AkongNe
Diaspora Commerce OS
Every kind of business. One marketplace. Growing together.
AkongNe is a shared home for independent diaspora businesses that usually run on their own. Instead of every owner building a separate site, each runs as its own branded storefront on one marketplace, so a shopper who comes for electronics also discovers the beauty supply next door and the grill down the street. The platform ships a ready-made template for almost any trade: retail goods, wholesale and reseller, food for order-ahead pickup, full-service restaurants and bars with dine-in tables, a kitchen display, reservations verified by PIN and open tabs, beauty and salon bookings, fashion and tailoring with custom commissions, auto care with work orders, freight and cargo with three-party shipments and container tracking, real estate with a complete property manager for units, leases, rent, maintenance and owner reports, training with courses and enrollments, and photography with proofing galleries and packages. Owners who run more than one location manage each branch on its own, then see them consolidated in one view, with built-in business intelligence that names the cash cow and explains why one branch outperforms another. Staff clock in on site or by geofence, the app counts the real hours, and those verified hours roll straight into fair pay. A trust ladder takes a store from listed to verified to trusted, so buyers know who they are dealing with. An advanced two-tier AI runs the floor: a marketplace assistant helps shoppers across the whole market, and every store gets its own assistant named after its owner and trained on its products. An automation engine turns any event, a new order, an outbid, an inquiry, into an owner-configurable message or workflow. Every store gets a printable QR poster, branded receipts, distance-based delivery or pickup, in-app chat, and pay-before or pay-on-arrival. Nothing is hardcoded; every price, policy, and message is owner-editable. Built by TaTech, in English, French, Pidgin, and Spanish.
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The problem
Diaspora business owners each operate on their own: a separate website, separate payments, separate marketing, all paid for and run solo, while the customer next door never learns the store down the street even exists. Shoppers juggle a different site, a different login, and a different checkout for every store, and small businesses that could lift each other up stay invisible to one another. The platforms that exist template every store into sameness, take a cut, and help no one grow.
How it works
A ready-made template for your trade
Retail, wholesale, restaurants and bars, beauty, fashion and tailoring, auto, freight and cargo, real estate, training, and photography each come as a complete, owner-editable template, with the right tools already in place: a menu and tables, a booking calendar, custom commissions, work orders, container tracking, a property manager, or a proofing gallery, depending on the trade.
One storefront, every way to sell
Each business keeps its own branded storefront, QR poster, and receipts. Customers order, book, reserve, or bid, pay before or on arrival by CashApp, Zelle, or cash, choose pickup with a PIN or distance-based delivery, and chat in the app. One marketplace, one checkout.
Run many branches as one
Owners manage each location on its own, then see every branch consolidated in a single view. Built-in business intelligence names the cash cow, explains the gap between branches, and says what to fix at each one. Staff clock in by geofence and verified hours roll straight into fair pay.
Trust and a two-tier AI
A verification ladder takes a store from listed to verified to trusted. A marketplace assistant helps shoppers across the whole market while each store gets its own assistant named after the owner, and an automation engine turns every event into an owner-configurable workflow.
What it does
- A ready-made, branded storefront and back office for almost any trade, never a generic template
- Retail and wholesale: online ordering, inventory, reseller pricing, pickup PIN, and distance-based delivery
- Restaurants and bars: menu, dine-in tables, kitchen display, reservations verified by PIN, and open tabs
- Beauty, fashion, and auto: salon bookings, custom tailoring commissions, and repair work orders
- Freight and cargo: three-party shipments, container and sailing tracking, door-to-door status
- Real estate: a full property manager for units, leases, rent, maintenance, and owner reports, plus public stays
- Training and photography: courses and enrollments, proofing galleries and packages
- Multi-branch consolidation with business intelligence that names the cash cow and explains why
- Fair pay: geofenced clock-in, verified hours straight into payroll, plus a listed-to-trusted verification ladder
- Two-tier AI (a marketplace assistant plus a per-store owner-named assistant) and an event-driven automation engine
- Branded QR posters and receipts, in-app chat, pay-before or pay-on-arrival, nothing hardcoded
- Four languages (English, French, Pidgin, Spanish), works on any phone, built by TaTech
Who it is for
Diaspora business owners across every trade: shops and wholesalers, restaurants and bars, salons, tailors, mechanics, shippers, landlords, trainers, and photographers, who want a real branded storefront and a marketplace that helps them grow, not just a listing. And the shoppers who want to buy, book, and reserve from businesses they trust, all in one place.
See AkongNe for yourself
Visit the live platform, or talk to us about a pilot.