We're building Olonka for the product businesses of Africa.
Most growing product businesses run on spreadsheets, notebooks and memory. Olonka puts stock, orders and production in one place, with an app for the shop floor, so the whole team works from the same numbers.
Named after a measure from Ghana's markets.
In markets across Ghana, rice, gari and maize are sold by the olonka: a tin that traders and shoppers both know by sight. Ask for two olonkas of rice, and you know roughly what you'll take home.
Every business starts by measuring what it has, so we named Olonka after it. Olonka keeps that measure exact: stock is counted in the units you buy, make and sell, converted for you, and everyone on your team sees the same number.
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A tin measure used in markets across Ghana to sell rice, gari and maize by volume.
“Two olonkas of gari, please.”
What we hold ourselves to.
Empathy
We think about the person on the other side of the screen: the owner closing the month, the operator on a busy shift.
Listen first
We spend time in workshops, warehouses and shops, and build from what we hear there.
Keep it simple
If a screen needs a manual to make sense, it isn't finished yet.
Get the details right
A wrong stock count costs someone real money, so we check our work.
Say it straight
We're plain about what Olonka does today, what it doesn't do yet and what's coming next.
Own the outcome
When something breaks, we fix it, and we tell you what happened and what we changed.