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Hire us to design, build, ship, and maintain your systems — senior engineers embedded as your own, from first sketch to production and beyond.

Senior-only engineersShip every sprintYou own the IPReply within 24 hours
We build

Systems in production,
measured by outcomes.

A few of the 12 live systems we've built and run for clients — the full portfolio lives on our work page.

Sera

LIVE
Support Automation · Kenya · 2024

Conversational support across email, chat, and WhatsApp, trained on the client’s knowledge base.

LLMRAGFastAPI
Result
80%tickets auto-resolved
Scale
2M+messages / month

Dhamana

LIVE
Fraud Detection · Nigeria · 2023

Real-time transaction scoring with a full audit trail — Kafka-native and horizontally scaled.

ML OpsKafkaRedis
Result
<50msdecision latency
Scale
40kevents / minute

Mazao

LIVE
Agri Intelligence · Tanzania · 2023

Crop-yield forecasting and market-price advisory, delivered as a white-label platform and API.

MLNext.jsAPI
Result
14kfarmers served
Scale
6crops modelled

Pima

LIVE
Clinical Diagnostics · Uganda · 2024

Predictive diagnostics that surface high-risk patients from intake data, integrated with EHRs.

MLFHIRPython
Result
12clinics live
Scale
90kpatients screened

One team for the
whole build.

Design, engineering, AI, data, and reliability under one roof — so nothing gets lost in the handoffs between vendors.

Interface design

Research, UX, and interface design that ships — from wireframes to a polished, accessible design system.

Web & full-stack

End-to-end web apps and platforms. TypeScript, React/Next.js, Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL.

AI & machine learning

LLM and RAG systems, model training, evaluation, and production ML that holds up under real load.

Mobile apps

Cross-platform iOS and Android from one codebase — or native where performance demands it.

Data & infrastructure

Pipelines, warehouses, APIs, and the cloud infrastructure that connects your systems.

DevOps & SRE

CI/CD, observability, and on-call reliability so everything we ship stays up.

The people behind
the systems.

13 specialist communities where engineers, founders and writers across Africa review each other's work, share real roles and build together. $15 once, for life.

Join a community
A member presenting "Disbursements using M-Pesa B2C APIs" to the community on Google Meet
M-Pesa B2C disbursements · A member walks the community through paying out with M-Pesa APIs.
A live walkthrough of the Safaricom Daraja developer portal on Google Meet, with dozens of members attending
Building on Daraja, live · 68 members built against Safaricom's APIs together.
A member sharing a C# desktop application in Visual Studio during a community call
Code walkthrough · A member takes the community through their C# app, line by line.
Eight people standing together in front of the National Intelligence and Research University backdrop, on a red carpet
National Intelligence and Research University · With the NIRU community, in person.
Stephen Nderitu presenting a Builders Space slide, "The journey is sequential: each stage earns the next", on a Google Meet call with 15 people, including Brandon Opere
Builders Space: value before revenue · Stephen Nderitu on why each stage of a business earns the next.
A TFN CivicTech webinar on Google Meet with 40 participants, including Beryl Oywer, Job Alex Muturi, Glory Kairi and Brandon Opere
TFN CivicTech webinar · 40 people on civic technology with TFN.
Angela Oduor Lungati of Ushahidi presenting "It's not just about the technology" in a Zoom session on open-source leadership and community engagement
Ushahidi IDIA Fellowship · Angela Oduor Lungati on open-source leadership and community engagement.
Ushahidi "Data is Destiny" Workshop 3 on Zoom, with audience questions about community data and fair benefit sharing on screen
Ushahidi: Data is Destiny · A workshop on who should benefit when community data creates value.
A live online session with AI practitioners from around the world, including Hamel Husain, Fabrício Carraro, Pallavi Gupta and Brandon Opere
Learning with global AI builders · A live session with Hamel Husain and practitioners from several countries.

We train the engineers
we ship with.

Our academy takes you from first code to a live system with paying customers, in five phases. Every phase builds on the last.

Find your program
  1. Months 0 – 3

    Engineering Core

    Start from wherever you are.

    You finish with: The ability to write production-quality code and solve real engineering problems.

  2. Months 3 – 6

    Core AI Curriculum

    The engine of every system you'll build.

    You finish with: AI systems you built, deployed and now maintain in production.

  3. Months 6 – 9

    Niche Systems Development

    Pick a real problem. Build the solution. Get users.

    You finish with: A deployed AI system, active users, and evidence that people want it.

  4. Months 9 – 12

    Launch & Scale

    Get people to pay for it.

    You finish with: Paying customers, a working revenue model, and the skills to grow it.

  5. Months 12+

    Co-founder Matching & Incubation

    Build with someone who's been through the same fire.

    You finish with: A co-founded company with paying users and a real team.

From a brief to
software in production.

A clear path with a demo every sprint — you always know exactly where the build stands.

  1. 01

    Scope

    A short discovery — goals, constraints, success metrics. You leave with a plan and a fixed quote.

  2. 02

    Design

    Architecture and UX. We de-risk the hard parts before a line of production code is written.

  3. 03

    Build

    Two-week sprints, demoed live. You see working software every sprint — not a status deck.

  4. 04

    Ship

    Tested, observable, deployed to production. Real users, real uptime, from day one.

  5. 05

    Maintain

    We stay on for monitoring, iteration, and support — or hand over a clean, documented codebase.

Engineers who've shipped to production.

Real systems, real uptime, real users — from data pipelines and APIs to AI running live under load.

Proven tools,
not the flavour of the month.

Languages

TypeScriptPythonGoSQL

Frontend

ReactNext.jsReact NativeTailwind

Backend

FastAPINode.jsPostgreSQLRedis

AI / ML

PyTorchLangChainRAGHugging Face

Cloud

AWSDockerKubernetesTerraform

A partner, not
a black box.

Senior-only engineers

No juniors billed as seniors. Everyone who touches your code has shipped to production before.

You own everything

Full IP, source, and infrastructure — documented and transferable from the first commit.

Real timezone overlap

We work your hours. Africa, Europe, and US overlap with daily standups and same-day replies.

Predictable billing

A fixed weekly rate, no surprise invoices. Pause or scale with two weeks’ notice.

Working software every sprint

A live demo every two weeks — you see real, shippable progress, not a status deck.

Straight to the engineers

You talk directly to the people building your systems — no account managers, no handoffs.

Clear prices,
agreed before we start.

Pay in KSh or USD, by card or M-Pesa. See every price and what it includes

  • Ready-made systemsFrom $50/monthFrom KSh 6,500/monthA production system for a monthly fee instead of a build budget.See the six systems
  • Custom buildFrom $1,000 per projectFrom KSh 130,000 per projectA fixed price agreed before work starts, so the budget never moves under you.Send a brief
  • Academy programs$50/monthKSh 6,500/monthMentored training that ends in work you can show an employer, a university or an investor.Choose a program
  • Community membership$15 onceKSh 1,950 onceOne payment for a working network of builders in your sector, for good.Join the community
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Have a project? Send us the brief.

Tell us what you need — even a rough idea. You'll hear back within 24 hours with an approach, a timeline, and a fixed quote. No pitch decks, no account managers.