Projects
Products, tools, and market systems built alongside the research.
These projects reflect how Stephen Omukoko Okoth approaches execution: start with a real friction point, build the smallest useful system around it, and keep the economics visible.
Decision tools
LeadAfrik Finance Tools
A free suite of finance and economics calculators across personal money, wealth, investing, business, tax, and macro — region-aware for Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, the UK, and the US.
Why it matters
Brings model-backed economic decision support directly into LeadAfrik with transparent assumptions, sensitivity, and per-region tax schedules instead of leaving readers with static articles alone.
Stack
Next.js App Router, React 19, Recharts, region-pluggable architecture
Address infrastructure
PINI
A Kenya address-resolution and location-intelligence platform designed to turn raw coordinates into reusable, verifiable location records for last-mile delivery and operations.
Why it matters
Creates the address layer behind future logistics, verification, and place-discovery workflows while giving LeadAfrik a branded home for Kenya-focused geospatial infrastructure work.
Stack
Node.js, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, ward boundaries, partner API, address-code generation
Civic reporting
Tukomacho
An anonymous corruption-pattern reporting map for Kenya that keeps submissions private and exposes only thresholded public hotspots.
Why it matters
Creates a public-interest reporting surface inside LeadAfrik without turning the site into an accusation feed, keeping the public view focused on patterns, density, and location clusters.
Stack
Next.js, LibSQL/Turso, Leaflet, anonymous submission workflow
Property operations
Rentflow
A property-operations workspace for rent collection, occupancy, service recovery, notices, and portfolio control.
Why it matters
Extends the LeadAfrik product story from market discovery into landlord operations, giving users a direct path from the platform into a working property-management tool.
Stack
Next.js, operations workflows, payment and document tooling
Marketplace
Agrisoko254
A Kenyan agricultural marketplace connecting farmers, traders, agrovets, and buyers across all 47 counties.
Why it matters
User-provided operating note: founded and led with a five-person team, reaching roughly 100 users and 11 listings within the first two months.
Stack
React PWA, marketplace workflows, direct buyer-seller discovery
Consumer product
Jali
A privacy-first care coordination app for families and close friends, built around reminders, shared care groups, and exportable journals instead of feeds or contact scraping.
Why it matters
Turns intentional care into a product system with shared accountability, lightweight collaboration, and reminder-driven follow through.
Stack
React, TypeScript, Vite, Firebase Auth, Firestore, Cloud Functions
How they fit together
LeadAfrik is the umbrella.
The work is not limited to one lane. Some projects are public-economics products, some are consumer tools, some are civic-reporting tools, some are address-infrastructure systems, some are marketplaces aimed at improving discovery and execution in fragmented markets, and some are property-operations systems built for day-to-day execution.
What ties them together is a consistent operating style: clear user intent, strong information design, and a bias toward building systems that people can use immediately.