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Built for owners, not renters

Stop renting your stack.

You shouldn’t pay rent forever on the software your business runs on. We deploy and run open-source platforms, Odoo, Keycloak, OpenMRS, on infrastructure you own. Themed to your brand. Configured to your operation. Senior engineers, every month.

From $2K / month · Cancel any month

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Built with

The pragmatic stack we trust, deploy, and hand to you.

Why Octgren

An engineering partner, not a vendor.

Most firms rent you software or bill you by the hour. We build you systems you own, and we measure ourselves on whether they actually solve the problem.

You own everything.

Built on open-source foundations. No lock-in, no recurring license traps, full control of your stack.

Senior, lean, fast.

A founder-led core and vetted specialists. No bloated agency overhead, no junior staff learning on your budget.

Outcomes, not hours.

We price and deliver around the result: hours saved, cost removed, revenue enabled.

Global standard, sharp value.

Nairobi-based, delivering worldwide across overlapping time zones, at a value international teams can't match.

Services · Four pillars

What we build.

Four ways we turn a problem into working software.

01

Custom Software & Tools

Bespoke web and full-stack applications, internal tools, dashboards, and platforms built to your exact problem.

  • web apps
  • internal tools
  • dashboards
  • client portals
02

Automation & Integrations

Connect the systems you already run and remove manual work. CRMs, payments, comms, and data wired together and automated.

  • workflow automation
  • API integrations
  • data sync
  • no-touch ops
03

Applied AI / ML & Data

Practical AI that earns its keep: assistants and copilots, document and data processing, intelligent automation, and analytics pipelines.

  • AI assistants
  • document processing
  • smart automation
  • analytics
04

Open-Source Platforms & Support

We implement mature open-source platforms end-to-end. Odoo for ERP, CRM, and accounting. Keycloak for SSO and identity. Plus the rest of the stack you'd otherwise rent. White-label the theme to your brand, configure modules and workflows to fit your operation, and stay on a support plan so you don't need an in-house OSS specialist.

  • Odoo
  • ERPNext
  • Keycloak
  • OpenMRS
  • HAPI FHIR
  • Superset
  • Metabase
  • white-label theming
  • managed support

Platforms · We deploy & maintain

Platforms we implement.

Mature, battle-tested open-source platforms we deploy on your infrastructure, theme to your brand, and configure to your operation. Including a quietly growing book of health-tech work on OpenMRS and HAPI FHIR.

Don’t see your stack?

We’ve probably implemented it, or one very close. Tell us what you’re trying to deploy and we’ll give a straight answer about fit.

Ask about a platform
  • Odoo

    ERP · CRM · Accounting

    Implement, theme, and configure modules end-to-end.

  • ERPNext

    Open ERP

    Set up books, inventory, and operations on owned infra.

  • Keycloak

    SSO · Identity · Access

    Unify login across your apps with SSO, MFA, and SCIM.

  • OpenMRS

    Open EHR

    Clinical record systems configured to your facility’s workflows.

  • HAPI FHIR

    Healthcare Interop

    FHIR servers and integrations that talk to the rest of health IT.

  • Apache Superset

    Self-served BI

    Self-host dashboards your team can build and own.

  • Metabase

    Analytics · Dashboards

    Get from raw data to a board-ready dashboard in days.

  • ClickHouse

    OLAP · Event analytics

    Sub-second analytics on billions of rows, on your hardware.

How we work

How we work.

A low-risk path from problem to owned, working software.

  1. 01Step 1 of 4

    Discover.

    A short call to confirm the problem, scope, and fit, before anyone commits to anything.

  2. 02Step 2 of 4

    Diagnose.

    A low-risk paid audit or sprint that maps the work and proves value before a larger build.

  3. 03Step 3 of 4

    Build.

    Senior-led delivery with proactive communication, version control, and clear milestones.

  4. 04Step 4 of 4

    Own.

    You get documented, open code and a system you fully control. We can stay on retainer, by choice, never by lock-in.

Quick ways to start

Four ways to start owning.

Fixed scope, clear price, fast outcome. Pick an entry point and we’ll take it from there.

Diagnostic01

Automation Audit

A fixed-fee diagnostic. We map your manual workflows, name the bottlenecks, and quantify the hours and dollars you’d reclaim by automating them.

2–3 weeks02

Integration Sprint

A focused two-to-three week build that connects your CRM, payments, comms, and ops tools into one no-touch flow you can audit and extend.

Packaged03

AI Quick-Start

Ship your first practical AI workflow as a packaged engagement. An assistant, a document pipeline, or a smart automation, in your stack and supported.

Implementation04

OSS Implementation & Support

Deploy, theme, configure, and run Odoo, Keycloak, OpenMRS, or a similar OSS platform on your infrastructure. White-label theming and a monthly support plan included.

From$2K/ month

Implementation + ongoing support · cancel any month

Get started

Selected work

The kind of problems we solve.

Representative engagements from our recent work. Detailed case studies are published as clients approve them; ask for references during a scoping call.

case-study

Ops Automation Platform

A services firm drowning in manual data entry.

Outcome

70% less manual work.

  • Automation
  • Integrations
case-study

AI Document Pipeline

A team processing thousands of documents by hand.

Outcome

Hours of review cut to minutes.

  • Applied AI
  • Data
case-study

Open-Source Migration

A business paying steep recurring license fees.

Outcome

Licensing costs eliminated, full ownership.

  • Open Source
  • Migration

References on request

We’ll connect you with past clients during scoping so you can hear about the work in their words, not ours.

Request a reference

About

Built in Nairobi. Delivered worldwide.

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--:--EAT · UTC+3

Overlap windows

  • Europe10:00–18:00 EAT
  • Middle East08:00–17:00 EAT
  • Asia08:00–14:00 EAT
  • Americas (East)15:00–19:00 EAT

Octgren Solutions is a software company that pairs senior, open-source-first engineering with honesty, speed, and ownership. We run lean. A founder-led core supported by a vetted network of specialists, so you get enterprise-grade work without enterprise overhead. We don’t trap clients in our tools; we build systems you control and hand you the keys.

100%

Code shipped to clients

0

License fees on our stack

< 24h

First reply, weekdays

  • EAT · UTC+3 · overlapping global time zones
  • Senior, hands-on team
  • Founder-led delivery

FAQ

Direct answers to the questions buyers ask.

Still curious?

Ask anything. A real engineer will write you back, usually the same day.

Ask a question
  • 01Do you implement specific platforms like Odoo or Keycloak?

    Yes. We implement and run mature open-source platforms end-to-end. Most often Odoo and ERPNext (ERP, CRM, accounting, inventory), Keycloak (SSO and identity), OpenMRS and HAPI FHIR (clinical records and healthcare interoperability), and Apache Superset, Metabase, and ClickHouse (analytics, dashboards, and event data). The path is the same in each case: deploy to your infrastructure, white-label the theme to match your brand, configure modules and workflows to fit how you actually operate, and stay on a support plan so you don’t need a full-time OSS specialist on payroll. Support engagements start at $2,000 per month and you can cancel any month.

  • 02Why do you default to open-source?

    Because you should own what you pay to build. Open foundations remove license traps, eliminate vendor lock-in, and give you a system you can host, audit, fork, and extend forever. We’ll always recommend a proprietary tool when it genuinely fits, but we won’t make it the load-bearing wall of your business.

  • 03How does pricing work?

    Fixed scope, fixed price. We start with a paid audit or diagnostic so both sides understand the work, then quote the build as a single number against clear deliverables. No surprise hourly invoices, no scope creep tax. For ongoing work we offer monthly retainers you can leave at any time.

  • 04Who owns the code and the IP?

    You do. From day one. We push to a repository you own, document what we build, and hand over admin to every system we deploy. If you want to fire us and run everything yourself the next day, you can.

  • 05You’re in Nairobi. Will time zones be a problem?

    No. EAT (UTC+3) gives us a full workday overlap with Europe, the Middle East, and most of Asia, and an afternoon overlap with the US East Coast. Most clients find communication faster than with their previous agencies, not slower.

  • 06What’s the smallest engagement you’ll take?

    Our Automation Audit and AI Quick-Start packages are designed exactly for this. They’re a low-risk way to work with us, get something useful shipped, and decide together whether a larger build makes sense.

  • 07Do you work with non-technical founders?

    Often. We translate between business problems and engineering decisions, recommend the smallest thing that solves the problem, and explain trade-offs in plain language. You don’t need to know what Postgres is to work with us.

Contact

Have a problem worth solving?

Tell us what you’re trying to build or automate. We’ll reply with a clear, honest path forward. No jargon, no pressure.

  1. 1

    You write to us.

    A sentence or a spec, both work.

  2. 2

    We reply within 24h.

    Weekdays. A real engineer, not a form bot.

  3. 3

    30-min scoping call.

    Free. We confirm fit before quoting.

  4. 4

    A written path forward.

    Scope, timeline, fixed price within 48h.

Or email us directly

octgren@gmail.com

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