Sokowatch / Wasoko

Sokowatch — rebranded as Wasoko in 2022 — is a pan-African B2B e-commerce and distribution platform serving informal retailers (the mom-and-pop dukas, kiosks, and neighborhood shops that move the majority of fast-moving consumer goods across the continent). Founded in 2016 in Nairobi, Kenya by Daniel Yu, the platform lets small shopkeepers order FMCG inventory via a mobile app or SMS, with free same-day delivery to the shop door, eliminating costly trips to wholesalers. Wasoko layers embedded fintech on top of commerce: buy-now-pay-later inventory credit, working-capital loans for shopkeepers who often lack access to traditional banking, and digital payments. At peak the company operated across Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In December 2023, Wasoko announced a merger with Egyptian B2B peer MaxAB, which closed in August 2024 to form MaxAB-Wasoko, Africa's largest B2B informal-retail network with more than 450,000 merchants across eight countries (combining MaxAB's North African footprint in Egypt and Morocco with Wasoko's Sub-Saharan reach) and roughly 4,000 employees, co-led by Daniel Yu and MaxAB founder Belal El-Megharbel. Post-merger the group exited underperforming markets (Zambia, Uganda, Senegal) and pivoted harder into fintech, where margins exceed core distribution. Wasoko's revenue model is wholesale-to-retail product sales plus fintech (credit, payments) and logistics fees. The platform is operated as a closed retailer-facing app; there is no public developer API, SDK, partner integration program, or open-source release for the commerce, logistics, or fintech surface. The legacy Sokowatch GitHub organization exists but contains only forks of third-party tools (Apache Superset, Fineract CN, Botpress, Kutt, Portainer) used internally, with no first-party libraries or specifications.

Sokowatch / Wasoko is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include B2B Commerce, Informal Retail, Distribution, Supply Chain, and Last Mile Delivery.

Sokowatch / Wasoko’s developer surface includes engineering blog, GitHub presence, and 13 more developer resources.

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4.6/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 0/100 dormant Full breakdown ↓
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B2B CommerceInformal RetailDistribution Supply Chain Last Mile Delivery Consumer Packaged GoodsEmbedded FintechInventory CreditBuy Now Pay Later Working Capital Mobile Commerce AfricaEast AfricaKenya Egypt Financial Inclusion

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 4.6/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.6 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 0.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
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Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes

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Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 2.4 — up to +19.5 composite points

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Consumer Lending Licensing (UK, US, Canada credit licence registers)	undeclared	-	-	-

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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Sokowatch Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

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Company 8

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Blog

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Other 5

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: sokowatch
name: Sokowatch / Wasoko
description: 'Sokowatch — rebranded as Wasoko in 2022 — is a pan-African B2B e-commerce and distribution platform serving
  informal retailers (the mom-and-pop dukas, kiosks, and neighborhood shops that move the majority of fast-moving consumer
  goods across the continent). Founded in 2016 in Nairobi, Kenya by Daniel Yu, the platform lets small shopkeepers order FMCG
  inventory via a mobile app or SMS, with free same-day delivery to the shop door, eliminating costly trips to wholesalers.
  Wasoko layers embedded fintech on top of commerce: buy-now-pay-later inventory credit, working-capital loans for shopkeepers
  who often lack access to traditional banking, and digital payments. At peak the company operated across Kenya, Tanzania,
  Uganda, Rwanda, Côte d''Ivoire, Senegal, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In December 2023, Wasoko announced a
  merger with Egyptian B2B peer MaxAB, which closed in August 2024 to form MaxAB-Wasoko, Africa''s largest B2B informal-retail
  network with more than 450,000 merchants across eight countries (combining MaxAB''s North African footprint in Egypt and
  Morocco with Wasoko''s Sub-Saharan reach) and roughly 4,000 employees, co-led by Daniel Yu and MaxAB founder Belal El-Megharbel.
  Post-merger the group exited underperforming markets (Zambia, Uganda, Senegal) and pivoted harder into fintech, where margins
  exceed core distribution. Wasoko''s revenue model is wholesale-to-retail product sales plus fintech (credit, payments) and
  logistics fees. The platform is operated as a closed retailer-facing app; there is no public developer API, SDK, partner
  integration program, or open-source release for the commerce, logistics, or fintech surface. The legacy Sokowatch GitHub
  organization exists but contains only forks of third-party tools (Apache Superset, Fineract CN, Botpress, Kutt, Portainer)
  used internally, with no first-party libraries or specifications.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
position: Producing
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/sokowatch.png
tags:
- B2B Commerce
- Informal Retail
- Distribution
- Supply Chain
- Last Mile Delivery
- Consumer Packaged Goods
- Embedded Fintech
- Inventory Credit
- Buy Now Pay Later
- Working Capital
- Mobile Commerce
- Africa
- East Africa
- Kenya
- Egypt
- Financial Inclusion
tags_raw:
- B2B Commerce
- Informal Retail
- Distribution
- Supply Chain
- Last-Mile Logistics
- FMCG
- Embedded Fintech
- Inventory Credit
- Buy Now Pay Later
- Working Capital
- Mobile Commerce
- Africa
- East Africa
- Kenya
- Egypt
- Financial Inclusion
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sokowatch/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-24'
modified: '2026-10-06'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis: []
common:
- url: https://wasoko.com/press/
  type: Blog
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/sokowatch-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://wasoko.com
- type: MergedEntity
  url: https://maxabwasoko.com
- type: MaxAB
  url: https://maxab.io
- type: LegacyBrand
  url: https://sokowatch.com
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wasokoglobal
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/wasokoglobal
- type: Facebook
  url: https://www.facebook.com/WasokoOfficial
- type: Instagram
  url: https://www.instagram.com/wasokoofficial
- type: GooglePlay
  url: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sokowatch.duka
- type: AppStore
  url: https://apps.apple.com/app/wasoko/id1502076383
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/Sokowatch
- type: Crunchbase
  url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/sokowatch
- type: Careers
  url: https://wasoko.com/careers
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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