Our Story

Built for Nigerian
business owners

Akatech BI exists because every Nigerian shop owner deserves the same intelligent tools that big retail chains use — without the big-chain price tag or the big-chain complexity.

Lagos, Nigeria Built by Nigerian developers For supermarkets, pharmacies & retail
Our Mission

Intelligent inventory management,
built for how business actually works in Nigeria

We saw Nigerian shop owners running their entire business from notebooks and memory — losing money to theft they couldn't detect, stockouts they couldn't predict, and debts they couldn't track. We built Akatech BI to fix that.

"Every Nigerian business owner should have the same data-driven advantage as the biggest retail chains — at a price they can actually afford."
— The Akatech BI Team
Theft Detection
Catches theft patterns other apps miss
Smart Reorder
Based on real sales velocity
Auto Reminders
WhatsApp debt collection
Offline First
Works without internet or power
The Problem We Solve

Most Nigerian shops still run on pen and paper

In Nigeria, millions of supermarkets, grocery stores, and pharmacies manage inventory with notebooks, Excel sheets, or just memory. Products expire unnoticed. Stock runs out on the busiest days. Staff theft goes undetected for months. Profits are guessed, never measured.

Meanwhile, enterprise inventory systems cost hundreds of thousands of naira per year, price in dollars that fluctuate with every devaluation, and require dedicated IT staff to operate.

Akatech BI was built from scratch for the Nigerian retail context — local payment methods, fixed naira pricing, offline-first architecture that survives power outages, and a free tier that lets you try everything before spending a kobo.

Our Journey

From idea to production

The Observation

We noticed the gap

After visiting dozens of supermarkets and pharmacies across Lagos and the South-East, we noticed the same pattern: talented business owners making decisions based on guesswork because the tools available were either too expensive, too complex, or built for a different market entirely.

The Decision

We decided to build it ourselves

Instead of adapting a foreign product, we started from zero — interviewing shop owners, understanding their daily frustrations, and designing every feature around how Nigerian retail actually operates. Not how Silicon Valley thinks it should.

The Breakthrough

Fraud detection changed everything

When we added automated theft detection — flagging suspicious voids, price overrides, and cash mismatches — shop owners told us it was the first time any software had addressed the problem they lose the most sleep over. That became our defining feature.

Today

Live and growing

Akatech BI is now live and serving Nigerian businesses — supermarkets, pharmacies, provision stores, electronics shops, and cosmetics retailers. Every feature has been tested in real Nigerian shops with real Nigerian challenges.

What Sets Us Apart

Features your current app does not have

Most inventory apps do the basics. Akatech BI does the basics plus things no competitor in this market currently offers.

Theft & Fraud Detection

Automatically flags price tampering, repeated voids, cash drawer mismatches, and suspicious patterns — with the staff member's name and exact time. Alerts sent to your email and WhatsApp instantly.

Velocity-Based Smart Reorder

Tells you what to restock based on how fast each product is actually selling — not a fixed number that treats fast and slow sellers the same way.

Dead Stock Detection

Shows exactly how much capital is locked in products that are not selling — so you can discount, bundle, or stop reordering them before they waste more cash.

Automated Debt Collection

Sends professional WhatsApp reminders to customers with outstanding balances — automatically, with a 48-hour cooldown between messages to avoid harassment.

Daily Business Summary

Every evening, receive an automatic WhatsApp message and email with your revenue, outstanding debt, and low-stock alerts — without opening any app.

Complete Activity Log

See exactly who logged in, who changed a price, who voided a sale, who adjusted stock — every action, timestamped, with the person's name.

Our Principles

How we think about building software

Simplicity First

If your cashier cannot figure it out in 5 minutes without training, we have failed. Every feature must be immediately obvious to anyone who can use WhatsApp.

Nigeria Native

We are not adapting a foreign product. We build for Nigerian banks, Nigerian networks, Nigerian power outages, and Nigerian business culture from day one.

Honest Pricing

Priced in naira. No surprise fees. No "contact sales" enterprise trap. A genuinely usable free tier, and paid plans that cost a fraction of what competitors charge.

Your Data is Yours

We never sell your business data. Your customer lists, sales figures, and product details are completely private — always. We make money from subscriptions, not your data.

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