Kosentia AI Strategy & Fractional CTO · Nairobi, Kenya
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Boutique Technology Advisory

Your vision
deserves a
foundation
that holds.

We partner with African founders building AI-powered products embedding as your technical co-pilot so the architecture decisions you make today don't become the crisis you manage tomorrow.

The Problem

You're making AI architecture decisions daily that will either set you up for scale or cost $50K–$100K to reverse. But a $300K full-time CTO doesn't make sense before product-market fit.

78%
of AI projects never reach production
2
clients per quarter full attention, no dilution

How We Work

Embedded,
not advisory.

We sit inside your team with real decision-making authority. Not a report. Not a consultation. A partner who is still accountable when the system is tested at scale, in due diligence, or at 2am in production.

  • AI architecture decisions owned alongside you
  • Every decision documented in a traceable log
  • You own all code, decisions, and documentation
  • Built to outlast the engagement

What Makes Us Different

We stay for
the outcome.

Dev shops execute your specs and leave. Consultants deliver frameworks. We make the decisions, own the outcomes, and remain responsible when those decisions produce consequences good or bad.

  • Stage-aware: right approach for where you are now
  • East African context not imported playbooks
  • AI strategy first, stack second
  • Decision log proves every architectural call

Who This Is For

Founders building
AI that must work.

Pre-PMF to pre-Series A founders making architecture bets they can't fully validate alone technical or not. You want a partner with a stake in the outcome, not an advisor with opinions and no accountability.

  • Non-technical founders making architecture decisions
  • Founders with a CTO but lacking AI/ML depth
  • Teams preparing for a Series A technical narrative
  • Products where bad early decisions are expensive
01
AI & Data Strategy
Define what the AI needs to do and what data it needs before implementation begins.
02
AI Implementation & Data Pipelines
End-to-end build of ML models and the data systems that feed them. Production-ready, not demo-ready.
03
System Architecture & Build
Backend, APIs, and full-stack delivery designed to scale, documented so every choice is traceable.
04
Fractional CTO & Series A Prep
Embedded technical leadership and the investor-ready narrative your fundraise depends on.

Engagement Models

Two ways
to work together.

Project-Based
4–6 months · Discovery → Build → Optimise

A specific outcome, scoped and delivered end to end. Best for founders who need to validate a system or prepare for funding fast.

Embedded Fractional CTO
Retainer · 1–4 days per week

Ongoing technical leadership inside your team at the intensity the stage requires without the full-time cost.

Why Kosentia

Accountability
is the product.

Others offer Kosentia delivers
Execution with no ownership Decisions made and owned alongside you
Reports and frameworks Hands-on build with documented rationale
Imported playbooks Built for EA conditions M-PESA, fragmented data, local context
Handover and disappear Still accountable when the system is tested
$120K–$300K full-time CTO Senior depth at a pre-PMF cost

Sectors

Where we have built.

Fintech

Payments, credit & financial data

M-PESA integrations, BNPL systems, credit scoring where every AI output carries financial or regulatory consequence.

Healthtech

Clinical systems & health pipelines

Patient records and diagnostic AI across fragmented, facility-level East African health data. KDPA compliance from day one.

Agritech

Farm data, supply chain & credit

Smallholder farmer platforms and agricultural AI built for the real data conditions of East African agriculture.

Capacity

2 clients
per quarter.
Not a constraint
a commitment.

Each engagement gets genuine embedded partnership. We are invested in your success, which is why we are deliberate about whose success we commit to. If we take your engagement, it gets our full attention.

Business Outcomes

What changes
when we work together.

  • Architecture decisions that won't cost $100K to reverse
  • A system that survives production not just a demo
  • Every technical decision documented and owned
  • Hire engineers with confidence, not hope
  • Walk into investor meetings knowing exactly how your tech scales
  • A Series A technical narrative that holds up under scrutiny