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Introduction

Today we launched Timtechville, a hybrid technology firm registered in the United Kingdom and Nigeria, working across Africa and globally. We consult, we build, and we run the systems that move enterprises forward. We thought we'd say a few words about why.

The technology services market in our part of the world is, at the moment, two things. It's a set of large global firms with the brand and the overhead that come with being large and global — and a set of local shops with neither the depth nor, often, the patience for the work that real systems require. There's a third option missing. We're building it.

What we saw

The clearest version of what we saw is this: African enterprises — banks, telcos, insurers, public agencies, and the larger family of organisations that depend on them — are running technology that matters. Systems that touch hundreds of millions of people. Systems that move whole economies. And they deserve the same quality of engineering and strategic thinking that London or Bangalore takes for granted.

They also deserve a partner who lives here. Who understands what mobile money infrastructure actually does, why the regulatory frameworks evolve the way they do, why bandwidth and device assumptions matter for real customers, and why the cost of a bad core-system decision is measured in years, not quarters.

What we're building

Timtechville is one firm. Senior people, on the work. Strategy and engineering, on one team — no handoff between an advisory partner and a delivery factory. We don't think the consulting model and the engineering model should be separate businesses with separate invoices. The reason the systems that get shipped under the relay-race model are the way they are is because of the relay race itself.

We've designed the firm around three things we won't compromise on.

What's next

In the months ahead we'll publish more of how we work — engineering notes, methodology pieces, the occasional opinion. We'll write when we have something worth saying, not on a schedule. We'll open hiring across our hubs as we land projects. We'll be quiet about most things and clear about a few.

If you have a problem worth solving — strategy, build, or run — tell us about it. The first conversation is free, the second one usually is too. If you'd like to partner with us, we'd like to hear from you too. And if you're a journalist or analyst trying to make sense of what's happening in this market, we'll make your life easy.

Thanks for reading this far. Now back to work.

Disu Wahab

Founder, Timtechville