Know what your manual work is costing you.

We look at how your business actually runs, show you what manual work is costing in time and money, and automate what's worth automating. You stay in control at every step.

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The problem

The software was never built for businesses like yours.

Most companies here still run on manual work — not because it's better, but because the tools that would fix it were priced for other markets and needed an IT team you don't have. That's what we're here to end.

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Built here, for hereWhy MITA fits
Priced for local companiesIn shillings, at a level a business here can actually carry.
No IT team neededWe build it, host it and run it. Your team just uses it.
M-Pesa and card paymentsTakes the payment methods your customers already use.
Support in your timezoneSame working hours as you — not a ticket answered overnight.
Start with one personNo seat minimums or licence bundles to buy up front.

Built for SMEs. Engineered for enterprise.

A small team needs speed and a fair price. A larger one needs every safeguard built in from day one. We build differently for each.

two ways we build
For SMEs

Fast and affordable

Priced so a small team can actually afford it, and live in weeks — not a multi-quarter rollout.

  • Live in weeks, with you in control at every step
  • No procurement process, no RFPs
For Enterprise

Secure and tailored

Built around the safeguards you already have — data handling, access control, audit requirements — not something we ask your team to work around.

  • Data residency and local hosting where required
  • Fraud controls and audit trails built into every workflow
  • Reviewed and signed off by your security and compliance team before go-live
  • A named engineering contact, not a shared support queue

The repetitive work your team does by hand every week — automated, priced for a small business, live in weeks.

Automation
What it does
Saves
Works with
Hiring
Reading every CV, shortlisting, chasing replies.
6 hrs / role→Same day
EmailCV inbox
Getting paid
Tracking who owes what, following up.
3 hrs / week→Chased automatically
M-PesaInvoicing
Customer messages
The same WhatsApp questions, all day.
5+ hrs / week→Seconds
WhatsApp
Orders & stock
Typing orders in, checking counts.
2.5 hrs / day→Logged as they land
Order formStock sheet
Quotes & proposals
Rebuilding the same document, again.
45 min / quote→One minute
EmailPDF
The weekly report
Pulling numbers from four places.
2 hrs / week→Ready every Monday
SheetsDashboard

Not sure which of these is costing you most? The 2-minute audit will show you.

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Larger organizations don't need another tool — they need AI adopted safely, and systems that reach more of the market. That's the work.

Capability
What we do
Outcome
Built around
AI adoption
Frameworks, guardrails and policies for rolling AI out across the organization — safely, and with your teams trained on it.
AI in production, not in pilots
GovernanceTraining
Lending, commerce & payments
Solutions across lending, commerce and payments that tap into retail networks — so you reach customers your current rails don't.
More value per client, wider reach
M-PesaRetail networks
Fraud & compliance
Transaction monitoring, audit trails and reporting workflows built to your regulator's requirements, not retrofitted.
Audit-ready, continuously
Audit trailsMonitoring
Back-office at scale
Document processing, reconciliation and reporting automated across departments — the volume SME tools can't handle.
Days of manual work, removed
ReconciliationReporting
Systems integration
Connecting the systems you already run — core banking, ERP, CRM — so data moves without a person retyping it.
One source of truth
Core systemsAPIs

Every enterprise engagement is scoped to your requirements. Start the conversation.

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How it works

We don't hand you a system and disappear. We start small, prove it, and go deeper only when you're ready.

Step 01

We look at how you actually work

Not a workshop. We sit with your team and follow the work — where it starts, who touches it, where it stalls.

You get a map of where the hours and the money are actually going.

Step 02

We automate one thing first

The clearest win, built for your business — not a template. It runs alongside your team from day one.

It asks before it acts. You approve every action until you decide otherwise.

Step 03

It proves itself in front of you

You watch it run for weeks. Every action it took, every thing it flagged, every hour it gave back.

No claims to take on trust — a record you can check.

Step 04

Then we go deeper

Once you trust it, you let it handle more without asking. More of the process runs itself.

At your pace, never ours. You decide what it takes on next.

Start here

Not sure which process is costing you most?

Answer ten questions about one thing your team does by hand. You'll get a score, where the hours are going, and what we'd automate first. No charge, no pitch.

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What we're building today

Two products, live and in use — the automation SMEs are paying for right now.

Live at ajiri.ai

Screen, score, and shortlist. Every applicant ranked the moment they apply.

Post a role and Ajiri reads every CV — however it arrives — scores it against what the job actually needs, and flags the ones a human should look at before you shortlist.

Screen your first role free ↗
Ajiri hiring dashboard showing ranked candidates with match scoresAjiri jobs list showing open and draft rolesAjiri screening results showing a candidate score breakdown by category
The team behind it

We've built and run the systems money actually moves through in this market — not from the outside, from inside the companies doing it.

Bryan Product

Led product at Lipa Later, scaling their lending past $10M+ in disbursements. Co-Founder & COO at Paycloud, a payments company.

Njunge Engineering

Builds what we ship. Has written revenue and commerce tooling inside Kyosk — the distribution platform the Financial Times ranked 2nd among Africa's fastest-growing companies in 2024, which grew from $37M to $155M in revenue between 2019 and 2022 and now serves 200,000+ informal retailers across four markets.

Between us, that's years inside Kenyan fintech, payments and commerce. When we say we understand receivables, compliance and how businesses here really operate, it's because we've shipped it.

FAQ

Answers, before you ask.

Still have questions?

We're happy to talk through your specific process.

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We look at the manual work your team repeats every week — hiring, invoicing, customer messages, reporting — and build automation around your actual process, not a generic template.

Most tools that could fix this are priced for companies abroad and built around workflows that don't match how businesses run here. MITA is built and priced for this market from the start.

Most SME builds are live in weeks. Enterprise builds take longer, since they go through your security and compliance review before anything ships.

No. We handle the build, the setup, and the maintenance. All we need from you is a clear description of the process.

For SMEs, your data stays inside the tools you already use. For enterprise clients, we support local hosting and data residency where required, and work inside your existing security review.

Pricing is scoped to the process we're automating and the size of your team. Tell us what you're running by hand and we'll come back with a number.

Show us one process.

Tell us about one thing your team does by hand every week. We'll come back with what it's costing you and exactly what we'd automate first. No charge, no pitch.

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Or just email us: bryan@mitalabs.dev