Integrated systems design
One system instead of a dozen that do not speak to each other. Shared data, one architecture, one accountable team.
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What we doIntegrated systems design
Since 2016 Fineteklabs has designed systems that work as one, with shared data and one architecture, so intelligence layers in later without a rebuild.
- Projects delivered
- 50+
- Clients served
- 100+
- More reliability reported
- 75%
Trusted by enterprises, governments and founders across Africa and beyond.
Since 2016
Engineering Success
Integrated systems design and engineering
- Years engineering
- 10
Selected clients and platforms
What we do
Integrated systems
One system, not a pile of applications.
Most estates are a dozen systems that do not speak to each other. We design them as one, with shared data and one architecture, and keep intelligence behind a stable interface so it can be replaced without a rebuild.
- One data model instead of a dozen exports
- Models sit behind stable interfaces, so they are replaceable
- Add intelligence later without touching what already works
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Systems
ERP, clinical, payments, field and partner tools.
- 02
Integration
One data model, one source of truth.
- 03
Intelligence
Swappable. Replace the model, keep the system.
Capabilities
What we do
Full-cycle engineering, one delivery team.
- 02Systems developmentEnterprise systems, integration and modernisation, from one accountable team.
- 03AI agent developmentAgents that carry out real work: reading documents, calling your systems, taking actions, and handing back to a person when the decision matters.
- 04Model optimisationMake the model you already have cheaper, faster and more accurate, without replacing the system around it.
- 05Migrate to artificial intelligenceAI in production, on data you can trust, behind interfaces that keep models swappable.
- 06Data platforms and analyticsWarehouses, pipelines and reporting your teams trust: ground under both AI and decisions.
- 07Cloud and DevOpsInfrastructure that is reproducible, observable and cheap to change.
AI in production
Add intelligence without rebuilding the system.
We put AI behind stable interfaces, on data you can trust, so a model can be swapped while everything around it keeps working.
- 01
Diagnose
Which use cases pay for themselves, and what your data can support.
- 02
Ground
Pipelines, entity resolution and governed retrieval: the work that decides whether AI holds up.
- 03
Ship
Deployment into your environment, behind interfaces that keep the model replaceable.
- 04
Govern
Monitoring, drift detection, access control and audit trails.
Private and offline AI
AI that never leaves your building.
Off-the-shelf models installed on your own hardware. Private by construction, customised to your organisation, and working with no internet connection at all.
Installed on your premises
Your hardware, your building, your rules. Nothing is hosted for you and nothing is rented by the month.
Air-gapped if you need it
The system can run with the network cable physically removed. No external calls, no telemetry, no outbound traffic to audit.
Works with no internet
Built for sites where connectivity is intermittent, expensive or deliberately absent: clinics, plants, field offices and government facilities.
Customised to your organisation
Tuned on your documents, your terminology and your workflows, so it answers in the language your staff already use.
Off the shelf, not a research project
A known architecture deployed in weeks. We are not inventing a model for you; we are installing one and making it yours.
A smaller on-premise model is not a frontier model. It is chosen because it is accurate enough for the task, runs on hardware you already own, and never sends your data anywhere.
Selected work
Platforms we have built and run
Products and systems we have delivered, several now category leaders.
References
Systems we have shipped.
Live captures of platforms in production, grouped by the sector each one serves.
Financial services & payments
03
Health & diagnostics
03
Impact
What that has added up to.
Numbers we can point at, on platforms still in production.
- Farmers reached across Kenya
- 300,000+
- Farmers reached across Kenya
- Kenyan businesses taken digital
- 200+
- Kenyan businesses taken digital
- ERP deployments across Africa
- 259+
- ERP deployments across Africa
- Years engineering
- 10+
- Years engineering
- Projects delivered
- 50+
- Projects delivered
- Clients served
- 100+
- Clients served
- More reliability reported
- 75%
- More reliability reported
- Available globally
- Global
- Available globally
Research and innovation
How science becomes a working system.
We work with universities and research institutes across Africa on applied research in healthcare, engineering and modern technology, and we take it all the way to production.
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Healthcare
Diagnostics, clinical decision support and health information systems.
- 02
Engineering
Instrumentation, energy and industrial systems.
- 03
Modern technology
Applied AI, data platforms and language technology.
Research partners
A partial list. Several partnerships are under confidentiality.
- Kenyatta UniversityUniversity
- Swaro InstituteInstitute
- HNU UniversityUniversity
- And many others
Sectors
Where we work
Deep domain context in the sectors that carry African economies.
How we work
A delivery method you can audit
Best-practice process, applied methodically from first question to production.
- 01
Planning
We collect the relevant information from you and your stakeholders, including the constraints you have not written down.
- 02
Defining
We document the software needs, agree acceptance criteria, and write down what is out of scope.
- 03
Designing
System and interface documents are prepared against the specification: architecture, data model and stack.
- 04
Building
We implement in short cycles, with a working increment and a visible demonstration at the end of each.
- 05
Testing
We evaluate quality to find and fix defects: automated where possible, exploratory where judgement matters more.
- 06
Deployment
Release runs through an automated pipeline, checked for deployment issues, with a rehearsed rollback.
- 07
Maintenance
We keep the system current, secure and monitored, so you hear about problems from us first.
Why Fineteklabs
Why teams choose us
Adaptive to change
We plan in short cycles, so your roadmap absorbs new information.
Deep, dedicated expertise
Solution architecture through delivery, including rescuing stalled projects.
Relentless collaboration
You work directly with the engineers building your system.
Compounding quality
A high bar on testing, security and documentation, so change gets cheaper.
Questions
Frequently asked
What does Fineteklabs actually do?
We design integrated systems: software, data and AI that work as one, so new intelligence layers in without a rewrite.
Do you only work with clients in Africa?
No. We are based in Nairobi but serve clients across Africa, the Middle East, Europe and North America.
How do you handle data protection?
Minimisation, encryption, access control and audit trails are designed in, to GDPR and Kenya Data Protection Act requirements.
Can you take over a system somebody else built?
Yes. Much of our work is stabilising and modernising platforms that have stalled, starting with a short technical audit.
Let’s talk
Let’s engineer your next advantage.
Tell us what you are trying to achieve. You will speak to an engineer, not a call centre.
Monday to Friday, 08:00 to 18:00 East Africa Time (GMT+3). Urgent support by arrangement.