Welcome to the Corebalt blog

We started Corebalt with a simple conviction: Kenyan businesses deserve software built for how they actually work — not foreign systems bent awkwardly into shape, and not spreadsheets stretched past breaking point.

This blog is where we’ll share what we learn building it.

What we’ll write about

• Product deep-dives — how LenderFest handles M-Pesa repayments, how our POS stays compliant with eTIMS, and what’s under the hood of the shared core.
• Engineering notes — the practical realities of building payment integrations, data pipelines, and resilient systems for the Kenyan market.
• The local context — KRA and CBK compliance, Daraja, and the regulatory landscape every operator has to navigate.

Why local matters

Money in Kenya moves over M-Pesa. Compliance runs through KRA and CBK. Support is only useful if you can actually reach someone in your timezone, in your language. These aren’t features you bolt on at the end — they shape the architecture from day one.

That’s the thread running through everything we build, and everything we’ll write here.

Have a topic you’d like us to cover? Get in touch — we read every message.

More soon.