Live on a Southern African trading desk
Trading desk
One system for a power-trading desk, from booking a trade to getting paid, with profit and risk visible as it moves.
- 01Book
- 02Settle
- 03See
Systems that
run the desk
We build trading, settlement and data systems for energy and finance teams in Africa, and the AI agents that keep them running.
Lusaka, Zambia · Energy first, built to extend
Built, shipped and working
Watch our systems run, or pick one from the dock.
Trading desk · P&L and risk
K23.50 → K25.00Shoprite, Cairo Road
+K1.50 savedChange set aside from the payment
What each system does, and how
Three products in use or in pilot today, and the agent that keeps their data honest underneath all of them.
Closed pilot · ZICTA Top 100 Innovations 2026
KaSomeFin
Saving that happens without deciding to save: every mobile-money payment is rounded up and the change set aside on its own.
- 01Pay
- 02Round up
- 03Grow
Live platform · Energy management
EMS Zambia
Energy management for commercial and industrial sites, saving clients ZMW 550K–2M a year with payback in 2–4 months.
- 01Measure
- 02Validate
- 03Act
Runs under every project · Live in 2026
Fidèle
The data-integrity agent underneath everything we build. Garbage in, garbage out, so Fidèle stops the garbage.
- 01CheckEvery table, every sweep: structure, duplicates, links, freshness, ranges, units.
- 02ExplainEach problem is traced to the row and the value, with why it matters.
- 03Approve and documentThe table's owner approves the fix; every change is written to the log.
No spreadsheets, no guesswork. Systems that carry the complexity desks were never meant to hold.
Charismatic Codes is a software company building the operating layer for data-heavy businesses across Africa. We start at the energy trading desk, where a single mistake costs the most, and carry the same engine into finance and infrastructure.
Codes
Strategy and frameworks
The thinking layer. We map how a business understands its data, decisions and risk, then write the playbook the rest of the system runs on.
Labs✦
Build centre and talent forge
Cohort 01 now open
Where the software gets built: trading, settlement and live decision dashboards, engineered for African markets, by engineers we train.
Agents
AI workers and automation
AI workers trained on your business. They reconcile, monitor and flag around the clock, working alongside your team rather than behind it.
How we work
We only take on problems that pass all four tests of the 4U filter, then take them from brief to shipped system in five stages.
Unworkable
The existing solution has broken down and is no longer fit for purpose.
Unavoidable
The pressure compounds the longer it's ignored. It can't be deferred.
Urgent
Time is the constraint, not capital. Speed of delivery is the value.
Underserved
Overlooked by the global market, because the context is African.
- 1
Intake
The brief goes through the 4U filter. Only qualifying problems proceed.
- 2
Research
Context analysed, constraints mapped, local realities respected.
- 3
Prototype
A first working version that fails fast and learns faster.
- 4
Validate
Real-world testing under the conditions it will actually run in.
- 5
Ship
Deployed, documented and maintained. A system worth keeping.
A problem worth
building around?
Bring the unworkable, the unavoidable, the urgent, and the underserved. We'll bring the engineering.
info@charismaticcodes.com · Lusaka, Zambia