AI Agents for East African Businesses: Architecture, Costs, and Real Numbers
The real cost of running an AI agent in production — token costs, infrastructure, maintenance — and the business cases where the numbers actually work.
Engineering deep-dives, business intelligence, and operational guides for founders and builders working in East Africa and beyond.
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The real cost of running an AI agent in production — token costs, infrastructure, maintenance — and the business cases where the numbers actually work.
A production-grade Paystack integration in Django — initializing transactions, verifying webhooks, handling subscription lifecycle events, and the edge cases Paystack's docs gloss over.
Architecture decisions, trade-offs, and the exact tech stack behind a production multi-tenant Django platform — from schema design to deployment.
Everything we learned building WhatsApp integrations for three production systems — Meta's API, webhooks, message templates, and the approval process.
Most AI agent demos look impressive and collapse in production. Here is what separates the ones that ship from the ones that stall.
STK Push, C2B, B2C, and webhooks — a practical implementation guide covering the Daraja API quirks that the official docs skip.
A breakdown of the most common cloud cost traps — and the self-hosted alternatives that save 60–80% without sacrificing reliability.