Run the business.
Build the institution.
Most growing African companies are run from a spreadsheet, a WhatsApp group, a drawer of paper and the owner's memory. That works, until a customer disputes a delivery, a licence lapses, or a bank asks for twelve months of anything.
OraOS Business is the operating system for those companies. It runs the daily work of selling, buying, holding stock and moving money, and the record it quietly produces is the record of a company worth investing in.
Businesses do not fail the bank on numbers.
They fail it on evidence.
How the business actually runs today
- Sales recorded in a book, then typed into a spreadsheet at month end, if there is time
- Approvals given verbally, or on a call, with nothing written down
- Stock counted when someone remembers, usually after something has run out
- Documents in a drawer, a laptop, an email inbox and an accountant's office at once
- Cash position known only by looking at the bank app and doing sums in your head
- Everything important held by one or two people who cannot take leave
What the bank asks for
- Audited accounts, and management accounts that are actually up to date
- Twelve months of bank statements that reconcile to the sales you claim
- A cash flow forecast that shows you understand your own seasonality
- Proof of who owns the company, and who is allowed to commit it
- Current licences, tax standing and insurance cover
- Contracts with the customers your projections depend on
A good business gets turned away not because it is not profitable, but because it cannot show what it knows. OraOS Business closes that gap as a by-product of ordinary work, rather than as a project you have to find three weeks for.
Eight rooms, each answering one question
in your own language.
There is no module list to learn and no accounting vocabulary to survive. Every screen is named after the question an owner actually asks.
What is happening in my business today?
Cash, what you are owed, what you owe, stock, sales this month and the handful of things only you can settle. One screen, read in fifteen seconds.
Who buys from me, and who owes me?
Customers, quotations, orders, invoices, receipts and an ageing of every unpaid shilling. Open a customer and see their whole history in one place.
What am I buying, and what do I owe?
Suppliers, requests, purchase orders, bills and payments, with approval rules so a payment above your threshold cannot leave without you.
What do I have, and where is it going?
Every bank account, mobile money wallet and cash box in one balance. Money in, money out, running costs against a simple budget, and cash projected six weeks ahead.
What do I hold, and what is running out?
Items, quantities, locations, movements in and out with a name against each one, stock value, and a warning before a line stops rather than after.
Who is responsible for what?
Your team, what each person is responsible for, what they are allowed to approve, what is waiting on a decision, and a trail of every action taken.
Is my company properly documented?
Incorporation, TIN, licences, contracts, insurance, policies, bank and ownership records in one room, marked complete, missing, expired or expiring, with reminders.
How financeable is this business?
A transparent readiness score built from eight components, a ranked list of what to fix next, and a Financing Room that assembles everything a lender asks for.
Intelligence sits inside the work, not in a separate chatbot.
Ora reads the workspace and answers in the owner's language. In this alpha the answers are scripted from the demo records and are clearly marked as such.
Financing readiness.
Not a score that judges you.
A credit score tells you what someone else has decided about your past. Financing readiness tells you what is missing and what to do about it, in order, with the points each fix is worth.
- Complete the July management accounts+8%
- Prepare a 12 month cash flow forecast+7%
- Upload the missing customer contracts+5%
- Renew and upload the insurance certificate+4%
Generate the Financing Room.
Ten sections assembled from records the business already holds: company profile, ownership and directors, financial performance, sales history and major customers, receivables and payables, inventory, suppliers and contracts, cash flow, the financing being requested, and supporting documents.
It prints as a proper pack, with a cover page and a numbered section on each page, or shares as a read only link you can withdraw at any time.
See the Financing RoomFinancing readiness measures how organised and evidenced a business is. It is not a credit score, not a rating and not a promise of financing. Lenders assess on their own criteria, and OraOS has no part in their decision.
A spreadsheet records what happened.
An operating system builds a company.
Spreadsheets are excellent, which is why every growing business reaches for one. The difficulty is not the maths. It is everything the maths cannot hold.
Designed around how business is actually done.
Shillings, written the way you write them
UGX throughout, in figures an owner reads at a glance rather than accounting notation.
Mobile money sits beside the bank
An MTN or Airtel wallet is a real account holding real money, not a footnote to a bank balance.
Made to work on a phone
The whole product is built for a phone screen first, because that is where most of it will be read.
Approvals that match reality
The owner approves above a threshold and a manager below it, which is how these businesses already work.
The paperwork that actually exists
Certificate of incorporation, TIN, trading licence, NSSF, insurance, supply agreements and audited accounts.
Honest about what is not built
Bank and mobile money feeds are planned, not live. Anything not yet real is labelled as planned, everywhere.
Alpha 0.1, and clear about it.
See it with a real business in it.
Five minutes in the demo explains this better than any page can. Start on Today, approve the supplier payment, then open Financing readiness.