Start, build, grow and scale your business in Kenya.
Most owners are not short on hustle. They are short on clear information. We write the guides nobody hands you: what to file, what it costs, what the rules actually say, and what to do next.
Around 7 in 10 Kenyan businesses close within three years. Almost never because of the product.
They close because of the things around the work: cash that ran out, credit that never came, a deadline missed, a licence nobody explained. That is what this site covers, properly, and every claim we make is cited so you can check it yourself.
Seven places a business actually gets stuck
- Money in, money out
- Cash flow, records and pricing. Eight in ten businesses run short on cash, most on paper. The tracking that fixes it.
- Funding and credit
- Why banks reject SME loans, what lenders really assess, and the SACCO, asset and invoice finance routes around them.
- Tax and KRA
- PIN, VAT, turnover tax, filing dates and the reliefs owners miss. Plain language, penalties avoided.
- Registration and licences
- BRS, the county Single Business Permit, sector approvals. One clear map across the portals that assume you know the others.
- Getting and keeping customers
- Over half of businesses never advertise. Getting found, a WhatsApp-first sales flow, and follow-up that stops leads going cold.
- Running and scaling
- Your first hire and the labour-law basics, building systems so the business runs without you, and growing without breaking it.