Founder Story
Built by someone who taught in these schools.
Collins Ndolo — Physics teacher, academic coordinator, STEM educator, AI in Education trainer, and founder of Msingi.
The origin
The problem was not obvious at first. It became visible over years — in the timetable that took a week to build by hand, in the report cards that kept the staff room busy for three weeks every term, in the parent who called five times asking about a fee receipt that nobody could find quickly enough.
The gap wasn't that schools lacked technology. Most schools had computers. Some had software. But the software was built for somewhere else — built for systems and workflows that had nothing to do with an East African school managing CBC, collecting fees via M-Pesa, and generating KCSE-ready reports.
The question that started Msingi was simple: what would school management software look like if you started with the school, not with the software?
The answer took years of teaching, coordinating, training, and building to find. Msingi is that answer — built from inside the problem, not looking at it from outside.
The journey
Five roles. One direction.
Physics Teacher
Teaching secondary school physics and seeing first-hand how administrative overhead cuts into teaching time.
Academic Coordinator
Managing timetables, reports, and academic records — and running them on spreadsheets that were never designed for the job.
STEM Educator
Training teachers in technology and watching great educators struggle with tools that worked against them.
AI in Education Trainer
Exploring how AI can support African education without replacing the educator at the centre of it.
Founder, Msingi
Building the platform he always needed — and never found.
Our mission
"To give every African school the operational clarity and institutional intelligence to focus on what they were built to do — educate."