Someone is holding it together by hand

I’m Timothy Essuman. I build the systems, sites and tools that replace the by-hand version of the work, and I spent five years doing that work myself before I wrote any of the code.

Worked with

  • GreenEarth Agro Industries

    ERP and public site · Ghana

  • PROVRB

    Satellite compliance platform · Luxembourg

  • UNICEF StartUp Lab

    Prototype funding, Cohort 5

  • 50+ staff

    Using the systems daily

How I help

What I build

  • The system your work runs on

    Stock, buying, production, payroll. When the spreadsheets stop agreeing with each other and reconciling them has quietly become somebody’s job, that is the point to replace them.

  • A site that says what you actually do

    Marketing sites for businesses and for people working alone. Fast on a Ghanaian phone, written in plain language, and built so you can change the words yourself later.

  • Tools for work that happens off the desk

    Mobile applications for farms, field teams and delivery, built to keep working where the signal drops and to be usable by someone who does not read comfortably.


Selected work

Shipped, and still in use


Why me

I knew the domain before I knew the framework

Five years in procurement and supply chain before the code. Tender evaluation at Ghana National Petroleum Corporation. Procurement and finance at Fresh Zone, where a late delivery is a write-off. Twelve enumerators in the field for the Ghana Statistical Service.

I did not build an ERP because I know NestJS. I built it because I knew what a goods received note is for, and also know NestJS.

It means you do not spend the first three weeks explaining your own work to me, and it means I will tell you when the software is not your actual problem. That travels: the last compliance platform I built was for a company in Luxembourg, and the reasoning was the same one I learned reconciling stock in Ashaiman.

More about how I work.

Tell me what you are holding together

A message is enough to start. The first conversation is free, usually short, and I will tell you honestly whether this is work I should be doing.