MAKAO Labs helps scaling African startups cut cloud waste, build reliable infrastructure, and adopt AI safely — without sending your data outside your own environment.
Fast-growing startups across Africa face a predictable infrastructure ceiling. Most hit all three simultaneously.
Idle resources, oversized instances, orphaned storage, and no visibility into what's driving spend. The bill grows — the value doesn't.
You want to adopt AI but your data is messy, PII is everywhere, and the compliance questions don't have answers yet. AI on a bad foundation amplifies problems.
Government and enterprise clients want audit trails, data residency, and uptime guarantees. Infrastructure immaturity becomes a credibility problem.
Each assessment delivers a structured report with maturity scores, risk findings, and a prioritised roadmap. Priced after we understand your environment.
A deep analysis of your AWS spend delivered in 5 business days. Read-only access only. Most clients identify 15–35% in savings within the first 30 days.
Get a Quote →Architecture design, security posture, scalability, reliability, and observability — evaluated against the maturity level your enterprise clients expect.
DORA metrics baseline, CI/CD pipeline assessment, GitOps readiness, deployment safety, and incident management — mapped to a clear improvement plan.
PII mapping, data infrastructure quality, compliance posture, and AI use case feasibility — with a Zero-Trust adoption roadmap that keeps client data inside your cloud.
Ongoing implementation support, quarterly architecture review, and async access. For teams who want to act on their roadmap without hiring a full-time cloud architect.
Most AI tools require sending your data to external APIs. For startups serving enterprise and government clients across Africa, this creates compliance risk, regulatory exposure, and client trust problems.
MAKAO Labs' Zero-Trust architecture runs AI analysis entirely inside your own cloud environment. Raw logs, customer data, credentials, and PII never leave your infrastructure.
This is the architecture that unlocks AI adoption for the clients who need it most — and can't afford to get it wrong. Currently available as consulting architecture design.
Every engagement runs on a fixed timeline with clear deliverables. You know exactly what you're getting before we start.
30 minutes. We understand your stack, your growth plans, and your current pain points. No jargon, no sales pitch.
We send you exact IAM policy JSON. One read-only role. We cannot modify, delete, or create any resources in your environment.
We do the analysis. Your team gets on with their work. No meetings, no interruptions during the assessment period.
You receive a full report and we walk through every finding. You leave with a clear 30–90 day roadmap.
Our founder comes from inside AWS — with hands-on, daily experience in cloud infrastructure and container deployments. This is pattern recognition built from seeing what actually breaks in production, not consulting from the outside.
We understand the infrastructure challenges of operating across African markets — connectivity variability, compliance landscapes, and the trust requirements of government clients.
We will never recommend AI that requires sending your client data to external APIs. Every AI recommendation keeps data inside your cloud.
Every finding is framed in terms of runway, reliability, and scale — not just technical metrics. We speak to CTOs and founders, not just engineers.
We have no reseller relationships with AWS or any vendor. Our recommendations are based solely on what is right for your infrastructure and budget.
Reports, roadmaps, and findings are yours to keep. No lock-in. Implement independently or continue with our advisory — your choice.
5 business days. Read-only access only. Most clients identify more in savings than the engagement costs — in the first month.