Skip to content

We are
Coterium

Where others hesitate, we build

Our partners

We build alongside teams who would rather ship than talk about it.

  • Aether Strategies
  • CIPA Holdings Group

Why Coterium

Talent is everywhere in Ghana. Opportunity isn’t.

Our engineers don’t pay to learn.

Plenty of programmes charge for mentorship. Ours costs nothing, because it happens on client products with a senior engineer reviewing the work.

Junior hunger, senior standards.

Juniors do much of the building. Seniors own the architecture and sign off before anything reaches production, so you get the energy without the beginner mistakes.

Built in Accra, shipped anywhere.

Ghana sits on GMT, so our working day overlaps almost entirely with the UK and most of Europe. For clients further away, we move our hours.

Every project pays off twice.

You get software that works. One of our engineers gets a project they can point to for the rest of their career.

An IT services company
where every project trains an engineer

Ghana has no shortage of talented engineers. What most of them never get is real projects, honest code review and a way into the industry. Coterium exists to change that: every project we deliver doubles as the place our engineers learn the craft.

Technologies in our stack
26+
Core services we deliver
6
People leading the team
6

Vision

To be the company Ghana calls when software has to work, and the place its best engineers say they learned the trade.

Mission

Put junior engineers on live client work under senior review, and ship software our clients can depend on.

stack

Tools we trust

We choose tools project by project, and most days we’d pick proven and boring over new and shiny.

  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • Go
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • Bun
  • NestJS
  • Django
  • Flutter
  • React Native
  • AWS
  • MongoDB
  • PostgreSQL
  • Docker
  • Git
  • Firebase
  • GraphQL
  • Nginx
  • Figma
  • Terraform
  • Jest
  • Postman
  • Jira
  • Linear

services

What we build

Most projects need two or three of these. Tell us what you’re building and we’ll say which.

Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps

AWS or Azure, set up with Terraform so deploys are automated, outages get noticed and the monthly bill holds no surprises.

Backend & API Development

Server code, APIs and databases built to cope as usage grows, and documented well enough for your own team to take over.

Mobile & Web Applications

iOS, Android and web apps, from the first screen to the app store. We mostly build with React, Next.js, Flutter and React Native.

AI-Enhanced Development

We use AI coding tools where they genuinely save time, and a senior engineer reviews everything they write. Faster delivery, no mystery code.

Maintenance & Support

A monthly retainer covering bug fixes, security updates and small improvements, so your software keeps working long after launch.

Let's talk

Product Discovery & UX/UI

Before any code, we talk to your users, map the flows and test clickable prototypes, so we build the right thing first time.

projects

Selected work

Products we designed and built with our partners, from the first sketch to launch day.

The Proloda homepage, with the headline “Big or small, we move it all” above a hand holding a phone on a deep green background

01

Proloda

Link:proloda.com (opens in a new tab)

Description:

Proloda lets people book a vehicle and driver to move anything across town, from a single box to a full house. We designed and built the booking flow and the marketing site, and kept testing every screen against one question: does this feel as easy as ordering a ride?

process

From idea to production

Five stages that overlap on purpose, with working progress at each.

  1. Discover

    We learn your business and who it serves.

  2. Design

    Wireframes and clickable prototypes before any code.

  3. Build

    Every change reviewed by a senior and tested before it merges.

  4. Launch

    We deploy, watch the dashboards and stay on call through go-live.

  5. Support

    Fixes, performance tuning and new features once you’re live.

team

The people you’ll actually work with

Engineers, designers and operators based in Accra, working remotely with clients wherever they are.

Michael Kwame Appiah

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

JO

Joshua Selom Okagyi

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Gifty Semma Odame

Head of Marketing and Business Development

Nana Aba Mensima Adams

Finance Officer

Richard Kofi Sarpong

Product Design Lead

Lordia Baffoah Takyi

Project and HR Manager

Contact us

Tell us what you’re building

A new product, a team that needs extra hands, or just a question. Send it over and someone from the team will write back.

info@coterium.com

Send us a message

We use your name, email and message only to reply to your enquiry. Read our Privacy Policy.