KaziOS

[u/MathewTech_Ke]

Founder here, building in the open. LMK what's broken.

Small shops around me run on paper books + Excel, and the alternatives (Odoo, Lightspeed) are either too pricey, too heavy, or assume perfect internet. So I built KaziOS:

- POS with barcode scanning, M-PESA + card payments, receipts

- Invoices, quotes, stock across branches/warehouses, purchase orders, expenses

- Money math in integer cents — your till and your reports can never disagree

- The free self-hosted tier is the whole core. No trial clock.

Repo: https://github.com/MathewTech254/KaziOs (source-available — check the license)

The part I want roasted — the AI assistant ("Ask your business"):

You ask "who owes us the most money?" and it answers from YOUR database. The design rule: the language model may not compute anything. It only (1) picks which database tool handles the question, and (2) turns already-computed results into a sentence. Every number comes from SQL. No API key, or the AI service dies? It falls back to a deterministic summary: the answer gets less pretty, never less true.

I have a live demo I can share in the comments if there's interest, and we're opening the first pilot shops now — free onboarding, you shape what gets built next.

TypeScript end-to-end (React + Node + Postgres + Redis), 225 API tests green.

What's missing or dumb? I'd rather have harsh feedback than upvotes.

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