Building Kilele Archade: an AI Learning Platform for Kenya's CBC Curriculum
The story behind kilelearchade.co.ke: why I built a CBC-focused AI tutor in Nairobi, how it took shape, and what shipping to real classrooms taught me.
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Product Engineering
Taking a product from a real problem to shipped software: scoping, architecture decisions and building the first version yourself.
Kilele Archade and Apex both started as answers to problems I could point at rather than ideas I wanted to try. That constraint changes the whole build: scope gets cut to what a real user needs this month, and the boring choices — one database, one hosting story, scripts for anything done twice — win by default.
These pieces cover the part of the job that is not typing code: deciding what the first version is, keeping solo delivery manageable, and letting actual users move the product further than any technical decision did.
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Kilele Archade
An AI-powered CBC-focused learning platform providing intelligent learning assistance, revision, assessments, educational resources and personalised learning.
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A rental management and property automation platform simplifying property, tenant, payment, reporting, communication and operational workflows.
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