Five fleet operators, one platform, NTSA speed-limiter compliance — running every minute since January 2022. The lowest number is 13,800 (Christmas morning); the highest is 15,247 (last Wednesday).
Nairobi · Est. 2017
We build the
We build the
software that runs
on after we're gone
Most of what's shipped in our market gets quietly rebuilt within three years. We do the slower work — systems with documentation a junior engineer can read on day one, and tests that still pass on day one thousand.
A few of the companies whose systems we keep running
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Hampton Construction
FinGlobal Holdings
MwalimuPLUS
Ajira Connect
NACONEK
Camili Safaris
9+
Years building
African software
African software
01 Practice
The least exciting
The least exciting
software is usually
the most expensive.
Boring infrastructure — the kind that doesn't trend, doesn't ship a marketing site, and doesn't have a launch party — is what most institutions actually run on. Reconciliation jobs that close a million-shilling fuel ledger without missing a stop. Telemetry pipelines that decide whether a fleet of school buses gets cleared at the next NTSA audit. That's our practice.
We're a Nairobi engineering studio of about a hundred people. We've been doing this since 2017 — first inside a regional power utility and a tier-one telco, then independently from Upper Hill. Most of the platforms we operate are older than the SaaS tools your team uses to manage them, and they're still in production because we wrote them to be repaired, not redeployed.
What we will not do: take a project we don't believe in, hire a freelancer to wear our shirt, or hand over a system without the runbooks. What we will do: argue with you about the architecture before we write any of it.
Principle 01
Documentation is the deliverable.
The code is a side effect. A junior on your team should be able to ship a fix on day one — that's the bar.
Principle 02
Stay until the next bill cycle.
Most launch failures aren't on launch day — they show up the first month-end. We don't leave before then.
02 Capabilities
Nine practices,
Nine practices,
built on the same bench.
We're not a consultancy with a partnership network. The cybersecurity engineer reviewing your VPC sat at the same standup last Tuesday as the iOS engineer shipping your offline-first build. It's how problems actually get solved at the seam.
01 / Featured
Web & mobile
application engineering
Cloud-native web platforms, native iOS/Android apps, and offline-first mobile experiences engineered for the realities of African connectivity. From discovery sprint to App Store release.
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Cloud & platform engineering
AWS, Azure and GCP migrations, IaC, containerised services, cost-aware architecture and 24/7 platform operations.
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Cybersecurity & compliance
Zero-trust architecture, Kenya Data Protection Act compliance, threat assessments and 24/7 monitoring.
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AI & data analytics
Data warehousing, BI dashboards, ML pipelines and applied AI — from raw data to operational decisions.
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IoT, telematics &
connected infrastructure
Vehicle telematics, speed-limiter compliance platforms, asset tracking and smart-city telemetry — full stack from device firmware to dashboard, including the largest production telematics deployment in Kenya.
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ERP & enterprise systems
Custom ERP modules — finance, HR, procurement, inventory — built around your processes, not the other way around.
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04 Evidence
Three projects.
Three projects.
One number from each.
We don't run dashboards full of metrics for marketing. These three are picked because the work happened to be public, and the customer let us name them. Everything else is under NDA — which is its own kind of recommendation.
AI-tutored Grade 4–8 learners across eight counties. We argued for the offline-first architecture early, and Christmas-week traffic — when bandwidth halves and homework triples — proved it.
Hampton Construction's nine-site finance, HR, and procurement consolidation. We renegotiated the SAP fallback before the kickoff — the savings paid for the rebuild and a year of support.
05 Selected work
The work that survived
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The work that survived
its third birthday.
We left the proofs-of-concept off this list. What's here either funded its rebuild or quietly outlasted the rebuild it was meant to inspire.
AI · Education
MwalimuPLUS — AI-personalised primary school tutoring
An AI-powered e-tutoring platform now used by more than 200,000 students across Kenya, with adaptive learning paths matched to the national curriculum.
IoT · Telematics
Vehicle telematics & speed-limiter compliance
National-scale fleet tracking platform meeting NTSA compliance — real-time GPS, speed and fuel telemetry across 15,000+ vehicles.
ERP · Construction
Hampton Construction ERP
Custom finance, HR, procurement and CRM modules unifying nine sites.
SaaS · Marketplace
Ajira Connect services marketplace
Two-sided marketplace connecting professional services to verified clients across East Africa.
ERP · Government
NACONEK government ERP
Institutional ERP serving the National Council for Nomadic Education in Kenya.
06 Field notes
What we've been
What we've been
arguing about
this quarter.
Excerpts from the studio — what's currently provoking opinions, getting rebuilt, or earning a passing grade. No marketing has touched this section.
Note 14 · 28 Apr 2026
7 min
Why we're rolling back our React Server Components rewrite
Six months in, the latency on cold-render of long-form article pages got worse, not better. Here's the data, the architecture call, and what we'll try next.
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Note 13 · 17 Apr 2026
5 min
Field-testing offline-first sync on a hardware retailer's POS
Three weeks of intentional power cuts, a sledgehammer (don't ask), and what conflict-resolution should actually look like for receipts.
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Note 12 · 02 Apr 2026
4 min
We turned down our largest pitch in three years. Here's why.
Eight-figure RFP, eighteen-month roadmap, and a stakeholder structure no one could ship inside. The maths on saying no.
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Voices
What partners say.
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Sales lifted 30% within six months — but more importantly, we now have a platform our finance team trusts. Augusta understands enterprise-scale, and they build like adults.
JM
Edward Dzilla
MD, Goldland Rinco
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Cloud migration with Augusta delivered a 40% efficiency lift across operations. Their team felt like an extension of ours from week one — disciplined and shipping every sprint.
AO
Farah Jama
CEO, Farah Jama Advocates
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FAQ
Questions, answered.
The questions enterprise buyers ask us most often. Don't see yours? Send it over.
What industries does Augusta serve?
Financial services, healthcare, retail and e-commerce, education technology, logistics and fleet management, construction, and government. Each engagement is staffed with engineers who have shipped in that domain before.
What pricing models do you offer?
Three options: fixed-price for well-scoped work, time-and-material for evolving roadmaps, and dedicated team for long-term partnerships. We'll recommend the right one in our first call.
How do you ensure data security?
Audited security protocols including end-to-end encryption, role-based access controls, regular penetration testing, secure-by-default coding practices, and compliance with the Kenya Data Protection Act and global standards.
Can you handle enterprise-scale projects?
Yes. Our team of 100+ has shipped national-scale platforms — from the largest production telematics system in Kenya to government ERP serving 14 counties. Enterprise scale is our default.
What sets Augusta apart from other Kenyan IT firms?
Three things: an engineering culture that documents and tests everything; a refusal to take work we can't ship well; and nine years of compounding domain knowledge in the sectors we serve.