The vicious cycle

Without records, no credit.
Without credit, no growth.

Kenya's small businesses are trapped between two systems that don't talk to each other. Paper ledgers can't unlock formal finance. Phone-data lenders can't see your real business.

227 digital lenders charge 15–30% monthly to compensate for not knowing who their borrowers are. M-Penny knows.
Locked out 67.9%
of MSMEs can't access formal credit
Don't survive 46%
close within the first year of trading
No books ~80%
keep records in exercise books, WhatsApp, or not at all
Affected 7.4M
MSMEs across Kenya — most invisible to banks
The roadmap

Three phases.
One platform.

We lead with accounting because it's lower-risk to build, stickier to keep, and produces the proprietary data that makes everything else work.

Months 1–12 Live · Phase 1

Accounting

The mobile-first bookkeeping app for Kenyan SME realities.

  • M-Pesa Daraja auto-sync
  • eTIMS invoice reporting
  • USSD access for feature phones
  • Swahili interface
  • Free / Kawaida / Biashara tiers
Months 12–24 Phase 2

Lending

Accounting data unlocks better credit — not phone data, not guesswork.

  • CBK Digital Credit Provider licence
  • Cash-flow & tax payment loans
  • Group / chama joint liability
  • Auto-deduct from till
  • Target sub-8% default rate
Months 24+ Phase 3

OS for SMEs

The financial operating system for East African small businesses.

  • Insurance & protection
  • Supplier credit lines
  • Payroll & payments
  • Cross-border (UG, TZ, RW)
  • Anonymised SME data insights
Inside the app

Built for the way
shopkeepers actually work.

Designed in Westlands, tested in Gikomba. Not a QuickBooks port — a tool that meets a kiosk where it is.

M-Pesa auto-sync

Every payment in or out becomes a double-entry ledger row. Tap to confirm, or let the engine categorise it.

eTIMS compliance

Every receipt KRA-stamped automatically. The mandate that's killing other shops becomes a one-tap formality.

Live credit score

Watch your score climb as your records get cleaner. It's gamified compliance — and it unlocks bigger loans.

Editorial-grade reports

P&L, balance sheet, cash flow — exportable, accountant-readable, lender-acceptable.

USSD fallback

40% of Kenyans on feature phones aren't excluded. Dial *483# from any Nokia and the ledger still works.

Share via WhatsApp

Send invoices, receipts, and statements where your customers already are. No PDFs, no email, no friction.

Your books are the
collateral you didn't know you had.

Start free. Connect M-Pesa. Watch your credit score climb. When you're ready for capital, M-Penny knows you can pay it back.