Vendors who vanish after launch
We stay on a paid monthly retainer after launch — the same senior engineers who built it are the ones who pick up the phone when something breaks.
Hello, we're Kirona.
We build the software
your business actually needs.
Kirona is a B2B software studio: we build custom platforms and cloud infrastructure for fintech, logistics, retail and healthtech businesses across Africa. We scope a fixed project, build it, launch it — then stay on a paid retainer as your technical team, instead of disappearing like the last vendor did.
“Honestly, most of our work comes from people who were burned by their last vendor. We try to be the last one you hire.”— Mensah, co-founder
Right now
Taking on 2 new projects this quarter.
Who we build forFintech & payments✦Logistics & supply chain✦Retail & e-commerce✦Healthtech
Web & mobile apps✦Cloud on AWS✦Security & audits✦AI on NVIDIA GPUs✦A second pair of eyes
The problem we solve
Most fintech, logistics and retail businesses aren't struggling with ambition. They're struggling with a vendor who vanished.
You hire an agency or a freelancer, get an MVP, and then the replies slow down and stop. What's left is a system nobody understands, glued together with spreadsheets and workarounds, that starts creaking the moment volume goes up. Kirona exists to be the technology partner who doesn't leave — senior engineers who build custom software and cloud infrastructure around your business, then stay on a paid retainer to keep it running as you grow.
Operations held together by spreadsheets and disconnected tools
One custom platform built around how your fintech, logistics or retail business actually runs — not a generic template it has to work around.
Infrastructure that breaks the moment volume goes up
AWS-grade cloud systems, monitored and built to hold up during your busiest hour — not just your demo.
Technology partners
NVIDIAGPU compute & AI acceleration
AWSCloud infrastructure backbone
PostgreSQLMission-critical data
DockerContainer delivery
CloudflareEdge & security
KubernetesOrchestration at scale
What we actually do
A handful of things, done properly.
We'd rather be brilliant at six things than mediocre at sixty. Here's where we genuinely help — and if your problem isn't on this list, we'll happily point you to someone who can.
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Custom software
Web and mobile products built around how your team actually works — not how a template thinks you should.
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Cloud on AWS
We set up the boring-but-critical bits so 3 a.m. outages stop being part of your routine.
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Security & audits
Sensible protection for your data, customers and reputation. No fear-mongering quotes.
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AI that earns its keep
NVIDIA-accelerated models and automations — only where they save real time or money. Otherwise we'll tell you.
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Untangling legacy
Inherited a mess of spreadsheets, half-finished apps and one developer who left? We've seen worse. Let's tidy it.
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A second opinion
Sometimes you just need someone senior to look at your roadmap and say 'this bit, not that bit'. We do that too.
Tell us about itHow we work together
Three honest stages. No theatre.
You'll always know what we're working on, why, and what it's costing. If something isn't worth building, we'll say so before you've paid for it.
We talk (a lot)
Usually a call, sometimes coffee. We're trying to understand the actual problem, not pitch you a deck.
We build, you see it weekly
Short sprints, real demos every Friday. You'll never wonder 'what are they doing over there?'
We launch, then stay
Most clients keep us on a paid monthly retainer as their embedded technical team. Things break. We fix them. No drama.
“They actually picked up the phone.”
— paraphrasing every client we've ever onboarded after switching from a bigger agency.
Why bother with us
We're small on purpose.
The same people who quote your project also build it, ship it and answer your messages. There's no account manager translating between you and a developer in another time zone. It's just us.
You speak to engineers, not salespeople
Fixed scopes, no surprise invoices
We say no when we should
Long after launch, we're still around
The two of us
Just so you know who you're actually hiring.
A small leadership team that stays close to every engagement — no handoffs, no juniors learning on your budget.
Still reading? Nice.
Send us a rambling email. We read every one.
No forms with twenty fields. Just tell us what you're trying to build (or fix) and we'll write back within a day — usually with questions, sometimes with a small plan.