About us
A few years before Eggsens was ever a name, I was closely monitoring a joint poultry farm investment with a trusted friend in Nigeria and quickly learned how difficult it was to maintain visibility and control at scale. It was not our first poultry farm venture, and like many farmers, we believed experience alone would protect us from the common challenges in the industry.
My colleague had a management philosophy that worked remarkably well at the time. The farm relied heavily on trusted and loyal workers. People whose integrity we believed in, and who we hoped would always do the right thing. For a while, it worked. But as the farm grew, the cracks began to show.
Scaling that kind of trust based system became increasingly difficult. Finding, training, and retaining workers with that same level of uncommon loyalty was not easy. We began to ask a hard question many farmers quietly struggle with every day.
What if trust alone was not enough?
What if there was a simplified solution to reliably ensure that expected tasks were done correctly, consistently, and transparently? Things like egg collection, reporting, and sales tracking. Not to replace workers, but to support them and remove doubt from the system.
That question stayed with me.
For many poultry farmers across Nigeria and Africa, the challenge is not a lack of effort or passion. It is the lack of systems that guaranty visibility and control. When records are manual, processes depend entirely on people, and verification is difficult, profitability becomes fragile. Even the most hardworking farmer can lose money without realizing where the leak is coming from.
We looked at existing solutions used in other parts of the world. Most required heavy automation, complex machinery, or massive infrastructure investments. These solutions were powerful, but largely out of reach for the average poultry farmer in Africa.
That was the turning point.
Once we decided to solve this challenge, it was clear that we needed to focus specifically on building smart for the peculiarities of the continent and ensure that our solution truly filled this long overdue gap.
At that point, it became clearer to me that this vision could not be built in isolation. Solving a problem this complex required intelligent data-driven decision making and deep expertise in hardware systems design, which is where our Chief Research Officer became involved.
With an exceptional mind for hardware architecture and artificial intelligence, his role was pivotal in translating lived farm problems into reliable, scalable, and practical technology. He helped shape the technical backbone of Eggsens, ensuring that our solutions were not only smart, but resilient, efficient, and suited for real world farm conditions across Africa. Eggsens as it exists today would not be possible without that level of research depth and engineering discipline.
From that foundation, Eggsens was born.
At Eggsens, we design smart farm devices and systems that give farmers visibility, control, and confidence in their operations. Our solutions are built to work alongside people, not against them. They help farmers accurately track production, improve accountability, reduce losses, and make better decisions using real data.
What started with smart egg counting has grown into a broader ecosystem of farm focused technologies, each designed to help farmers achieve clear, measurable, and realistic goals on their farms.
Our mission is simple.
Enrich one million African poultry farmers by providing affordable access to our innovative and reliable smart egg counters making farm management easier, more transparent, and more profitable.
Eggsens exists because African farmers deserve solutions built for their realities. Solutions that respect their scale, their constraints, and their ambition.
This is our story. And we are just getting started.
Chief Technology Officer,
Jomeno Akpovona.