Development studio · Kigali
Webflow, AI and custom software — built in Kigali, used everywhere else.
We take on fewer projects than a typical agency, and we stay on them. Client work funds the week. Our own products keep us honest.
The studio
This started in Sweden, not as a slogan.
In 2019 two classmates left school and started building websites for Swedish companies. That consultancy became Inosida. In 2023 the same hands started EnlinkAI — AI that turns messy product data into content Nordic brands can actually publish. Outdoor labels, electronics distributors, food producers. Real catalogues. Real deadlines.
kivu.dev is the third company. Same instinct: ship the thing, don't decorate the process. New place to do it from.
The name is Lake Kivu, on Rwanda's western border. Deep water, a real geography, not a made-up syllable. Kigali is where the studio sits because that's where the next decade of this work is going — English in the room, Europe on the same working day, and a city that is building a tech scene instead of renting one.
We are not an "Africa story" bolted onto a Swedish CV. We are a small team that already knows how to deliver for European clients, now hiring and building from Kigali on purpose.
The people
You'll talk to the people writing the code. No account manager in the middle, no offshore hand-off after the sales call.
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Edvin Kjäll
Founder
Started Inosida out of school in 2019. Co-founded EnlinkAI in 2023. Front-end heavy, full-stack when the job needs it, product decisions when they can't be postponed. Seven years of shipping, not seven years of decks.
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Software engineer
kivu.dev — Kigali
Full-stack · computer engineering
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Software engineer
kivu.dev — Kigali
Full-stack · computer engineering
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Software engineer
kivu.dev — Kigali
Full-stack · computer engineering
The Kigali bench is being hired now. Until names are public, treat the empty seats as empty seats, not as copy.
Services
- Webflow — marketing sites, CMS builds and migrations. Pixel-accurate, fast, clean for search. We also white-label for agencies that don't want their clients to know who built it.
- AI — features that have to survive contact with production: retrieval, agents, workflow automation, content systems. If it only works in a demo, it isn't finished.
- Software — web apps, APIs, dashboards, integrations. Documented, tested, handed over so you're not married to us unless you want to be.
- Advisory — scoping, architecture, technical due diligence. Useful when you need someone who still ships, not someone who only reviews.
Track record
The work that exists today was done through Inosida and EnlinkAI. kivu.dev inherits that muscle, not a blank slate.
- Didriksons — outdoor clothing across Europe.
- 8848 Altitude — Scandinavian ski and outdoor.
- Tura Scandinavia — Nordic electronics distribution.
- HSNG — Nordic sports retail.
- Köttfabriken — Swedish food.
- Alcro Parti — Swedish paint retail.
- Palma Bygg — Swedish construction.
- RAM Market Research — North America.
"We are especially impressed with the quality of the texts they have generated, which have exceeded our expectations."
Petra Sabo, Chief Commercial Officer — Didriksons
BankID, Reco, commerce platforms, product-content pipelines — the boring integrations that make a site usable in the Nordics. That's the floor, not the pitch.
In-house products
Client work pays the rent. A slice of every week goes into software we fund ourselves. That's how the team stays sharp when a brief is too tidy.
- KV·01 — AI content operations. In development.
- KV·02 — delivery tooling. Still quiet.
No fake launch dates. When they're ready to show, they'll show.
Latest on X
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kivu.dev is live — a development studio in Kigali, Rwanda. Webflow, applied AI and custom software for clients worldwide, plus its own SaaS. Built in Kigali, shipped worldwide.
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Company number three. After EnlinkAI — AI content for e-commerce — and Inosida — web consultancy since 2019 — kivu.dev is the agency + product studio built from Kigali. The future is in Africa.
Full feed on X — @EdvinKjall
Contact
Ask anything. It lands in the studio inbox, not a ticketing graveyard.
Questions
What does a project cost?
A short call, then a fixed quote. Fixed-scope, monthly retainer, or a venture build. No hourly meter running in the background.
Who does the work?
The people on this page. When the Kigali engineers are named, those are the names on the repo.
Only Webflow?
No. Webflow for marketing sites. Custom software for products, AI and integrations.
Timezones?
Kigali is CAT (UTC+2). Same working day as Europe, usable overlap with the US east coast and a slice of Asia.
Ask anything
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