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In common
- Shared stack: Next.js, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis
- Both kinds of work: Web
- Order: ParcelNow (2025 – 2026) → CaseNotes (Feb 2026 – present) → Pairly (Jul 2026 – present)
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ParcelNow ›
On-demand parcel delivery with real-time tracking
CaseNotes ›
South African legal research, e-discovery and learning, powered by AI
Pairly ›
An AI-native operating system for founder-led teams
At a glance
- Role
- Technical lead, Smart Kitchen Co
- When
- 2025 – 2026
- Length
- 1 yr
- Status
- Delivered
- Type
- Web, Platform
- Role
- Founder / Lead Engineer
- When
- Feb 2026 – present
- Length
- 9 mo so far
- Status
- Live
- Type
- AI, Web, Mobile
- Role
- Founder / Lead Engineer
- When
- Jul 2026 – present
- Length
- 4 mo so far
- Status
- In progress
- Type
- AI, Web, Platform
The problem
Customer and operations dashboards with backend services for parcel lifecycles, tracking events and notifications, built for high-throughput transactional workflows.
South African legal information is scattered across portals with limited keyword search, while international e-discovery platforms are often priced beyond the local market.
Small teams stitch together disconnected tools for websites, customer communication, content, analytics and operations, while generic AI assistants lack safe access to business context and actions.
What was built
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An integrated research, e-discovery and learning platform: hybrid semantic search across more than 10,000 judgments, a precedent citation graph, structured document extraction, AI-assisted discovery and stateful research workflows.
Pairly gives each business one governed platform where specialised agents can work across those functions. It combines tenant-scoped AI agents, websites and CMS, CRM and communications, newsletters, analytics, integrations and a skills marketplace.
Stack
- Next.js
- FastAPI
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Docker
- Next.js
- FastAPI
- PostgreSQL
- pgvector
- Neo4j
- Redis/ARQ
- Azure OpenAI
- LangChain
- LangGraph
- Python
- FastAPI
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Next.js
- React
- Azure
- LangChain
- Docker
Highlights
- Next.js dashboards over FastAPI services
- Live delivery updates through logistics and messaging integrations
- Five-stage Graph RAG pipeline in LangGraph
- Hybrid pgvector and Neo4j retrieval, and a TAR active-learning loop
- Human-in-the-loop tool-calling chat with PostgreSQL checkpoints
- MCP server for case search and drafting
- Tenant-scoped agent runtime with durable memory, model routing, typed tools and permission ceilings
- Streaming agent UX with human approval gates, audit events and token budgets
- Installable skills marketplace with automated validation and human publication review
- End-to-end features spanning API, CMS, renderer, email and PDF output
Infrastructure choices
- Docker-based development and deployment standards
- pgvector + Neo4j
- Redis / ARQ workers
- LangGraph with PostgreSQL checkpoints
- PostgreSQL
Outcome
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An integrated research and review platform grounded in more than 10,000 judgments, with a structured learning bank of 1,624 rubric-scored questions. The architecture supports resumable jobs, traceable sources and human review.
A broad working platform with multi-tenant permissions, real-time agent execution, publishing and revision workflows, provider integrations and installable skills, with approval gates, audit events and human review for consequential AI actions.