# Asterisk

> Asterisk designs digital experiences people remember and builds the software behind them: websites, e-commerce, web and mobile apps, AI agents, automation and business systems, from Nairobi.

Asterisk is a creative technology and software company in Nairobi. We design digital experiences people remember and build the software behind them: interactive experiences, digital products, AI agents and business systems.

We work with companies in Kenya and around the world, and hold everything we make to the standard of the best in the world.

## Services

### Experiences

Websites, stores and digital products with a point of view: designed with intent, fast on any phone and built to be easy to run once they launch.

- [Websites](https://asterisk.co.ke/services/experiences/#websites): Company, marketing and launch sites that load fast and are easy to update.
- [Interactive & WebGL](https://asterisk.co.ke/services/experiences/#interactive): 3D, motion and interactive pieces for launches, campaigns and products.
- [E-commerce](https://asterisk.co.ke/services/experiences/#e-commerce): Online stores, catalogues and checkouts built around how you sell.
- [Digital products](https://asterisk.co.ke/services/experiences/#digital-products): Products and platforms taken from a first idea to a launched release.

### Intelligence

Agents, automations and integrations that take repetitive work off your team, answer customers around the clock and keep information moving between your tools.

- [AI agents](https://asterisk.co.ke/services/intelligence/#ai-agents): Agents that answer customers on WhatsApp and the web, qualify leads and book appointments.
- [Automation](https://asterisk.co.ke/services/intelligence/#automation): Workflows that move information between your tools, without copy and paste.
- [Integrations](https://asterisk.co.ke/services/intelligence/#integrations): CRMs, payments, messaging, AI models and data connected into one system.
- [Business systems](https://asterisk.co.ke/services/intelligence/#business-systems): Internal tools, dashboards and portals your team runs the business on.

### Software

Web and mobile applications engineered for real use: secure, maintainable and designed by the same people who build them, from the first screen to the database.

- [Web applications](https://asterisk.co.ke/services/software/#web-applications): Platforms, portals and SaaS products, designed and engineered end to end.
- [Mobile applications](https://asterisk.co.ke/services/software/#mobile-applications): iOS and Android apps for your customers or your team.
- [Custom software](https://asterisk.co.ke/services/software/#custom-software): Software built around how your business actually works.

## Work

Client projects, and concepts that show how we design and build. Concepts use invented data and are marked as such.

- [Nuru](https://asterisk.co.ke/work/nuru/) (client project): Donor reports from field data, without the spreadsheet in between. A programme team defines its indicators once and brings in its field data from KoboToolbox or a spreadsheet. Each quarter Nuru computes every figure, checks it against its target and builds the report, ready to send as a PDF, a Word file or a link.
- [Nganya](https://asterisk.co.ke/work/nganya/) (client project): Race a matatu through Nairobi, in the browser. A WebGL racing game that puts you behind the wheel of a decorated matatu on a stylised Nairobi street. Jacaranda trees line the road, Nyerere Road signs flash past, and every matatu wears hand-lettered livery from the real culture.
- [JMERC](https://asterisk.co.ke/work/jmerc/) (client project): A website for an education NGO in Uganda, kept current by its own team. A site built around JMERC’s two programmes and the reach behind them. The team publishes its own news, resources, gallery and vacancies, and partners and donors can take the next step from any page.

## How we work

- Frame: The problem, the scope and the plan.
- Direction: Art direction and a clickable prototype.
- Build: Working software on a live staging link, reviewed as it grows.
- Run: Monitoring, iteration and, for agents, tuning on real conversations.

## Contact

- Email: hello@asterisk.co.ke
- WhatsApp: +254 754 193 490 (https://wa.me/254754193490)
- Book a call: https://cal.com/asterisk.co.ke/30min
- Start a project: https://asterisk.co.ke/start/
- Location: Nairobi, Kenya