Research & financial-risk support
Financial economics training, credit-insurance assessment exposure and banking research underpin my approach to evidence and commercial questions.
BUSINESS THINKING × AI BUILDING
Make AI
useful.
I'm Tiego. I turn messy business problems into practical digital products and workflows people can actually use.
Exploring my finance background? View investment relevance
South Africa · Working internationally · Remote opportunities
WORKFLOW / ACTIVE
BE+AI
UnderstandBuildVerify
INPUTScattered data
DECISIONManual review
OUTPUTUseful & reviewable
Behavioural economist. Founder. AI product builder.Real problems. Working systems.
WHAT MAKES ME DIFFERENT
I understand people.
I understand business.
And I can build.
Behavioural economicsCommercial judgementAI implementation
THE COMMERCIAL FOUNDATION
Not just ideas.
Commercial context.
Banking experience at Standard Bank and Nedbank. Founder-led projects with real operational and customer constraints.
R20m+
Third-party finance facilitated through Mora Capital Partners
R1.2m
Advisory business revenue in the first six months
R40m+
Operating income associated with Standard Bank initiatives I contributed to
Commercial results from my CV. Facilitated financing is not company revenue. Banking contributions are team achievements. These are not presented as outcomes caused by AI software.
STANDARD BANKNEDBANKMORA CAPITAL PARTNERSRHODES UNIVERSITY
Understand the business.
Make the evidence useful.
My work sits at the intersection of finance, business behaviour and execution. I bring banking discipline and an operator's perspective to businesses seeking capital, alongside the ability to build better systems.
Mora Capital Partners
I founded an advisory business to help companies become financing-ready: sourcing clients, understanding funding requirements, preparing lender-facing documentation and engaging independent finance providers.
Approximately R20 million in third-party funding disbursements facilitated and R1.2 million in company revenue in the first six months.
Explore Mora Capital PartnersMy work in practice
Turn a funding need into a clear brief.
Bring the commercial requirement into focus and organise the information a financing provider needs to review it.
- Client sourcing and business engagement
- Financing-readiness assessments
- Structured proposals and advisory workflows
My role is advisory and preparatory. Financing decisions and disbursements are made by independent providers.
Performance & business analysis
Behavioural economics, experimentation, KPI design and impact measurement connect activity to outcomes that teams can evaluate.
Documentation & decision support
Lender-facing packs, structured proposals and executive reporting turn complex requirements into information stakeholders can use.
Technology & operating improvement
AI-assisted document workflows, validation and human review connect my finance experience with practical implementation skills.
These are transferable strengths for investment research, due diligence support and portfolio operations. The work below documents my experience; it is not presented as a completed private-equity investment or valuation track record.
FEATURED BUILD / APTTICK
From learning
to doing.
Training doesn't automatically make someone job-ready. AptTick combines guided learning, AI coaching, sales practice and actionable feedback in one learner journey.
PRODUCT WORKFLOW ILLUSTRATION · NOT A LIVE SCREENSHOT
LEARNER
How should I handle a customer who says the price is too high?
AI COACH
Acknowledge the concern. Ask what matters most, then explain relevant value without overpromising.
Verified in a test-learner session: AI coaching, three-turn customer role-play, evidence-based feedback, and saved-state persistence.
Read the technical case studyBEYOND THE FEATURED BUILD
Different challenges.
Same thinking.
Selected projects with clearly documented implementation and verification boundaries.
FINANCE / WORKFLOWS
M
Mora AI
Product Engine
Shared infrastructure for evidence-led document workflows, controlled AI outputs and human review.
Selected owner journeys testedExplore case studyCAREERS / DIGITAL PRODUCTS
R
Remote
Launch
From an offline toolkit to a private, evidence-grounded job-preparation workflow.
Digital kit live; AI workspace in developmentVisit RemoteLaunchSME FINANCE / OPERATIONS
MC
Mora Capital
Partners
Real-world funding readiness and transaction workflows shaped by business constraints.
Live advisory businessExplore the businessMY METHOD
Find the friction.
Build what matters.
Move from vague frustration to a testable workflow. Select a bottleneck below to explore how I'd approach it.
WORKFLOW DIAGNOSTIC / EXAMPLE
Make the handoff visible.
Map each owner, input, decision and exception. Automate the repetitive transfer, then leave approval where a person adds judgement.
DiscoverBuildVerify
PRINCIPLEAutomate the bottleneck. Not the whole organisation.
Banking discipline.
Founder ownership.
From credit-risk support to banking product initiatives and an advisory business of my own. Each chapter adds a different perspective on how businesses perform.
Mora Capital Partners
Founder & principal
Client sourcing, financing readiness, lender-facing document packs and advisory workflows.
Nedbank
Senior Behavioural Economist
Behaviour-led financial product and customer-experience work with strategy, marketing, risk and digital teams.
Standard Bank Group
Behavioural economics & product delivery
Graduate programme, behavioural economics and project management across African product workstreams. Research, experimentation and executive updates.
Credit Guarantee
Commercial Underwriter Trainee
Supported credit-insurance assessments, policy documentation and financial-risk reviews.
Rhodes University: BCom Honours in Financial Economics (2019); BCom in Economics and Management. Further development: CatalyzU Venture Capital Advanced Programme.
My interest in private markets is long-standing, shaped by family exposure to infrastructure investing and strengthened by building Mora Capital. I am interested in contributing commercial analysis, research and dependable execution within an investment team.
THE NEXT STEP
Have a messy
problem?
I can help turn it into a working system.
Let's talk