Nairobi, Kenya
Software development in Nairobi — for businesses, not brochures.
Altoby builds business systems from Nairobi for operators here and abroad: the CRM, the ERP, the client portal — with a written spec before any code and a fixed price before any work. Same engineering US and UK clients buy, available across the road.
First, the honest split.
Need a website?
Searching for a web developer in Nairobi because you need a website? Honest advice, free: any good local web designer will serve you well — look at their live portfolio, agree the price and page count in writing, and you'll be fine. That work isn't what Altoby sells, and you shouldn't pay systems-engineering rates for it.
Need the system behind the business?
But if the real problem is the business — the spreadsheets at month-end, the tools that stopped fitting, the system a past developer left half-built — that's exactly what Altoby exists for. Keep reading.
How Altoby works in Nairobi.
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Meetings happen where you are
Default is your office — an hour inside your operation beats ten video calls. Neutral ground when you prefer it: a boardroom on the Ngong Road coworking corridor, or the standard Java/Artcaffe first coffee. The weekly Friday demo itself is a call, so distance never slows the build.
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Invoicing that fits Kenyan books
eTIMS-compliant invoices as a matter of course, M-Pesa and bank flows understood from the operator's side — including what month-end reconciliation actually looks like when the business runs on Lipa na M-Pesa. Your accountant gets documents that file cleanly, not foreign-shaped paperwork to translate.
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Built for the Nairobi businesses that are going somewhere
The best-fit local clients look like this: funded startups selling into the US and Europe who need product engineering at a pace their runway respects, exporters and B2B services outgrowing their spreadsheets, and operators whose off-the-shelf tools hit the ceiling. Prices are quoted in USD — the same public rates on the pricing page, for everyone.
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Service area
Nairobi metro end to end — CBD, Westlands, Kilimani, Karen, and the Rongai/Kajiado side included. Remote-first beyond that: the same process serves clients in Cyprus and the United States every week.
What Nairobi businesses buy most.
Custom software development.
The general-purpose build: spec first, fixed price, live from week one.
Business systems (ERP & CRM).
Quoting, jobs, inventory, billing, customers — the operational core, fitted to your process.
System rescue & rebuild.
Audit, keep-or-rebuild verdict, staged takeover — for builds that went wrong.
Start with the Blueprint — from Nairobi or anywhere.
One week, one written verdict, and a plan you could hand to any engineer — including one who isn't me.