Will my team use it?
There is nothing for them to learn. Your team is asked for one thing: answer the question when it arrives. It comes to their phone in the evening, it is about their own work, and their home screen opens on Waiting on you with four ready made replies under each question, so answering is one tap. Finishing the job counts as an answer too, and they get a thank you for it. No timesheets, no status forms, no weekly self assessment and nothing extra to type, because the numbers are worked out from the jobs, dates and finished work that already exist. Everyone gets a home screen with their own numbers on it, the same numbers their manager sees, on the same day. Setup includes a live training session and a written manual for the team.
Is this spying on my staff?
No. Kazi reads what is already true: a job moved, a date passed, a piece of work was delivered. There are no screenshots, no record of what people type, no location tracking, no idle timers and no timesheets. Nobody fills in a form about themselves. Everyone sees their own numbers on their own home screen, the same numbers their manager sees. The evening question is private. It goes to one person, about their own work, and it is never posted anywhere the team can watch. If someone says nothing, that reaches their manager the next morning as one quiet list, never as a callout in front of everyone. The weekly summary is written for you and then sent by a person, or thrown away by a person. Quiet hours, days off, a switch that pauses everything, and the wording of every sentence are yours. What it really does is stop your reliable people from carrying the quiet ones without anybody noticing, which is how you lose the reliable ones.
What if people do not reply?
Then their manager hears about it the next morning, not next month. A question left twelve hours unanswered while the job is still open moves up a level: at 8.30am each manager gets one list of their own people who went quiet, and their home screen opens on it, showing the person, the job, how late it is, how many days they have been silent, and the question that was asked. Ring them, press Called, type what they said, and it goes onto the job and clears the row. It reaches that person’s manager and nobody else, once a day, as a list rather than an announcement. The page that shows whether it is working then tells you how often this had to happen at all, week by week and person by person.
Does it message people at night or on weekends?
No. You set quiet hours and days off, and every scheduled message obeys both. The settings will not even accept a send time that falls inside your quiet hours. Times are read on your company’s own clock, so 5.30pm means 5.30pm in Nairobi. Each person chooses whether a message reaches them on their phone or by email. One switch pauses every automatic message without touching your schedule, and you can change the wording of each one before a single message goes out.
What happens if you disappear?
Kazi is yours because of how it is built, not because of a promise. It runs on your own server. You hold the settings file, the storage and the nightly copies of the database, and putting it all back from those copies is a written procedure that has been done for real. The agreement puts it past argument: if the monthly service stops for 90 days, the source code is handed to you under a permanent licence to use inside your company.
Where does my data live?
In your own Postgres database, in your own storage, on the machine you choose: Nairobi, Europe, or your own office. A compressed copy is taken every night and the last 14 are kept. No other company is in your database, so there is nothing to share and nothing to leak sideways. AI requests leave your server only when you switch them on, and the key stays on the server, never in a browser.
Do we pay for each person?
Yes, and that is the only charge. Team is six dollars per person per month for up to six people. Business is ten dollars per person per month for any size of team. Add a person and the bill goes up by one. Take someone off and it goes down. You are never charged for guests.
We already run everything on a project tool.
Then you already know the shape of the problem. A board holds the work and shows you what exists. It has no view on who is delivering, it never tells you that somebody has gone quiet, and it never follows anyone up, so the following up is still you, twice a week, from memory. That missing piece is what Kazi is: a colour worked out from what people actually delivered, a record for each person that nobody had to type, one shared list of what is urgent, and a reminder that takes one click and stays on the record.
Moving off what we run today sounds painful.
Your jobs, comments, extra fields and documents all come across from whatever you use today. The move is done with you and checked together before anyone switches over, so nothing has to be typed again.
It is too expensive.
Count the hours you spent last week asking people where things were, and the meetings that existed only to produce an update. Multiply that by what an hour of your time is worth. You are already paying for this. You are paying in the wrong currency, and the bill is a week of your attention instead of a line in the accounts. The prices are above: six dollars per person on Team, ten on Business, and nothing else on the invoice.
Does it work on phones?
Kazi installs as a real app on iPhone and Android, with proper notifications, a five tab layout and a calendar built for small screens. Laptops install it the same way from Chrome or Edge.
Is our data used to train AI?
No. AI features are switched on for each workspace separately, requests go out only when somebody uses them, and nothing in your workspace is used to train a model. Leave the key blank and the whole workspace runs without it.