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.
How We Work
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.
What Makes Us Different
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.
Who This Is For
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.
Engagement Models
A specific outcome, scoped and delivered end to end. Best for founders who need to validate a system or prepare for funding fast.
Ongoing technical leadership inside your team at the intensity the stage requires without the full-time cost.
Why Kosentia
| 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.
M-PESA integrations, BNPL systems, credit scoring where every AI output carries financial or regulatory consequence.
Patient records and diagnostic AI across fragmented, facility-level East African health data. KDPA compliance from day one.
Smallholder farmer platforms and agricultural AI built for the real data conditions of East African agriculture.
Capacity
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