“Work broke during COVID, we built an operating system to fix it”: Day 1-1000 of Flowmono

In 2020, Babatola Awe, then a consultant for Deloitte, was paying for Zoom, Microsoft 365, and a growing list of international software tools, all priced in dollars. Every invoice was a reminder for Awe: African businesses were paying Western companies to do African work. 

When COVID-19 hit in March that year, work broke. Documents were trapped in locked offices. Approvals depended on…