About Praxis

We build the operating
system your organization
already runs on

Every organization has processes, hierarchies, and workflows that define how it operates. Most of them are invisible. Praxis makes them visible, measurable, and improvable.

The Thesis

African organizations run on
implicit operating systems

In most African companies, the real operating system isn't software. It's the WhatsApp group where decisions get made. The Excel sheet where payroll happens on the 24th. The unwritten rule about who can approve what. The mentorship that travels through relationships, not programs. The authority that follows trust, not titles.

Western HR software was built to digitize what was already explicit. It assumes formal processes, clean org charts, and standardized workflows. It takes what's written and makes it more efficient. But in African organizations, the things that matter most were never written down.

Praxis starts from the opposite assumption: your organization already has an operating system. It works. It's just invisible. Our job is not to impose structure, but to make the existing structure visible, measurable, and improvable without destroying what makes it effective.

The platform today
Modules25+
Categories7
MarketsNigeria, Kenya, Ghana
AI-poweredPraxis AI
RecruitingOnboardingPeoplePayrollPerformanceLeaveExpensesAIRecognitionCommunity
What We Believe

Principles, not platitudes

01

Make the implicit explicit

Every African organization runs on invisible systems: unspoken authority, informal delegation, decisions that travel through relationships rather than reporting lines. Western software digitizes what's already written down. Praxis surfaces what was never written down in the first place.

02

Model how it actually works

Authority is relational, not positional. Delegation is participatory, not transactional. Development is mentorship, not courseware. The employer-employee contract extends beyond salary. We build for these realities instead of pretending the org chart is the truth.

03

Clarity creates performance

When expectations are unspoken, people optimize for survival, not excellence. The floor becomes the ceiling. Praxis makes goals, standards, and growth trajectories visible so that people can aim higher than 'don't get in trouble.'

04

Density over decoration

Our users are operators, not browsers. Every screen earns its space. We choose information density and operational clarity over empty states and marketing polish. The product should feel like an instrument, not a brochure.

Team

Built by operators, for operators

OO

Olumide Okubadejo

Founder & CEO

PhD in AI. Former AI team lead at Spotify. Former Head of Product, Data and AI at Sabi, where he led teams across finance, logistics, and marketplace platforms. Built Praxis from the realization that every tool his teams used became the process it was meant to support.

BB

Bidemi Borishade

Co-founder & COO

MBA from France, with deep experience in business operations and organizational strategy across European and African markets. Leads Praxis's go-to-market, partnerships, and internal operations. Ensures the product solves real operational problems by running Praxis's own organization on Praxis, closing the gap between what the product promises and what operators actually need.

We're hiring engineers, designers, and operators who want to build the infrastructure layer for African organizations.

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Journey

From internal tool to operating system

2024
Q3Praxis conceived as an internal tool at Tegence to manage a growing team across multiple ventures.
Q4Decision to build Praxis as a standalone product. Initial architecture designed around the insight that African organizations run on implicit operating systems.
2025
Q1Core HRIS modules built: employee directory, leave management, departments, teams. First internal deployment.
Q2Talent pipeline added: recruiting, preboarding, onboarding, offboarding. The lifecycle becomes sequential.
Q3Performance, goals, and learning modules. Praxis AI conception: the organizational intelligence layer.
Q425-module platform complete. Tasks, boards, calendar, expenses, recognition, community, documents, devices. Beta with early partners.
2026
Q1Design system overhaul. Editorial Confidence aesthetic. Payroll computation with statutory compliance for Nigeria.
Q2Public launch. Payroll bank disbursement live in Nigeria. Free tier for up to 25 employees.
Q3Kenya payroll computation. Praxis AI general availability. 50+ organizations on platform.
Q4Kenya bank disbursement. Ghana payroll. Enterprise tier with multi-entity support.
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Every tool we adopted became the process it was meant to support. The OKR tool became how we set goals. The org chart became how we understood hierarchy. But none of them could model how the organization actually ran: who really had authority, how decisions actually traveled, where accountability actually lived. The question was never which HR tool to buy. It was: what operating system does this organization already run on, and why can't any software see it?
Olumide Okubadejo
Founder, Praxis
Built at
Tegence
AI products for African markets
Lagos, Nigeria
Headquartered
2024
Founded

Your organization already has
an operating system.

Now you can see it.