Built from frustration.
Driven by purpose.
It started with a problem our founder Brian G Kayen Bikuri kept seeing: Kenyan businesses with extraordinary products were losing customers because their online stores were slow, confusing, or simply broken on mobile. International agencies didn't understand the local market. Local developers didn't prioritize design.
Black Shepherd Technologies was the answer. A Nairobi-native studio that combines world-class design thinking with deep knowledge of how Kenyans actually shop online — their devices, their data speeds, their payment preferences, their trust signals.
Six years later, we've designed over 150 stores across Kenya — from solo artisans in Kamukunji to enterprise brands in Westlands — and every single one was built with the same obsessive attention to craft and conversion that defined Day One.