Solomon John

Amaya & Co. began in 2019, under the name Slidetechn Nigeria, with more conviction than capital. The idea was simple. The trader who knows every customer by name, the woman who runs an Ajo circle from memory, the farmer who carries a season's accounts in her head: these are the people who keep our economy moving, and they deserve technology built for them, not adapted for them as an afterthought.

Today we are registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission as Amaya & Co. Technologies. We are headquartered in Nigeria, and we build for businesses across Africa.

Most business software is designed for places that look nothing like ours: steady power, cheap data, formal bookkeeping and a laptop on every desk. Here, business runs on phones, on trust, and on cash and transfers at the same time. When the tools don't fit, people fall back on notebooks and memory, and the cost is real: credit that is never collected, stock that quietly disappears, profit nobody can see, and loans refused because there are no records to show.

The same gap shows up in our young people. Nigeria has no shortage of talent, but too many of us are taught to wait: for a job, for approval, for someone else to open the door.

I believe the next chapter of Africa's economy will be written by people who build, not only by people who are hired. Every product we ship is a small piece of proof that serious technology can be designed in Nigeria, by Nigerians, for the way we actually live and work.

Getting it right means a trader can see her real profit for the first time. It means a cooperative can show every member exactly where their savings are. And it means a young engineer can do work that matters without leaving home to do it.

Our flagship product, KudiAI Track, puts a business in a phone: sales, stock, credit, bills, and Ajo, Esusu and cooperative savings, in English, Pidgin, Yoruba, Igbo or Hausa. We are taking the same thinking into agriculture, to bring data and financial tools to farmers and agribusinesses.

Alongside our own products, we build software with businesses, cooperatives and development partners. And we publish free, practical guides on pricing, record keeping, registration and finance for the people we build for.

Our aim is a future where every African business, however small, runs on technology built for how it actually works. Alongside that, we want a generation of young Africans who don't wait for permission, who build the companies, own the platforms and set the terms.

We are early, and we are honest about that. But the direction is clear. If you are a business owner, a partner, an investor or a young builder who shares that conviction, I would like to hear from you.