Seven dollars a month is the price Michael Njoku is putting on the promise of never juggling five different business apps again. Njoku, founder and chief executive of Cirquu, announced the platform's public launch at Moonshot by TechCabal in Lagos on Wednesday, October 28, after roughly a year of operating through private placements. The first 100 people to sign up get three months free.
Cirquu is an AI-powered business management platform built for African companies, and the idea is straightforward: instead of running separate tools for sales, accounting, stock, and staff, everything lives in one system that the platform's AI configures around your business. The entry-level Starter plan, priced at 9,000 naira (about $6.70) monthly, covers customer relationship management, point-of-sale, inventory, e-commerce, and accounting. The Growth plan at 15,000 naira ($11.10) a month adds payroll, human resources, analytics, and workflow features.
Positioning a local product against global players like Zoho and Sage is a bold move, and Njoku's answer to that challenge is specificity. He says Cirquu was designed around local tax rules, HR requirements, data protection regulations, and integrations with Nigerian banks and tools, areas where global software often leaves African businesses working around gaps rather than through them.
Data privacy is a real consideration for any business handing over financial records, staff information, and customer data to a new platform. On that front, Njoku says Cirquu runs on its own AI rather than an external service, and that each customer's information stays within their individual workspace. Whether that reassurance will be enough to pull businesses away from their existing setups is the question the next few months will answer.
Originally published by TechCabal.