Products
Products I have helped build.
Seven products spanning fintech, civic tech, clean energy, AI, and entrepreneurship. Each project follows the same thread: a real problem, real constraints, and decisions made with incomplete information.
Regional scope
East Africa
01 · Fintech · Clean Energy · IoT
M-PESA repayment layer LiveFintechClean EnergyIoT
A Pay-As-You-Go digital financing platform that lets Kenyan smallholder farmers access solar water pumps through M-PESA micro-payments. Jointly developed with Davis & Shirtliff, whose distribution network spans 50+ branches and 700+ stockists across East Africa, and funded by PREO.
◉ Chose eventual consistency over real-time activation because a five-minute wait is less damaging than a wrongful disconnection caused by double-counted or delayed payments.DayLipa Finance launched in April 2023 and is operational across Davis & Shirtliff’s distribution network
Read full story → 02 · B2B · FMCG · Credit
Retailer onboarding Pilot completedB2BFMCGCredit
A digital ordering and credit platform for small informal shops, known as dukas, that form the backbone of last-mile retail in sub-Saharan Africa. Funded by TRANSFORM, a joint initiative between Unilever, FCDO, and EY, it connects micro-retailers directly to Unilever and Upfield distribution with a flexible credit line and same-day green delivery through Skoot.
◉ Put data discipline before product expansion because the team needed clean pilot evidence to prove viability to funders before scaling the feature set.Pilot participants saw a 15% sales uplift, with shop owners ordering more frequently and increasing basket sizes because of credit access and delivery convenience
Read full story → 03 · Fintech · PWA · AI
M-PESA parser Live betaFintechPWAAI
A personal finance Progressive Web App for East African users who transact primarily through M-PESA. It parses mobile money statements, auto-categorises transactions using an AI taxonomy built for East African money movement, and surfaces net worth across mobile money, bank accounts, and cash.
◉ Made the Net Worth Dashboard the anchor feature instead of budgeting tools after 12 Nairobi user interviews showed people were more motivated by watching wealth grow than by being told to restrict spending.The parser reached 94% transaction categorisation accuracy across the 14-category taxonomy
Read full story → 04 · Civic Tech · Security
CSV voter import Spec delivered · Pending developmentCivic TechSecurity
A secure digital voting platform for the Sweden Alumni Network Kenya, a community of roughly 200 members. It handles candidate nominations, voter eligibility verification, secret ballot casting, and result tabulation in a single integrated system designed so trust is the architecture, not an afterthought.
◉ Chose committee-controlled voter import over member self-registration because legitimacy mattered more than convenience, even though it added administrative work upfront.The security model passed full election committee review, with CSV voter import specifically cited as the design element that gave the committee confidence
Read full story → 05 · EdTech · B2B · HCD
Group sessions BDS Mentorship Platform
In developmentEdTechB2BHCD
A Business Development Services mentorship platform for the Institute of Certified SIYB Trainers Kenya. It connects certified trainers with aspiring entrepreneurs through structured mentorship programmes, group facilitation sessions, and trainee progress tracking, digitising a process that had been informal and undocumented.
◉ Designed group facilitation as the primary interaction model because trainer interviews showed group sessions, not only 1:1 mentorship, were where the most transformative learning happened.The complete specification suite is ready for development, including 107 test cases from trainer onboarding through group facilitation to trainee progress reporting
Read full story → 06 · SaaS · EdTech · AI
GYB module LiveSaaSEdTechAI
An AI-guided business plan builder that transforms the ILO Start and Improve Your Business methodology into a structured digital experience. The methodology is active in 100+ countries through thousands of certified trainers, and BizFramer is built under Civanta.io.
◉ Built for the GYB module first because solving the highest-attrition stage created more learning and impact per engineering hour than digitising the entire four-module cycle at launch.The partnership framework with ICST Kenya is complete, including an executed mutual NDA that established the legal and trust foundation for the first trainer-institute-endorsed digital SIYB tool
Read full story → 07 · AI · Agile · Developer Tools
4Ls retrospective flow Live betaAIAgileDeveloper Tools
An AI-powered co-facilitator for agile retrospectives. It guides teams through structured 4Ls retrospectives, Liked, Learned, Lacked, and Longed For, with intelligent prompts, cross-sprint pattern recognition, and automated follow-up grounded in PMI Disciplined Agile best practices.
◉ Chose PMI Disciplined Agile over a framework-agnostic retrospective tool because a narrower initial market created stronger differentiation from Retrium, Parabol, and FunRetro.The live platform implements the full retrospective lifecycle: pre-retro prep automation, AI-guided 4Ls discussion, and post-retro summaries delivered within 1 hour
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