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Strategic Consultancy

Align your technology decisions with your business reality.

Bad technology decisions are expensive, not just the upfront cost, but the years of maintenance, the team you need to support the choice, and the opportunity cost of being locked into the wrong platform. We provide clear-headed technology strategy for African businesses: helping you decide what to build, what to buy, what to integrate, and what to avoid. Our advice is grounded in what actually works in the African market, not what looks impressive in a vendor's pitch deck.

What We Do

Everything included in our Strategic Consultancy service.

Technology Strategy & Roadmapping

We help you develop a multi-year technology roadmap that maps to your business objectives, identifying which systems to invest in, which to retire, and which to leave alone. This is the document that stops your team making expensive ad-hoc decisions.

Build vs. Buy Analysis

Should you build custom software or buy an off-the-shelf product? We analyse the total cost of ownership, the fit to your specific requirements, and the strategic risk of each option, giving you a reasoned recommendation, not a default answer.

Vendor & Technology Evaluation

We run structured evaluation processes for software vendors: defining requirements, running RFPs, scoring responses, conducting technical due diligence, and protecting you from common vendor lock-in traps. This applies to ERPs, CRMs, cloud providers, and specialised SaaS tools.

Digital Transformation Planning

For organisations moving from manual or legacy processes to digital workflows, we design transformation programmes that are achievable rather than aspirational, with clear phases, measurable milestones, and realistic budgets.

Technical Due Diligence

Acquiring a company or investing in a startup? We conduct technical due diligence on the target's codebase, infrastructure, security posture, and technical debt. We give investors and acquirers an honest picture of what they're buying.

Team & Process Assessment

We assess your existing engineering team's capabilities, processes, and culture, identifying gaps, inefficiencies, and risks. We recommend specific interventions: training, new tooling, process changes, or additional hires.

Why Afriq Silicon

What makes our Strategic Consultancy service different.

1

We operate in the same market you do

Our strategic advice is shaped by real experience building and operating software in Kenya and across Africa. We know which cloud regions have acceptable latency, which payment gateways are reliable, and which technology choices will leave you stranded when you need local support.

2

We have no platform agenda

Unlike consultancies affiliated with specific vendors or cloud providers, we have no incentive to recommend one platform over another. Our only interest is giving you advice that leads to good outcomes for your organisation.

3

We deliver recommendations you can act on

We don't produce 200-page strategy reports that sit unread. Our deliverables are concise, specific, and directly connected to decisions your team needs to make. Every engagement ends with clear next steps and a realistic implementation plan.

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about our Strategic Consultancy service.

We have an internal IT team. Do we still need external consultancy?
Sometimes. Internal teams are often too close to the problem, or under too much political pressure, to give unbiased advice on major decisions. An external perspective is especially valuable for build-vs-buy decisions, vendor evaluation, and digital transformation planning where internal advocates have already formed strong opinions.
How do you charge for consultancy engagements?
For clearly defined engagements, a technology audit, a build-vs-buy analysis, a vendor RFP process, we charge a fixed fee scoped to deliverables. For ongoing advisory arrangements, we offer monthly retainers with defined scope. We don't bill by the hour for open-ended engagements because it creates the wrong incentive structure.
Can you help us write a technology RFP?
Yes. We regularly help organisations write RFPs for technology procurement: defining functional and non-functional requirements, structuring evaluation criteria, and running the supplier engagement process. Good RFPs save months of back-and-forth and produce better vendor responses.
Do you implement the strategies you recommend?
We can. If you want a single partner to both advise and execute, we can move from strategy to implementation within Afriq Silicon. If you prefer to use different vendors for strategy and execution, that's fine too, we design our recommendations to be implementable by any competent engineering team.

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