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Bespoke builds

The team that built LekeeLekee can build with you.

We are not an agency with a slide deck. We are the team that designed, built and runs a full social platform, and we take on a small number of outside projects where that experience counts.

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The case study

The proof is the product.

LekeeLekee is our case study. One team built all of it.

  1. A social networkFeed, profiles, Pages, groups, news, search and moderation.
  2. Messaging and callingPrivate messaging, voice and video calls, group meetings and calls out to phone numbers.
  3. Live and audioLive video streaming and live audio rooms, free and paid.
  4. MoneyA wallet, payments through local partners, tipping and creator payouts.
  5. An advertising businessA self-service ad platform with billing in several currencies and delivery onto partner news sites.
  6. Every platformAndroid, iPhone, the web and a desktop app, kept in step by the same team.
Pace

We move fast. Here is the count.

Speed is easy to claim, so these are counted from our own code history, with the dates.

184 changes in one week

The week of 5 to 9 October 2026, across the server, the apps, the desktop app and the broadcaster.

4,565 changes since day one

From the first on 28 August 2025 to 9 October 2026. Each one a piece of work written, checked and kept.

267 features, 23 areas

What the platform does, from our feature inventory compiled in August 2026. More has shipped since.

One week

A week of work, in 34 seconds.

A 34 second film of what was built in the week of 5 to 9 October 2026: sixteen things, each with its real change note, and the running count. It has music and no speech.
Infrastructure

Built to serve people anywhere.

LekeeLekee is used at home in Nigeria and by the diaspora on other continents, at the same moment. The platform underneath is built for that.

  1. Delivered from nearbyPictures and video are served from a content network with locations around the world, so they load from close to the person, whether in Lagos, London or Houston. Worldwide
  2. No single point of failureThe service runs on several servers in separate data centres behind a load balancer. Releases roll out one server at a time, so members never see a maintenance page. Always on
  3. Real time across continentsCalls, meetings and live video travel over a global real-time network, built to hold up when one end is on a weak mobile signal. Live
  4. Made to growSearch, caching, background work and media each run as their own service, so the busy part can be scaled without touching the rest. Scales
How a small team does it

AI is part of how we build, and how you could.

A modern business is shaped by how well it uses AI. We use it every day, and we know where it helps and where it does not.

Engineers and AI, side by side

Our engineers work with AI coding tools all day. People decide what to build and check every change. AI does much of the writing, the testing and the checking.

Built into the product

AI helps keep the community safe, drafts advert copy, and powers the assistant inside LekeeLekee. A person makes the final call where it matters.

Honest about its limits

It is fast and it is sometimes wrong. We put a person and a test between AI and anything that reaches your customers.

Brought to your business

We will show you where AI would save your team real time, build it in, and leave you able to run it.

Automated testing

Tested on real phones, with AI at the heart.

A change is not finished when it compiles. Ours is built, installed on an actual phone and used the way a member would use it, without anyone lifting a finger. We can set the same up for you.

  1. On real devices, not simulatorsA test machine builds the app, installs it on a real Android phone and taps through it: sign in, the feed, messages, games, links. What breaks on a real phone is found on a real phone. Real phones
  2. On every changeEach change to the app is picked up within minutes, built and run through the critical journeys. The full set runs every night. Every change
  3. AI writes the tests with the codeWhen AI helps write a feature it writes the journey that proves it works, in the same change. A person reviews both. A change that arrives without its test is sent back. AI at the heart
  4. A record you can readEvery run is kept with pass or fail for each journey, a screenshot of each screen and the phone’s own log, so a failure can be seen and not argued about. Evidence
  5. Bugs become testsWhen something slips through, the fix comes with a test that would have caught it, so the same fault cannot come back quietly. No repeats
The market

We understand the market because we live in it.

A diverse team of experts and engineers across the world, building for a market where the usual assumptions do not hold.

Data costs money

We cut the size of pictures and pages hard, and publish what the app uses, because for many members every megabyte is counted.

Phones are not all new

It has to work on a three-year-old Android phone on a busy network, not only on the one in the office.

Money moves locally

Naira pricing and local payment partners, alongside cards for customers abroad.

The challenges

Hard problems we have already solved.

Calls that connect on a poor network

Getting a call to ring, connect and stay up when the signal drops in and out.

A feed that stays fast as it grows

Ranking, caching and media delivery that keep the first screen quick.

Keeping a community safe

Reporting, review queues and automated checks, with people making the final call.

Shipping every week

A small team across time zones releasing to four platforms without stopping the service, with every change tested on a real phone first.

Working together

How we work with you.

We listen first

A call to understand the business problem, not just the feature list.

A plan you can read

What we will build, in what order, what it costs and what we will not do.

Working software early

Something you can use within weeks, then steady releases.

The same people throughout

The team that scopes your project is the team that builds it.

Talk to us

Have something that needs building?

Tell us about it. If we are not the right team, we will say so.

  • We will tell you if LekeeLekee is not right for you.
  • We reply to the email address you give.
  • Your details are used to answer you, and for updates only if you ask.

A person reads every message. Privacy