We're building the
compliance infrastructure
Africa - and the world -
has been waiting for.
Tax is one of the few certainties in business. Staying compliant shouldn't be one of the hardest. We're here to change that.
Remove the friction entirely.
Across Africa and emerging markets, millions of businesses want to do the right thing, keep clean books, invoice properly, and pay their taxes. But the tools and systems make it needlessly hard, turning compliance into a tax on time, money and peace of mind. We exist to remove that friction entirely - so compliance becomes automatic, affordable and accessible to everyone.
Hours lost to bookkeeping, invoicing and reconciliation done by hand.
Government systems that don't talk to each other — or to you.
Tax rules that move faster than spreadsheets can keep up.
Authorities with no way to file electronically — until now.
A clear vision. A focused mission.
To be Africa's most reliable tax and bookkeeping infrastructure, powering commerce to thrive.
To eliminate every friction businesses and individuals in Africa experience with regulators, so they can focus on growing their businesses and crafts.
Engineers, tax experts, designers and operators.
We've lived the problem from every angle, building products, running finance teams, advising on tax and scaling platforms.
Combining deep domain knowledge with world-class engineering.
Kelechi Ibe
CEOA distinguished Corporate and Tax Attorney with over a decade advising domestic and multinational organisations across tax, finance, corporate structuring, compliance and transaction advisory. Has worked at KPMG, Latham & Watkins, and Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie, advising on transactions cumulatively exceeding US$4bn. 2nd Vice-Chair of the Taxation Committee of the NBA-Section on Business Law, and an ITR Tax Rising Star.
Ayo Samuel
CTO | AI Systems & InfrastructureSam Ayo is a technology leader and AI research engineer focused on building intelligent systems that operate at the intersection of artificial intelligence, financial infrastructure and complex regulatory technology. He is the Chief Technology Officer of TaxStreem, where he leads the company's technology strategy and engineering organization and is building an AI-native tax and financial infrastructure platform for Africa and emerging markets.
His work is centered on a problem he believes will define the next generation of applied AI:
How do we turn increasingly capable AI models into dependable infrastructure for consequential, real-world systems?
At TaxStreem, this means going beyond building AI features. Sam Ayo architects the underlying systems that connect machine intelligence with data, financial workflows, regulatory rules and production infrastructure. His work spans large language models, machine learning, data engineering, distributed systems, cloud architecture, MLOps and intelligent automation.
Under his technical leadership, TaxStreem is developing systems that can understand tax legislation and financial records, reason over complex regulatory requirements, maintain accounting intelligence, generate compliant financial workflows and interact with government systems. The goal is not simply to automate individual tasks, but to build an intelligent infrastructure layer through which businesses can interact with increasingly complex financial and regulatory systems.
Sam Ayo's work sits at the intersection of AI research and systems engineering. He has designed and deployed intelligent systems spanning machine learning, large language models, data platforms and distributed software, with a focus on the challenges of taking AI from experimental models into reliable production infrastructure. His technical interests include machine intelligence, quantitative modelling, AI systems, distributed computing and the application of intelligent systems to complex real-world problems.
His background combines quantitative economics with computer science, machine learning and production engineering giving him an unusually broad view of both the mathematical foundations of AI and the engineering required to make those systems useful at scale.
He is a Certified AI Engineer and Fellow of the Artificial Intelligence Board of America (ARTiBA), three-time AI hackathon winner and is a Microsoft-certified AI Engineer.
Ayo's broader interest lies in the evolution of AI from software capability into infrastructure, systems that do not merely generate outputs, but perceive, reason, act, learn and operate within the constraints of the real world.
His long-term focus is building the technical foundations that allow Africa to move from being a consumer of global technology to a builder of the intelligent infrastructure that will power its next economic era.