Founded in Douala,
for all of Africa
Two engineers from Cameroon, one platform, and a single conviction: an entrepreneur in Yaoundé should not pay four times more than one in Paris for the same work.
What we hold to
World-class tools cost what a developer in San Francisco earns in an hour. That is the barrier. Everything below exists to lower it.
0 F
Start without paying
Describe your project, see every deliverable, pay only for what you keep. No card asked for.
3–5×
Priced for the continent
Three to five times below the international platforms, billed in CFA francs, paid by Mobile Money.
Apache 2.0
Readable, forkable, yours
The whole codebase is public, under Apache 2.0 with the Commons Clause. Audit it, run it on your own machine, deliver client work with it. Reselling IDEM itself is the one thing it rules out.
Who you are talking to
IDEM has two co-founders. Both are engineers, both are Cameroonian, and both answer their own email.
Arolle Aguekeng
CEO, co-founder
Senior software engineer. She decides what IDEM builds and what it refuses to build, and she knows the African entrepreneurial ecosystem from the inside.
Romuald Djeteje
CTO, co-founder
DevSecOps engineer. He owns the infrastructure, the security of the platform and everything that has to keep running when traffic grows.
Five words we are held to
African sovereignty
Every technical choice is weighed against one question: who keeps control of the code and the data.
Discipline
We ship what works. A feature that cannot be explained in one sentence is not finished.
Passion
We build for the entrepreneurs we grew up around, and we use the platform for our own company.
Patience
Infrastructure takes years. We would rather be solid in five years than loud this quarter.
Perseverance
Power cuts, payment rails, bandwidth. The obstacles are known, and none of them is a reason to stop.
One rung at a time
2025
IDEM is founded in Douala
Two co-founders, one question: why does a Cameroonian entrepreneur pay four times more for the same tooling?
2027
First public version
Brand identity, business plan, website and go-live, generated end to end from a single description.
2028
The codebase goes public
Everything released under Apache 2.0, with self-hosting documented so nobody depends on us to keep running.
2029
Hosting on the continent
Data centres and payment partners country by country, so latency and currency stop being obstacles.
One million businesses that actually pay their founder
Not a million accounts created. A million African businesses that earn money, by 2035. That is the only figure we measure ourselves against.
Talk to us directly
- contact@idem.africa
- Phone
- +237 6 95 40 45 27
- Office
- Douala, Cameroon
- Source code
- github.com/Idem-AI