Ojixa
Platforms that run the business, not the brochure.
Payments, commerce, marketplaces, and the internal systems a company actually operates on. Architecture, build, deploy, and the unglamorous reliability work that keeps them alive after launch.
- LIVE NOW
- moniref.com in open beta, meetmola.com in private beta. Both ours, go break them.
- TEAM
- Senior only. No juniors billed at senior rates.
- FIRST OUTPUT
- Deployable software in week two.
- AFTER LAUNCH
- We keep the pager. Same engineers, month four and after.
- HOURS
- 09:00–18:00 ET, async the rest.
- REPLY TIME
- One business day.
Ojixa is new. The engineering behind it is not.
The firm is young on purpose. The record is not: production systems for Fortune 500 platforms, national-scale infrastructure, and three products of my own that the team and I keep running. One architect who owns the decisions, senior engineers who build and operate.
Martin Chuka
Twelve years shipping production software, most of it on systems that could not go down: a Fortune 500 commerce platform serving millions, a national-scale microservices backbone, and a live migration of millions of records with no data loss.
Most of that was spent inside other people's engineering organisations, most recently as a Software Architect at Crossover. Ojixa exists so the same work is available directly, without an agency layer.
How it works in practice: I take the problem, write the architecture, and stay accountable for it. A senior team builds and operates alongside me. You get one person who owns the decisions and a bench deep enough that the work does not stop when one of us is asleep.
- BEFORE
- Crossover, Software Architect
- ENGAGEMENTS
- 20+ led, six detailed below
- THE TEAM
- Four senior engineers and a technical SEO lead
- CONTRACTS
- MSA and SOWs, drafted and reviewed by counsel
- OPERATING
- MoniRef in open beta, two more pre-launch
FIELD NOTES
Latest reasoning.
Start here. Client work is under NDA, but the decisions behind it are not, and how a shop chooses is the only thing you can judge before you hire it.
Most brands going headless will regret it
Headless commerce is oversold. An honest framework on the real costs, when it is worth it, and the leaner middle most brands actually need.
CASE STUDIES
Systems that hold money, and hold up.
Four things we do, and the work that proves each one. Client engagements are under NDA and described by shape rather than name; the products are mine, and you can go use them.
Parental leave, handled. Role-aware flows for employees, managers, and HR admins, on top of a policy engine that models each company's own leave and benefit rules. Multi-tenant from the first commit, so an HR team can run it without a spreadsheet or a lawyer on standby.
- SECTOR
- HR-tech
- STATE
- Private beta, pilot-ready
- HARD PART
- Every company's leave policy is different.
- ON CALL
- Our engineers. I own the architecture.
A payment referee for Nigerian businesses: a neutral party that holds the customer's money until the goods arrive, so sellers get paid upfront and buyers keep their protection. KYC, dispute handling, and settlement, without the paperwork that usually comes with holding someone else's money.
- SECTOR
- Fintech
- STATE
- Open beta
- HARD PART
- Custody and compliance. It is fintech.
- ON CALL
- Our engineers. I own the architecture.
Hold the money until both sides are satisfied.
Marketplaces that hold and release the money, end to end. The hard part is never the booking flow, it is what happens when someone says the work was not done.
Reliable Menders: hold-and-release marketplace for verified artisans
KYC-verified plumbers, electricians and carpenters across Nigeria. Funds are held on the platform and released on confirmed completion, with binding resolution when the two sides disagree.
VISIT RELIABLEMENDERS.COMReplatform without losing a month of revenue.
Custom and headless storefronts, and replatforms on live traffic. The cutover is planned before it is run, not repaired afterwards.
BigCommerce migration and SEO recovery
Eight million orders and customer records moved off Volusion on live traffic. Chunked migration with per-chunk rollback, parallel pipelines, and product displays tuned for LCP, INP and CLS.
Headless separation of a monolithic commerce platform
A monolith capping scalability and release velocity, separated behind maintained API contracts under live production traffic, with governance review and progressive rollout.
Still standing on the day everyone shows up at once.
Multi-tenant SaaS and high-concurrency platforms, including the parts that get expensive later: permissions, billing, audit trails, admin tooling.
Enterprise exhibition platform, built to a launch date
A high-concurrency digital exhibition platform with live chat and streaming, stress, penetration and static tested before it opened.
Fast, and correct, on the phone your customer actually owns.
iOS and Android alongside the web, built for the devices your customers carry and the access rules your sector imposes.
Smart Beach: sunbed and cabana booking on Android
Real-time positioning and integrated checkout for a beach resort, with a Node backend and rendering tuned for the virtual beach view.
Bedside patient app on shared ward devices
Patients sign in at the bedside to see care videos and medications assigned to them. Attendants, nurses, doctors and patients each reach only what their role permits, on a device the whole ward touches.
Twenty-plus engagements led in total. Full technical write-ups on any of them, sent on request.
No line-by-line spec required.
Bring the goal. We write the plan, and you own it whether or not we build it. The risk we remove is the six figures most teams spend before anything is deployable. Phase four has no end date.
- PHASE 01
Frame
Thirty minutes on a call. We leave with the problem in one paragraph you agree with, and a view on whether we are the right shop.
- PHASE 02
Architect
We do the thinking before the building, and write it down. This is Model 0, and it is the only phase you can buy on its own.
- PHASE 03
Build
Weekly deployable increments in your staging environment. Progress is something you can click.
- PHASE 04
Operate
We stay on. Monitoring, runbooks, and the pager, run by the people who wrote it. Handover to your own team happens when you have hired one, not at launch.
Diagnosis first, then a shape.
Floors and ranges, not quotes. Cost moves with scope and integration count, so the first thing we sell is the work that establishes both. You keep that document either way, including when we tell you we are the wrong shop.
Architecture plan
Two weeks with a senior engineer, ending in a written plan: scope, stack, sequence, risks, and a cost range you can take to a board. It is a deliverable, not a proposal, and it is yours to build with anyone. Every engagement below starts here.
- FROM
- $12K
- TERM
- 1 to 2 weeks
- SUITS
- Everyone, first
- CREDIT
- Half applied to the build if we continue
Partnership
We take a stake in whether it works: reduced cash, some equity, and a seat in the decisions that determine the outcome. Two or three a year, and only where we can affect it.
- FROM
- $150K cash plus 3 to 8% equity
- TERM
- 12 months minimum
- SUITS
- No technical founder
Retainer
A standing senior team and the pager. The right answer when the roadmap is still moving, and the only answer after launch.
- FROM
- $15K / month
- TYPICAL
- $15K to $40K / month
- TERM
- Rolling, 30-day exit
- SUITS
- Seed to Series A
Fixed scope
One defined outcome, one price, one date, priced off the Model 0 plan. Best when v1 is already decided and needs shipping.
- FROM
- $45K
- TYPICAL
- $90K to $150K
- TERM
- 6 to 10 weeks
- SUITS
- Funded seed, clear v1
48 HOURS
A lean read on what is slowing your store.
Two fields. A senior engineer looks at your site and sends back your Core Web Vitals plus the few issues actually costing you speed and conversions. No charge, no sales call, and no obligation to hire us afterwards.
A senior engineer will send your read within one business day.
This is where we both decide.
Not a lead form. Four answers is what we need to tell you whether this is our kind of problem, and to write you something useful if it is. Two of the six are optional and we will not chase you for them.