OpenKingdom · A non-profit, est. 2026
OpenKingdom is a non-profit that brings software development to people starting and growing businesses — through a shared engine, reusable suites, and partner builds at every scale.
Org
Non-profit
Engine
MIT-licensed
Partners
Solo · SMB · Enterprise
Based
Nairobi, Kenya
§ 01 — What we make
OpenKingdom builds an open-source engine, a growing library of reusable suites, and partner-specific deployments at three scales. Each layer is dogfooded against the next.
Product 01
The open-source core. Click-to-deploy scaffolding, infra-as-code, services, and security — the foundation every build inherits.
Read more →Product 02
Functional kits we build once and customize across partners — accounting, capacity planning, and more on the way.
Read more →Product 03
Deployments fitted to each partner — from a single-page site to a full enterprise stack — pressed from the same engine.
Read more →§ 02 — Replication Engine
Our flagship product. The Replication Engine bundles scaffolding, infrastructure-as-code, prepackaged services, and security primitives every partner application needs — and stamps them out from a single command. MIT-licensed, dogfooded by us.
A reproducible monorepo, ready before you write your first line.
Declarative servers, databases, networking. Provisioned in a click.
Auth, billing, audit logs. The plumbing every business needs.
Hardened defaults, rotation policies, secrets management.
§ 03 — Reusable Suites
On top of the Engine sit functional suites — prepackaged software resources we use again and again. The value isn't only the code; it's the functionality. We build it once, then customize across partners.
Kit 01 — Accounting
Double-entry bookkeeping, invoicing, and tax-aware reporting. Drops in with a chart of accounts pre-shaped to the partner's domain.
Kit 02 — Capacity
Capacity planning and resource management. The team, the trucks, the consult slots, the project hours — fitted to the partner's calendar of work.
More kits in the press — CRM, Inventory, Field Operations.
§ 04 — Partner Builds
Every partner is a different size with different needs. The Engine fits to scale — recomposing the same modules into a pamphlet, a folio, or a volume.
For Bob's Tax Services. One page, hosted, on the network. He loves being part of it; we give him a place at the table.
~2 days
3 mod
For Lawn Care Inc. They need to track clients in a way no off-the-shelf SaaS can match — so we build it.
Postgres · NestJS · React · Auth, billing, audit · Bespoke client & job tracking
3–6 wk
7 mod
For International Trading LLC. Defined services, security primitives, infrastructure-as-code, the productized vision realized at scale.
Hardened security · Multi-tier IaC · Service catalog & SLAs · Compliance & audit
3–6 mo
14+ mod
§ 05 — How We Partner
The Replication Engine is MIT-licensed. Customizations we build for one partner flow back to the rest of the network. OpenKingdom is a non-profit because we mean it — and we work with people who plan to be here in ten years.
License
MIT
Version
0.1.0
Stack
Nest · React
~ / open-kingdom
$ git clone openkingdom/engine $ ok init partner-build $ ok edition [ solo · smb · enterprise ] $ ok press → pressed in 4.2s ✓
Tell us about the work, the people you serve, and the shape of what you want to bring into the world. We'll tell you whether the press can help.