Mapato™ is a full business-management platform built for African retailers — real-time stock and sales across every branch, role-based access for your staff, customer and expense tracking, and an AI assistant that reads and writes to your books over WhatsApp, in Swahili or English.
Everything below already lives inside our four ventures and our advisory work — this is the map of how it fits together.
Ideas, built and running
Custom software development and AI systems — from a business dashboard to a full product like Mapato, built and run by this team.
For: businesses and schools that need a system no template can offer.
See Mabadiliko →Value that gets seen
Brand identity, logo design, digital marketing campaigns, and growth consultancy — the Digital Growth layer that runs through every venture.
For: any business that's capable but not yet visible.
See Digital Growth →The ground everything else stands on
PDPA compliance, cybersecurity, and managed ICT — plus the custom software and AI systems that make it all operational, at Mabadiliko.
For: institutions that need protection they can actually run.
See Mabadiliko →Learn it, then run it
Bookkeeping, financial literacy, and business-ethics training at Mafunzo — and Mapato, the app that keeps the books day to day.
For: SMEs that want the discipline and the tool, not just one of them.
See Mapato →Trust, made introducible
Structured introductions to funders, banks, and trade partners, plus founder peer circles — with Fursa's community events as the low-commitment way in.
For: founders and directors who need a wider, more useful circle.
See Fursa →Shrinkage, mismatched counts, and locations that don't talk to each other quietly erode margins that never show up until it's too late to fix them.
Every feature answers a specific problem — not a generic 'inventory system' checklist.
One source of truth
Live inventory across every branch, backed by real-time listeners so a sale in one location updates the picture everywhere, instantly — plus clean location-to-location stock transfers.
For: retailers running two or more locations who need one honest number, not five guesses.
Ask it. Or tell it.
Talk to your shop's own AI assistant in Swahili or English — ask what's in stock, what's running low, or what sold today, or simply tell it to record a sale, receive new stock, add a customer, log an expense, or note a debt. No dashboard required.
For: owners and staff who'd rather send a WhatsApp message than open an app.
Everything in one place
Beyond stock and sales, the dashboard gives you sales history, customer records, transfers between branches, and the reports that actually tell you if the business is healthy — profit & loss, expenses, payables, and performance by shop.
For: owners who want to see the whole business, not just what's on the shelf.
Know who owes you, and what you spent
Sell on credit without losing track — record customer invoices and debts as they happen, and log business expenses so your real profit is never a guess.
For: shop owners who extend credit to regulars and need to remember it without a notebook.
Start simple, scale up
Basic, Standard, and Ultimate plans mean you only pay for what you need today. Ultimate goes further — letting a shop sell a physical product and an attached service (like a phone shop that also repairs phones) from one account, plus full services and project management for businesses that sell work, not just stock. Monthly subscription plans, with a free trial available.
For: single-shop owners just starting out, and multi-branch operators ready for more.
A head start on tax bookkeeping
Mapato helps you organize your records against your TRA/EFD receipts to make reconciliation easier at review time. This is a bookkeeping aid, not an automatic filing or matching system — your figures still need a human check.
For: owners who want their books tax-ready without doing the matching from scratch.
M-Pesa, Airtel, and Mixx — matched automatically
We're building an automated matching engine that reconciles mobile money payments — M-Pesa, Airtel Money, and Mixx (Tigo) — against your sales, so you stop cross-checking statements by hand. On the roadmap, not yet live.
For: multi-branch shops juggling three payment providers today — coming soon.
"Assets held long enough, governed well enough, become what a family passes on."
Mohd Asaa Khamis — Director & Business Growth Automation Architect, MOHD Technologies