01 / AI & ML
AI & Machine Learning Systems
RAG pipelines, vector search with CLIP embeddings, document understanding, computer vision, LLM orchestration. Production deployments — not notebooks.
PythonOpenAIGeminipgvectorCLIP
W-Enterprises · Est. Cape Town · ZA
Software systems that ship, not slide decks.
W-Enterprises is an AI/ML and full-stack engineering practice. We design and deliver production-quality software for clients who need work that ships — engineered with the rigour that comes from over a decade in the field, on compressed timelines, using modern serverless architectures.
01 / Practice
What we actually build.
02 / Engineering
Full-Stack Engineering
Type-safe applications on Next.js, React, Vue, Node, .NET and Go. Serverless-first deployments on Vercel, Cloudflare, Firebase. Speed without sacrificing correctness.
Next.jsReactTypeScriptGo.NET
03 / SaaS
SaaS Platform Build-Out
Multi-tenant architectures, subscription billing, identity, admin tooling, regional payment integrations. End-to-end from specification to production within compressed delivery windows.
FirebaseFirestoreMoyasarStripePostgreSQLMulti-tenant
04 / Discovery
Technical Discovery & Documentation
Solution architecture, PRDs, technical specifications, requirements traceability. The formal paperwork that lets serious engagements move forward with confidence on both sides.
ArchitecturePRDsSpecificationsMermaid
02 / Principles
How the practice operates.
i.
One senior engineer.
No account managers. No project handoffs. The person you brief is the person who writes the code, designs the architecture, and ships the system.
ii.
Production-first.
Every deliverable lands in production with monitoring, observability, security review and CI in place — not a demo on a developer's laptop.
iii.
Documented.
Every engagement comes with formal proposals, specifications, and traceable requirements. The client always knows what they're paying for and when it will be delivered.
iv.
Honest scope.
Out-of-scope items are named explicitly upfront. Change requests are quoted separately. No surprise invoices, no scope creep on the engineering side.
— / Technology
The full toolkit.
Production-grade work calls for production-grade tools. The stack below reflects what we've shipped — not what's been touched in a tutorial. Senior decisions on which technology fits which problem are part of every engagement.
Languages
PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptC#GoJavaPHPSQLHTMLCSSBashPowerShell
AI & Machine Learning
PyTorchTensorFlowLangChainLlamaIndexCLIPHugging FaceOpenAI APIClaude APIGoogle GeminiWhisperRAGVector SearchpgvectorChromaDBPydanticDocument AI
Frontend
Next.js 14ReactVue.jsNuxtReact NativeExpoElectronTailwind CSSshadcn/uiRadixZustandTanStack QueryRecharts
Backend & APIs
Node.jsExpressNestJS.NET / .NET CoreASP.NETFastAPIFlaskGoRESTGraphQLgRPCWebSockets
Data & Storage
PostgreSQLpgvectorSQL ServerMySQLMongoDBSQLiteRedisFirestoreSupabaseElasticsearchPineconeWeaviate
Cloud & Infrastructure
Google CloudFirebaseAWSAzureVercelCloudflareNetlifyDockerKubernetesTerraformGitHub ActionsGitLab CILinux
Specialized Domains
Multi-tenant SaaSOCR & Document AIComputer VisionVector SimilarityProtocol RERTSP / MJPEGFFmpegBilingual (AR/EN)RTL RenderingPuppeteer / PlaywrightWeb Scraping
Regional & Payments
Moyasar (KSA)StripePayPalPDPL ComplianceZATCAArabic LocalisationSARS / VAT
— / The Practice
Led by an engineer who writes the code.
W-Enterprises is led by Wayne Fourie, a senior engineer with over a decade of production experience across AI/ML systems, full-stack web applications, and embedded middleware.
Recent engagements span AI-powered document parsing platforms, trademark similarity engines using CLIP embeddings and pgvector, reverse-engineered IoT camera middleware, and multi-tenant SaaS deployments for the Saudi Arabian HR-tech market.
The practice is small by design. The trade is between scale and rigour, and we choose rigour every time.
04 / Selected Engagements
Recent work.
2026
Trademark Similarity EngineKSA · IP Rights
CLIP-embedding vector-search system for trademark visual-similarity screening. 94% top-5 accuracy on visual similarity, 87% combined visual-plus-textual. Integrated with scraping pipeline and color-distribution matching.
PythonCLIPpgvectorFastAPI
2026
AI Invoice Parsing PlatformKSA · FinOps
Multi-tenant SaaS for automated invoice ingestion and field extraction. 93.5% field-extraction accuracy on MVP scope. Integrated Google Document AI and Gemini for hybrid OCR plus LLM-based normalisation.
PythonGeminiGoogle OCRPostgreSQL
2025
IoT Camera MiddlewareZA · Surveillance
Reverse-engineered the proprietary UDP protocol of Chinese V720 / Yi IoT cameras to expose standard RTSP and MJPEG streams for integration with off-the-shelf NVR systems.
GoProtocol RERTSPFFmpeg
2024
Storefront PlatformZA · E-Commerce
Custom Shopify-alternative storefront platform with visual page builder, featured collections, and merchant onboarding flow. Vue.js frontend, Golang services backend.
Vue.jsGoPostgreSQL
05 / Contact
Have a system that needs building?
The practice takes on a limited number of engagements concurrently. If your project is a strong fit, you'll have a response within one working day. Briefly: what you're building, when it needs to ship, and what success looks like.
Email
Based
Cape Town
South Africa · UTC+2
South Africa · UTC+2
Operating in
ZA · KSA · DE · US
Remote-first
Remote-first
Availability
By engagement
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