The gap between global software and African enterprise.
Global enterprise software is built, priced, and supported for global enterprise buyers. When it lands in an African context, it rarely fits. Integrations break on unreliable connectivity, pricing assumes USD budgets, and support teams have no feel for the workflows they're being asked to fix.
The local alternatives are often the opposite problem: under-engineered, built on tight budgets by teams that never had the room to do things properly.
We built The Brittany to sit in between. Product thinking, AI engineering, and real commercial experience in the African market, held to a bar that competes globally.
Four principles we hold ourselves to.
Specificity over generics
We build for exact problems, not broad markets. A product that does one thing exceptionally well beats one that does ten things passably.
Ship, then improve
Working software in weeks, not decks and workshops. We'd rather get 60% of it wrong in production than 100% of it right in a deck.
Local roots, global standards
African context, internationally competitive execution. We hold ourselves to the same engineering bar as any firm in London or New York.
Long-term partners
We stay on after launch. We do not disappear. The software improves as your operations do, and we stay accountable for that improvement.
Small team. Deep benches.
A Botswana-based partner and a distributed engineering and product team across North America, Asia, and Africa. Everyone here has shipped enterprise software before.
Kabo Botlhole
Insurance and digital transformation, with deep local client context. Leads The Brittany's Botswana market entry and the QuoteIQ insurance wedge.
Andrew Hewitt
Full-stack engineering, from database and back-end to front-end. Decades shipping multi-platform apps across government, education, and the private sector. Now focused on AI-powered fintech.
Thomas Messier
Oversees delivery, customer operations, and enterprise execution across projects. Ensures priorities are aligned, timelines are managed, and teams maintain strong communication, accountability, and operational follow-through.
Kwaku Otchere
Product, design, and UX for tools busy operators actually use. Designs and ships the product experience across our platforms.