The technical team
you don’t have to hire.
Tell us the business problem. We work out what should be built, build it, run it afterwards, and tell you when the honest answer is to build nothing at all. No job specs, no engineering salaries, no managing people whose work you can’t assess.
For businesses that don’t have an engineering department — and would rather not build one. Based in Nairobi, working across Kenya and remotely beyond it.
- Three people spend most of Monday turning exports into a report someone reads for four minutes.
- Your systems each hold a slightly different version of the same number, and nobody knows which is right.
- You pay for software that nearly does the job, plus a person whose job is the gap.
- You bought an AI tool last year. Nobody uses it.
- Something important runs on a spreadsheet only one person understands.
Every one of these is a job nobody was hired to do, being done by someone who was hired to do something else.
Automating manual work
The weekly report, the reconciliation, the copying between systems. Built once, running on a schedule, telling you when it breaks.
02AI and ML, where it pays
Adopted deliberately — and, more usefully, ruled out where it would only add cost. We have no licence to sell you.
03Software that doesn’t exist yet
When the product you already pay for nearly fits. Web and mobile applications, internal tools, dashboards, portals.
04Making systems agree
Your CRM, accounting, store and warehouse holding one version of the truth instead of four.
05Keeping it running
Hosting, monitoring, the bill that grew without anyone noticing, and being the person who gets the alert.
06Deciding what to do
Build or buy. Whether that quote is reasonable. Whether the thing you were sold will survive your actual volume.
| Hiring in-house | A typical agency | Tesseract | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time before anything happens | Three to six months | A few weeks | Days |
| What it costs | Salary and overhead, every month | Project fee, then a support contract | Scoped work, only when you need it |
| Who manages the technical work | You do | Their project manager, billed to you | Nobody — that is the point |
| Who is there in month six | Whoever has not left | Nobody | Us. We run what we build |
| When the need changes | Retrain or rehire | A new statement of work | We already know the system |
Hiring wins when the work is permanent and large enough to fill a role — we’ll say so if that’s your situation. An agency wins when you already have someone technical to hold them to account.
Should you automate it at all?
Ten questions about one process. You get an honest answer — includingno, which is right more often than anyone selling technology will admit. Runs in your browser; nothing you answer reaches us.
Inkmark · Printing, embroidery and engraving · Nairobi, Kenya
Replaced a mockup-by-email approval loop with a design studio customers use themselves.
Every order began the same way. A customer sent a logo by email or WhatsApp and described where they wanted it — "centred on the chest, about the size of a fist". Someone at Inkmark interpreted that, produced a mockup, and sent it back.
Read what changed →Before this, every job started with someone describing where they wanted their logo and us guessing what they meant. We would send a mockup, they would ask for it bigger, we would send another. Two or three rounds before we could even quote the job. Now the customer places it themselves and approves the thing they are actually going to receive. The arguments about size and position have stopped, and so have the reprints we used to absorb.
Most of what we build belongs to the client, so we run our own in the open instead: 12 tools, free, no account, nothing uploaded — built to the standard we would ship you, and running on the same infrastructure.
Open one. Read how it behaves, what it refuses to do, and what it tells you when you give it something malformed. That is a more honest sample of how we build than a logo wall.
❯ curl tesseract.page
TESSERACT
Your technical department · Nairobi, Kenya
────────────────────────────────
tools tesseract.page/tools
email info@tesseract.pageThis page returns plain text to anyone asking from a terminal. Same URL, different answer — which is the whole job in miniature.
What would you stop doing by hand?
Six questions about the problem — in plain language, no technical detail needed. Fixed scope, fixed price, and it goes straight to us.