especially the gap between who grows an economy and who earns from it — where value is created versus where it’s captured. I make charts about this when a question won’t leave me alone.
• Urbanism and city design. Europe built genuinely beautiful cities — Amsterdam is my favourite — and then the world mostly stopped. Why? And what would it take to build new cities that people love, especially on a continent that will urbanise more than any other this century?
• Delegable work. What does a company look like when software can hold real responsibility, not just assist? I don’t have settled views yet — that’s most of what the blog is for.