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Build notes. Coming soon.

Short, specific write-ups on what we ship and what we learned. No thought-leadership, just the work. The first few are in draft; here’s what’s coming.

The first three. Still being written.

Notes · Ebenworks
Engineering

Building a tournament platform for 16 nations.

What it takes to run KAFCON on software instead of spreadsheets: match centre, live scoring, and the referee/organizer consoles behind it.

In draft
AI

A Korean voice AI that answers in ~700ms.

The ASR → LLM → TTS pipeline behind Chingu, the latency budget per stage, and why on-device wake-word matters for privacy.

In draft
Fintech

WhatsApp as a fintech rail.

Why South Africa’s informal merchants don’t need an app, and how Imali does bookkeeping, OCR, and tax prep inside a chat thread.

In draft

Want one of these in your inbox when it lands? contact@ebstar.co.

Don’t want to wait?

The notes are still in draft, but the work isn’t. See what we’ve shipped, or tell us what you’re trying to build.