Founder · Builder
I build the ecosystem.
From township to tech holding company.
Founder of Purple Ray Group (Pty) Ltd — fashion, fintech, AI safety & automation.
One person turned a clothing label and a trading bot into a multi-industry company: Predesigns Clothing, Trade Pulse Technologies, AlibiSafe, SafeGuard SA, and a stack of products solving real South African problems.
From a clothing label to a holding company.
I'm Josias Tlou — a self-taught builder from Suurman, Gauteng, who refuses to pick one lane. I started with a clothing brand and a trading bot. Today those are two divisions inside Purple Ray Group (Pty) Ltd, a registered South African company spanning fashion, fintech, AI safety, and automation.
I build the things I wish existed: an EA that trades with discipline instead of gambling, an app that cryptographically proves your side of a story when it matters, a fleet tool for local taxi owners. The thread is solving real problems for real South Africans — and owning the IP.
I'm not a freelancer for hire. I'm the founder of the company you'd be partnering with.
Purple Ray Group (Pty) Ltd
Registered multi-division innovation company — Creative (Predesigns, Xentara), Tech (AlibiSafe, SafeGuard SA, Trade Pulse, Pro Driver, Revenue Radar, MindOS, Aurora), and Ventures.
Visit the group site →What I actually bring:
Build
- ◆Python
- ◆C# / .NET
- ◆MT4/MT5 (MQL5)
- ◆TypeScript
- ◆React / Next.js
- ◆Node.js
- ◆Flutter
AI & Automation
- ◆LLM agents
- ◆Trading Expert Advisors
- ◆Telegram/Discord bots
- ◆Computer vision
- ◆Vector memory (FAISS)
Brands & Craft
- ◆Streetwear design
- ◆Brand building
- ◆UI/UX
- ◆Motion & video
Business
- ◆Company formation (CIPC)
- ◆B-BBEE
- ◆B2B sales
- ◆Funding (SEFA/SEDA/NYDA)
- ◆P&L
The Purple Ray ecosystem
Companies I run
Trade Pulse Technologies
Automated MT4/MT5 Expert Advisors I engineered and run live — from the R500 SentinelXcelarator entry indicator to LXRD Reign, 3Stoch Rover, Whisper, Breakout Trend and SentinelXcelarator. Real terminal, real equity, risk-managed.
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Predesigns Clothing
My streetwear label — identity-driven drop fashion built from the ground up. New pieces almost every week; sales tracked and reinvested into the ecosystem.
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Xentara Life
PRG consumer-goods venture: premium gaming battlestations, RGB lighting and desk gear — shipping across South Africa with international expansion underway.
See the Group →Products & software I built
AlibiSafe
My flagship: a privacy-first evidence app that cryptographically hashes (SHA-256 per frame) time-stamped photos, video, GPS and audio — verifiable proof when it matters. Feeds signed reports into SafeGuard SA.
SafeGuard SA
The incident pipeline behind AlibiSafe — live on Firebase with 7 Cloud Functions, reCAPTCHA and a verified SAPS webhook. Turns captured evidence into routed, actionable reports.
MindOS
AI productivity system that structures thoughts, tasks and workflows with cognitive modelling and LLM insight. Built to be the operating layer for a founder's chaos.
Aurora
Adaptive AI assistant — deep research, conversation and personalisation across tasks and learning. The conversational front-end to the PRG AI stack.
Revenue Radar
Business-automation tool tracking sales, performance and pipeline — the same engine behind my B2B client CRM. Turns chaos into a dashboard.
Pro Driver Assist
Driver-enhancement system with input tuning and real-time feedback — built for sim and real-world control polish.
Talka
Lightweight messaging platform for fast, reliable chat with local-language and low-data support — built for the South African context.
TaxiFlow
Fleet-management platform for South African taxi operators — real-time tracking and operations for an industry that moves the country.
What I'm building right now
AlibiSafe — App Store launch
Launching — post-registrationTaking AlibiSafe officially live on Google Play and TestFlight (iOS) now that Purple Ray Group (Pty) Ltd is registered. Evidence integrity for everyday safety.
Open →Trade Pulse — scaling EAs
Live · scalingPushing the final EA builds (LXRD Reign v2.15, SentinelXcelarator v2, Whisper v2) and running paid acquisition to 5–10 paying traders in 30–45 days.
Open →B2B dev pipeline (Temba corridor)
Closing dealsSigned service agreements + deposits for local businesses (Nawa, 717 Hangout, Unique Boikgantsho, Dayvibe). Building their sites and automations via PRG.
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MindOS
BuildingShipping the AI productivity layer that runs my own workflow — cognitive structuring + LLM insight.
Founder track record
Founded Purple Ray Group (Pty) Ltd
Registered a multi-division South African holding company — Creative, Tech, and Ventures — and handle CIPC, B-BBEE, UIF, SARS, banking and IP in-house.
Built & shipped trading EAs
Engineered six MetaTrader Expert Advisors (LXRD Reign, 3Stoch Rover, Whisper, Breakout Trend, SentinelXcelarator) running on live MT5 accounts — sold via Trade Pulse Technologies.
Launched Predesigns Clothing
Took a streetwear idea from design to weekly drops and a real revenue stream that funds the rest of the ecosystem.
AlibiSafe + SafeGuard SA
Designed a cryptographically-hashed evidence app and a live Firebase incident pipeline with a verified SAPS webhook — African safety tech.
B2B dev pipeline
Closed service agreements and deposits with local Temba/Hammanskraal businesses, packaging web + automation as a corridor play.
AI stack (Aurora, MindOS, Revenue Radar)
Shipped LLM assistants, a productivity OS, and a sales-tracking CRM that runs PRG's own operations.