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This page follows one person, shown as a single dot, through the things organisations build: messages, websites and systems. It begins with the dot surrounded by clutter, shows the clutter being cleared and rebuilt around the person, and ends with an invitation to talk to Cojani Labs. All of the text on this page is available without the animation.

At the end of everything you build, there is a person.

Cojani Labs is a communications and technology studio in Nairobi. We shape what organisations say and build what they run on, starting with the person on the receiving end.

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The noise

Now look at what surrounds them.

A statement written for the boardroom. Read by no one.

A good business the right people never find.

A website she cannot update without calling someone.

Five tools. Five versions of the same customer.

A report he rebuilds by hand every Friday.

All of it was built for something. Just not for them.

The turn

So we start somewhere else.

We start with the person.

Then we work outward.

  • What they need to hear.
  • What they need to do.
  • What should never take their time.

Cojani Labs. Communications and technology.

Five people depend on you.

We build for each of them.

1 of 5

Heard. Someone hearing about you for the first time.

Before anyone visits your website, they have already heard something about you. We help you decide what that is, who carries it and what you say on the day things go wrong.

So people understand you, and believe it.

Strategic communications and PRStrategy and messaging, media relations, leadership, crisis and event communications.

Explore communicationsAs built for Africa PR Week

2 of 5

Found. Someone looking for exactly what you do.

They are searching, scrolling and asking around. We make sure what they find looks like you, sounds like you and gives them a reason to come closer.

So the right people find you.

Brand and digital marketingBrand identity, campaigns, content and social media.

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3 of 5

Chosen. Someone deciding whether to trust you.

They will give your website a few seconds. We build sites that say what you do, show the proof and make the next step easy.

So the next step is obvious.

WebsitesDesign, writing and development. Sites your own team can update without calling us.

Explore websitesAs built for Africa Renewables Katalyst

4 of 5

Served. Someone doing the work every day.

Your team is holding things together with spreadsheets, chat threads and memory. We build the systems that put the work in one place.

So the work lives in one place.

Custom softwareBooking systems, portals, dashboards and internal tools.

Explore custom softwareAs built for AKV Auto

5 of 5

Freed. Someone with better things to do.

Some work should not need a person at all. We find the repeated tasks and automate them with care. The judgement stays with people.

So the repeated work does itself.

AI and automationWorkflow automation, and training your team to use AI where it helps.

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One team for all five.

The person on the other end does not see departments. Neither do we.

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People, not projects.

Three pieces of work, and who they were for.

Africa PR Week

Connecting a continental conversation.

For the delegate deciding whether to make the trip.

Communications, a public website and the event technology behind the programme, delivered as one experience.

  • Communications
  • Event platform
  • Automation

Figures to come

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Africa PR Week

AKV Auto

Bringing the garage to the customer.

For the driver who cannot give up a day to the garage.

A booking application and a fleet management system. A customer books a service van, follows it to their door and gets on with their day.

  • Booking platform
  • Fleet management
  • Custom software

Figures to come

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AKV Auto

Africa Renewables Katalyst

A digital foundation for renewable energy.

For the people buying and selling renewable energy.

A corporate website and a renewable energy trading platform, designed and engineered by one team.

  • Website
  • Trading platform
  • Custom software

Figures to come

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Africa Renewables Katalyst
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Organisations we have worked with

  • Africa PR Week
  • Arbarne Agriculture Group
  • Jacobs Ladder Africa
  • greenlabs
  • Africa Renewables Katalyst
  • Clean Farms
  • Africa Digital Finance Summit
  • Glasshouse PR
  • Majesty Publishing House Africa
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You always know where things stand.

Two dots, one line. You and us, from the first conversation to the handover.

  1. We start by listening.

    To your team, your customers and how things work today. You get a shared brief, a plan and a named lead.

  2. You see the direction before we build.

    Strategy, designs or a prototype you can react to while changing course is still cheap.

  3. Working pieces, on agreed dates.

    You see what is ready and what is not. Feedback goes in as we go, not at the end.

  4. You own what we made.

    Access, documentation and training for the people who will use it. Ongoing support if you want it.

What do you need?

A typical path

  1. ListenYour visitors, your content and what the site must do.
  2. DirectionStructure, page designs and the first written pages.
  3. BuildWorking pages on a private link, reviewed together.
  4. HandoverLaunch, training for your team and full access.

An indicative outline. We agree the real plan together.

A focused project, or a longer partnership. We agree which before we begin.

How we work

By Cojani Labs

We build our own tools too.

Clockpost is our workspace for planning social content, managing client approvals and organising publishing. It is what happens when a communications team and a software team sit at the same table.

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Built in Nairobi. Working across Africa.

I started Cojani Labs because I kept seeing the same thing: good organisations let down by tools and messages that were never made for the people using them. We are a small team on purpose. You talk to the people doing the work.

Portrait of Gamaliel Sirengo, founder of Cojani LabsGamaliel Sirengo, Founder

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