We build canoes that carry businesses through messy waterways.
A mokoro is a traditional dugout canoe that glides through the Okavango’s most complex waterways with elegant simplicity. That’s exactly what we build: automation systems that cut through the messiest operational bottlenecks and carry your business forward — quietly, reliably, with human oversight where required.
A dugout canoe built for the world’s most complex waterways. That’s how we build automation.
A mokoro (makoro, plural) is the traditional dugout canoe of the Okavango Delta — poled by a guide standing at the stern, navigating narrow channels, hippo paths and shifting reed beds with elegant simplicity. It’s quiet. It doesn’t fight the water. It gets you there.
That’s exactly what we build for businesses. You’re running through messy operational channels — form submissions, invoices, support tickets, lead responses, social posts, reconciliations — and most agencies want to sell you a speedboat (a six-figure CRM migration, a 9-month Salesforce rollout, a team of 12 SDRs). We hand you a mokoro.
Open-source. Self-hosted. Client-owned. Zero lock-in. We build the hull; you steer the business.
- 1. Outcomes over outputs — every engagement has one measurable north-star number.
- 2. Open-source first — if it can run on n8n + Postgres + a $5 VPS, that’s how we build it.
- 3. Client-owned — your workflows, your credentials, your data. We hand over the keys.
- 4. Tell the truth — if automation won’t help, we’ll say so in the first 15 minutes.
The operators
Farouk Pandor
Managing Partner · Automation Strategy, Branding & Growth
Farouk leads automation strategy, brand, and client partnerships. He’s spent a decade shipping digital products, brand systems, and growth funnels across Southern Africa.
Jennifer Diphofu
Data & Systems Partner · Applied Business Computing & Analytics
Jennifer leads data, systems, and analytics. A specialist in applied business computing, she architects the dashboards, data pipelines and KPIs that make automation measurable.
Ready to pole your business out of the manual-work swamp?
Book a free 15-minute audit. We’ll map your biggest bottleneck and hand you a number: hours per week your team could get back.