The Client's Vision.

Twiga Foods, a tech-enabled startup, aims to bridge gaps in food and market security by creating an organized platform for a more efficient, fair, transparent, and formal marketplace. As a high-growth startup, Twiga needed to quickly scale their design and development capabilities to meet the increasing demands of their operations.

Rapid Scaling in a Competitive Ecosystem.

Twiga approached us with a specific challenge—bridging their design and development capacity. Typically, tech companies prefer to build internal capacity, but in Kenya's tech ecosystem, recruiting senior design and engineering talent can be a lengthy process. This approach is inefficient when there is an immediate need for resources or during cycles of fluctuating demand. Twiga needed a solution that could quickly augment their team without the delays associated with traditional recruitment.

Enhancing Operational Efficiency

We stepped in to provide the necessary design and development resources, ensuring Twiga could maintain their growth momentum. Our deliverables focused on optimizing and enhancing various aspects of Twiga's technology infrastructure.

Key Activities and Deliverables:

 Optimizing Data Management Systems:

• Improved the operations of Twiga Foods’ Data Management System, which manages their supply chain from harvest to the shop.

2. Disaster Recovery Mechanisms:

• Developed robust disaster recovery mechanisms to ensure Twiga's infrastructure remained resilient and operational under any circumstances.

3. M-Commerce Platform Development:

• Built and launched their m-commerce platform, Twiga Shop, facilitating a seamless online shopping experience for users.

4. Streamlining Onboarding for Developers:

• Created a development environment that simplified the onboarding process for new developers. With a few steps, new team members could set up the entire codebase, database, and third-party services on their local machines, accelerating their integration and productivity.

 Participation in Sprint Planning:

• Actively participated in sprint planning sessions, ensuring that development efforts were aligned with Twiga’s strategic goals and timelines.

6. User Testing and Field Visits:

• Conducted user testing through field visits and rollouts to gather feedback and make necessary improvements, ensuring the solutions were user-centric and effective.

Supporting Twiga's Growth and Innovation.

Through our collaboration with Twiga Foods, we provided essential design and development resources that enabled the startup to quickly scale and optimize their operations. By enhancing their data management systems, creating robust disaster recovery mechanisms, and developing an efficient m-commerce platform, we helped Twiga maintain their growth trajectory and continue bridging gaps in food and market security. This project underscores our commitment to supporting high-growth startups with agile and effective technology solutions.