Custom Applications
Web and mobile products built for the people who will actually use them — on the devices and connections they have, not the ones we wish they had.
Contact usWe are an Enterprise Digitization Agency based in Nairobi, Kenya. We build the applications organizations use to reach more people, and we put agentic AI to work on the operations that quietly consume their week.
The problem
Most organizations do not have a technology problem. They have a set of processes that were designed for paper, carried into spreadsheets, and never revisited — and a service their people cannot reach because it only exists in one building.
Digitization projects stall in the same place every time: somewhere between a pilot that demonstrated well and a system nobody uses. We work on the second half of that sentence.
What we believe
01 — How we work
We map how the work actually moves today — who touches it, where it waits, and what it costs to wait. Most of the value of a digitization programme is decided here, before a single technology is chosen.
02 — How we work
We make the call and put our name on it: what to build, what to buy, what to leave manual, and which workflows are genuinely worth handing to an agent.
Then we write it down as acceptance tests. Before a line of code is committed you sign off on the cases the finished system has to pass — so "does this solve the problem?" is a question we answer together, up front, instead of arguing about at handover.
03 — How we work
Applications go into production, not into a slide deck. We build against the tests you signed off, and stay through integration, evaluation and the second and third iteration — the unglamorous part where most programmes quietly fail.
04 — How we work
The engagement ends when your team can run it without us. Documentation, handover, and the reasoning behind every decision left intact.
What we do
Narrow on purpose. Each of these is a practice we run end to end — design, build, deploy and hand over — rather than a service line we can staff.
Web and mobile products built for the people who will actually use them — on the devices and connections they have, not the ones we wish they had.
AI agents put to work on the paths your operations already follow: intake, review, escalation and follow-up, with a human at the decisions that need one.
Paper and spreadsheet processes turned into systems of record that are searchable, auditable, and available to everyone who needs them.
The connective work: making the systems you already paid for talk to each other, and turning what they hold into something you can act on.
“Most of the organisations we work with already know what is broken. What they have been sold is a pilot, a licence, and a slide that says transformation. We would rather write down what the system has to do, agree on it with you before we build, and then be judged on whether the people doing the work can actually do it faster a year later. That is a harder promise to make, and it is the only one worth making.”
Breldan Muturi Muthaka · Founder, Sohn & Sol
Selected work
Three engagements where the work went into production and stayed there — a product suite for a power generator, an accessibility remediation that opened up employment, and AI put to work on physical security.
Book-a-tour and the geothermal spa opened Olkaria to the public. The careers portal put AI behind recruitment, screening and routing applications for a workforce of 2,500 across decentralised stations. Each product reached an audience the corporate site alone never could.
We remediated every accessibility violation on the National Council for Persons with Disabilities website, then integrated it with Fuzu — so the people the Council exists to serve can find and apply for jobs on a platform that no longer shuts them out.
AI-enabled CCTV across the bank's premises: video analytics that flag what matters in real time instead of leaving hours of footage to be reviewed after the fact — the same agentic thinking we apply to workflows, pointed at physical security.
Research & articles
Teams reach for AI at the most visible task and are surprised when the queue does not move. The delay usually lives in the wait between steps, not the steps themselves — and that is a workflow problem an agent can solve, if you point it at the right thing.
Read articleReach is decided by what an application demands: page weight, offline behaviour, the assumption of a recent device. In markets where the median user is on intermittent mobile data, these are not optimizations — they are the difference between a service that exists and one that does not.
Read articleDemonstrating that something works is cheap. Making it survive real volume, staff turnover and the process it replaced is the work — and it is the part most digitization programmes are not scoped to finish.
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