Six lines of work. Three moves each.
Every engagement runs the same way: look properly, decide, then deliver something your team owns. The case studies are from my own record.
AI strategy and systems
Working out where AI actually earns its place in your organisation, then building the systems that run it: the agents, automations and guardrails, on the tools you're allowed to use.
AI and technology strategy · Operations automation and systems build-out · Software development
Map the work
The tasks, the data and the tools you are allowed to use. Find the handful of places where AI changes the economics.
Build the system
Design and deploy the workflows and automations on live tasks, with the people who will run them.
Make it stick #
Hand over a system your team owns, with verification built in and a plan for when it is wrong.
From the record
UK FCDO Frontier Tech Hub, 2025
Assessed how AI could improve investor–startup outcomes across East Africa; now leading the build of an AI fundraising-support agent for FCDO Kenya.
The assessment became a live build.
Fundy.ke, with UK FCDO and The Forge Africa
Building an AI platform for a $200M green manufacturing fund, to get more capital into more Kenyan companies faster and cheaper.
In progress.
r.potential, a Salesforce–Adecco joint venture ($27M raised)
Built and led the Executive Signal Lab: web-scale data sources validated into signals, then into insights for Fortune 500 CEOs on workforce strategy and AI deployment.
A repeatable pipeline from raw data to board-level decisions.
Green Heart Kilifi, 2,500-acre eco-city development
Built a single digital operations workspace and deployed AI automations across operations, finance, admin, sales and marketing.
Every project and system in one place, run by a small team.
Capture and proposals
Winning funded work: finding the opportunity, aligning the partners, and writing the proposal that gets it. Fifteen years of doing this for consulting firms, NGOs and my own companies.
Capture management and proposal development
Choose the pursuit
Decide what to chase and what to walk away from, before anyone spends a week on it.
Assemble the bid
Partners, evidence, budget and the people who will deliver.
Write to win #
A proposal that reads like the client's own plan, checked line by line against the requirements.
From the record
Advisory clients, 2013 to now
Designed and ran business-acquisition systems for consulting firms and NGOs.
A consistent 50%+ win rate and more than $200M in new projects for clients.
International Resources Group (now RTI International), 2007–2013
Contributed to around 50 major proposals and negotiated more than 200 strategic alliance agreements; designed the firm's training on business development and opportunity capture.
Over $3 billion in funding opportunities and up to $250M in direct revenue.
Markets, research and transactions
Market assessments, programme design and deal support in places where the desk research runs out fast. Work across more than 30 countries, in English and Spanish.
Market entry and development · Research · Transaction advisory
Go and look
Field research and stakeholder interviews, not reports about reports.
Frame the choice
Options, numbers and a recommendation someone can act on.
Design the vehicle #
The programme, fund or transaction that carries the decision, with the partners lined up.
From the record
Cashew sector, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana and Nigeria
Designed the next two-year phase of a five-year, $30M initiative to expand national processing and export volumes.
A costed, multi-country plan for the funder to approve.
Cacao cooperatives, Côte d'Ivoire
Designed the next five-year phase of a ten-year, $10M supply-chain and cooperative-strengthening initiative.
A second decade of funding scoped.
National anti-corruption initiative, Honduras
Assessed a five-year, $20M programme: 40+ stakeholder meetings across government, business and civil society, and two full-day strategy workshops run in Spanish.
The design for the next five years.
Agricultural development, Mozambique
Designed a $20M blended finance fund combining public and private capital.
A fund structure ready for investors.
Organisations and ecosystems
Building the organisation around the idea: governance, teams, associations and communities that keep running after the founders step back.
Organisational development · Advocacy and association development
Design the structure
Roles, governance and decision rights that fit how the work actually happens.
Convene the people
The members, partners and sponsors who make it real.
Hand it over #
Systems and leadership that run without you.
From the record
Green Heart Kilifi, since 2025
Restructured the organisation, recruited three executives and three advisory board members, and set up block production, security and waste-management companies for the town.
An operating company, not a masterplan.
Safari DAO and ETHSafari, 2021–2024
Co-founded and ran Africa's largest Ethereum event for its first three editions, on a fully decentralised operating model, then transitioned leadership to the next generation.
1,500+ participants from 50+ countries, $500,000+ in sponsorship, $75,000+ in hackathon prizes, and Kenya on the global Ethereum map.
Blockchain and Web3
Protocols, tokens and DAOs that have actually shipped in Africa since 2017. I know what worked and what turned out to be a bad idea, because I built both.
Blockchain and Web3
Question the chain
Whether you need one at all, and which problem it actually solves.
Design the economics
Tokens, governance and the off-chain reality it has to plug into.
Ship and sustain #
Launch, community and the operating model after the excitement.
From the record
UTU Technologies, CEO 2017–2023, now board chair
Co-founded a decentralised protocol for online trust and reputation; invented a social-network recommendation algorithm; built a team of 22 across seven countries.
$2.5M in venture capital from SoftBank Group and Animoca Brands (their first African investments), a $3M token sale, and research partnerships with the Alan Turing Institute and UKRI.
Africa DeFi Alliance, 2022–2024
Co-founded a DAO that is both an industry association and a lending protocol connecting global blockchain capital to small businesses.
15,000+ loans worth $2.2M to 1,500+ micro-entrepreneurs in Kenya and Rwanda, at capital costs ten times lower than before.
Coinbase Based Founders Fellowship Africa, 2025
Fellowship director for a ten-day programme gathering 20 leading African web3 CEOs.
A cohort whose companies process more than $1 billion a year.
BitLipa, co-founder and board member, 2019–2023
Guided the founder of one of Kenya's earliest crypto–mobile money rails through its pre-seed raise.
$500,000 raised, $3M+ in transactions, 30,000+ customers.
AI training
Hands-on AI training built around your team's real work, whatever your sector: proposals, reports, analysis, operations and coordination across partners. Not generic demos. Teams can start with Foundations alone.
Foundations
Three team workshops: how LLMs work, where they help and fail, and setting up your environment. Preceded by a step 0: your tech, data and AI policies, and the software you allow.
Coached build
About three months building your own workflows on live tasks, with coaching.
Clinics #
Follow-up sessions a few weeks later to fix what isn't sticking.
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