The $25 Phone Is the New Point of Sale

Africa won’t be digitized through expensive terminals or sleek mobile apps. It’ll be voice, text, and $25 phones powered by AI.

The next revolution in African retail won’t look like Stripe or Shopify.

It’ll look like a boda guy ordering chicken soup from his favorite mama lishe on WhatsApp.
It’ll sound like a voice note:

“Niandalie ugali, nyama ya kukaanga nakuja sasa hivi.”

That’s the real point of sale:
✅ A $25 Itel phone
✅ Mobile money
✅ And a chat window

At Ghala, we’ve embraced that reality and leaned all the way into it.

We’re not building apps that need tutorials.
We’re building flows that work where people already are.
Our storefronts live on WhatsApp. No downloads. No logins. Just conversation.

Behind every order placed through Ghala is something deeper an invisible layer stitching together commerce, payments, fulfillment, and intelligence.

We’re not just processing transactions.
We’re capturing ground-level data that traditional banks and fintechs simply can’t: real purchasing behavior, conversational intent, and daily cash flow patterns.

And we’re turning it into leverage the kind that unlocks working capital, smarter logistics, and scale for the smallest merchants across the continent.

We believe the future of African commerce won’t be built by changing user behavior.
It’ll be built by meeting it where it already lives and powering it with AI.

The $25 phone is the new point of sale.
And Ghala is the operating system behind it.

We’re actively fundraising to scale this engine
If this resonates or you'd like to learn more, reach out: kalebu@neurotech.africa

Let’s build something real.