Defense & Intel
Lindela
Intelligence platform for peace operations across 12 East African nations. Multi-source data fusion, GDELT integration, military planning tools, 188 report templates, AI-generated bulletins.
East Africa · Since 2015
Built in Africa.
Built for the World.
We build software for the places where "it went down" is not an acceptable answer. Central banks, defence forces, refugee case management systems, payment networks. The unglamorous, load-tested, formally-verified work of making African institutions not depend on infrastructure built for someone else's problems.
What We Build
Twenty products. Ten domains. All built in Africa.
Security Ops
MeGuard
AI-powered SaaS for Private Security Companies. GPS attendance, smart dispatch, ARC alarm monitoring, M-Pesa payroll, ONVIF CCTV, cross-PSC marketplace. Covers KE, UG, TZ.
Request a Briefing →KE · UG · TZ
Public Safety
Askari
Digital operating system for Kenya Police Service. Offline-first OB entries, custody management, evidence capture, biometric-bound action receipts, NTSA / IPRS / ODPP integration.
Request a Briefing →Kenya Police
Fintech
Hyperion-X
African payment switch at 50,000 TPS. ISO 8583 / 20022, Visa, Mastercard, NIBSS, Interswitch. Post-quantum cryptography, AML, PCI DSS v4. Formal TLA+ verification on all critical state machines.
See How It Works →50,000 TPS
Fintech / Web3
Token-X
Regulated real-world asset tokenization. ERC-3643 security tokens, 5 chains (ETH / Polygon / Solana / Hedera / Aptos), KYC/KYB gating, Rust ATS matching engine, integrated investor LMS.
See How It Works →token-x.finance
Transport
FleetOptima
Enterprise fleet management for African logistics. Real-time GPS (200+ hardware protocols), 7 payment gateways, Boda Boda micro-logistics, AI dispatch, EV charging, cross-border SADC/EAC compliance.
Get a Demo →sude.taxi
Industrial AI
AVIS
AI visual inspection for factories and industrial sites. YOLO + VLM defect detection, managed camera fleet, SPC / FMEA / CAPA quality suite, ISO 9001 / IATF 16949 / 21 CFR Part 11 compliance.
Get a Demo →ISO 9001
Enterprise
dArchiva
Document management for large-scale digitization. Multi-engine OCR (PaddleOCR + Tesseract + Qwen-VL), semantic search, layered RBAC / ABAC / ReBAC security, physical inventory tracking.
Get a Demo →4M+ Docs
Education
ALE
Adaptive Learning Engine for STEM. Socratic AI tutor, BKT + IRT + CDM triple-model diagnostics, knowledge-graph prerequisite backtracking, FSRS spaced repetition, affect detection without cameras.
See How It Works →K12 – University
Education
Shule
Multi-tenant school management for African institutions. 14 microservices, M-Pesa / Flutterwave fees, LTI 1.3, OneRoster 2.0, KCSIE 2025 safeguarding, live video via Mediasoup SFU.
Get a Demo →Africa-first SIS
Open Source
AppGen-X
Generate full business applications from a DSL, DBML, SQL DDL, or natural language. Flask-AppBuilder, GraphQL, 18+ ERP starter modules, multi-target: web, PWA, mobile, desktop, chatbot.
View on GitHub →GitHub
Open Source
APG
259 pre-built business capability packages across 28 domains. Composable, deployable. Africa-first: M-Pesa, MTN MoMo, Airtel Money, 7-country PAYE payroll, and CBK compliance built in.
Get a Demo →259 Packages
Open Source
Hyperion-EMV
Open-source EMV Level 2 kernel in Rust. Certification variables live in signed JSON bundles — not compiled source. Stable C ABI, 100% line coverage. Lab readiness without proprietary black boxes.
Fintech
Situ
Multi-surface financial OS for regulated credit, insurance, marketplace finance, and savings in East Africa. M-Pesa rails, NTSA logbook liens, CRB checks, IFRS 9 ECL, 55+ services, 6 portals, 2,543 CI tests.
Request a Demo →Kenya-native
Legal Tech
Wakili
Legal practice management for Kenyan law firms. Matter tracking, trust accounting with maker/checker, eKejiji court filings, KRA eTIMS billing, AI-powered legal research against Kenya Law, KYC/AML screening. 13 services.
Request a Demo →Kenya
Cultural Heritage
CrowdAfrica
Consent-first oral history ingest and public archive. Interview workspace, narrator consent management, immutable preservation pipeline, automated transcripts, offline-first Flutter mobile app, OAI-PMH public archive.
Get in Touch →Heritage
Open Source · MIT
Flowforge
Portable workflow framework for regulated multi-tenant applications. JSON DSL, parallel fork/join, 15 host ports, JTBD-to-application generator, 30 domain bundles, 2,566+ tests. Build compliant apps without reinventing the plumbing.
Learn More →MIT
Open Source · CSR
Dada Salama
GBV survivor justice navigation. P3 / legal-aid routing, 14-day stall alerts, survivor-controlled evidence handoff, coded safety check-ins, USSD fallback for feature phones. Free, always.
Get Dada Salama →Free forever
Labs
Gbẹdu
Automating chart-beating Afrobeats. AI generates complete tracks — vocals, instruments, and lyrics in 8+ African languages in under 2 minutes. ACE-Step 1.5, Llama-3 fine-tuned, RVC v2.
Explore →Experiment
Labs
Puma Diagnostics
Upload a 30-second engine recording, get an AI-generated PDF diagnostic report for the Land Rover Puma 2.4 diesel. FFT spectral analysis, wavelet decomposition, acoustic fingerprinting.
Explore →Experiment
What We Stand For
The principles behind every line of code.
African-First
Built for M-Pesa, MTN MoMo, EAC corridors, PSRA compliance, CBK regulations, and 12 African languages. Not ported from a Western product — designed here, for here, with local regulatory expertise baked in.
Enterprise-Grade
Post-quantum cryptography, formal TLA+ specifications, 25,000+ CI tests, mutation testing, property-based testing. Infrastructure that governments, banks, and peacekeeping forces trust with critical operations.
Open Foundations
AppGen-X, APG, Hyperion-EMV, ALE, and Flowforge are fully open source. We build in public and give back — including pro bono technical infrastructure for Dada Salama, a Dada Collective Network initiative for GBV survivors across East Africa.
Open Source
We Build in Public
Four products, fully open. Community-driven, production-ready.
AppGen-X
Generate complete business applications from a compact DSL, DBML, SQL DDL, or natural language. Outputs Flask-AppBuilder models, GraphQL APIs, 18+ ERP modules, and multi-target builds for web, PWA, mobile, and chatbot.
APG
259 independently-deployable business capability packages across 28 domains. A terse DSL compiles them into self-contained production Python apps. Africa-first: M-Pesa, MTN MoMo, 7-country PAYE payroll baked in.
Hyperion-EMV
Open-source EMV Level 2 kernel in Rust. Certification variables live in signed JSON bundles, not compiled source. Stable C ABI, 100% line coverage target, deterministic lab artifact generation. EMV lab readiness without expensive proprietary kernels.
ALE
Adaptive Learning Engine. Socratic AI tutor that never gives the answer — asks questions until the learner constructs it. BKT + IRT + CDM triple-model diagnostics, prerequisite-graph backtracking to root gaps, FSRS spaced repetition per learner per concept. 45,721 concepts across 6 STEM curricula.
Flowforge
Portable workflow framework for regulated multi-tenant applications. JSON DSL with compiler, simulator, and parallel fork/join. 30 domain JTBD bundles. JTBD-to-application generator emits backend, frontend, tests, and docs in one pass. 2,566+ tests. MIT.
Dada Salama
Justice navigation for GBV and femicide survivors in East Africa. Single intake, P3 / legal-aid routing, 14-day stall alerts, survivor-controlled evidence handoff, coded safety check-ins, USSD fallback for feature phones, erasure rights.
Founding Technical Infrastructure Partner
Dada Salama is a Dada Collective Network initiative, originated by DCN Founder Zaha Indimuli. Datacraft provides technical development and hosting pro bono. Technology can be a form of activism — we are proud to support this one.
DCN partners: Heinrich Böll Foundation, Silencing Women Project, FIDA Kenya, GVRC.
Datacraft Labs
We Build Things for Fun
Experiments from the workshop. No roadmaps, no SLAs — just curiosity.
Gbẹdu
Automating chart-beating Afrobeats. Feed it a genre, mood, and language — it outputs a complete track with vocals, instruments, and lyrics in under 2 minutes. Supports Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Swahili, Lingala, and more.
ACE-Step 1.5 · Llama-3 fine-tuned · RVC v2Puma Diagnostics
Upload a 30-second engine recording, receive an AI-generated PDF diagnostic report for the Land Rover Puma 2.4 diesel — by email. FFT spectral analysis, wavelet decomposition, acoustic fingerprinting. Built on a weekend because we could.
Python · SciPy · PyWavelets · MatplotlibFrom the Engineering Team
Deep dives, product stories, and thoughts on building software in Africa.
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