A busy team is not necessarily a productive team. People can attend meetings, send reports, and work long hours without moving the business forward.
Every role and activity should connect to a meaningful business result.
The next wave of NG MSME growth will not come from AI hype alone. It'll come from practical AI tools that help businesses track cash flow, manage stock, follow up debtors before small problems become expensive. AI will matter most when it helps businesses grow and scale easily
Everyone talks about AI replacing jobs. Few talk about the Nigerian MSME owner who has spent the last 10 years doing the work of a cashier, marketer, and manager, without software taking even one task off her plate.
This is where AI can help SMEs/MSMEs in Nigeria #getalpha
The businesses that will benefit first from AI will not necessarily be the ones using the newest tools. They will be the ones that consistently record sales, orders and outstanding payments. AI cannot fix information that was never captured.
Most AI conversation aimed at African small business owners skips the gap between memory qnd pattern. It jumps straight to automation and misses that the real unlock is simpler: turning what's already in someone's head into something they can see and use. #getalpha
The average small business owner can tell you what they sold yesterday by memory but can't tell you what actually sells best, and that's the real gap technology should be closing. #getalpha
@getalphahq Recording sales shouldn't be a chore you do before or after business hours. It has to be the natural, invisible byproduct of making a sale.
You make a sale, collect the money, and keep moving. The record should capture itself in that exact motion.
#getalpha
Have been testing Alpha @getalphahq with some users and one thing I have learnt is that we build apps for how we wish merchants worked and not how they actually trade
No vendor is stopping mid-sale to update a digital ledger
Everything is fast paced especially for some traders
@getalphahq IMO, the problem SMEs have with recording/bookkeeping is not a tech deficit. It’s a habit/cultural reality.
If software forces a business owner to break their trading momentum just to log data, the software loses every time.
This is a problem that I want to solve with the Alpha
I co-founded The Future Awards Africa at 18.
Years later, I got ‘bounced’ from it by a bouncer who didn’t know I was the owner.
And I loved it.
It meant I had built something bigger than me.
Full speech: https://t.co/xo1cGnNoox
I also love what you have built. I have used it, great service, easy and simple UI/UX and a fantastic customer relationship. Great work @osiki our have done with Truesaver. I hope it gets better