Denis Opudo
Locating people or places is becoming a challenge given the high number of people found in the world. It is even much harder to locate a person in countries like Kenya. Kenya has one of the dense slums globally. The townhouses, apartments, and plots within rural areas are also dense. The use of traditional mapping services like Google maps have not been that helpful. Moreover, Kenya in specific lacks proper postal or national addressing system. This makes it hard to receive posts on one’s doorstep. Furthermore, it hinders access to important services like bank accounts. The bank account opening needs the home address for registration. Many people have gone ahead to buy and share postal addresses at a cost of $30 annually. But, this is that expensive to most people and at the same time, it does not give the bank the needed location data.
Businesses have been unable to give customers best delivery at a favorable cost. This is due to lack of better address system. However, OkHi has come in to solve the whole mess. Timbo Drayson founded the company in 2014 and it has its headquarters in Nairobi Kenya. The company helps people to develop, describe and share their personal addresses. This makes it easier for people they choose to locate them. Moreover, it will improve the efficiency of carrying out businesses. Many addressing solutions use GPS signals to get people closer to the location. However the use of GPS does not get people to the door or the gate but instead, it gets one closer to that.
OkHi also uses GPS signals. It also adds more data inputs like Wifi signals and pictures to addresses. This offers accuracy to the best location. OkHi also helps both local and international businesses to connect with Kenya. This is through the use of custom-built logistics technology stack. It helps businesses to individually manage their logistics. Furthermore, businesses are able to save nearly 30% on time and delivery cost. This ensures an improvement in customer satisfaction and reduction in delivery failure by 30%. The company has also helped businesses to complete more than 100,000 deliveries.
The company has developed a new consumer mobile app. This will enable anyone to create and shares their address. It will also help them to have control over the business to access it. The app is available on Google Play Store and Apple App Store. People can create their own URL to share their address with businesses they choose.
