An agency built by people who got tired of hand-offs
Trustwave started in 2018 because clients kept asking the developers who built their product whether we also knew anyone who could market it. Eventually the honest answer was yes — us.
Why we exist
Software agencies build things nobody finds. Marketing agencies drive traffic to products that cannot hold it. Both do good work and both routinely fail the client, because the gap between them is where the outcome actually lives.
We run one team across both. The engineer who built the checkout sits in the same review as the marketer buying the traffic that lands on it. When conversion drops, nobody has to file a ticket with another company to find out why.
We are 24 people in Nairobi, working with clients across East Africa, the UK and the Gulf. We take on fewer projects than we could, because the model only works when senior people are genuinely on your project rather than supervising it from a distance.
- 2018
- Founded
- 24
- People
- 120+
- Projects shipped
- 11
- Countries served
Four things we will not trade away
Say the hard thing early
If a deadline is unrealistic or a feature is a bad idea, you hear it in week one, not in the retrospective. Uncomfortable early beats expensive later.
One team, not three vendors
Marketers, designers and engineers sit on the same project. Nobody gets to blame a hand-off, because there isn't one.
Measure what pays the bills
Impressions and story points are inputs. We report on the numbers your finance team recognises.
Leave it ownable
Documented code, trained editors, no proprietary lock-in. Success means you could run it without us.
Who you will actually work with
Brian Mumo
Founder & Principal Engineer
Fifteen years building products for startups and banks. Spends most of his time on architecture reviews and arguing for smaller scope.
Naomi Achieng
Head of Growth
Ran acquisition at two DTC brands before joining. Believes most marketing problems are measurement problems wearing a disguise.
Tomas Herrera
Design Director
Brand and product design, usually at the same time. Previously built the design system behind a 200-person fintech.
Priya Raman
Lead Product Engineer
Full-stack, with a bias toward boring technology and aggressive test coverage. Owns our delivery standards.
Kevin Oduor
Data Lead
Warehouse modelling and analytics engineering. Has strong opinions about what counts as a conversion.
Lucy Wambui
Client Partner
Keeps scope honest and timelines real. The person clients call first, and the reason projects land on time.
How we got here
- 2018Founded as a two-person development shop in Nairobi.
- 2020Added the growth practice after clients kept asking who would market what we built.
- 2022Opened the design studio and shipped our first full brand-to-product engagement.
- 2024Grew to 24 people across engineering, growth, design and data.
- 2026Working with clients across East Africa, the UK and the Gulf.
We are usually booked six weeks out
If you have something starting next quarter, now is roughly the right time to talk. Tell us the shape of it and we will tell you honestly whether we can take it.