WHO WE ARE

We are a lean team of builders

Origin is a Nairobi-based digital agency. We work directly with business owners to design, build and ship websites, apps and internal tools that solve real problems.

What we do

Origin Africa Software Limited builds software for organisations that need it to work every day: shops and schools, clinics and county offices, and teams working on problems where a mistake is expensive.

Business systems

ERP systems tailored to how an organisation runs, for schools, restaurants, retail, hospitals, property, payroll, security firms and petrol stations.

See our ERP systems

Websites and apps

Fast, clear websites and mobile-first apps, built to work on the phones and connections people actually have.

See our work

AI you can check

AI tools that answer from your own documents, cite their sources and keep a qualified person in the loop.

Read the case studies

Internal tools and integrations

Custom tools that replace spreadsheets and connect the systems you already use, including M-Pesa payments.

Tell us what you need

What we believe

A few principles run through everything we build, whoever it is for.

Fix the system before the screen: We start with how work moves through your organisation. The app or website comes after the records behind it can be trusted.
Build for real conditions: Older phones, weak signal and costly data are normal. Matata, our crisis reporting tool, saves a report on the phone and sends it when the network returns.
Show the evidence: When we use AI, every answer points to its source and high-stakes output is reviewed by a person before anyone acts on it.
Work in the open: You deal directly with the people building your product. Where a project allows it, we publish the code: Matata and PipelineGPT are both open source.

Who we have worked with

We operate from Nairobi and deliver to clients in Kenya and abroad, across the private sector, government and international development.

KIFWA
Clearing and forwarding
Bechfam.io
Cloud solutions
Nyandarua County Assembly
Government and public sector
Prime Voice Media
Voice-over and audio visual
Primesoc
Cybersecurity
Engineering for Change
Sustainable development

See the portfolio

RECOGNITION

Award-winning work

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Winner @ The E4C AI Pilot Competition

Engineering for Change

We built #E4CInsights, an AI pipeline that queries vetted sustainable-development knowledge, pulls live stats from World Bank and WHO, and synthesises fully cited, decision-grade policy briefs with a human in the loop.

Read the case study

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2026 Finalist @ The Hermann Rosen Award for Pipeline Innovation

ASME Foundation

PipelineGPT, led at Origin by Collins Kubu, was named one of three finalists. It lets pipeline operators ask questions of their own inspection and incident records in plain language, with a citation on every answer and an engineer reviewing high-risk recommendations.

Read the case study See the finalists on asmefoundation.org

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Part of the team was also involved in

Marine Cargo Insurance Platform

The digital marine cargo insurance module on the KIFWA platform, launched as Marine Bonds for importers and clearing agents, covered on national TV and in the press ahead of its July 1 rollout.

Watch the TV feature Read the NewsTrends article

JOIN THE CREW

We're always looking for curious, talented people

If you love building things that matter and solving real problems for real businesses, we should talk.

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