Lwazi Shabalala

• Founded EasyFee, a school fee management platform built for South African institutions, simplifying payment collection, tracking, and reconciliation for administrators and parents.
• Designed and shipped a streamlined fee-portal product, reducing administrative overhead and enabling real-time payment visibility across student accounts.
• Conducted discovery interviews with school finance officers to identify pain points in legacy fee systems and translated findings into a prioritised product roadmap.
• Led go-to-market strategy, establishing early partnerships with schools and positioning EasyFee as an accessible alternative to enterprise-only solutions like FACTS.

• Founded Memo, an AI-powered note-taking and transcription app built for students, turning lectures and voice recordings into structured, searchable notes automatically.

•Built and iterated on the core transcription and summarisation pipeline, integrating AI models to produce accurate, context-aware notes from audio in real time.

•Ran user research with university students to validate pain points around manual note-taking, using insights to prioritise features that drove early adoption and retention.

•Defined the product vision and go-to-market approach, targeting tertiary students in South Africa and expanding the value proposition toward accessibility and academic performance.