kigo

Kigo is an AI messaging tool by KangwanaTech that runs as an autonomous WhatsApp worker for Kenyan SMEs, students, Chamas, and communities. It operates natively inside WhatsApp with no separate app, and its pitch is zero Meta/Twilio per-message API fees plus live Safaricom Daraja M-PESA integration. Rather than one bot, Kigo ships as a suite of specialized personas: Kigo SME runs an automated storefront where customers order by text, the bot checks live inventory, calculates totals, and pushes an M-PESA STK prompt to close the sale; Kigo Karani acts as a digital Chama treasurer that reads forwarded M-PESA messages, totals member contributions, and updates a shared Google Sheet; Kigo Ombudsman sits in large WhatsApp groups to log welfare grievances and categorize complaints for politicians and student unions; Kigo Trends scrapes live news for Kenyan market and political updates; Kigo Summarize condenses long group-chat backlogs into bulleted recaps; and Kigo Scholar/Comrade is a 24/7 tutor the vendor says already serves 200+ University of Nairobi students with localized exam prep. Kigo is purpose-built for the Kenyan market with Google Sheets sync and Daraja payments, so its strengths (M-PESA, KES, local context) are also its scope — it is not a general global chatbot.

Automating WhatsApp operations — sales with M-PESA, Chama bookkeeping, community grievance logging, and tutoring — for Kenyan SMEs and communities.