Digital product & service studio · London · Lagos · Kampala · Nairobi
Growth is a journey.
You don't navigate it alone.
We design and build digital products for start-ups and organisations in transformation - with teams that sit where design and engineering meet.
01 — Track record
Our teams have delivered for organisations that leave no room for error.
Those standards travel. The same rigour that ships a global retail platform is what we bring to a seed-stage product in Nairobi - and to the engineers we train along the way.
02 — Services
Conceived, designed and built to your precise needs.
Product strategy
Where to place the bet, and how you'll know it paid off. Opportunity framing, roadmapping, and the business case that gets it funded.
Service design
Research, journey mapping and service blueprints for organisations whose product is really a chain of moments end to end.
Experience & interface design
Interfaces and design systems built to be used, extended and handed over - not admired once and abandoned.
Engineering
Web and mobile delivery, platform integration and the operational scaffolding to keep it running after launch.
Mentorship & training
Structured programmes that take people with the right aptitude and attitude to genuine expertise. We train the trainers.
03 — Approach
A global network delivering on two pillars.
Pillar one
World-class projects
You focus on what your business does best. We take the product and service design off your plate - strategy through to shipped software, with senior people on the work rather than on the pitch.
Studios in the UK and East Africa mean a working day that starts in Nairobi and closes in London.
Pillar two
The next generation
Africa's digital era needs resources, skilled people and capacity. We find talent with the right aptitude and attitude, then pair it with practitioners from our global network.
Our vision is to lead on what good looks like, forge partnerships, and fuel growth across the continent.
04 — Mantra
Make the right thing the easiest thing to do.
Founded by Peter Nsanze — UK dotcom, 1990s onward; digital strategy across Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda since.
05 — Studios
Four locations. One standard.
51.5074° N, 0.1278° W
London
Unit 4, 379 Old Ford RoadLondon E3 2LU, United Kingdom
+44 (0) 7833 230 739
6.5244° N, 3.3792° E
Lagos
Nigeria studioProduct delivery & engineering
0.3476° N, 32.5825° E
Kampala
Uganda studioDelivery & talent programmes
06 — Contact