Aloy Sathekge

I'm an applied AI engineer, product builder, and founder of Aloy Studio. I build production RAG systems, agent frameworks, full-stack platforms, and ventures designed to compound into infrastructure, community, and legacy.

Currently shipping AI features at NewPaper and maintaining Pori, an open-source agent framework.

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Applied AI Systems

Production RAG, agents, and automation that hold up in real use.

Shipping NewPaper AI while pressure-testing retrieval, evaluation, and human-in-the-loop agent design.

Open Infrastructure

Pori turns agent workflows into something inspectable and safer.

Plan, act, reflect, evaluate, and pause for approval before sensitive operations.

Aloy Studio

Products, open source, community, and long-term assets.

The studio is the vehicle for turning technical capability into ventures and legacy.

Aloy Studio

The venture studio behind the longer arc.

The portfolio shows what I can build. Aloy Studio is where those capabilities become products, open-source infrastructure, community initiatives, and long-term assets.

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Your AI Agent Isn't as Good as You Think: How to Actually Evaluate It

Most agent frameworks have no way to tell if your agent is getting better or worse. I built an evaluation system into Pori that tests accuracy, reliability, performance, and safety. Here's why each matters and how they work.

March 29, 2026 (3mo ago)

Building a Production RAG System: Ingestion, Retrieval, Evaluation, and Observability

How I built AuditRAG, a fullstack Retrieval-Augmented Generation platform with hybrid search, auto-evaluation, and per-query observability. The architecture decisions, tradeoffs, and what I learned.

March 20, 2026 (3mo ago)

Why Pori Dropped LangChain: Building LLM Wrappers From Scratch

How we replaced LangChain with ~200 lines of protocol-based LLM wrappers in Pori. The architecture, the tradeoffs, and why direct SDK integration wins for agent frameworks.

December 25, 2025 (6mo ago)

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What I reach for day-to-day.

PythonTypescriptSQLC++JavaKotlinSwiftReactReact NativeNext.jsNode.jsPytorch

Where I've been

NewPaper

Solve Solutions

WeThinkCode

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Let's build, collaborate, or talk.

Reach out about applied AI work, open-source collaboration, venture ideas, community projects, or engineering roles. Based in Johannesburg,ZA, remote-friendly.

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Now building

Production RAG, agents, and automation that hold up in real use.

Pori turns agent workflows into something inspectable and safer.

Products, open source, community, and long-term assets.

The venture studio behind the longer arc.

Selected work

NewPaper

Aloygrad

Pori

AuditRAG

Writing

Your AI Agent Isn't as Good as You Think: How to Actually Evaluate It

Building a Production RAG System: Ingestion, Retrieval, Evaluation, and Observability

Why Pori Dropped LangChain: Building LLM Wrappers From Scratch

Stack

Where I've been

Let's build, collaborate, or talk.