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Applied AI & LLM systems
Retrieval, agents and document automation that survive contact with real users, built on Vertex AI, LangGraph and your own data, not a demo.
Forward-deployed engineering for African enterprise.
Mphando is a software, data and applied-AI engineering firm. We embed senior engineers inside your business to design, build and run production AI and data systems, from KYC and compliance to payments, ERP and the models in between. Lusaka-built, delivered across Zambia, South Africa and the UK.
Now shipping KYC platforms
In partnership with
Trusted to ship in regulated, high-stakes environments
Financial servicesGovernmentMining & industryTrade & chambers
What we do
A full engineering bench, pointed at one outcome: systems in production.
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Data & ML engineering
Pipelines, feature stores and fraud and risk models. BigQuery, Airflow, PySpark and Snowflake, instrumented and monitored end to end.
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KYC, compliance & identity
Multi-tenant verification platforms with row-level isolation and full audit trails, designed to pass a regulator's review, not just a pilot.
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Payments & mobile money
Collections and disbursement over mobile money and open banking. STK push, reconciliation and settlement wired into your core.
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ERP & business systems
Odoo implementation and integration as a certified Learning Partner. Finance, inventory and operations on one source of truth.
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Cloud & platform
GCP-native architecture, IaC and secure tenancy on local and international infrastructure, engineered for cost, latency and sovereignty.
The model
We embed. We ship. We hand you something that runs.
Most consultancies leave a slide deck. We work the way the best forward-deployed teams do, inside your problem, against your constraints, until the system is live and your people own it.
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Embed
Senior engineers sit with your team and the regulation. We map the real workflow, the data and the edge cases before a line of code is written.
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Prove
A working proof of concept in weeks, not quarters, on your data, measured against the metric that actually matters to the business.
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Build
We harden the PoC into a production system: tenancy, audit, monitoring, CI. Built to survive scale and scrutiny.
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Transfer
Documentation, runbooks and capability transfer to your engineers, or an ongoing managed bench out of Lusaka. Your call.
Why Mphando
World-class engineering capacity, built block by block from Zambia.
We pair London-grade engineering rigour with a Lusaka cost base and deep local-market fluency. That is how a regulated client gets a senior bench that ships, without the rates, the distance or the guesswork.
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Markets, Zambia, South Africa & the UK
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Partnerships, Google Cloud & Odoo
Senior
ML, data & platform engineers on every build
FDE
Forward-deployed delivery, embedded in your team
Get in touch
Have a system that needs to actually ship?
Tell us the problem and the constraint. We'll tell you what's buildable, by when, and what it costs.