About
Tarihi means history.
In Hausa and Swahili, tarihi is the record of what happened. We build software that keeps that record for organisations, so every decision can be explained later.
Built in Nigeria, for organisations that answer to someone.
Donor-funded programmes, consultancies, schools, hospitals and growing companies all face the same questions: who approved this, why that supplier, was the tax withheld, where is the receipt? The answers usually live in WhatsApp threads and someone's memory.
Tarihi keeps the speed of how people already work and adds the evidence: every request, quote, approval and payment linked to its source, with honest answers when the record is incomplete.
We are starting with procurement, because it is where money, policy and accountability meet.
Meet the founder
Our work has always been about connecting things that weren't built to talk to each other.
Across years in development finance and procurement, we kept running into the same problem. The information existed, but never in one place. A quote sat in a WhatsApp group. An approval sat in someone's inbox. And the knowledge that mattered most (why a supplier was chosen, what was agreed, what was still open) lived in one person's head.
When that person left, it left with them. Whoever came next started from zero, and the organisation paid for it in delays, repeated mistakes and audit questions nobody could answer.
We became the people who pieced it back together, tracing decisions through emails, threads and spreadsheets until the story made sense. Tarihi is that work, turned into a system.
It connects what your organisation already produces (requests, quotes, approvals, invoices, documents) into one record that answers for itself. Ask who approved a purchase, or which roles would struggle if their holder left tomorrow, and Tarihi answers from your own records and shows where the answer came from. When someone moves on, what they knew stays behind as a guide for whoever comes next.
People leave. The work shouldn't start from zero. That's why we built Tarihi.