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How software gets scoped, built, run, and paid for. Notes from a founder-led studio that ships and then keeps things running. We write the things we end up saying on scoping calls, so you can read them first.
RSS feedWhat the Daraja documentation leaves to you: choosing STK push or C2B, callbacks you cannot trust, duplicate receipts, the payment that is taken but never confirmed, go-live, and reconciling against the statement.
Read post: M-Pesa Daraja in production: a practical integration guideExact matching places the clean payments. The rest is the product: a suspense queue built on purpose, allocations that are never edited, and an audit trail that can reproduce last month.
Read post: Reconciliation failure modes: the exact matches are the easy partNo invented market figure. What actually moves the price of a build, why the lowest quote so often costs the most, what scoping buys, build versus buy, and the running costs nobody budgets for.
Read post: What it costs to build a SaaS product in Kenya in 2026What KRA requires of a business that invoices, what an eTIMS invoice contains field by field, what that means for software that generates invoices, and which integration fits which volume.
Read post: eTIMS for software companies: what an invoice needs, and what your system must doWhen a codebase is worth stabilising and when it is not, what an assessment should tell you before you choose, the risks in each direction, and how to phase a migration so it can pause.
Read post: Rescue or rebuild: deciding what to do with a legacy systemMost of what goes wrong at launch does not throw an error. The site loads, the pages render, and something underneath quietly is not doing its job.
Read post: The launch checklist nobody sends youA scoping call is not a sales call with a nicer name. It exists to find out whether the thing you want built is the thing you need, and whether we are the ones to build it.
Read post: What a scoping call is forMost SaaS budgets stop at launch. The bill that follows is patching, backups, monitoring, and the on-call hour nobody planned for.
Read post: What running SaaS actually costs after launchNext step
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