What happens after you book.
You choose a time that suits you.
We confirm, and ask a few questions so the call is worth your time.
Your plan arrives in writing: every step, who handles it, and what it costs.
We check in until every agreed step is done.
Everything it takes to get up and running.
Company setup · Legal and compliance · Tax and accounting · Banking and finance · Hiring and payroll · Marketing and launch · Technology
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One person, start to finish.
You'll always know who to contact, and they'll always know where things stand.
Every firm, checked first.
Licences, references and past work, reviewed before anyone meets you.
Everything in writing.
Plans, costs and progress, clear enough to forward without explaining.
Find your way in.
In 30 minutes, you'll leave knowing your next steps, whether or not we work together.
What we do.
Pick what you need. We bring in the right firms and keep it all moving.
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Who we work with.
Companies arriving in Kenya
Registration, licences, banking and your first hires, in the right order.
Investors
Checks on the ground, and people here who report back in writing.
Kenyan firms going regional
A clear plan for the next market and the firms to deliver it.
Founders getting ready to scale
A launch plan your team can start on the next morning.
How it works.
Book a call
Thirty minutes on what you want to do and by when.
Get your written plan
Within 48 hours of the call.
Meet the firms
Each contracts with you directly, and we coordinate.
We check in
Every week, until every agreed step is done.
Why we started Dhow Partners.
We kept seeing the same thing. Good companies arrived in Kenya and lost months between lawyers, accountants, banks and regulators, with nobody running the whole process. We started Dhow Partners to be that person: one contact who brings in the right firms and keeps the work moving until you are up and running.
Any sector. One process.
Whether you grow coffee, build software or import machinery, setting up follows the same steps: registration, licences, banking, hiring and launch. We bring in the specialists who know your industry.
The people you'll deal with.
One named person runs every project. These are the people you'll work with.
Samuel is a builder before anything else, a founder and engineer who has spent his career turning ideas into working systems in some of East Africa’s hardest sectors. At Dhow Partners he is the person clients deal with, from the first call until the agreed steps are done. When a client trusts Dhow Partners with a decision, Samuel is the person who answers for it.
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Mercy has spent more than a decade building and running a real business, not just advising on them, which is why her marketing work is never theory. She leads Dhow Partners’s brand and go-to-market practice, turning positioning into plans a team can act on the next morning. Clients trust her because she has sat on their side of the table, raised the capital, and made the hard calls herself.
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We hire slowly and we hire few. What we look for is not a shape of CV. It is someone who writes clearly, tells a client the truth when the truth is unwelcome, and finishes what they started after the invoice has been sent. If that is you, tell us what you have actually delivered and what changed because of it.
Join the network.
We match client work to established firms and specialists across law, finance, market entry, people, and technology. Every partner passes a paid, scored trial engagement before they are ever matched with a client, and continues to be measured on every engagement after that. If your firm can stand that, we would like to meet you.
Open roles.
There are no advertised roles at the moment. That is not a closed door. If you believe you should be here, write to us and make the case. We read everything, and every application receives a reply.
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