What I'm working on right now.

Sovereign Matrix v2 — multi-tenant AI agent platform. 137 agents, 8-provider unified router, plan-aware $/day budget caps. Public source: github.com/christiaan839-beep/sovereign-v2.

@sovereign/ai-router — extracted as standalone npm package. Zero deps, MIT, 7 tests passing. Routes across Anthropic, OpenAI, Cerebras, NVIDIA NIM, Groq, DeepSeek, and local Ollama with one call.

Agency-replacement positioning for SMBs in emerging markets — sovereignmatrix.agency leads with R997/mo (≈$49 Pro tier) and ZAR-first billing.

Real customer-wins layer at /case-studies (DB-backed, drops curated examples below real entries when any exist).

Competitor library at /vs — 16 SEO-indexed comparison pages: lindy, apollo, jasper, autogpt, hubspot, clay, crewai, n8n, zapier, make, manus, sintra, relevance-ai, claude-agents, sovereign, bardeen.

Anthropic partnership thesis at /anthropic — Constitutional-AI-aligned safety pipeline, three concrete asks, AI-pair-programming disclosure.

Anthropic Constitutional AI paper (re-reading after rebuilding the safety pipeline around its principles).

Stripe payment-intent + idempotent redemption patterns — used to close a credit-minting bypass on the platform.

Postgres row-level security for true multi-tenant isolation — currently enforced via where-clause discipline, exploring RLS as a defense-in-depth move.

• Forward Deployed Engineer

  Anthropic, Vercel, LangChain, Cognition, Replicate. Multi-tenant SaaS that customers consume — exactly the shape of work I've shipped.

• Applied AI Engineer

  Anthropic, Mistral, Together, Cohere. Multi-provider routing, model-cost calculus, prompt engineering at scale.

• Solutions Engineer (AI tools)

  Anthropic (EMEA), Vercel, Modal. Translating engineering into procurement decisions; comfortable with ZAR/EU billing realities.

• Full-stack contracts

  Toptal-tier or direct. $50–$100/hr. AI agents, Stripe + Clerk + Drizzle, Next.js 16. Cape Town remote.

• Founding Engineer at AI agent startups

  Pre-seed to Series A, willing to relocate for the right team.

• Pure ML research roles requiring a PhD or publication record.
• Big-tech SDE pipelines that over-index on Leetcode + degree filter.
• Crypto / NFT / web3 projects.
• Anything that asks me to abandon the AI workflow disclosure (per Anthropic's candidate AI guidance, I disclose Claude pair-programming openly).

• Postgres-backed daily $ spend cap (replaces in-memory Map that silently reset on cold starts).

  src/lib/budget-controls.ts

• Stripe payment-intent verification with idempotent redemption — closed a credit-minting bypass.

  src/app/api/credits/route.ts

• Migration parity check in CI — verifies every declared pgTable exists in Neon before merging.

  scripts/check-migrations.mjs

• 5 production runbooks (DB down · migration drift · Clerk JWKS · Stripe rotation · smoke red).

  docs/runbooks/