Harare, Zimbabwe · since 2026
Six businesses became seven.
One operator.
A written record of both.
Constraint-native software ventures, built with agents instead of a team — and the books and working papers that study them, including the ones that did not work.
The ventures
Seven businesses, each one its own blast radius
Different GitHub account, different Cloudflare account, different Whop business. A leaked key or an exhausted quota takes down one venture, never the set.
Publications
A catalogue you can actually read
10 of the 20 works have a readable edition on this site — no download, no email gate. The rest are private author-review copies and say so.
The Ledger and the Shopkeeper
Building commerce for the markets the platforms forgot
Proof of Mechanism
How leaders who build with AI agents tell a working product from a convincing demo
Intelligence, Data and Judgement
An applied introduction to artificial intelligence, with a production case
Order Without Custody
Governance-first design for merchant commerce rails in low-infrastructure economies
The Musk Mirror
How one billionaire exposed the cracks in China's innovation dream
The Tight Bucket
Designing constraint-native digital businesses
The operator
Fifteen years of techno-preneurship, published failures included
Autonomous Cognitive Infrastructure Engineer, Operator and Writer. I build the ventures, write the books that study them, and put the numbers on the page — including the ones that did not move.
“A working product and a convincing demo look the same from the outside. Everything here is an attempt to tell them apart in writing.”Courage Garikai · Harare