01 / TALENT
Senior hands, no bench
Every engineer has shipped production systems at scale. The person scoping your work is the person writing the code.
§ 01 — POSITION / WHY SANKARA LABS
01°17'S · 36°49'E
LAT / LON — NBO
V.2026.04 — STABLE
Most agencies sell hours. We sell outcomes.
A small studio of senior engineers shipping systems that actually run in production. Here is what that looks like on a Tuesday morning.
§ 02 — PRINCIPLES
Six reasons teams call us twice.
02 / OWNERSHIP
One Solutions Engineer. Full ownership.
Your Solutions Engineer owns scope, quality, and timeline — from discovery through handoff. No pod rotations, no mystery sub-contractors, no non-technical account managers. One accountable engineer, one phone to call.
03 / CONTEXT
Africa-born, globally legible
Nairobi-based, shipping worldwide. We design for network reality, currency reality, and the human actually tapping the screen.
04 / VISIBILITY
Dashboards, not status theatre
Live velocity, tracing, deploy logs, SLOs. You see the work in motion — not a polished monthly summary.
05 / DISCIPLINE
AI as a tool, not a religion
We use LLMs where they reduce toil. We isolate, eval, and keep humans in the loop where the cost of being wrong is real.
06 / LONGEVITY
The work outlasts us
Documented, typed, handed over. The engagement ends when you can run it without us — not when the invoice clears.
§ 03 — MEASURABLE
Numbers we stand behind.
6–10
weeks to MVP
< 1%
post-launch defects
Daily
deploys in-flight
4.8 / 5
client satisfaction
§ 04 — DELIVERY
Engagements run like a newsroom, not a black box.
ITEM 01
Weekly demos
Live walk-throughs every Friday. Not slides — running code.
ITEM 02
Shared dashboards
Real-time velocity, deploys, incidents — all visible to both sides.
ITEM 03
Published SLAs
Response, resolution, and uptime — written down, not implied.
ITEM 04
Transparent pricing
Fixed-scope or T&M. Every invoice reconciles to a ticket.
§ 05 — ENGAGEMENT MODELS
Three ways to work with us.
MODEL 01
Fixed-scope MVP
A defined outcome, fixed price, fixed timeline. Best for 0 → 1.
BEST FOR · Founders with a clear vision
MODEL 02
Staff augmentation
Embed senior engineers directly into your team for 3–12 months.
BEST FOR · In-house teams that need velocity
MODEL 03
Hybrid pod
A Sankara pod working alongside your team on a shared roadmap.
BEST FOR · Growth-stage product teams
§ 06 — NEXT STEP
Want a scope, straight?
Thirty minutes. No pitch deck. You leave with something useful — a timeline, a risk list, or a honest no.