Alcra designs, builds and maintains software products and business systems for companies and founders looking for a long-term development partner.
Building software from Harare since 2019. Working across Africa and internationally.
ZenHost and Mutumwa make us responsible for more than delivering a specification.
We decide what to build, test products against real workflows, run the infrastructure, support the software and live with our technical decisions after release. We bring that same sense of ownership to client work.
Selected work
Executive education delivered through a public website and learning platform.
Alcra was the development partner responsible for implementing The Inflection Point's public website and digital learning platform.
View The Inflection Point
A modern operations platform for hosting providers.
ZenHost brings infrastructure, customer accounts and application management into one system. It is currently being piloted with NivaCity while Alcra hardens the product for wider use.
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Delivery operations for Harare, from quotation through completion.
Mutumwa connects merchants, drivers, recipients and operations teams across dispatch, tracking, custody, settlement and failed-delivery handling.
View MutumwaWhat we build
For founders and companies bringing a new digital product to market. We help define the product, build the first release, launch it and continue development afterwards.
For organisations replacing spreadsheets, manual workflows, disconnected tools or software that no longer fits how the business operates.
For teams with working software that needs new features, stabilisation, technical improvement or dependable delivery capacity.
For teams that need clarity before committing to development. We assess the product or system and produce a practical scope, technical direction and delivery plan.
How we work
We explain technical decisions in terms of delivery time, cost and risk, not only engineering language.
Alcra's leadership remains directly involved in product and technical decisions. Delivery is supported by a growing engineering team working under direct technical leadership, with sales and support handled in-house.
Clients work with people who understand the product rather than a chain of account managers passing information between teams.
You do not need a specification, a budget or a brief. A paragraph about the problem is a fine place to start.
