Hi, I'm Charl. Welcome to my crazy fun AI lab.
This is where I publish every AI experiment I cook up — and don't worry, you're in good hands: my two pals Bot and Botty run the show around here.
crew approved— a bit more about me
I build, break,
and rebuild things.
By day, I help teams at KnowBe4 ship security awareness products used by millions. By night, I fall down AI rabbit holes — prototyping crazy ideas, breaking them, and seeing what survives. The best way to learn this stuff is to actually build it, so I do, often, and badly at first. Then a bit better. Then more fun. Repeat.
Software Architect Manager
at KnowBe4
South Africa
remote on the regular
Architecture by day
prototypes by night
Ideas in flight
stages: 🥚 → 🐣 → 🐥 → 🚀
— the experiments
Welcome to the lab.
Every experiment lives somewhere on the journey from napkin sketch to real product. Click around — some are unstable, some are surprisingly fun, all of them are mine.
Early Concept
Just hatched. Held together with vibes and duct tape.
🥚 Early ConceptSplitlings
Split the orbs! A bouncy little puzzle experiment where one tap multiplies the chaos.
🥚 Early ConceptSpit Wars
Llama artillery battle. Jetpacks, shields, and pass-and-play vs AI. Spit happens.
🥚 Early ConceptSpinmfana
Mzansi-style spinning. Pick your whip, smoke the tyres, chase combo degrees. Mfana energy in the garage.
🥚 Early ConceptSkipDrop
Skip bin logistics for SA waste operators. Manage jobs, drivers, and customers — from booking to drop-off.
🥚 Early ConceptChairtime
Multi-tenant booking SaaS for South African beauty & wellness salons. Book online, manage appointments, run your chair.
🥚 Early ConceptPairsign
Verify it's really them. A one-time code by SMS — so a voice clone can never fake your call.
Alpha
It works! Mostly. Don't look at it sideways.
Beta
Real users, real bugs, real exciting.
Nothing here yet — stay tuned.
New experiments graduate into this stage as they grow up.
Active
Live, loved, and shipping updates.
Nothing here yet — stay tuned.
New experiments graduate into this stage as they grow up.
Retired
Gone but not forgotten. Lessons in the archive.
Nothing here yet — stay tuned.
New experiments graduate into this stage as they grow up.
— power the tinkering
Buy me a keyboard⌨️
These experiments run on late nights and mechanical keyboards. If something here made you smile, consider chipping in — every rand keeps the lab lights blinking.
— got a wild idea?
Have a crazy idea
for me to test?
The crazier, the better. Half-baked, totally bonkers, possibly genius — Bot and Botty don't judge. Send it over and let's see if it survives the lab. I read everything, even the ramblings at 2am.