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Yakazi Network

About us

A Trusted Partner for Work & Business Opportunities

Yakazi Network is Kenya's trendsettingnational field execution network. It connects businesses and households to geolocated certified and verified technical talent, anywhere in Kenya, helping households with installations and assisting companies to grow faster in local areas, while creatingdignified livelihoods for Kenyan youth.

KawiNexus

KawiNexus

Yakazi's e-commerce and order fulfillment platform

KawiNexusenables youth to experience enterprise in climate-smart technologies. It is built and networked with the Yakazi national field workforce to help companies access localized markets, sell products in interior and remote regions, deliver and install technologies, finance consumers and micro-enterprises, and provide after-sales maintenance, warranty and customer support — without the cost of building or managing large field teams.

Scope of KawiNexus

  • Sale and distribution of selected climate-smart technologies from manufacturers and distributors
  • Positioning insurance (of workers and products) in collaboration with a leading insurer
  • Catalysing financial services (in partnership with financial service providers)
Yakazi value addition in the field

Value addition

Reach every county faster

Whether you are launching or deploying climate-smart technologies, healthcare services, financial products or consumer solutions that require reach, scale or specialized installation and after-sales support, Yakazi will come in handy and assist you to reach every county faster, effectively, efficiently and more profitably.

Organizations working with Yakazi can expect to increase market penetration, grow sales faster, lower customer acquisition costs and improve customer satisfaction. They can reduce operational expenditure, reach underserved markets and increase product adoption. Moreover, our technical manpower will support them to improve after-sales service quality, generate actionable field data and scale nationally with minimal fixed costs.

The challenge

Growing faster than technical capacity

Businesses, especially those located in urban areas and major towns, are generally growing faster than their technical capacity. Many established and emerging companies are under pressure to reach more counties, install faster, reduce customer complaints, improve after-sales service, lower operational costs, maintain quality standards, andexpand without opening expensive branches.

Many struggle withshortage or absolute absence of reliable and trusted technicians, unfamiliarity with local contexts and cultures, high recruitment, training and onboarding costs, high staff turnover, slow market penetration, weak last-mile support, poor product and team visibility, inconsistent customer service quality,slow response times and limited rural coverage.

Companies — specifically climate-smart technology businesses and others who rely on installation and after-sales infrastructure — face the costly challenge of scaling operations consistently while maintaining quality, reaching underserved markets, and managing a distributed workforce efficiently.

The solution

A digitally-enabled geolocated workforce

Yakazi hosts and manages a digitally-enabled geolocated workforce, provides training, upskilling and business ideation for micro-enterprise, and offers technical services that reduce costs of manpower sourcing, onboarding, training and field operations.

Yakazi's dispersed technical teams in regions accelerate data collection, market intelligence, and sales growth. They undertake installations, handle maintenance and warranties, improve customer satisfaction, andenable nationwide market expansion.

What Yakazi offers

Technical services, micro-enterprise empowerment, regional expansion and digitally managed technician groups.

Technical services workforce

We offer companies our unique technical services workforce using Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) frameworks crafted to meet each company's unique needs.

Micro-enterprise empowerment

We empower micro-entrepreneurs through digital and physical upskilling and practical work connections in collaboration with our private sector partners.

Regional expansion

We custom-design regional expansion using our fully supervised Field Technical Sales Workforce, reducing logistical costs and deepening customer service in any part of Kenya.

Digitally managed groups

We organise technicians into digitally-managed groups that offer local-area services while adhering to an agreed Group Code of Ethics for quality assurance and effective customer service.

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Next steps

  • Pilot Yakazi in one county
  • Outsource a defined field function
  • Test our technical workforce
  • Scale nationally through one trusted partner
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