Ansai Tech

Hazina is a bookkeeping app for small and micro businesses in Africa — specifically, in context, Kenya — with Hazi, its agent, embedded in it. Governments are digitising their systems, but many small and micro businesses have not yet moved to the point of being digitised, and that leads to many conflicts with government. It is a really major pain point when it comes to taxes and tax filing. Hazina helps these businesses stay tax compliant with government standards. This is how it works. A business owner takes their receipts — instead of always writing down the receipts, they can just take a photo of the receipt. We allow the model to read it, to extract the information necessary. Even though a receipt may seem blurry and the information may not all be there, with the information that is given, it is able to reconstruct and give accurate information. Then the business owner confirms that that is exactly what the receipt says. Then in Close with Hazi, they add the M-Pesa statement — or they can paste it — and Hazi reads it, the lines themselves, nothing typed by hand. Reconciliation happens, and where something has not been specified exactly, Hazi asks the owner: this 25,000, was it for rent? This 1,500, was it for transport? The owner answers, and when every question is answered, they save the pack. The figures are frozen and hashed, so even if someone changes something, it can be followed through. And they can ask Hazi anything about the month — is there anything still unanswered? — and Hazi runs through the record and answers from it. Hazina prepares everything; the owner files their returns on iTax. And it is light. For a micro business or a small business that does not have much capital to have systems, huge systems — they do not need computers or systems. If they can have just a single smartphone, and internet, and a few Meta credits, they can keep all their data and be compliant with government in every form. Within five, ten minutes, they are done with everything they are supposed to do. There are tens of millions of micro and small businesses across Africa who will use this product — without a doubt — because their entire tax compliance system is now a click away, in their pockets. Everything in Hazina was built within the days of the hackathon, from scratch.