In Nigeria’s fast-paced entrepreneurial landscape, founders juggle sales, staff, vendors, regulators, and survival – all before noon. However, there’s a product that many SME owners view as a lifeline to keep their businesses afloat.
This software is Nigerian-made – built for businesses, taxes, and to attract investments. Developed by a management accountant turned founder who’s seen it all from the engine room. One simple truth drives it: clean numbers combined with a solid structure that fosters growth.
Built on that truth is Countam – Nigeria’s first all-in-one accounting software. This SME-focused platform combines POS, payroll, tax, inventory, and CFO insights into one trusted hub.
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Kemi Osinibi, the mastermind behind Countam, built it from the inside out – having lived the struggles firsthand.
Kemi’s career was unconventional – she sat inside businesses, influencing decisions and reporting numbers. As a management accountant, she saw FTSE 100 giants in the UK, healthcare and oil & gas in Nigeria and her own ventures. One pattern stuck: companies with solid accounting systems scale; others struggle.
Establishing and operating her own business in Nigeria made the problem impossible to ignore. Kemi wanted structure, visibility, and real-time insight. What she found instead were fragmented tools; one system for POS, another for payroll, another for accounting, and more hidden behind expensive upgrades or foreign features that didn’t fit the Nigerian SME environment.
“You cannot run a real business with disconnected tools,” Kemi recalled. “Not when you’re trying to track inventory, manage staff, pay vendors, deliver service and monitor profitability on the same day,” she explained.
The pain points were glaring – and sadly, common. SMEs don’t fail from lack of effort or opportunity but from lack of information, visibility, and structure.
Kemi puts it bluntly: “No connected data, no integrated system, no way to answer basic growth questions like which products are profitable? Where’s the leakage? What’s my true operational cost?”
Founders also carry an invisible burden – accounting and compliance feel intimidating, complicated, and distant from “real work” like selling and surviving. They postpone it… until tax issues, cash-flow crises force them to face messy records.
Kemi said, “Accounting isn’t about debits and credits. It’s about answering simple questions: Where’s my money coming from? Where’s it going? What’s working?”
Running her complex entertainment centre alongside POS, inventory, payroll, and vendors, drove the final nail: the system needed to exist in one place. To address it, she built Countam.
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Countam was launched to solve a problem the founder had lived, studied, and watched Nigerian entrepreneurs struggle with for years. Rather than treat accounting, compliance, and business intelligence as separate services, she fused them into one product, driven by the belief that if numbers aren’t structured properly from day one, nothing else works.
The goal was simplicity: an easy-to-use software, without the complexity of traditional Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, designed for businesses earning between N50 million and N10 billion annually. It delivers exactly what Nigerian SMEs need.
It is why Countam’s chart of accounts is built to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), why tax logic is built in from setup, and why reporting is centred around the handful of dashboards SMEs actually use: virtual CFO views, anomaly alerts, forecasts, and audit-ready statements.
The result is clear: a single platform that keeps businesses compliant with the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) and Nigeria Data Protection Act (NDPA) requirements; a platform that helps them gain credibility with banks and regulators; a platform designed to unlock funding, protect against fraud, streamline operations, and transform messy data into growth decisions.
Countam is built for Nigerian SMEs, and with its integration with financial institutions, payment processors and fintech solutions, it’s staking its claim as the go-to accounting plus operating software for growing businesses in Nigeria.
